Here uas a champion. In every stride 

 He moved like one ivho Time defied. 



— Anonymous. 



LEE AXWORTHY 



World's Champion Trotting Stallion 

 Record 1:5814 



EE AXWORTHY'S wonderful, though very short, 

 career presents one of the many oddities which 

 spring from horse trading. At his time he was the 

 best bred stallion that had appeared in the ranks of the trot- 

 ters of extreme speed, yet there was a time, in the early 

 months of his life that he seemed destined, despite his mar- 

 velous blood lines, to become a candidate for the discard. No 

 fault can be attributed to his first trainer, a man of infinite 

 patience and of marked success in his chosen profession. 

 Too much credit cannot be given to the second man who 

 handled the colt, for it was through wonderful skill and per- 

 sistence that he finally brought the youngster around to the 

 right way of going and developed in him the marvelous 

 speed which eventually made him the champion trotting stal- 

 lion with a record of 1:5814- Nor can the third trainer who 

 handled him and who had the good fortune to drive him to 

 his record, be denied the great credit due him in the making 

 of this fast trotter. The story as it unfolds will show the 

 part each of the three took in the creation of a champion, 

 for Lee Axworthy's record still stands, at the beginning of 

 1922, as the best for a trotting stallion. 



This colt, bred at Ardmaer Farm, Raritan, N. J., where 

 his sire was owned at that time, was bought at public sale 

 by a client of Walter Cox. Walter gave him as much edu- 

 cation as a yearling as he would take, which was not enough 

 "to hurt", for the truth is that the youngster did not show 

 very much to indicate that he was royallv bred. In his 



