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the nine furl(>n<;;.s, the distiinee to wliieli the nice luid been re(hice(l, in 1.52;^, only three- 

 fit'tlis of a second more than the l)est on reeord for tlie distance over the new and fast 

 track. In the Wooclstock Phite Mr. Seagram has also had his snccesses, his last being 

 in 1907, when, with Main Chance, he won in the fastest time on record for the race, in 

 L.jov. Another important event in which Mr. Seajfram's stable has distinp;uished 

 itself is the King Edward Hotel Cu]), which the province-bred Inferno has tlirice won, 

 against all comers, first in 190(5 as a four-year-old. carrying 117 pounds, and covering 

 the distance, one mile and a (juarter. in the fastest time on record for Canada, namely, 

 2 0.'}; the second time in 1907. carrying 1'2(5 pounds, in '■2.0(v-;. and the third time in 

 1!>()S, carrying the same weight, in '•2.09,-. This Cu|), valued at $l,oUO, was won out- 

 right by Mr. Seagram with his victories of 190() and 1907, and in the following year 

 the ])roprietors of the hotel having given another Cuj) of the same value, he won. as 

 flescribed, for the third time. xVnother race of prominence that Mr. Seagram has 

 twice landed with the same horse is the I^iverpool Cuj), which the American-bred 

 Procession won for him in 1900 and 1901. l\'rha|js one of the most startling per- 

 formances that ever the Woodbine saw was that of Mr. Seagram's Persistence II, an 

 imported horse by the King's Persimmon, that after running absolutely last in the 

 () .rC 's longest distance race, namely the Ontario Jockey Clul) Cup, run in 191)4. over 



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