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together in public a mile in about 2:18; one of them has a 

 record of 2:18f in a public race, and he paid for her about 

 $12, 000. He has any number of horses that have cost him 

 u.p in the thousands, and on his private farm he has a fine 

 track. Mr. Geo. Saunders has the training and manage- 

 ment of Mr. Rockefeller's stables, which is proof enough 

 that the horses will always have the best of attention and 

 care. The stables, horses, and outfit of these gentlemen 

 must have cost $100,000. 



Mr. Frank Work, I think, is perhaps one of the oldest 

 load riders in New York. He was for years the bosom 

 iriend of Commodore Vanderbilt, and has one of the hand- 

 somest stables I ever saw. Among his horses are a pair, Dick 

 Swiveller and Edward, that not only made for themselves 

 an enviable reputation on the turf but a world-wide fame, 

 having, while owned by Mr. Work, trotted a mile in a 

 double harness to a gentleman's wagon in 2:16^. Mr. Work 

 has numerous other horses with records between 2:30 and 

 2:20, and although he is past the meridian of life, his inter- 

 est in trotters is just as strong as in his younger days. 



Capt. Jake Vanderbilt, the late^ Commodore's brother, 

 is a genuine horseman, and I am sure if he had not been 

 "born with large business interests, he would have been a 

 professional horseman with a love for the trotter, and he 

 can, to this day, drive one right to the mark. Capt. John 

 Dawson, or as his friends all call him, "Jack" Dawson, 

 trots his horses in public, and backs them when he thinks 

 they can win; keeps a stable of trotters to drive on the 

 xoad, and if you should ever have a brush with him, I am 

 sure at the finish you will not have it to say that you out- 

 drove him. 



Col. Lawrence Kip in his stable of fine horses has as 

 much pleasure as it is possible for a man to obtain, and at 

 the horse-shows he generally manages to take away his 

 share of the premiums, for his extreme taste in the beauty 

 and finish of all his rigs. 



Mr. J. B. Houston, president of the Union Pacific Mail 



