48 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



he told me that I had driven well, and the other from the 

 partner of all my joys and sorrows, Mrs. Splan. 



I turned off from the story of Kansas Chief's races after 

 the one at Springfield, which we won when there seemed 

 to be no chance of victory. Our next engagement was at Hart- 

 ford, where we trotted the Chief, as it were out of his class. 

 We started him there in the 2:24 race, where he met what 

 afterward became two of the most celebrated horses of 

 their day. I speak now of Hopeful, the grey gelding that 

 made a record of 2:14f to harness, and still holds the 

 world's record to wagon — 2:16|, and Lucille Golddust, 

 whom Charley Green afterward drove to a record of 2: 16 J, 

 and whose first foal, Lucille's Baby, made a record last 

 year of 2:201-, and bids fair to eclipse the performance of 

 her famous dam. We had heard great reports of Hopeful' s 

 speed, and from that concluded that we would not be able 

 to beat him, and, as we^still had some very valuable engage- 

 ments with Kansas Chief, Mr. Simmons suggested that if I 

 found we could not win, to make the race as easy as pos- 

 sible for Kansas ; which I did. Hopeful won the race in 

 three straight heats, the time being 2:25, 2:231, 2.23|. 

 Susie got second money, Kansas Chief third, and Lucille 

 Golddust fourth ; the other horses in the race being Joker, 

 that Mr. Jay Gould drove on the road after he had retired 

 from the turf, and Ella Wright, that Budd Doble drove. 

 Joker was driven by Jimmy Dougrey, and together tliey 

 made a pair that were hard to beat. Dougrey has made 

 himself famous in more lines than one. He has trained 

 and driven some of the best horses in this country, and 

 done it as well as any man. When it comes to training a 

 game chicken, Dougrey can beat anyone, and his war 

 roosters have gained him fame and money when the race- 

 tracks were under the snow. As a politician he has also 

 shone, having been canal superintendent on the Erie under 

 the Tweed administration, and it was through no dishon- 

 esty or mismanagement of the canal by Dougrey that 

 Tweed fell. After the banishment of his political 



