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"Sedalia Boy," as he was immediately named, changed 

 hands on a $200 basis. 



''Hold on, Mac, is that the hoss," hailed the cattle 

 dealer one day. "I haven't any interest in him, but came 

 near having, and to satisfy my curiosity, I'd like to look 

 him over and see if I'd be pleased had I stayed in." 



After carefully inspecting the hoss, he said : "Mac, 

 I'm going to be frank with you. If you had bought him 

 for us jointly I should not have been satisfied, and while 

 I wish you the best of luck, I'm afraid you will never get 

 out even on him." This was a damper, but the cattle 

 man had only repeated expressions previously used by 

 others and Mac was callous, still insisting that he was 

 ris:ht in his estimate of the horse. 



The first shoes Sedalia Boy wore were factory-made 

 and cost just sixty cents for the four. They weighed 

 ten ounces each — the same behind as before. He was a 

 trotter from the start, there seemed to be no limit to his 

 speed, and with no inclination whatever to break. 



When the track opened in the spring he was driven 

 down to it occasionally, but do what he could, McNulty 

 could not make Sedalia Boy trot around the turns. On 

 the stretches he would go swift and true, but invariably 

 broke and galloped around the turns, getting worse with 

 each trial until he would not go even on a jog, but would 

 canter around them. In the minds of all trainers there, 

 Sedalia Boy was not worth the air he breathed as a race 

 horse. 



His training on the track, which was a half-mile one, 

 was entirely abandoned. McNulty was disappointed 

 and finally a St. Louis dealer offered $500 for the horse. 



With this proposition McNulty went to his wife, who 

 said : "Why, I thought you always talked $2,500." 



