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driver named Irving Harris. He drove her a mile in about 

 2:30. Then Dan De Noyelles, vv^ho used to drive horses with 

 Dan and Benny Mace v^hen they were boys, having owned at 

 that time the trotter Frank Vernon, afterward known as 

 Panic, went up to Watertown and gave a long price for the 

 little mare. Someone suggested that Dan bought Adelaide 

 for a book-mark, saying she certainly was not big enough 

 for anything else. But the little mare's career proved that 

 Dan knew what he was about, as she was a mark 

 for a good many horses to shoot at that were not able to 

 hit her. She passed through the hands of Mose Whipple 

 into Jack Phillips' stable and then came to me. 



The first time I worked her and brought her to the 

 stables she did not sweat a particle. This being such an 

 unnatural thing I was rather alarmed, but when I spoke to 

 the boy about it he said it was nothing unsual — that she 

 never would sweat. I could hardly believe that statement, 

 as in my career up to that time, I had never seen a horse in 

 health that would not sweat after violent exercise. I inter- 

 viewed De NoyeUes about it, and he said that the most 

 he ever saw her sweat was to moisten under the harness just 

 a little. I studied the mare carefully, but was never able 

 to account for' this peculiarity. In training Adelaide, I 

 took extra pains to handle and care for her in a manner that 

 would cause her to perspire or sweat freely, but nothing I 

 ever did in the way of medicine or attention seemed to have 

 the slightest effect on her. She was a good feeder, carried 

 but very little flesh, and even in winter when allowed to eat 

 all she wanted to, would not increase her weight more than 

 fifty pounds. In the two years I had her she trotted some 

 great races. The most notable one, perhaps, was where she 

 defeated a field of a dozen that were considered first-class 

 horses at that time. This race took place over the Cleve- 

 land track in 1878. The two horses between whom the ^ce 

 was supposed to lie were Prospero and Midnight, a couple 

 of black geldings that had shown the ability to trot in 2:20, 

 whereas Adelaide was looked upon' by horsemen and the 



