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struggle to the drawgate, there again she made a bad break, and 

 Crown Point won the heat and race in 2:28. 



SUMMARY. 



Agricultural Park Course, Sacramento, September 24, 1880. — Trotting — 2:30 class; purse, 

 $1,200: first horse, two thirds; second, two thirds of remainder; third, the balance. 



A. B. & L. K. Whipple name ch. s. Crown Point, by Speculation, by Rysdick's Hamble- 



tonian, by Abdallah; dam Young Martha, by Geo. M. Patchen, Jr 111 



Robert Beck names s. m. Susie, by Geo. M. Patchen, Jr.; dam Santa Clara 2 2 2 



D. McCarty names b. m. Cassie Mack, by McClellan; dam Sebella dis. 



N. A. Covarrubias names b. g. Major — unknown dis. 



Ben. Timmons names G. Valinsin's b. g. Capt. Jenks, by Norfolk; dam by Belmont__ dis. 



Time— 2:2S, 2:26J, 2:28. 



The next race on the programme was the two mile and repeat trot- 

 ting for a purse of $1,200, in which Lady Ellen was an immense 

 favorite at $100 against $20 for Tom Stout, and $30 for the field, com- 

 prising Venus, Mollie Drew, and Bessie. From the start it w T as evi- 

 dent that Lady Ellen was laying up the heat, as she was far in the 

 rear at the first half, and never appeared to try to better her position. 

 The fight was thus virtually left to A^enus, Tom Stout, and Mollie 

 Drew, the former leading at the end of the first mile, with Stout close 

 to her, and so they traveled almost to the wire, where the latter horse, 

 who got on a run, had to relinquish the second position to Mollie 

 Drew, Lady Ellen being driven leisurely in, with Bessie distanced. 

 Thus occurred the first curious result in betting that made this a 

 hazardous day for those who were not well informed as to the real 

 merits of the horses — Venus, or rather the field, selling for $125 

 against $35 for Lady Ellen, and $25 for Tom Stout. Again the Lady 

 played a waiting race, Stout leading at the half-mile a length from 

 Venus, but thence Ellen gradually closed up and passed the wire in 

 the first mile on almost even terms with the two leaders, and then, 

 taking the lead, she had all the others speedilj 7 in difficulties, and 

 won, as she liked, in 5:04? ; Venus second, and Mollie Drew third. It 

 was now $120 on Lady Ellen against $10 for Stout and $40 for the 

 field. The heat needs no description, save that the Lady sailed away, 

 opening a gap of from twelve to twenty lengths, and winning, in a 

 jog, in 5, Venus beating Mollie out, by a neck, for second place, and 

 Tom Stout being distanced, and in the order mentioned the purse 

 was divided. 



SUMMARY. 



Agricultural Park Course, Sacramento, September 24, 1880. — Trotting — 2:40 class; purse, 

 SI, 000; two miles and repeat; first horse, two thirds; second, two thirds of remainder; 

 third, the balance. Deitz mare barred. 



D. J. Green names b. m. Lady Ellen, by Carr's Mambrino; dam by Owen Pale 4 11 



Ben. Timmons names G. Valinsin's ch. m. Venus, by Venture; dam unknown 12 2 



James Price names ch. m. Mollie Drew, by Winthrop; dam Fanny Fern 2 3 3 



John Williams names L. U. Shippee's blk. g. Tom Stout, by the Moor; dambyArgyle_ 3 4 dis. 

 J. T. Mcintosh names br. m. Bessie, by Blackbird; dam Kate Signal, by Old Signal dis. 



Time— 5:04, 5:04J, 5:00. 



The final race, a divided purse of $360 for four-year olds and 

 under, was the most interesting race of the day, as in it there came 

 together those doughty antagonists of the previous State Fair — ex- 

 Governor Stanford's Captain Smith and L. J. Rose's Del Sur, the 

 result last year proving to be in favor of the latter, although it was 

 then acknowledged that Captain Smith was the better in speed, and 

 lost mainly in consequence of the difficulty Charles Marvin had to 

 hold him in control. Then the accounts from Palo Alto were so 



