The race may not be always to the suift 

 But if the sicift have courage they achieve. 



— Rowena Sprague. 



AUDUBON BOY 



Great Racing Pacer of 1901-2 

 Record 1:5914 



UDUBON BOY 1 :5914 a chestnut horse by J. J. Audu- 

 bon — Flaxey by Bourbon Wilkes, was the sensational 

 stake pacer of the sensational year 1901, and was 

 trained and raced for the Gatcomb-Hudson partnership by 

 Mr. Scott Hudson, then of Lexington, Ky., and now one of the 

 leading business men of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Hudson did not 

 give the horse his best record, but did drive him in all his 

 races and in the course of them Audubon Boy took a record 

 of 2:031/4. After the partnership was dissolved in 1902, 

 Mr. Gatcomb retired the pacer to the stud and in 1905 again 

 put him in training with a view to lowering his record and 

 succeeded in his effort, driving him to a record of 1:5914 ^t 

 Readville, Mass., September 22nd, 1905. 



When the big crowd at Lexington in the fall of 1899 saw 

 a two-year-old chestnut colt win in the even then slow time 

 of 2:24, little note was made of him and it is altogether 

 likely that nobody expected him to be, two years later, one of 

 the most talked-of pacers in the world. He was staked at 

 some western meetings and at many Grand Circuit points, 

 filled all of his engagements, won ten races and found but 

 one horse that could beat him and that was Shadow Chimes, 

 who turned the trick two times, one of the victories over the 

 Hudson-Catcomb pacer being a false verdict. Audubon Boy 

 retired with a record of 2:06 and was, of course, heralded as 

 a coming two-minute pacer. 



In 1902 Audubon Boy was started in six races and made 

 a clean sweep of his engagements, taking his record at Read- 



