■230 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



money in free-to-all races at every place, and J; Q. was 

 left with, what he could find. But at Rochester the pie was 

 cut in a different manner. In the betting Arab sold for 

 :flOO, and the field, including J. Q., Hilton, and other per- 

 formers, went for anything that you would bid. In the 

 previous races I had put in some of my spare time watching 

 the peculiarities of the horses I had to contend with and 

 trying to see what my chances were for beating them. I 

 ■did not think it was $100 to $10 that Arab could out-trot 

 J. Q. , and when I imparted that information to Mr. Temple, 

 J. Q.'s owner, he quietly placed some of his money on the 

 black horse at those odds, and we went out for the money. 



I think there was hardly a man on the track who 

 ■expected to see the great race that took place between Arab 

 and J. Q. In the fi'rst heat I laid my horse up and Arab 

 won easily. In the .next heat in getting the word Arab 

 was a little back, and Jack Feek with Kitefoot cut him off 

 at the turn, which put him in a pocket and Hickok, seeing 

 the disadvantage that he was at, immediately pulled his 

 horse up. I set sail with J. Q. , and won the heat in about 

 2:19. This made no change in the betting; if anything Arab 

 was a bigger favorite than before, thus enabling us to place 

 some more of our money at the same odds. When they 

 gave the word in the next heat Hickok rushed out with 

 Arab and took the lead. I contented myself by trailing 

 within a length of him. We reached the quarter pole in 

 that order, and there was no change at the half-mile pole, 

 where we turned up in about 1:10. Around the upper turn 

 I moved up so that my horse was as close to Hickok as 

 was safe, and sat still until we got well into the stretch. 



Arab and J. Q. were two very brushy horses. I had 

 often talked with Hickok about the two horses, and he had 

 always said they were not to be mentioned the same day, 

 and rather lost patience with me as I undertook to argue . 

 that J. Q. might be able to give Arab a very fair race. At 

 the seven-eighths-mile pole I pulled J. Q. out into the track 

 and took off the brakes. From there to the judges' stand 



