never could beat Robert no how, if dis little boss has 

 a fair show," and, thinking of the combined misfor- 

 tunes of the mud and hoodoo, John refused to be 

 comforted. I won the free-for-all trot the same day 

 with Nightingale, which in part compensated for the 

 defeat of Robert. I drove him in many races after 

 this, and he won nearly all of those in which he started. 

 He combined the elements of extreme speed, game- 

 ness, endurance, and gentleness in a degree second to 

 no horse I ever saw. 



The records show Robert J. has paced in races, one 

 heat in 2.02^, one in 2.02^, two in 2.03^, one in 

 2.03^, one in 2.04, two in 2.04^, two in 2.04^, two 

 in 2.05, three in 2.05^, three in 2.05^, four in 2.05^, 

 four in 2.06, one in 2.06%, four in 2.06^, three in 

 2.07^, five in 2.08, one in 2.08^, three in 2.08^, 

 two in 2.08^, one in 2.09, one in 2.09j{, one in 

 2.ogj4, three in 2.09^, and one in 2.10. Against time 

 he has paced one mile in 2.01}^, one in 2.02, one in 

 2.02^, one in 2.03, one in 2.03^, two in 2.04, one 

 in 2.04%^, one in 2.04^, one in 2.06, one in 2.06^, 

 three in 2.07, and one in 2.10. The sum of the above 

 is 6y heats in 2.10 or better, eleven of which were 

 paced in 2.04 or better; which were, at the time he 

 retired from the turf, five times more than had been 

 paced within the 2.04 circle by all the other pacers 

 that ever wore harness. 



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