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Title: Breeding and developing the trotter
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bradburn, John, 1842- (from old catalog) Thomas, Arthur Caton, 1885- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Horses Horse racing
Publisher: Boston, Mass., American horse breeder publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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om of eight tables, but I did notlike the business. It was too confining. I might say right here that by this time I had gone broke. When the Canadian SouthernRailroad came through and spoiled my liverytrade I foolishly hung on till I had sunk a greatdeal of money in the business. Four horses weredoing my work while formerly I needed twenty.To cap it all I went on a bond for several thousanddollars and had to make good. MY FIRST RACE. I might previously have described the first racein which I ever drove. This was a match racebetween a three-year-old by Grantham Chief,which I had purchased for one hundred dollars,and another local horse of the same age. Thematch was for seventy-five dollars a side. I wonin one—two—three order, time about 3.15, 3.20,3.25. The same party asked for a return matchin two weeks, for fifty dollars a side, and this Ialso won in three straight heats. ROADING IT. One of my first campaigns was with PelhamTartar Jr. and a little running horse called Charles 10
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PC o o PQ < H BREEDING THE TROTTER Stewart. I traveled over the road from town totown, as we all did in those days, racing at Ham-ilton, Gait, Mitchell and Toronto. I had no suc-cess : the horses took sick, the weather was hot,and the runner lost his speed, so we came home,making a very sorry-looking spectacle. In 1876 I had fair success with my publicstable. In my string were Lady Hill, DominionBoy, Brown Dick, Douglas, Quaker Boy andLady H. One of the noted races of those days in which Idrove was trotted on September 15, 1876, atWoodbine Track, Toronto, Ontario. It was oneof the greatest betting races ever seen on any racetrack in Ontario, before or since. There was inthe neighborhood of forty or fifty thousand dol-lars in the box. St. Patrick and Lady Hill wereabout equally well liked, the selling on themswitching from one hundred—eighty to ninety—one hundred. The field—Gray Eddy, WilliamW. and Stayer—brought little. I won the firstheat with Lady Hill, the time hung out

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