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McDaniels, and Belcher, his trainer, who, by the way, 

 trained the great Boston, followed me to Baltimore and 

 purchased both my horses, so impressed were they with 

 their worth. A peculiar fact connected with this purchase 

 was that these men raced these horses for two years and 

 never won a race with them. I do not know why it was, 

 unless it was because they did not understand their tempera- 

 ments and how they should be prepared for bruising con- 

 tests. 



Afterward I took a half dozen colts for Joseph Boswell, 

 among which were Gabriel and Charley Wheatley, at Lex- 

 ington, and developed them. I did not race these horses, 

 for I transferred my talents to the string of Judge John 

 Hunter, of Mobile, Ala. He had in his string Lorette, 

 Mary Ogden and Red Eagle, all good horses. We won 

 several races in the State, and then went to Columbus, Ga., 

 where I won a stake with Lorette at mile heats, beating Bill 

 Cheatham, a Tennessee colt of some renown. I also got 

 a mile race with Mary Ogden. 



Lorette lost to Sox at Savannah, Ga., but he was a 

 great horse, and there was little disgrace in losing to him. 

 In a dash of two miles Mary Ogden was a winner here. 



Probably the most remarkable campaign in my career 

 was with Frank Allen and Moidore. They belonged to 

 Pryor Brothers and Berry Brothers, of Columbus, Ga., 

 The campaign opened at Columbia, S. C, and all the great 

 horses of the North and South were assembled there. 



My first race was a stake event, in which Frank Allen 

 represented my stable. Charley Ball, who had a year be- 

 fore beaten Frank Allen in a $5,000 match; Laura Spillman, 

 Mary Blueskin, Floride and Griff Edmondson were the 

 starters. It was a two-mile-heat race. Charley Ball annexed 

 the first heat without trouble. The next two heats fell to 

 Frank Allen, who in the third heat made the best time that 

 has ever been run over the track. 



The next day I won a three-mile-heat purse with Moi- 

 doire from John Aiken and several others. It was probably 

 the best race Moidoire ever ran. Then I won a four-mile- 

 heat stake race with Frank Allen in two straight heats, 

 beating Cordelia Reed, Laura Spillman and a couple of 

 others. 



