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stead. The something to be seen was the colt in a 

 road-wagon. The father and son got in, and the way 

 the punch-drinker whirled them along the road was a 

 caution to three-year-olds and nervous gentlemen. 

 Presently he struck a pace, and the Colonel laying on 

 the whip, they almost flew. The colt was in truth a 

 natural pacer as well as a trotter, and when suffered 

 to pace he was nearly as swift as a bird on the wing. 

 He now made his first trot in public. The scene of it 

 was at Washington Hollow. The three-year-old was 

 matched with a noted trotter for a dash once around 

 the course, in harness. Colonel Felter drove him. 

 He had the best of it until they came on to the 

 stretch, where the crowd frightened the colt and 

 caused him to break almost to a standstill. The 

 other horse got a lead of four or five lengths ; but 

 now, striking his trot and answering the whip the 

 brown colt made a tremendous burst of speed, col- 

 lared his opponent, and beat him at the post. The 

 rush with which the colt had darted on to his op- 

 ponent, when the race seemed virtually over, sur- 

 prised even Colonel Felter himself, and the majority 

 of the lookers-on did not know what to make of it. 



"Next year he was matched with Guy Miller, a 

 good one of Orange County, the seed-plot of the trot- 

 ting horses. While it was pending, Horace F. Jones 

 drove the brown colt a trial. Assuring Mr. Felter 

 that he could win the match, he said he should like 

 to train him for it, and in this way the colt was first 

 taken to Long Island. When the time for trotting 

 the match was near at hand, Colonel Felter came 

 down and found he could not trot a bit. He was off, 

 and the Colonel paid forfeit. He did not, however, 



