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don't think Budd ever accused me of treating liim dishonor- 

 ably in the matter, in any way, shape, or manner. 



The curious feature of the case was, that the result of this 

 race was not sent East by telegraph, and only became known 

 there when the California papers arrived. I shipped for the 

 East directly after the race, and my first intimation of the 

 storm that had been brewing was at Chicago, when I read in 

 the Tribune of that city a ferocious attack on me for my 

 part in the affair, it being intimated that I had robbed the 

 whole State of California, and had intentionally worked out 

 the Maid the day before the race in such a manner as to 

 deprive her of any chance of victory. I remember very well 

 the first time I met the young man who has assisted me in 

 the preparation of this book. It was at Dexter Park, a day 

 or so after I arrived. He was at that time the sporting 

 editor of the Tribune, and we had never come together. He 

 was fresh from an intei-view with W. H. Crawford, and both 

 of them were pretty hot when we met on the quarter stretch. 

 I had read the article in the Tribune, and, not being as 

 familiar then as now with the ways of newspapers and 

 editors, and having looked it over rather hastily, attributed 

 to Mr. White many of the statements that were really made 

 in the California papers. We had it, hot and heavy, for 

 awhile, but finally discovered that both of us were agreed 

 as to many facts, and from that incident sprang up a friend- 

 ship that has continued without interruption ever since. It 

 may be stated here that Rarus never again met the Maid, 

 although there were some purses offered that Mr. Doble 

 could have started her for had he seen fit. As a matter of 

 fact, she never started .again against any horse, but, after 

 giving a few exhibitions in the early summer of 1877, was 

 retired from the turf, and put to breeding at the Fashion 

 Stud Farm of Mr. H. N. Smith, who had owned her for 

 many years, as well as Lucy and Lady Thome, two other 

 famous mares of their day. 



From Chicago I shipped Rarus to Michigan, and started 

 him there on June 22, 1877, in a free-to-all purse, his op- 



