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confident, knowing what he was doing all of the time, 

 and what a few of the others were doing some of the 

 time, he marched on to victory. For a time it looked 

 as if everything was against Turner. Thornless 

 fouled him in the third heat and when scoring for the 

 fourth he locked wheels with Kit Curry, was thrown 

 out and his sulky wrecked. Fortunately Spofford did 

 not get away, and with a new sulky behind him trotted 

 the last quarter of the deciding heat in thirty-two and 

 one-half seconds, a flight which showed the amount of 

 speed that Turner had in reserve. 



After the dust of battle had blown away and con- 

 gratulations were being mingled with the sparkle of 

 champagne and lemonade for those who asked for it, 

 Turner between the puffs of a cigar in a Manilla 

 wrapper said, with a quiet chuckle : "Mr. Houston, 

 which would you rather do, win two or three thousand 

 dollar purses or one ten thousand?" At such a time it 

 was not necessary to remember the answer. 



Suisun succeeded Spofford in Turner's stable, and 

 it is a question if he ever hated anything on earth more 

 than that mare. She was a disappointment from one 

 end of her career to the other. As for speed, she had 

 plenty of it, but somehow she never- could win when 

 due, and was always popping up when not wanted. 

 While he had the Electioneer mare in his stable, 

 Turner also rejuvenated Harry Wilkes and shaped 

 Rosaline Wilkes for a number of winnings. In 1891 

 he had Abbie V. and Happy Bee as stars and was one 

 of the heaviest winners of the season. The Happy 

 Russell filly was good enough to win the Flower City 

 Stake at Rochester after she had been uncovered at 

 Cleveland and a $5,000 event at Springfield. The fol- 



