INDEX 



Page 

 Peter Manning's Outing . . 7 

 Guy Axworthy's Grandam 10 

 Robert Bonner's Horses . . 17 



Charter Oak Park 22 



Three Good Buds 29 



A Sporting Wager 30 



Grand Circuit in 1919 ... 32 



Frank Bogash 39 



Madden Exit 40 



Peter Volo 43 



Amateur Racing 50 



Class in the Trotter 55 



Training Methods 59 



Grand Circuit in 1921 ... 63 



Fading Families 67 



Poughkeepsie Passed .... 71 



Thomasville Shack 84 



Leading Reinsmen in 1921 86 



Turf Trial Balance 91 



From Gay to Grave 92 



Epsom in Winter 94 



Syracuse Ten Thousand . . 97 

 Mysterious Depositor .... 100 

 Fashionable Families .... 104 



New Speedport 109 



Changes Expensive 113 



Grand Circuit in 1925 . . .114 



Two Bright Ones 119 



Hidden Horses 120 



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Billy Barefoot 123 



Striplin the Fairmaker . . 126 



Chestnut Peter 128 



Larry Jerome 130 



Grand Circuit in 1927 ... 137 



Trotting Teams 143 



Van Ness 144 



$25,000 Purse Winners ..150 



Burdette Loomis 153 



Bay State Circuit in 1927.155 

 Town Named for a Horse . 160 



John Farris 162 



Wilkes Brewer 163 



Geers over the Border . . 165 



Gift Horses ...167 



Holdovers 171 



Orange County Circuit 

 in 1927 ..173 



Spotlight Drivers .176 



Building a Champion .... 180 



Sulky Style 184 



Bay State Circuit in 1928 . 188 



Peter the Great and 

 Bingen 191 



Bishoped Trotters 193 



Tipton the Builder 198 



Easton ...'. 201 



Winning Drivers in 1928.203 

 Florida Products 208 



