ceeded in making a great race horse it would be as a 

 pacer, and all further attempts to make a trotting race 

 horse of him were abandoned. He was very fast in 

 the pacing gait from the time he was first handled 

 at that gait ; and the first year he was taken North 

 and started in the pacing races I do not think he lost 

 a race, and, as I remember, it was that year, or the 

 next, that Mr. Bostwick gave him a record of 2.13. 

 On Major Brown's place were several large paddocks 

 enclosed by high picket fences, where stallions were 

 turned when not in training; and the next winter 

 after Brown Hal made this record he was running in 

 one of these paddocks, and in an adjoining paddock 

 was another stallion. These two stallions commenced 

 fighting through the fence separating them, when 

 Brown Hal reared and caught one of his fore legs 

 between the pickets, and this accident sprained a 

 tendon of that leg so seriously that he never fully re- 

 covered from it. Brown Hal was placed in my hands 

 to train early in the season of 1889, ^.nd, although he 

 was in the stud, I gave him a long and careful prepara- 

 tion ; but from the time I first commenced to work 

 him I was fearful of that injured leg, and had my 

 doubts about his being able to stand the strain incident 

 to training and campaigning. I went along very slow 

 and careful with him, and did not attempt to give him 

 any fast work for several months after I commenced 

 with him, as I was satisfied that if his leg would only 

 stand the hardships, and I could get him in proper 

 condition, he had sufficient speed to wipe out all 

 pacing records and defeat any horse then upon the turf. 

 Along in June I had him in good racing condition, 

 and as his ailing leg still stood the work I think he 

 was then the fastest horse I ever saw. In one of his 



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