ONE of the best and fastest natural-gaited pacers 

 I ever campaigned was the chestnut gelding 

 Bright Regent. When I commenced with him 

 as a three-year-old he was a cripple, but I nursed his 

 ailing legs that fall and winter, and the next season(i895) 

 thought him strong enough to race. I started him first 

 at Minneapolis in the 2.23 class, which he won in straight 

 heats and took a record of 2aS%. I also started him 

 at La Crosse, Saginaw, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, 

 Rochester, New York, Louisville and Terre Haute, 

 and won every race in which he started, and all in 

 straight heats, except at Saginaw and Detroit ; and at 

 Louisville he took a race record of 2.085^, which I 

 considered was doing pretty well for a green four-year- 

 old in a partially crippled condition. His legs bothered 

 him more or less all the time, and it required constant 

 care and attention to keep him strong enough to stand 

 the strain. His legs were not very strong in 1896, and 

 I feared he would be unable to make much of a cam- 

 paign that year, and only started him twice during that 

 season. The first was at Detroit, in July, in the 2.09 

 class, in which he won the first two heats in 2.oS}4 

 and 2.09)^ ; but his legs weakened and he lost the 

 race. I then gave him a long rest, and did not start 

 him again until the Lexington meeting in the fall, 

 where he won the 2.09 class, in straight heats, in 

 2.06^, 2.o6j^, and 2.07 J^ ; and this, I think, was his 

 best race. In 1897, I started him in three races in 

 which he met defeat in each race, viz : Glens Falls, 

 Readville, and Portland ; but at Portland he won the 

 third and fourth heats, and took a record in the third 



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