CHAPTER III. 



ALICE WEST — LIZZIE THE SECOND — JOE BRADEN — A 

 QUEER ACCIDENT — AN UNFAIR RACE DECISION — 

 THE ONLY TIME I WAS EVER TAKEN OUT OF A 

 SULKY AND THE RESULT. 



I LEASED and took possession of the old fair 

 ground about two miles west of Columbia, Tenn., 

 in the spring of 1876, and used the old track for 

 jogging and working the horses I had in training from 

 that time until the spring of 1889, when I was again 

 employed by Major Brown to train a large stable 

 he had at the Ewell Farm at Spring Hill, and 

 remained there until I went to Village Farm in the 

 early spring of 1892; and while at Major Brown's I 

 also trained at his track the horses I had been 

 working at my stable, and also took some additional 

 horses to handle. Commencing with the season of 

 1877, I went North with what horses I considered 

 good enough and raced over the different tracks 

 of the North, generally commencing in July and 

 ending in September, leaving a good man at home 

 to work the horses I did not take with me ; and 

 when my Northern circuit was over I went South 

 through the States of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia 

 and Mississippi, and sometimes extended my excur- 

 sions as far South as Florida and Texas, and wound 

 up the season late in December, when I would return 

 to my home near Columbia and turn the horses out for 

 a while. I continued this custom, from 1877, as long 



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