CHAPTER XLVII. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Gentlemen horsemen — To become famous — Castration — Conditioning — To 

 administer chloroform — Significance of the bay color — Docking — 

 "Warranty — Eunaway, to stop — Trotting standard — Pacing standard 

 — Rules for laying out tracks — Rules of admission to registry. 



MEN cannot become famous unless they do something 

 that is worthy of fame; and they cannot do things 

 worthy of fame unless they have worthy hearts. That is her 

 temple at last — and it is not glass, nay, not even diamond. 

 Fame is the product of man's nature as much as the life he 

 lives, the acts he does, the children he begets. It matters not 

 whether he moulds and makes the greatest horse, or chisels out 

 the greatest picture, or writes the greatest books, or lives the 

 most heroic life — none of these are the children of chance, 

 the handmaids of hazard. They come from within, from 

 deeper depths and grander sweeps. 



So firmly do I believe these things, that I do not hesitate 

 to say that no narrow, small, and contracted soul will ever 

 breed and perfect a world-renowned horse. Such a man might 

 accidentally mate the sire and dam, but he could no more 

 bring the offspring down the road of flinty doubt and uncer- 

 tainty, the dusty road of toil and work and perseverance, the 

 quiet, shady one of honorable dealings and unswerving integ- 

 rity, the slippery one of jobs and tricks and littleness, through 

 all of these — for through all of these, horses, like great men, 

 have to pass unscathed — to the gilded avenues of fame, than 

 he could turn a paste-diamond gambler into the unpolished 

 genuineness of an Abraham Lincoln. 



And how well do great men and great horses fit ! Imagine 

 Bucephalus belonging to anyone but the conqueror of worlds. 



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