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entered in a race, Calmar showed me so much speed in his 

 work that I concluded to give him a trial and if he suited 

 me back him and try and make a little money for myself. 

 In talking the matter over in a quiet way with Greneral 

 Turner, he advised me not to put my money on him as he 

 had seen enough of him to know he was a bad horse. How- 

 ever, I set a day and asked the Gfeneral to come out in the 

 morning and time him for me, which he did. I drove him 

 a mile from a certain point in the back side of the track ia 

 2: 23 J, and in twenty minutes repeated him in 2. -21 J. The 

 General reconsidered his decision, and we concluded as the 

 odds would be very long against him we would put a little 

 money on and try and win a good deal. We got the money 

 on all right but, as the General remarked after the race was 

 over, we cut our watermelon before it was ripe. The race 

 came oflf, Calmar was beaten and we lost our money. Still 

 I was not displeased or discouraged as he acted so much 

 better in the race than he ever did before. I was sure that 

 some day he would prove a winner. I concluded to start 

 in over again and be sure that the next time I put my money 

 on him to have him right. In this race I found that by 

 raising the weight well up on his hoof it changed his gait 

 so that he never touched his scalpers and rarely touched his 

 shin boots. 



I worked him along very carefully for two or three 

 weeks, and every time I drove him he pleased me better. 

 I entered him at the fall meeting at Fleetwood Park, where 

 he won a race of five heats against a bay mare called Rose- 

 wood that was sired by Blackwood, and that was driven in 

 this race by James B. McMann of Flora Temple fame, and 

 which was, I believe, the last race which that celebrated 

 driver took part in. In this race Calmar again sold very 

 cheap in the pools. The betters and the public, knowing 

 that I had backed Calmar at Hartford and had lost my 

 money were not at all frightened when they learned that 

 I was doing the same thing again. In the first two heats 

 Calmar was unsteady and the mare beat him easily in about 



