236 LIFE WITri THE TEOTTEES. 



I could see tliat the medicine was operating on his stomach. 

 We kept him tied up through the day so that he could not 

 eat his beddiug, but did not muzzle him. I divided the 

 eight pounds of oats into five feeds, and gave him in addi- 

 tion a small quantity of hay night and morning. Every 

 'day he seemed to get brighter, sharper, and Lave more dash 

 and speed. From what I had seen of the horse in Lis turf 

 career I made up my mind that whenever he had plenty of 

 speed it took a race-horse to beat him. I had heard people 

 say that he was wLat you would call a soft horse, but as 

 good a judge of a trotting horse as David Bonner once re- 

 marked in my presence that there was nothing in Cling- 

 stone's breeding to indicate it, he having in his pedigree a 

 ■combination of the blood of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, 

 American Star and the best thoroughbred cross that was 

 'ever in a trottiag pedigree, that of Lexington. 



This race was in some respects a battle between strains of 

 l)lood that had their respective partisans. I have told how 

 Olingstone is bred, and Harry Wilkes was also in fashion- 

 able lines, his sire, George Wilkes, like the sire of Cling- 

 stone, being by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, while on his 

 ■dam's side there was the blood of the pacer Cajptain 

 Walker, a horse that in addition to the dam of Harry 

 Wilkes had also sired the dam of Black Cloud, a staUion that 

 liad made a record of 2:17J, and went some good races where 

 the heats were split. People from all parts of the country 

 came to Detroit to see tLis race, among them many breeders, 

 and prominent in this section of tLe tLrong were Mr. Sam- 

 xiel A. Browne and United States Senator Stockbridge of 

 Michigan, wlio were then, as now, proprietors of one of the 

 largest breeding establishments, in tlie West, it being located 

 at Kalamazoo, Mich. As they were naturally anxious to 

 have on their jjlace stallions and mares of the best strains 

 ■of blood they had come to see the race between these two 

 representative horses. To show that Messrs. Browne & 

 Stockbridge are men of liberal and progressive methods, 

 once their mind is made up, it may be said that they were 



