AND OTHEK SKETCHES '/5 



very tired horse to deal with, and though he possessed 

 more speed than any horse in the race, he had been made 

 so much use of that it was a question whether he could be 

 nursed along within striking distance and then trust to 

 his gameness and speed at the finish. Williams rode that 

 heat with his head; he let the other horses do the break- 

 ing away. He kept still, and when the flag did go down 

 he laid liack in about fourth place and let the leaders 

 fight between themselves. At one time going up the back 

 stretch he looked to be out of it, but he was patiently l)id- 

 ing his time, and no statue ever rested on its granite base 

 steadier than he on Terror. At the head of the stretch 

 he improved his position a little, but it was not until 

 within two hundred yards from the finish that he cut 

 loose in earnest. Terror was a horse that cared but little 

 for the spur, but with a man able to make him feel the 

 whip, he would respond every time with the courage of a 

 bulldog. Williams knew this, and never in his career as 

 a jockey did he work as in that finish. Concentrating all 

 his strength and energj'^ for the rush, he called upon his 

 horse with both whip and spur and gained at every jump. 

 Every man and every woman was on his or her feet, and 

 a yell worthy to rank with that of the old Kentucky cry, 

 bespoke the excitement of the people. Twenty yards 

 from home he had a full neck the worst of it and his 

 horse looked to be done, but at this critical moment he 

 called upon his mount for a final effort, and even as the 

 sharp swish of his whip cleaving the air sounded upon 

 the ear they swept past the stand, and not one man in 

 that great throng could tell who had gained the verdict, 

 but when the judge announced: '* Terror by a nose," 

 The best race that the well-known provincial ' ' Terror ' ' 

 ever ran was over the Ottawa track. It was one of those 

 old killers, mile heats, best three in five, and there was 

 quite a large field of contestants, though I only recollect 

 Terror, Rathowen, Storm, Ruby and Ivanhoe. Every 

 horse was out for the money and it was one of those races 

 often won more by the headwork of the jockey than by 

 the speed of his mount. Terror was the hot favorite. 



