I was so astonished that I nearly fell out of the sulky, 

 and Mr. Brown returned home without her. I am not 

 much of a believer in telopathy, but it has always 

 seemed to me that in some way she knew that if she 

 did not make a satisfactory showing that morning she 

 would probably spend her life working on the farm 

 instead of the glamor of the race track. She kept 

 improving and finally took a record of 2.11^, and was 

 a successful race mare. 



While residing in Tennessee I campaigned quite a 

 large number of horses, other than those I have men- 

 tioned, through the Northern Circuit, including Joe 

 Rhea, Annie W., McCurdy's Hambletonian, McEwen, 

 Bay Tom, Joe Bowers, Jr., Joe Braden, Fred S. Wilkes, 

 Duplex and many others, and did fairly well with 

 them ; but the limits of this book will not allow any 

 attempt at a description of the races in which they 

 started. 



The Hal family of pacers are preeminently the 

 great pacing-bred pacers of America. So far as I 

 have any knowledge upon the subject, I do not know 

 of more than a dozen of the get of Tom Hal that have 

 been conditioned and trained for racing, and of this 

 number I do not know of one that could not beat 2.30. 

 Of those that were trained I have already mentioned 

 Little Brown Jug, Brown Hal and Hal Pointer, and I 

 firmly believe that if I now had them and they were 

 in their prime and in perfect condition, I could drive 

 each one of these a mile in two minutes ; and it is 

 possible that Locomotive could be added to this list, 

 but his speed was not sufficiently developed to warrant 

 me in making the statement. Of the daughters of Old 

 Tom Hal I only know of two that were ever trained. 

 One was a roan mare called Sky Blue, that with a few 



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