bred more than any trotter I ever handled. He is 

 slim and rather delicate in appearance, but in the races 

 he has trotted he has exhibited as much stamina as any 

 race horse need have. I first commenced to work him 

 in the fall of 1899, when he was four years old, and he 

 did not then give promise of such extreme speed as 

 he has developed. That fall he could not trot a half 

 mile better than i.io, but his gait was beautiful and in 

 the work I gave him he improved very fast. I started 

 him at different places in the Grand Circuit in 1900, 

 among them being at Lexington in the Translyvania 

 Stake, which I think he would have had a fair chance of 

 winning but for an accident which occurred in the first 

 quarter of the first heat ; the field was quite large and 

 just in front of Lord Derby two sulkies collided and 

 threw the drivers out, and to avoid the mix-up I had to 

 bring him to a complete stop, and thereby came very 

 near being distanced, and to get inside the flag he was 

 compelled to trot the last three-quarters of the mile at 

 such a terrific gait that he was unable to do himself 

 justice in the next heats. I think he trotted the 

 middle half of that heat in 1.02. His best race was at 

 New York, which he won, in straight heats, in 2.07, 

 2.07, and 2.08. This horse is now in perfect condition 

 and what he may accomplish in the future I hardly 

 dare hazard an opinion. That he is a great horse 

 there can be no question. Whether he will be the 

 greatest time alone can disclose. But measured by 

 the records of one season's racing, he is the greatest 

 trotting race horse I have ever driven ; and if Hiram 

 Woodruff were now living and compared his race 

 record of 2.07 as a five-year-old with the trial mile of 

 Dexter in 2.231^ as a six-year-old, is it not probable 

 that he would again exclaim, ** Oh, what a horse !" 



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