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two-year-old form he was never known to exhibit anything 

 to make the rail birds as much as "peep" and in the early 

 summer of that year after taking a time record a little below 

 2:30 he figured in one of the romantic horse trades which 

 help to add interest to the great sport of racing. No one 

 has ever been able to say who got the worst of this historic 

 "swap" and it is no sure thing, no matter what happened 

 subsequently, that in the long run one party to it profited 

 more than the other. A current story tells of two Missour- 

 ians who traded horses and as all the neighbors knew both 

 horses that figured in the trade were bad horses the matter 

 was discussed a great deal at the corner grocery. At the end 

 of one of the discussions among the puzzled gossips one 

 remarked: "What mystifies me is how in the world they 

 happened to git it on one another." 



It happens that nobody was trying to put anything across 

 in the trade that made Lee Axworthy a member of the Pas- 

 time Stable of Cleveland. The story of that trade is told in 

 detail in another chapter of this volume under the title: 

 "The World's Champion Two-Minute Horse Trade". An- 

 other colt. Prince Loree 2:00-2:03^ figured in the trade. 

 It happened that Prince Loree proved a disappointment and 

 for his new owners was never worth a dollar yet eventually 

 became a champion. But that is another story and will be 

 found in the chapter of this book which tells of Prince 

 Loree. 



That fall, 1913, the bay colt was taken to Thomasville, 

 Ga., with the rest of the stable and W. J. Andrews continued 

 his education, which up to that time had not amounted to 

 much because the colt declined to take part in it. He was 

 much like the wife of the mountain district representative in 

 the Kentucky legislature who was invited to attend the 

 "opera" at Frankfort and who replied, "Yes, I reckon ITI 

 go 'long. But I don't low to take no part." Lee declined for 

 many days. Andrews persisted. It is recorded that the day 

 of Lee's banishment was about to arrive for his owners had 

 advised their trainer to "throw him away". Fortunately 

 for all concerned on the day of reckoning the colt showed his 

 trainer enough to justify further effort and he was given the 



