364 CHAMP. 



summer, together with his other horses, which are as 

 follows : 



Peerless, who has made the best time to wagon, 

 2:231/4. 



The Auburn Horse, eight years old, who can beat 

 2:20. 



Pocahontas, who can go in 2 .-23. 



Lady Palmer and Flatbush Maid, who have to- 

 gether made two miles in 5:0134 to a road wagon. 



The price paid for Dexter is as yet a secret, but it 

 is over $30,000, probably considerably more. 



"I was there that day," said Uncle Si, "and I kept 

 that paper to remind me of the first great trotter I 

 ever put an eye on. The next day I bought Champ, 

 which was the name of the sorrel horse. His owner 

 was a well-known dealer in Buffalo, and, like many 

 another man before and since him, took a flyer at 

 the races and lost. At this fair there was, as I re- 

 member, a race for horses that had never beaten 2 130. 

 Nine or ten horses started in it, and every one was 

 positive that a mare called Crazy Jane would win it. 

 Champ's owner was sure of it, and if he told me once, 

 he told me fifty times it was like finding money to 

 bet on her. 



"Well, you never in your born days seen such a 

 mixed up race as that one was before they were 

 through with it. If I had been a betting man, which 

 I never was, my money would have gone on Melton, 

 as he was the only one in it that I had ever seen in a 

 race. The year before a young man named Simon 

 James came over from Canada with this horse and 

 won a good race, and the best part of it was they were 

 not looking for him. He sold the horse to a man up 



