The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16
LAWSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN 4 FfS-
 CINATING W1Y.
Lpwson's Future Efforts.

LuVvson's Future Efforts.
 In q letter to the American Horse
 Breeder" T. w. Lawson reverts to his
 horse business affairs in a most reada-
 ble manner, partly to set right Messrs
 Gray and Gatcomb, both of whom are
 well and favorably known hereabouts
 partly to give vent to a little pardona-
 ble pride at the accomplishment of cer-
 tain things horsewise that he set about
 partly to let his friends know where he
 has located his breeding farm, and in-
 cidentaIly to reaffirm his abiding faith
 in the American trotting-b bred horse as
 the greatest in the World-the only gen.
 tleman's horse. Horsemen hereahouts
 will be especially interested in what MT.
 Lawson has to say of his two former
 employees:
 Now that I am embarking in the
 breeding business, which makes my
 horse affairs more or less public busi-
 ness" and because so much that is con-
 tradictory and confusing has been
 printed about these affairs, I think,
 perhaps, few remarks explanatory of what I propse to do at Dreamwold may
 pe OL llteltSt lU yuul tHUuSdlluS ol readers and scores of breeders.
 During the two years I have been in the light-harness racing game much has been said about my disappointments. I have had no disappointments in the sense of being disappointed in what have been attempting. On the contrary, have had phenomenaly good luck, and right here I would like to state a few facts to set exactly right in the minds of their fellow -horsemen two good men. I refer to the manager of my racing stable, MT. Gray, and my trainer and driver, James Gatcomb. Beginning with the new year. when all my horses will be gathered at Dreamwold, I lose the service of both.
 I perhaps can in no better way call attention to their merits than point to the fact that my stable has gone the Grand Circuit, and been continuously in the eye of the public at the races for two years, and in that time there has never been the slightest bad whisper in regard to any of the races in which my horses have participated. Horsemen know in what pretty shape my stable, including horses, fixtures, attendants and travelling cars, has always been, whether on the road, at the track or in the show ring; this is owing to MT Gray's good management and when say that MT. Gatcomb has driven Bor- alma in eleven straight winning races, and upon each race there has been a fortune in the pool, l think I point to a record unequalIed since trotting first began.
 There has hardly been a race of 1 Boralmas where his driver could not 1 have made a fortune by being a "bit l off," and when the time came for | Boralma to lose the only two races he has ever lost, they cast, as every one >noWs no reflection upon his driver. Many horsemen have thought that Mir Gray was responsible for some of the gold bricks" which have crept into my stable, principally because they believ- ed he purchased my horses but in this -hey did him an injustice. Every horse, | with but two exceptions, that I have purchased during the past five years. | whether show or racers, I alone am re- sponsible for I select the horse usually oy carefully req ding them up and post ng myself in my own way before call he attention of my stable managers to hem
 Take, for instance, that highly pol shed bright yellow brick Sagwa, which purchased at the Garden I first be- anne interested in him by reading those beautiful word pictures made by that lrtist- horseman. horseman- artist. Mir. Tanner of Cleveland, and I sent MT. fray to look Sagwa over and report lpon him. He reported that I should lot touch him, that "he was not our z, ,ind," but when I sat in the Garden nd Sagwa was brought to the block nd Mir. Tanner began to dwell upon is merits, and in that inmitable, artis- ically pleasing manner peculiar to him ainted the picture of his future I, gainst the wishes of MT. Gray, regis sred a VOW then and there that I iould have him at any cost. and I lust confess to a feeling of guilty sad ess when he was knocked down to me $7,100. Much was written and more as been talked about the high price I , aid for him, but the only thing that l 'oubled my conscience was the feel { ,g that I had taken one of MT. Tan i eres pets at only a fraction of his l alue II It has been the same with some of I he other horses in my stable that t ave not come up to my expectations. | Ieither my manager nor my trainer 2 ere in any way responsible, nor, as S have said, has my racing stable been 2 g a whole q appointment. From k lways having been in saddle and r now horses determined to takeya year II r two's education in the ght-harness II anne preliminary to starting in to i reed, and looking at it from this t l think horsemen will agree t lat I have been amply rapid. o Let me set you right about the con- a 'adictory statements that have been Ii lade, first about my quitting the light e arness game, and latterly of having t. larger stable than ever on the circuit n ext season. Both statements are par h ally right and partially wrong. I a nnounced early in the season that lis would be my last year on the cir a it, and I have in no way changed my h ,cision. Beginning with the new year ls will have all my horses at Dream e