LIFE WITH THE TEOTTEBS. 99 



told him further that I would win, sure. At this time it 

 was raining and continued to do so until it was likely to 

 make the track slightly disagreeable. Budd went to the 

 Judges' stand and objected to starting the Maid, on account 

 of the weather. The judges told him he would have to 

 start her, and that if he did not they would pick out some 

 other man to drive her for him. I myself felt a little 

 shaky, knowing that Rarus was a very poor mud horse, 

 and I concluded that if the rain continued for any length 

 of time, I would try and diaw him, and in that way get 

 the money declared off. When we scored for the first 

 heat, I found that Rarus could easily out-trot the Maid. She 

 had the pole, and I concluded to trail until she turned into 

 the stretch. We went to the first three-quarters of the mile 

 in that way, but as we started home from the head of the 

 stretch, Rarus threw ofE a quarter-boot and made a wild 

 break, something I had not seen him do in six months. I 

 merely pulled him up, and made no further move for the heat, 

 Budd winning in a jog. When we got the word in the 

 second heat I set sail to make the Maid go from start to 

 finish. She out-trotted Rarus around the first turn, but in 

 going down the back stretch I got Lead-and-head with hei', 

 keeping very close to her. Budd called to me to pull out, 

 saying that, if the Maid made a break, she would certainly 

 go into the fence. I did not pull out, simpjy kept my 

 place, and, as we passed the half-mile pole, she made a lunge 

 and a break, and tore off one of her quarter-boots, cutting her 

 quarter. All this I saw at the time, as she was nearly as 

 close to me as Rarus was. From there on, Rarus won 

 easily, his time being 2:19^. 



This was the first mile in a race he had ever gone better 

 than 2:20. After the heat, Budd wanted the judges to let 

 him draw the mare on account of her foot, which they de- 

 clined to do, and Rarus beat her the two next heats, without 

 an effort, in 2:19|, 2:20. After the finish of the deciding heat 

 a lot of people who had bet their money on Goldsmith 

 Maid, thinking they had a sure thing, and who had gone 



