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collection of deep sores in her neck which healed very slowly 

 and she was an occupant of Billy Andrews' hospital for 

 weeks, he then having her in training. She was nursed along 

 carefully and finally raced and lowered the record for 

 four-year-olds to 2:0614 despite the fact that her trainer 

 and her owner had not the slightest idea that she would ever 

 recover sufficiently from her sickness to be of any account. 

 Eddie Wise, who took care of her during that siege is of 

 the firm opinion that but for the sickness she would have 

 been one of the most sensational race mares of her time. He 

 believes she was as game as most trotters and his belief is 

 based on the fact that when she let down it was always at the 

 finish of a mile and that nothing could make her stop until 

 she had tried for her life. His opinion, arising, as it does, 

 from actual knowledge of the condition of the mare and what 

 she did in her races, ought to be about enough to fix the 

 correct status of Margaret Parrish especially when it is con- 

 sidered in connection with the great colt she produced. He 

 finished his l:59l/> mile at Lexington "one-two-three-four" 

 as Eddie puts it and not with the air "full of legs". 



On this same subject Mr. Murphy shows more enthusi- 

 asm than he does about most things connected with the horses 

 he trains. He had Margaret Parrish in her sixth year and 

 gave her a careful preparation for a Grand Circuit campaign 

 so he knows something about her ability. He said, when 

 asked about it: "Margaret Parrish was a great trotter. It 

 makes no difference now and it will make no difference to 

 me at any time what may be said about her, she was one of 

 the greatest trotters I ever trained and if I could have been 

 so fortunate as to get her to the races there would not be any 

 one now to talk about her being a quitter. She had entirely 

 overcome the effects of the severe sickness from which she 

 suffered when Billy Andrews had her and she showed me 

 enough to make me believe that there never had been many 

 trotters trained that could show more mile speed. The 

 reason she was not raced is that she bowed a tendon and we 

 could not go on with her. It was a source of great regret to 

 me for more than one reason." 



That ought to settle the matter of the qualifications of 



