EVERY MAN MIS OWN TRAINER. 7 1 



Bemish sold over him in the pools, as the boys all considered 

 the winninir of the third heat a scratch, as he only beat 

 Bemish out by a head. But here was a kind of a horse that 

 the old man Doble used to say, " You could lose with easier 

 than you could win," for you did not have to pull him if you 

 did not want to win, all you had to do was not drive him 

 quite so hard, for he required a good deal of hetchling. I 

 have driven him* many heats when I thought I was more tired 

 at the finish than he was, still he could go as many heats in 

 one notch as any horse I ever saw. 



Before the public got to know him you would hear it re- 

 marked every heat he won, " That is the last heat he will win 

 to-day.'' He was a horse that would act dull and sluggish at 

 the finish of a heat and would many times blow like a por- 

 poise, and in fact it took me a long time before I could be- 

 lieve in his being a real game horse. I had quite a little money 

 on him before the race began ; I kept putting on a little more. 

 My friends that had money on him came to me after the fin- 

 ish of the third heat and said, " Jack, he is as dead as a ham- 

 mer ; he won't do. Bemish outfinishcd him.'' And really I 

 felt a little that way myself, but still I said it won't do to 

 weaken. So I told the boys they could do as they liked, but 

 I should not eliange any of my money, but I should not put 

 on any more. The big rascal blowed out in five minutes and 

 was seemingly ready in ten minutes for the bell to ring for 

 another heat. When the bell did ring, which was in twenty 

 minutes, he was as fresh as a daisy and went out and won the 

 fourth heat just as he pleased ; 2:26^ was hung out, but out- 

 siders had the time some faster. 



The fact was this was a singular kind of a horse. He was 

 inclined to be slack, did not worry about anything and would 

 not do any more than he was obliged to. He was very hearty, 

 was a great feeder, and if not watched would fill himself so 

 full that he could not go a bit. He would blow and take on 

 and be apparently all tired out after going one heat. The 

 groom had to attend to his business and keep' the hay and 



