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and Silver Threads. The Ohio trotter Kit Curry also 

 defeated Thornless in 2:18% while in a special Rosa- 

 lind Wilkes landed in front of her stable companion 

 Gossip Jr. in 2:14. 



The Dutchess County Fair was held the last week 

 in September at the Hudson River Driving Park in 

 1888. It was followed by another four day meeting 

 in October at which the Village Farm won with 

 Justina and Mocking Bird. 



In 1889 the Grand Circuit Stewards gave Pough- 

 keepsie the third week in August. It opened the 

 season with a July meeting at which the leading 

 events were won by Yorktown Belle, Gean Smith, 

 Mambrino Hannis, Aline, Gillig and Miss Alice. At 

 the summer meeting the Village Farm won with 

 Mocking Bird and Globe and Belle Hamlin trotted a 

 mile in 2:14. Budd Doble drove Johnston a mile in 

 2:07 and Roy Wilkes defeated Gossip Jr. and Jewett 

 in the fast pace in 2:14. James Goldsmith got his 

 share of the honors by defeating Harry Wilkes and 

 Mambrino Sparkle in 2:15% with Gean Smith and 

 by landing Star Lily in front of W. H. Nichols. 



At the June meeting in 1890 James Goldsmith un- 

 covered the two great trotters Pamlico and Mambrino 

 Maid. They won. Marendes also defeated G. R. S. 

 and Alta McDonald raced home in front of Edith 

 R. and Plush with Golden Rod. The feature of the 

 Grand Circuit meetings that year was the ten heat 

 race which Stevie won from Miss Alice, Golden Rod, 

 Globe and Camille in 2:19l^. It was one of the most 

 stubbornly contested events ever seen on a mile 



