MORVICH 



just the same. For had I not beaten eleven 

 promising colts, won a purse of $3,950 for my 

 masters and won by ten lengths? 



Alas, I was to learn that once an opinion 

 was formed, humans were slow to change. 

 Later, when men took my career as a text and 

 gossiped about this trait in themselves, I was 

 to hear many stories. Even James Rowe, the 

 veteran trainer of Mr. Whitney's stables and 

 the greatest in America, I have heard it said, 

 let young horses go for the price of their keep, 

 which later developed into $50,000 racers. 

 And once a man said: 



"Same way in everything. Men can't al- 

 ways tell who's going to be a winner. Take 

 opera stars. Six years ago Mme. Galli-Curci 

 couldn't get an engagement singing at the 

 Hippodrome because they said she was too 

 homely, and Gatti-Casazza wouldn't pay her 

 even $100 a week at the Metropolitan because, 

 he said, she had no voice. Today she's one of 

 the queens of opera, and he pays her $2,500 a 



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