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did try the following week at Springfield Thompson 

 Dillon raced him into submission in the first heat. 

 After that he jumped and the battle was off. 



The best of the Belwin trotters in 1926 were led 

 by Sumatra and Charm. They won in the fastest 

 company. Sumatra was on the complaining list from 

 the day she was foaled. Notwithstanding that handi- 

 cap whenever she went to the post in trim to finish 

 a race there was never any doubt of the result. 



Another line in which class predominates was 

 founded by Peter the Great. He was a mixed bred 

 horse in which the trotter, pacer, saddle horse and 

 thoroughbred were blended. His trotting lines were 

 not noted for courage, Nancy Hanks and Jack being 

 the only members of the family that ever made good 

 in the fastest company. Still from him came a flood 

 of racing material. 



Before this horse's pedigree was established John 

 E. Madden maintained that there was in the inheri- 

 tance of Peter the Great a stout cross of blood which 

 prompted his get to race true under all kinds of con- 

 ditions and in any company. It was found in Queen 

 Bess, the Lexington mare which produced Creole, a 

 horse that was for years buried under the name of 

 the Sam Johnson Horse. This find also strengthened 

 Madden's curt remark that the trotter at the founda- 

 tion traced either to the thoroughbred or ran into 

 the bushes. 



The class which Peter the Great passed on to his 

 get carried Mabel Trask through her remarkable 

 series of races and made Miss Harris M. the first 



