^8 THE TWO-MINUTE TROTTERS 



told a few friends so and I bet some on my chances. In the 

 draw the mare got the pole. I raced him lapped on her and 

 did not try until we had passed the draw gate. Then he 

 closed and at the wire I could not tell who was ahead. 

 Neither could Billy Andrews, who asked me 'who won it?' 

 It was too close for me.' Then he saw the time on the an- 

 nouncer and shouted 'look at the time — 2:01^/4.' The sec- 

 ond heat I decided to take her away faster, so we were at the 

 half in 59^/4 and I had a neck the best of the argument. After 

 we passed the half my horse made a misstep. I looked down 

 two or three times but we were going so fast I could not see 

 what the trouble was. He finally made a break near the 

 five-eighths pole, then I discoverd the cause of his trouble 

 and pulled up and was distanced. The quarter boot had 

 worked in between the shoe and the foot and that caused 

 the break, the only one, by the way, he ever made with me. 



''After that race I was more confident than ever that he 

 could beat the mare, and so the race for Readville was ar- 

 ranged. I raced her the same way I had done at North 

 Randall, as she drew the pole again, and in the first heat I 

 had her beaten at the seven-eighths; won the heat sitting 

 still in 2:031/4. The second heat I let her take the pole at 

 the eighth, lapped my horse on her wheel until we reached 

 the three-quarter hope, then started after her and beat her 

 handily in 2:041/4- 



"They would not race Uhlan any more and as I was 

 off^ered a purse to beat 2:031/2 at Columubs I took the offer. 

 The day set for us was not very favorable, but rather than 

 disappoint the audience I started, for I felt that Uhlan could 

 trot all the way at the outside fence and beat 2:031/2- I 

 scored him twice and drove him to the half in 1 :0214 and 

 he trotted the rest of the way in a minute. That was the 

 day I should have beaten two minutes with him, for he was 

 equal to it, I am sure. He was booked to try it at Lexington, 

 hut the second week at Columbus Mr. Billings bought him, 

 and that ended my connection with the greatest trotter that 

 ever wore harness." 



Uhlan was bred by Mr. Arthur H. Parker, Bedford, 

 Mass., and was by Bingen — Blondella by Sir Walter, Jr. 



