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Memphis where he got two week's preparation and lowered 

 the world's record. He was then shipped to the home farm. 



"He was infatuated with women. He would give careful 

 attention to every woman who visited him and there were 

 many thousands of them. He was very fond of Shetland 

 ponies, liked to get right close up to every one he ever saw 

 and would pull his groom right toward one and look him 

 over as though he were a freak. 



"As to my personal opinion of the speed of Dan Patch 

 I want to say that I do not believe he ever went a mile his 

 best. I still think he was too smart for me. He would give 

 me a great effort, perhaps faster than any other horse went 

 but I still think it was not his dead level best. I laid awake 

 many nights figuring how to get him to go to his limit but 

 the problem was never solved. I tried everything I could 

 think of but was not successful. 



"I used a Faber sulky weighing about thirty pounds with 

 81 inch shafts and very high as he had tremendous hock 

 action. He wore very light quarter boots and very light knee 

 boots but I seldom used the latter except on half-mile tracks 

 and he hardly ever marked them and then very lightly. He 

 wore five ounce shoes all round and all had all-round, sharp 

 grabs. The length of all his toes was 3'j/x inches with 54 

 angle in front and 56 angle behind. His harness was as 

 light as could be built, with open bridle, chin strap and plain 

 snaffle bit. 



"We would start our exhibition tours in August, usually, 

 and wind up on or about the first of November and that was 

 the program for seven years. He paced, in that time, about 

 seventy miles that averaged two-minutes and my best recol- 

 lection is that I drove him in sixty-two of those miles. After 

 he was once in form a mile in two minutes seemed pretty 

 comfortable for him. He gave exhibitions from Boston to 

 California and kept absolutely sound until about the seventh 

 year and then we began to see a break. He earned in the 

 seven years we had him about $120,000 in exhibitions alone, 

 and that with incidental earnings on International products 

 advertised through Dan Patch, made him a pretty cheap 

 horse for Mr. Savage. All through those seven years Dan 



