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pair. The Grand Circuit meetings brought a new 

 flock of racing material. The Hst of winners presented 

 the names of Nil Desperandum, Lysander Boy, 

 Prospero which Dan Mace marked in 2:20, Dick 

 Swiveller and Hopeful, the last named defeating 

 Nettile and Lucille Golddust in 2:19. 



After a skip of four years racing was resumed at 

 Poughkeepsie in 1882, with a June meeting at which 

 James Elliott of Philadelphia defeated Pickard and 

 Tariff in 2:20% with Early Rose. The other winners 

 included Clemmie G., J. P. Morris and Crown Point 

 Maid with which Frank Wicker won two races with- 

 out getting her out of the 2:30 class. 



All of the leading performers took the word at 

 the renewal of the Grand Circuit series. Hickok 

 won with Overman in 2:23% and Santa Claus in 

 2:20 from Edwin Thorne and Minnie R. Mosher won 

 with Onawa from Cornelia and Phyllis in 2:23 while 

 Fanny Witherspoon defeated Driver and Pickard in 

 2:181/4. The Volunteer mare Unolala was another 

 winner. She defeated Cora Belmont and George M. 

 The first pacer to start at Poughkeepsie also took 

 the word when Little Brown Jug paced an exhibition 

 mile in 2:18. 



After this meeting Poughkeepsie dropped out of 

 the Grand Circuit until 1889, two years after Jacob 

 Ruppert purchased the Hudson River Driving Park. 

 The track was closed in 1883. In 1884 there was an 

 August meeting at which Frank Howell won a race 

 with Volmer. After another skip the Poughkeepsie 

 organization pulled off June and September meet- 



