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the battle line until the first week in November, the 

 last starts being made at Clinton, N. C. All of these 

 horses were aged except the three-year-old pacer 

 Tramp Union. 



The general impression among horse owners is 

 that aged horses are not improved by being wintered 

 in a warm climate. It is also self evident that colts 

 can be given more work during the winter months on 

 the southern tracks. If a trainer, however, is so 

 fortunate as to get one or two good ones it does not 

 make much difference where he is located, he will 

 win his share of the money. 



Grattan Bars and Winnipeg were Canadian 

 products. Both of them wintered in the north and 

 won in the fastest company in 1928. In a few years 

 our northern neighbors may be sending colts to race 

 in the futurities. They have been entering them for 

 some time but so far Miss Wilks had the only 

 starter. 



GRAND CIRCUIT OF 1921 



The forty-eighth renewal of the Grand Circuit 

 closed at Atlanta on October 22 after a run of six- 

 teen weeks. Between July 4 and that date the eleven 

 members gave fourteen meetings at which 319 races 

 were contested. Of that number 190 were for trot- 

 ters, 128 for pacers, and one a mixed race, the latter 

 being the special between Peter Manning and Single 

 G. at Hartford. 



The purses for the races in 1921 amounted to 



