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the porch or steps to see a few horses trained or 

 talk over the news of the day. Very few of the 

 members kept their horses at the track except when 

 they were being prepared for racing. They were used 

 to drive up from the city and were kept in the home 

 stable or in the large boarding stables, a number 

 of which were located near Central Park. 



Many members of the Driving Club of New York 

 raced their horses either in the Grand Circuit after 

 it was started in 1873 or at meetings held in the 

 vicinity of New York. Others kept them exclusively 

 for their own use, Robert Bonner, W. H. Vanderbilt, 

 Frank Work and John and William Rockefeller being 

 the leaders in this lot. All of them had a fondness 

 for teams although Robert Bonner dropped out of the 

 group after he retired Lady Palmer and Flatbush 

 Maid which he drove two miles in 5:01V2 in 1862. 

 After he purchased Dexter he had the king of the 

 road and he remained with the single hitch until he 

 retired, 



W. H. Vanderbilt had a number of teams but all 

 of them faded from the picture after he drove Maud 

 S. and Aldine in 2:15V2 in 1883. This was a fraction 

 of a second faster than the world's record at that 

 time. 



During that period members of the Driving Club 

 of New York had a number of remarkable teams. 

 Frank Work owned Edward and Dick Swiveller when 

 they placed the world's record at 2-1614. I. Cohn- 

 feld had a fast pair in Maxey Cobb and Neta 

 Medium. They trotted to a record of 2:1714 and 



