to my demands, and I finally told him I should try 

 and go through. He said nothing, but kept his horse 

 in the same position. My inside sulky wheel was then 

 locked inside of his outside wheel. I braced myself 

 well, and threw my weight on the inside of the sulky 

 shaft, took a strong hold upon the mare, and clucked 

 to her and she responded to my urging. When he 

 realized the situation he turned his horse toward the 

 inside of the track, which brought the force of my 

 locked wheel nearly against the side of his wheel, and 

 the spokes of his wheel commenced to fly in all direc- 

 tions. His wheel was broken in many pieces and he 

 was thrown several feet in the air. My sulky wheel 

 passed over what remained of the wreck ; my mare 

 never broke her trot, and I easily won the heat. I 

 was then a young man and scarcely known to the 

 judges. He was an experienced driver, and the horse 

 he was driving belonged to a prominent and influen- 

 tial man, well known to the judges. After the heat 

 I went to the judges and explained the exact situa- 

 tion to them. Mr. Bradley and the owner of the horse 

 he was driving were also there. The judges heard 

 our statements and I think the owner of the other 

 horse must have exercised some hypnotic influence 

 over them, as they decided I did wrong ; declared the 

 heat off ; sent me and my mare to the stable, and 

 allowed Bradley to start again. I then thought, and 

 have always believed, that under the racing rules and 

 all rules of fairness I was in the right and clearly en- 

 titled to the heat. This is the only time in the his- 

 tory of my experience that I ever intentionally col- 

 lided with another driver, and the only time I was 

 ever sent to the stable for alleged foul driving. The 

 next day there was a free-for-all trot in which were the 



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