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off, unfortunately the clang had not stopped before Vesolia made a tangled 

 break and fell ten lengths behind to the turn, where she made another and 

 then a double break, and Margaret S reached the quarter first, two lengths 

 ahead of Fortuna and ten ahead of Kilrain, with the favorite Vesola a dis- 

 tance out. Up the backstretch Donathan worked Fortuna up closer to 

 Margaret S, while Kilrain was fast falling a distance behind, while Vesola, 

 acting very badly, was clearly and hopelessly out. 



Margaret S came on still in the lead of Fortuna and reached the wire 

 first in time to have the flag drop in the faces of both Vesola and Kilrain, 

 who had both run nearly half a mile in the vain hope of saving their dis- 

 tance. Time, 2:31^. 



Second Heat — Pools now sold, Margaret S $45 and Fortuna $4. Consid- 

 erable delay was had in getting the horses to appear, and the judges, 

 Messrs. La Rue, Green, and Singletary, imposed a fine of $10 each on 

 McDowell and Donathan. This had its effect on Margaret S and she 

 answered the call, but Fortuna still failed to materialize and was fined $10 

 more and given the alternative of appearing in two and a half minutes or 

 getting fined $25 for each subsequent length of time he failed. On the 

 second trial they got away and Margaret at once took the lead, reaching 

 the half in l:14f. From here Fortuna made a brush, but broke at the 

 three-quarter pole and fell back ten lengths, Margaret S coming home 

 leisurely, winning the heat and race, Fortuna second. Time, 2:31. 



SUMMARY. 



Pleasanton Stock Farm's b. f. Margaret S, by Director-May Day — McDowell 1 1 



Z. E. Simmons' b. f. Fortuna, by Florida-George Wilkes mare — Donathan 2 2 



L. J. Rose's b. f. Vesolia, by Stamboul-Inez — Maben dis. 



L. U. Sbippee's b. c. Kilrain, by Hawthorne-Hambletonian dis. 



Time— 2:31£; 2:31. 

 The next event was — 



THE GRAND STALLION STAKE. 



There were two grand surprises previous to that of Saturday last, and 

 in the whole history of trotting it would be difficult to find a parallel. 

 When Stamboul beat Arab at Los Angeles, in 2:15, 2:17^, 2:16f, there was 

 a thrill from San Diego to Siskiyou, and people who had any fancy for 

 trotters were so much surprised that they could talk of nothing else. It 

 was thought to settle the question of supremacy, and the stallion races at 

 Oakland and Sacramento were considered already settled. Also, the 

 National. Unless some accident befell Stamboul, the talk was that he 

 would make a clean sweep all through. The second surprise came when 

 Guy Wilkes disposed of the champion, although there was an element of 

 luck in the victory, as it was argued that had Stamboul not made the 

 break soon after the start for the first heat was given, he would surely have 

 won, and this was too logical to be gainsaid. The third surprise was the 

 greatest of all. Woodnut did not show to be within several seconds of 

 either the others at Oakland, though there were a great many who thought 

 that Holly had taken greater pains not to play his best trumps at that 

 stage of the game than to win, and these sharp fellows will be doubly con- 

 vinced of the correctness of their views now. There is scarcely a doubt 

 that the Los Angeles track was the fastest of the three the day that Stam- 

 boul and Arab met, though inasmuch as Arab was driven two heats 

 between those of the stallion race in 2:16^, 2:16, the course at Sacramento 

 could not have been far behind. 



