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a month she did not look anything like the poor, worn-out 

 animal she was when I got her. There was an elasticity in 

 her step that had not been perceptible before. Short gal- 

 lops and a healthful appetite brought back her vigor and 

 put her in shape. 



When I thought her about fit, I put her in a mile race 

 with several good ones and she was first past the post. The 

 same week I put her in another race, the Green Stake, at 

 mile heats, where she met a horse that John Harper had 

 trained and beat him easily. She met Volga, a full sister to 

 the great Vandal ; Charley Woods, an own brother to Maria 

 Woods and Anna Travis, and was defeated by Volga in four 

 heats of two miles each. She finished second, being beaten 

 by a head, and should have won. The jockey laid too far 

 back and had too much of a gap to make up at the finish. 

 Had he followed my instructions we would have landed the 

 race, as I won the first heat, ran a dead heat the next one, 

 and ought to have had the other. As it was, Volga got the 

 last two heats. 



On the day following I sold her to a man named Lewis, 

 of Alabama. In the South she won many races afterward 

 and brought her new owner considerably more than the 

 13,500 he paid for her. 



Afterward I trained a little horse called Iceburg, by 

 Zero, belonging to James Wood, on shares. At Crab Or- 

 chard I ran him for five days in succession and won every 

 race in which he was entered. I afterward won a couple of 

 races with him at Lexington and lost to Red Oak by a head 

 at two miles. He gave Red Oak the hardest race he ever 

 had in Kentucky. It was the only time I ever saw Red Oak 

 extended. I sold Iceburg that week to a Northwestern lum- 

 berman, who ran him successfully for a couple of years in 

 Wisconsin and Iowa. 



Then I made a campaign into Virginia with Adle Giser 

 and Sam Letcher, but previously I had been into Canada 

 with them and won many good stakes. At the Broad Rock 

 track, near Richmond, I made a match for $5,000 a side with 

 David McDaniels, the owner of Carolina, a mare that, up to 

 that time, had never been beaten and had a series of victories 

 to her credit. The Virginians had begun to think the mare 

 was invincible. The distance agreed upon was two-mile- 



