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ert McGregor in a race, and some of the qualities that made 

 him successful on the running track were just as useful to 

 him with the trotter. Jack Batchelor trained and drove his 

 own trotters for a number of years with success, and when 

 he went into the running-horse business, he was able to 

 train them and get his share of the money. Col. William 

 McGuigan, who at one time made his mark on the trotting 

 turf, a longer one perhaps than any other man ever did, has 

 connected himself with the runners and is just as success- 

 ful. L. C. Chase, who in his lifetime owned some of the 

 best trotters in this country and managed them success- 

 fully, proved himself just as handy with the runners as he 

 ever had been with the trotters, and before the talent about 

 the pool-box realized it, he had given them some blows from 

 which they have never recovered. 



I think a man that is a first-class rider of thoroughbred 

 race-horses can certainly be taught to drive a trotter well. 

 I have watched William Hay ward ride some of his long- 

 distance races and I have always felt sure that if he had 

 taken an interest in it, could have made himself a first-class 

 driver. Speaking of light men driving a trotter well, we 

 have a number of feather weights in the business who get 

 along all right. In Bennie Mace's lifetime, while he was 

 overshadowed by Dan's greatness to a certain extent with 

 the public, I always gave him credit for being an artist. I 

 think he never weighed over 115 or 120 pounds, and was 

 rather a delicate man in health, etc. , yet I have seen him 

 drive all kinds of horses, and it seemed to me extremely 

 well. I saw him ride Panic for Mr. De Noyelles once, when 

 he could not have weighed over a hundred pounds. Ben- 

 nie drove American Girl some of the best races she ever 

 trotted, and he must have impressed her owner Mr. Lovell 

 as being a good driver, as he had been connected with the 

 turf long enough to know that talent is a very necessary 

 "thing to have in that position. Dan and Bennie were great 

 friends. Dan looked upon him more I think as a son than 

 a brother, and Bennie always deferred everything to him 



