was then turned out and with rest and plenty of feed 

 soon commenced to improve, and in the summer and 

 fall of 1878, when the colt was three years old, Mr. Fry 

 rode him to the colt shows and fairs and soon dis- 

 covered that he could pace fast, and the next year 

 placed him in the hands of a trainer who trained on a 

 half-mile track near Lewisburg, Tenn. The rapidity 

 with which he improved was simply astonishing, and 

 in a few weeks that half-starved and much-abused colt 

 became one of the speediest horses that had up to 

 that time ever been seen in harness. I saw him at 

 Nashville the following spring, and gave him a work- 

 out, and I do not think I was ever behind a stronger, 

 easier going horse. His conformation was the most 

 remarkable of any horse ever seen upon the turf. He 

 was only about fifteen hands high, a rich brown in 

 color, his slim neck, small ears, large expressive eyes, 

 and finely-molded head, clearly showed the thorough- 

 bred blood which he had inherited ; but the most re- 

 markable thing about him was his abnormal muscular 

 development. His fore legs were large, flat and well 

 tapered, and his hind quarters were so immense as to 

 make him look like a deformity. What he was as a 

 race horse we know, but what he might have been had 

 he received the care and attention in his early career 

 bestowed upon promising race horses in modern times 

 is a matter of conjecture. It is claimed by reliable 

 people that he paced a trial quarter on a poor half- 

 mile track the first season he was handled in thirty 

 seconds, and that the next year he paced a half mile to 

 a high-wheeled sulky in one minute, and many people 

 still believe him to have been possessed of as much 

 natural speed as any horse that ever lived, and I am 

 not prepared to say but what this belief is well founded. 



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