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old trot with Brandywine and Crozier landed the last 

 race over the Hudson River Driving Park with 

 Wesley R. in 2:08i/i. 



In 1923 the Ruppert Estate ordered the Hudson 

 River Driving Park closed. The Murphy stable was 

 shipped to Syracuse and Frank Phillips moved to 

 Goshen. Poughkeepsie so far as racing was con- 

 cerned became like Oliver Goldsmith's Auburn. 

 **Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the 



lawn, 

 Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms 

 withdrawn." 



In time the ''gray beards" and 'Village states- 

 men" told of the doings in the racing world in that 

 locality from 1909 to the close of 1922. They related 

 how a young man in the early thirties came there 

 with a few horses and in fourteen years won over 

 a million dollars on the leading tracks of North 

 America. This was 'Vain transitory splendor" but it 

 is unique. 



Before going to Poughkeepsie Murphy had done 

 well with a few horses. After he made it his head- 

 quarters the winners came forth in droves. Prior to 

 the campaign of 1909 Murphy wintered at Macon, 

 Ga. That year he won $66,400. The stars of the stable 

 were Native Belle and George Gano. The Moko filly 

 gave everybody a jar when she won the two-year-old 

 division of the Kentucky Futurity in 2:07%. She 

 was the first one to enter the 2:10 Rst. The same 

 week at Lexington Murphy also won the three-year- 

 old division of the same event with Baroness 



