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bring the trotter out for inspection, and was asked to take 

 liim up the stretch a short distance, turn him and jog to the 

 wire. He did as directed and the second time he turned 

 him the lameness disappeared, the colt started and won, trot- 

 ting to a record of 2:0514 and did not take another lame step. 



That was not to be the end of his troubles. The next 

 morning a flabby swelling appeared on the inside of his 

 right fore leg extending across the right side of his breast 

 and down to the knees. That was a new one on all concerned 

 but finally it was decided to try to steam it out and that plan 

 worked all right. It was a new experience for Lee but it 

 is recorded that from the very first he never as much as 

 moved a foot and would stand for hours taking the treatment. 



He was a veritable hog for feed. He would go at his 

 oats so ravenously that they would be thrown out of the feed 

 box into the bedding all around him. But he did not allow 

 them to go to waste. After he had cleared the feed box he 

 would put in the rest of the time, if nothing else was asked 

 of him, rooting around in the bedding until he found and 

 ate the very last of the spilled oats. 



There are innumerable stories about him and some of 

 them in addition to the above will be found in the chapter 

 in this volume dealing with his training but to those who 

 owned him and who knew him best, the most marvelous 

 thing about him was that he was a perfect racing tool from 

 the very beginning and that was best exemplified in his win- 

 ning race for the M. and M. Purse at Detroit. He took the 

 lead at the word in the first heat and kept it. In the second 

 heat he got the word with enough horses ahead of him to 

 compel him to race in the bunch and there he stayed until 

 well into the stretch when he was pulled out and won at the 

 wire from Peter Scott. The third heat Peter McCormick went 

 away in the lead and Lee contentedly trailed him until time to 

 set sail for the money and won heat and race. 



There might })e written some interesting Lee Axworthy- 

 "Billy" Andrews stories about that big event in the lives of 

 l^oth but perhaps it will be just as well to say that after the 

 first heat ''Billy" was quite downcast though he had won the 

 round for he declared that the clip in the stretch had made 



