him with a five-ounce shoe, both in front and behind, 

 and in his races he required no boots except to pro- 

 tect his quarters and coronets. We got him early in 

 the season of 1892, and I worked him some before the 

 meetings commenced in the Grand Circuit, and con- 

 cluded he was good enough to start in the great races 

 which are there given. I first started him at Detroit 

 in a slow class, which he won in straight heats ; and 

 the next week I started him in the free-for-all pace at 

 Cleveland, which he won without trouble ; and in the 

 different important races in which I started him that 

 season he won them all except at Buffalo and Lexing- 

 ton, where he finished second in each race. In 1893, I 

 started him at all the important meetings and do not 

 remember of his losing a single race. I started him, 

 in 1894, against the fastest pacers then upon the turf, 

 including John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen, and de- 

 feated them in many contests. John R. Gentry never 

 defeated him, and Joe Patchen never defeated him but 

 three times in all their numerous contests. I won so 

 many good races with him that it is difficult to say in 

 which race or races he most distinguished himself ; but 

 I think his best race was the special at Indianapolis, 

 against Joe Patchen. Robert J. was then six years old 

 and at his very best. The track was good and the day 

 favorable for fast time. The friends of the respective 

 horses were many, and all the elements conspired to 

 make it a most exciting and interesting contest, and 

 such it proved to be. Robert J. won the race, in three 

 straight heats, in the phenomenal time of 2.03^, 2.02}^, 

 and 2.04^, and his time in the second heat of that 

 race was the world's greatest race record. I gave him 

 a record that season of 2.01^, which was the world's 

 harness record. After the racing season of 1894 was 



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