trouble with him if they did what was right ; and so, 

 against the protests, but with the good will, of my Ten- 

 nessee friends, I moved to Buffalo with my family in 

 February, 1892, under a five years' contract with the 

 Messrs. Hamlin, and have been here with them ever 

 since, and during all this time our relations have been 

 most pleasant and agreeable. 



The new field upon which I entered when I came to 

 Village Farm is so extensive, the horses I have trained 

 and the races in which I have driven are so numerous, 

 that I can do nothing more than mention a few of the 

 most important horses and events with which I have 

 had to do. This statement will be appreciated when it 

 is considered that nearly one hundred colts are foaled 

 at this farm every year, which require training when 

 old enough, and that during the nine years I have been 

 at Village Farm I have driven on an average in more 

 than one hundred races each year. The horses with 

 which I have had most to do since coming here have 

 been the get of Mambrino King and Chimes, and they 

 are certainly two very remarkable families of horses. 

 Mambrino King was the king of show horses, and his 

 get generally possess the stylish conformation of their 

 sire, and no family of horses ever seen upon the turf 

 possess more gameness and endurance than they do. 

 I consider the cross of Mambrino King and Chimes to 

 be the acme of American trotting-horse breeding. I 

 am very fond of the get of Chimes, especially those 

 out of mares by Mambrino King. They possess some 

 characteristics peculiar to themselves, and which I have 

 never known in any other family of horses I have 

 handled ; they nearly all amble when first broken, 

 and, unlike any other horses I have ever seen, 

 weighting them in front does no good, and will 



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