CHAPTER 

 XXXVI 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHAMPION 



BY GEORGE H. KETCHAM. 



CRESCEUS has always been a horse of striking 

 individuality, and while not given to frills or 

 fads, he has many peculiar characteristics. 

 Cresceus was worked as yearling and also as a two- 

 year-old at Ketcham Farm by Murnen, and was not 

 turned over to me to handle until in October of the 

 year he was a two-year-old ; when he was entered in a 

 race of half-mile heats at Vienna, Michigan, which he 

 won. 



The race was a very easy one, and in it Cresceus 

 showed so many race-horse traits that I worked him 

 a mile after the race, and he trotted in 2:20^. This 

 showed that the colt had wonderful speed. He not 

 only possessed extreme speed, but he also had the 



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