I04 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



watch and he had it 2:16|-. By that time several others had 

 got to me and said, "Jack, you are out of your class unless 

 you have some friend in the stand." Then one of my men, 

 Gus Smythe, stepped up and said, " Fred is right ; I have got 

 it 2:16^, and you better get for the stand or you will get a 

 mark that you will not like." So I started for the judges and 

 begged and pleaded, almost on my knees ; and I guess I would 

 have humbled myself in that manner if I could have got them 

 to have hung out 2:1S;|^, but they said 2:17:J- was the outside 

 watch, the others having it faster, and some did have it 2:16-J-. 

 They put it out 2:17J. That did me much harm, as I wanted 

 to trot the mare through the big Circuit in the 2:19 class, and 

 as it was it put me in the free-for-all. From this out I won 

 the race easy, as Thomas could not make me go a heat faster 

 than 2:21 and 2:23. 



The next week I brought her home and trotted her at 

 Phoenix July 4th for a little sure money against Sally C, 

 2:17^, pacer. That done her more harm than the money done 

 me good, as the track was very hard and rough. It seemed to 

 sore her, and it took me two or three weeks to get her over 

 it. It was a very poor half-mile track, and consequently it 

 was slow time, she winning the race in 2:28, 2:27 and 2:25. 

 But I entered her down the line in the free-for-all class, com- 

 mencing at Cleveland July 2^ and 29, against Charles Hilton, 

 2:17|-, Arab, 2:15, Maud Messenger, 2:l(i|-, and J. Q,, 2:17|-. 

 This was a hard race. J. Q. won the fir&t heat in 2:17^, the 

 third heat in 2:18, Arab winning the second heat in 2:18^, 

 fourth in 2:17|, and the fifth and race in 2:16f Charles Hil- 

 ton got third money and Kitefoot fourth. 



The next week, August 5tli, we came to Buffalo, where I 

 met Arab, J. Q., Charles Hilton, and Phil. Thompson, 2:16^. 

 Arab again winning the race, this time in three straight heats 

 in 2:17|-, 2:19 and 2:iS|. I just being able to beat Phil. 

 Thompson for fourth money. 



The next week, August 21st, we again tried conclusions 

 with the same field of horses, except Bessie, 2:17, who joined 



