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pacers below the two minute line, while both Mabel 

 Trask and St. Frisco won heats in 2:01%. The 

 injury sustained by Ante Guy in her second race, no 

 doubt, kept the trotters from making a new mark 

 but the pacers could not step up to the new stand- 

 ard. 



Of the old trotters. Heir Reaper, Early Dreams, 

 Royal Mac and Mignola were the leaders, llie first 

 named, a twelve-year-old, won in 2:04% at Kala- 

 mazoo. Royal Mac, eleven-year-old, made his third 

 trip through the circuit and won in 2:041/4 at 

 Toledo and Lexington where Early Dreams made a 

 new record for horses of that age when he showed 

 in front in 2:03i/i. This was equalled by Prince 

 Loree in the Transylvania. Mignola, a ten-year-old, 

 marched like a conquering hero from the opening 

 meeting of the Grand Circuit until he pulled up 

 lame at Hartford where he was defeated in the 

 Charter Oak Purse by Mariondale. He was started 

 in ten races of which he won nine and made a record 

 of 2:041/4. No one ever saw a better trotter than 

 the handsome son of Allerton. 



McGregor the Great was the leading money win- 

 ner of 1919. He won twelve of his fourteen races. 

 Mariondale defeated him at the first Cleveland 

 meeting and in the Massachusetts Purse at Boston 

 but he more than offset those slips by his brilliant 

 race at Syracuse where he won in 2:031/4 and fol- 

 lowed it by a sweep from that point to Atlanta. 



Direct C. Burnett led the pacers in the dollar 

 column. He won eleven of his fifteen races. After 



