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accident would without doubt liave improved that. He also 

 won the $10,000 stallion race with tlie stallion Alexander 

 and gave him his best record. Grus is one of the sort of 

 people a good deal like some horses, they have a little more 

 to them than you expect, and for that reason when he 

 starts in a race he never disaijpoints the public. 



John Call, who dates his connection with the turf way 

 back when Belle Patterson and Annie Collins were young- 

 sters, devotes his time and attention more particularly to the 

 training and developing of young horses for people who do 

 not keep a private trainer of their own, and in this line he 

 has been particularly successful. He steps out occasionally 

 and makes a raid on the boys and shows them that he is 

 not afraid to go out in deep water. He makes his home at 

 Cleveland, and has the advantage there having the best 

 training ground that I know of for all kinds of horses. 

 Alt a McDonald, of Albany, is entitled to be classed with 

 the youngsters, and a cute one at that. What Alta does 

 noh know of the ins and outs of a plain everyday horse- 

 race is not worth knowing. He is always willing to bar age 

 and size and take whatever the judges lead out to him for 

 his share of the money, and up to the present time, I think, 

 he has been enabled to get all he was really entitled to, 

 As a trainer, he has shown from his boyhood his ability to 

 not only condition his horses, but what I consider a much 

 harder feat, to keep them in condition through a long cam- 

 paign. He always drives to win, which I think very 

 commendable in a young man in these times, where there is 

 often a temptation to do differently. 



Tom Grady, another Albany trainer, is an Irishman by 

 birth and a gentleman in conduct. He has made a study of 

 trotting horses both in books and by actual experience the 

 greater part of his life. He and Charlie Nolan have always 

 been great friends. Whenever I see them in consultation 

 on the race-track I make up my mind that the Fenians are 

 going to book a winning. Nolan has been one of the strongest 

 ■supporters of the trotting turf, a sportsman for pleasure, 



