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for hack hire coming after her again. He would not 

 raise, however , and drove away. After sundown, 

 when I was getting ready to go to bed, I heard a hack 

 drive up. It was followed by a rap at the door, and 

 when I went out I found my man back, ready to pay 

 $11,000 for May Queen. Gallar bought her that night, 

 took her to California, while I invested the $11,000 in 

 the house I lived in from that time until I moved to 

 Ambler Park." 



"But why did you hang on $11,000?" asked one of 

 the party, "or come to place that price on May 

 Queen?" 



"Well, it was this way/' said Turner, "I had priced 

 that piece of property and found it could be bought 

 for $i 1,000. As soon as I learned that, I made up my 

 mind to sell May Queen for that figure." 



A picture of May Queen has a place on the walls 

 of Turner's house, one of Nettie being added as a com- 

 panion piece at a later date. The latter was his most 

 successful money getter. When racing she carried 

 considerable weight and had a will of her own, but 

 she also had that happy faculty of being inside of the 

 money when the judges made their announcements. 

 Nettie carries the race record of the Hambletonian 

 family, and she also showed in public faster than the 

 mark which made Dexter a champion, as she was well 

 up when Lula trotted in 2:15 at Buffalo in 1875. No 

 effort was made to duplicate the performance against 

 the watch, as Turner never had the time record bee in 

 his bonnet, as of all things that he had no use for, an 

 outclassed horse was placed first on the list. Trinket 

 is the only fast one that he marked in that manner, her 

 mile in 2:14 being trotted over Fleetwood Park, New 

 York, in 1881. 



