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indeed the only one that is recalled, was curbs and they in 

 combination with an extra hard track were the cause of one 

 of the only two defeats in races he ever sustained. 



It is safe to say that had he been prepared for the season 

 of 1904 and had anything like an even break in luck, he 

 would have taken a record far below the one with which 

 he finally retired. But he was one of the turf idols of his 

 day and the list of two-minute pacers is graced by his pres- 

 ence. 



Mr. R. Scott Hudson, then of Lexington, Ky., now of 

 Atlanta, Ga., said of Audubon Boy: "When I arranged with 

 Mr. E. P. Weathers to train and race this pacer I outlined 

 all my plans for him, namely, to give the colt slow work, and 

 very little fast work during 1900 and turn him out for his 

 1901 campaign early. He showed me in his work in his 

 three-year-old form that he was, beyond doubt, the grandest 

 horse I had yet handled. He could do things then that 

 would make a man want to buy a new watch and believe 

 some one had changed the quarter poles, and he did it all 

 well within himself. I gave him but few miles better than 

 2:20 but then I made up my mind to stake him every place 

 along the line in 1901. This I did. He was taken up Janu- 

 ary 1, 1901, and his road work began and a lot of it he got. 

 When our track opened and the weather settled I began slow 

 miles and gave him them in abundance. June 1st a mile in 

 2:22^ was his best. But he could do the trick if I would 

 only let him. I gave him plenty more slow heats in June 

 with some few miles in 2:15, one in 2:13'%|^ and no quarter 

 better than 311 {>. 



"I won with him at Tiffin, best time 2:1514, laid up a 

 week at Cleveland and not a mile better than 2:18^, yet won 

 with him there in 2:09'Y^. At Columbus, with no miles 

 better than 2:30 between races, he won in 2:081/). On down 

 the line with no work at all save a little to blow him out the 

 day before a race and still he won. He took the prevailing 

 disease and I raced him just the same. 



"At Boston and Providence, when most horses would have 

 been in the barn, he was raced and how he tried and won, 

 no one who was there will soon forget. 



