74 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



a farm in Pennsylvania where lie raises all kinds of blooded 

 live stock, from rabbits to Diirkam bulls. He paid me the 

 compliment of naming his best horse Jack Splan. 



From Poughkeepsie we went to Hartford, where Rarus 

 beat Adelaide and Carrie in 2:23^, 2:22^, and 2:23^. By 

 this time I had become thoroughly satisfied that Rarus could 

 go better with a lighter shoe. I called in Charles Huey, a 

 man in whose ability as a shoer of trotting horses I have the 

 greatest faith. Huey originated in Buffalo. At one of the 

 early meetings in Buffalo, Mace had occasion to call in a 

 blacksmith, and, in response to his summons, a great big, 

 good-natured man stepped up and said, 'il do a little horse- 

 shoeing myself." Mace gave him the order he wanted exe- 

 cuted, and the man unrolled his leather apron, tied it around 

 him, and started in at the work. Mace, with his accustomed 

 acuteness, saw in the stranger what he considered a first- 

 class mechanic, and, as Huey put down the horse' s foot, 

 turned to him and said, ' ' If you will come to New York 

 with me, I will see that you get a chance to make a for- 

 tune." The following spring Huey came to New York, and 

 Mace fitted him up a shop in Broadway, between Forty- 

 seventh and Forty-eighth streets, where, with Mace as a 

 friend, and his own ability, he soon made himself a name 

 second to that of no man in the business. When Lucy and 

 Goldsmith Maid were campaigning the country, Huey was 

 hired by Doble, at a large salary, to accompany the outfit 

 and do the shoeing. At the time 1 speak of, he had located 

 at Hartford, and had a shop. When he came to the stable 

 he sat down, and, in his good-natured way, commenced to 

 talk to me about the time I used to play hookey from school 

 in Buffalo to go to the race track there and drive horses for 

 John L. Stevenson. When I called his attention to Rarus, 

 he looked his feet over carefully, and said he thought he 

 could improve them. I told him I did not want to make 

 any very serious changes, as he was going extremely well 

 then. We talked over the matter of the weight of the shoes, 

 etc., and finally concluded to have him shod after certain 



