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Ms business. Next we have Scott Quinton of New Jersey, who- 

 is a very dressy young fellow. Scott has given Favonia a 

 record of 2:15, and the pacer Gossip Jr. a mark of 2:14. He 

 comes honestly by his love for horses, his father having been 

 a first-class horseman. Mr. Quinton is a very genteel looking- 

 young man and with Ms dress suit on at a swell dinner or 

 theatre party is simply immense. Next in line is Bob Stew- 

 art, he being entitled to fourth money, having given White 

 Stockings a record of 2:16. Bob comes under the head of a 

 gentleman driver, — that is he owns and drives his own horses, 

 and in that class he leads the list. Wlienever Bob's horse 

 trots through the grand circuit it is considered ladies' day, as 

 Bob always has a handsome horse, is well dressed himself 

 and his diamonds are the envy of more than one man. The 

 love of the horse in the Stewart family is not all centered in 

 Bob. John, his younger brother has never yet made his 

 bow to the public as a professional driver, but as an enemy 

 of the book-makers and a plunger in the pool-box, he is only 

 equaled by their father, who makes occasional raids from 

 the far West and if he does not beat the pool-box he gives 

 it such a shaking up that it does not get back to its normal 

 condition before he is ready to take another fall out of it. 

 In the pacing-horse division Rody Patterson takes the 

 banner, he having given Bessemer, a four- year-old stallion, 

 a record of 2:15 which is the best up to date for an entire 

 horse of that age. In this Rody did more than many drivers 

 have been able to accomplish in a lifetime. Two fifteen 

 may not seem fast on paper, but there are few men who have 

 ever had the pleasure of riding that fast in a sulky. Budd 

 Doble, with all his experience, never rode a mile in the 

 sulky better than 2:14 until last year. For Rody Patterson 

 I predict a brilliant future. His business education and 

 moral training has been of the very best, as no boy was ever- 

 more carefully reared. His father before him was a horse- 

 man and his grandfather followed the same vocation for a 

 living. Rody's father as secretary, owner and driver was 

 always closely connected with the turf and his record was. 



