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Rose and Charlemagne were a powerful combination that 

 could pack the weight and go any distance within reason. 

 Horses were thoroughly schooled in those days. Owners 

 did not try to make a steeplechaser in two weeks, and the 

 result was a lot of horses that could jump stiff timber 

 and do it in a clean-cut, workmanlike fashion. 



Some of the present-day ''know it alls" will tell you 

 that the quality of the old-time sport was away down; 

 don't believe them. They prattle of something they 

 know nothing about. They pretend to think that jobbery 

 then ruled supreme, but there was less temptation to go 

 crooked in those days than now, and the racing in the 

 seventies and eighties will bear favorable comparison 

 with the strictest-managed meeting of the present time. 

 There was a little more sentiment then and less of the 

 almighty dollar combination. Men did not pronounce 

 judgment on the success of a meeting by the amount of 

 money they won and turfmen were ready to gather to- 

 gether and enjoy a pleasant social time, open a cold bottle 

 and not shout ** thief, thief," when beaten. 



