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paced Charter Oak Park in 2:001/2- That stood as 

 the track record until 1916 when Directum I. cut it 

 to 1:58%. In 1900 Cresceus reduced the stallion rec- 

 ord for trotters to 2:04% at Hartford and in 1910 

 C. K. Billings drove Uhlan a mile to wagon in 2 :01%. 

 Almost all of the other champions appeared from 

 time to time at Charter Oak Park, one of the last 

 being Peter Manning in 1922 when he placed the 

 track record for trotters at 1:59%. 



THREE GOOD BUDS 



Walter Cox tells a clever story illustrating the 

 unlooked for places that racing material is apt to 

 come from. Years ago he received a letter from 

 someone in the south telling him of a clever pacing 

 gelding that was being trained by a young man in 

 Kentucky. He was unable to find the town where the 

 young man lived, on the map, but as the horse looked 

 good to him on paper he gave Frank Monahan some 

 money and told him to go and find it and at the 

 same time to purchase the horse if he was as repre- 

 sented. In due time Monahan returned with the 

 horse, which was eventually sold to Frank Whit- 

 comb of Springfield, Mass., and made a record of 

 2:07l^ under the name of B. M. over the half-mile 

 track at Brockton, Mass. Also while Monahan was 

 at the Kentucky town he learned that the same 

 young man had two more pacers but, as they were 

 not on his order slip, he passed them by. They were 

 Verlie Patchen 2:021/2 and Lillian T. 2:023^. 



