certain) a fair was held at the old fair ground near 

 Columbia, at which a race was arranged between Loco- 

 motive under saddle and old Joe Bowers in harness. 

 Near the track was a creek with quite a volume of water. 

 Two heats of the race were paced in the evening, each 

 horse winning one heat. After each heat the rider and 

 owner of Locomotive rode him into the creek to cool 

 him out. The water was up to about the horse's side, 

 and he cooled him out by splashing the water over his 

 heated body, and, as though this treatment was not suffi- 

 cient to ruin him, that evening he was fed twenty-two 

 ears of green corn for his evening's feed. It is a well 

 authenticated fact that the horse ate fourteen ears 

 of this corn, and the result was, what might have been 

 expected, the next morning he was not in racing con- 

 dition, and his racing days were practically over. Thus 

 ended the racing career of a horse that would have 

 added additional lustre to the name of his distinguished 

 sire had he been given the opportunity to demonstrate 

 the ability with which he was so richly endowed. 



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