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financially — I.ysander Boy, Lysander Maid, Lysander Girl, 

 Wm. Kearney and Watt completes the list. They are not a 

 family that develop speed young, families differ very much in 

 that' respect. Watt could only show about a two-forty clip 

 until he was eight years old. Then he began to show signs 

 of more speed and I began to think I would get paid for 

 waiting. When he was seven I won two good races with him 

 and money enough to pay his oat bill. In 18S8 he was a gen- 

 uine race horse, reducing his record to 2:24|, and earned me 

 money enough to buy a pretty fair horse, wagon and harness, 

 a few barrels of flour and several tons of coal. In the fall I 

 sold him for a pretty fair price to parties in Germany, where 

 he will contend for honors and wealth for his owner. I ship- 

 ped him on the 9th of January, 1889, in company with James 

 G., 2:20^, and Jose S., 2:22|-. They are in the same stable as 

 Van Buren Girl, 2:251 Lynwood, 2:20^, Blue Belle, 2:20, Julia 

 C., 2:23|, Bob Johnson, 2:27^, and 2:22| to saddle, Pat Demp- 

 sey, 2:27^, Tourist Boy, 2:32^, Jessie Hammond, 2:25-^, Trou- 

 ble, 2:24|, Lysander Belle, 2:33i Lysander Girl, 2:35^, Ada 

 E. C., 2:28, and four brood mares with colts by their side. All 

 of which I have purchased and shipped to one party, and he 

 has had the best stable in Europe, in the past four years. 



To another party in Austria, who has always been the 

 leading man on the turf in his vicinity, I purchased and 

 shipped Amber, 2:25^; Francis Alexander, 2:19; Young Am- 

 ber and three brood mares. It is not any easy matter to send 

 horses so long a trip by rail and water and have them land at 

 their destination in good order. I always take a good deal of 

 pains in shipping them. I load them very different from the 

 way they formerly were shipped. I always send them by the 

 German Lloyd steamers, which is as good a line as ever 

 crossed the ocean. After engaging passage for my horses I 

 look up the stevedore, that is the man who has charge of 

 loading that line of vessels. I have him assign me a good 

 roomy place to arrange my stalls, which are built on the steer- 

 age deck where steerage passengers are accommodated emi- 



