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driver, “while being hitched to the sulky,” — although 
she had previously been kicking and plunging in her 
stall, — ‘but she would shake and tremble until I 
have heard her feet make the same noise against the 
hard ground that a person’s teeth will when the body 
is suddenly chilled; that is, her feet actually chattered 
on the ground. The instant I would get into the sulky 
all this would pass away, and she would start in a 
walk for the track as sober as any old horse you ever 
saw.” Rarus was so nervous that he never could have 
been driven with safety on the road, and his courage 
was of the finest temper. St. Julien was exceedingly 
high strung, and in hands less patient and discreet 
than those of his trainer might never have been sub- 
dued to the purposes of racing. Jay-Hye-See, though 
I know less of his personal history, is notorious for 
the pluck that he showed on the last quarters of his 
hard miles; and Maud 8. is the most spirited, the 
most determined, and at the same time the gentlest 
of animals. 
Sunol is described by Governor Stanford, who bred 
her, as “a bundle of nerves.” Palo Alto’ is a horse 
of immense resolution, and Arion overflows with 
energy. The groom who has been his constant com- 
panion night and day for the past year or more says 
that he never saw Arion stand quietly for a full 
minute. “He is never at rest, and is always at play, 
except when the harness goes on, and he feels Mar- 
vin’s hand on the lines: then he becomes at once an 
old campaigner, not a frisky colt.” 
In all these horses we find strength of will, fine- 
ness of nerve, and a “do or die” quality that goes 
1 Palto Alto died of pneumonia after this chapter was in type. 
