. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 140 lit* ^tttSitt nn& Sfomtemm. Aug 27 Got Onto his Racket. "You remember that fat horse, Prinoe, that I had two years ago?" said one judge to another, in the stand at Guttenburg the other day. "Well, sir, I had an experience with him that showed me how much reliance can be placed on the average driver. I had the horse at Pawling, Id August, 1885, and his driver was a man I had done so much for that I never dreamed he would give me the cross. Prince could trot in 2:25 easy enough, and he was in a race the first day which my driver told me he
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 140 lit* ^tttSitt nn& Sfomtemm. Aug 27 Got Onto his Racket. "You remember that fat horse, Prinoe, that I had two years ago?" said one judge to another, in the stand at Guttenburg the other day. "Well, sir, I had an experience with him that showed me how much reliance can be placed on the average driver. I had the horse at Pawling, Id August, 1885, and his driver was a man I had done so much for that I never dreamed he would give me the cross. Prince could trot in 2:25 easy enough, and he was in a race the first day which my driver told me he was sure to win, and I thought so and pat my money in the pool-box hand over fist, until I saw my own driver buy- ing the other end. Of course I quit, and my horse was beaten. I eaid nothiDg, but sent word for a driver at Newark to be there two days later when PriuL-e was to start again. "When the new driver came I told him to sit as far back in the stand as he could, and not to Bhow himself until I sent for him. Again my money went into the box on my horBe and again my driver's went in on the othpr end. Prince won the first two heats in 2:35, 2:37&, but was beaten in the third in 2:36. When they came out for the fourth heat, just as my old driver was about to get into the sulky I stepped up and said: 'Here, my friend, I have another man who will drive this heat,'and up came the artist from Newark. You never saw a man's jaw drop so far. He knew I was onto him and had not a word, nor could he get a dollar out of the box, for he did not dare skip for the pool-stand while my eye was on him, and the horses got off quick, and Prince won the heat and race in 2:31. That driver was giving me the double cross, but I fetched him with a triple ; âWalter A. Chester. Gen Wm. T. Withers, of Fairlawn Farm, Lexington, Ky., has sold toB. P. Williamson, of Raleigh, X. C: Honeysuckle, bay mare, three years old, by Happy Medium, dam Susan Brady, by Strader's C. M. Clay Jr.; pr
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