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financially — Lysander Boy, Lysander Maid, Lysander Girl, 

 Wm. Kearney and Watt completes the list. They are not a 

 family that develop speed young, families differ very much in 

 that respect. Watt could only show about a two-forty clip 

 until he was eight years old. Then he began . to show signs 

 of more speed and I began to think I would get paid for 

 waiting. When he was seven I won two good races with him 

 and money enough to pay his oat bill. In 1888 hewas a gen- 

 uine race horse, reducing his record to 2:24:|, and earned me 

 money enough to buy a pretty fair horse, wagon and harness, 

 a few barrels of flour and several tons of coal. In the fall I 

 sold him for a pretty fair price to parties in Germany, where 

 he will contend for honors and wealth for his owner. I ship- 

 ped him on the 9th of January, 1889, in company with James 

 G., 2:20^, and Jose S., 2:22J. They are in the same stable as 

 Van Buren Girl, 2:25^ Lynwood, 2:20^, Blue Belle, 2:20, Julia 

 C., 2:23|, Bob Johnson, 2:27^, and 2:22| to saddle, Pat Demp- 

 sey, 2:27|-, Tourist Boy, 2:32|-, Jessie Hammond, 2;25|-, Trou- 

 ble, 2:24f, Lysander Belle, 2:33|, Lysander Girl, 2:35:|-, Ada 

 E. C, 2:28, and four brood mares with colts by their side. All 

 of which I have purchased and shipped to one party, and he 

 has had the best stable in Europe, in the past four years. 



To* another party in Austria, who has always been the 

 leading man on the turf in his vicinity, I purchased and 

 shipped Amber, 2:25^ ; Francis Alexander, 2:19 ; Young Am- 

 ber and three brood mares. It is not any easy matter to send 

 horses so long a trip by rail and water and have them land at 

 their destination in good order. I always take a good deal of 

 pains in shipping them. I load them very different from the 

 way they formerly were shipped. I always send them by the 

 German Lloyd steamers, which is as good a line, as ever 

 crossed the ocean. After engaging passage for my horses I 

 look up the stevedore, that is the man who has charge of 

 loading that liiie of vessels. I have him assign me a good 

 roomy place to arrange my stalls, which are built on the steer- 

 age deck where steerage passengers are accommodated emi- 



