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ordinary bit could stop him, and I had
a special bit made and kept it in his
mouth all the time Then / had good
racehorse again and he galloped so fast
for those Fasteners that Richard
Croker gave me $4,000 for his racing
qualities and took him to England.
But, oh, Lord, son, Rey Ell Santa Anita
wasn't a marker to some of the others.
Funny that Rey was the only high
class horse that Cheviot ever got.
came very near buying Cheviot ON
Rey's record, and IN mighty glad now
| didn It. He never got anything else.
THE EMPEROR OF NORFOLK.
"But, say, son, you know the other
Derby winner L had, the Emperor by
which he meant the Emperor of Nor
folk-' All, son, there was the horse.
Did you ever talk to Isaac Murphy
about the Emperor? There's one that
never ran as fast as he could but once
in his life. That drunken Thomas who
was training for me pulled him out one
night and sent him a mile at Wash
ington Park which has never yet been
equaled, and tracks weren t as good
then as they are now. The Emperor
took up 134 pounds and ran a mile in
1:3S. That was when the mile record
was just a fraction better than / 40.
The Emperor didn It know how to do
anything but run. I paid $4,000 for
him at Theodore Winters sale at Sac
ramento. John Mackay wanted him
for Mr.. Haggin, but I got him. Mackay
wanted Miss Ford, too, but | got her
at the same sale. Mackay made me go
to $4,000 for her. She was worth the
money, WASH t she, boys
"She ought to have won another
American Derby for me. I had colt
of my breeding in the race, and /
wanted to win with him. So we pulled
Miss Ford to him. You know what
happened. The colt WASH t quite good
enough, and the boy on Miss Ford, who
could have come on at any time, didn t
start with her soon enough. At that
she would have won it in another half
a dozen jumps
''That would have made five Ameri-
can Derbies for me. No other man has
such record for any American event,
has he2 Let s see; there was the En-
peror, Volante, Silver Cloud and Rey
Ell Santa Anita. All of them won Der
bies, and nearly all of them won the
Sheridan Stakes, too. They put my
maltese cross on the Washington Park
banners after my third victory, didn t
they? I think they'll remember me
around Chicago.
sINALoA, THE BEST.
stWhat was the best horse I ever
ownedq Why, boy, if I told you you d
laugh. Tt was that FLY Sinaloa. Yes,
that brown FLY. Better than any of
IL. Al.
perora Yes. Better than Mollie Nc
Cartya Yes. Better than Los Angelesa
Yes. Because she could run faster and
pack weight, too. She took up a big
heavy burden. I don t remember how
much. but it was more than 120, ana
worked a mile and a quarter at Mon
That was a second faster than the rec
ord Some of the racing officials in the
East knew of it and they offered to get
up special stake at mile and quar-
ter the next spring for Sinaloa and Mr..
s Salvador I left her in the
East that winter Just for the stake ana
Albert Cooper let her die from pneu-
monia She was the fastest and the
gamest one of them all, son, and YOU
needn t smile. There was only one OF /
her
''You asked me about Mollie Me !
Carly. She was good mare, all right, /
and if the track had been right that !
cay in Louisville when she ran the /
great match with Ten Brock she |
would have beaten him sure She |
iidn t run in my name in that race, but ,
bought her from Mr.. Winters before
she left California to go East for the
match. You know that was the biggest