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also won eight with Peter Pater, his most brilliant 

 performance being at Goshen when he trotted the 

 half-mile track in 2:081/4- 



TURF TRIAL BALANCE 



Drivers of trotters have spats like other folk. They 

 come together, bump off, and make up. One day at 

 Fleetwood Park, New York, Budd Doble slashed John 

 Kelly across the face with his whip for pinching 

 Manager with Blue Sign. Others use more tact, like 

 Fred Hyde did at Toledo in 1919 when Oscar Watts 

 flirted with Peter Chenault. The latter had worked in 

 2:05 and started favorite. Chenault was a jumper. 

 He required clear sailing to win. 



At Kalamazoo the preceding week Fenesta with 

 Murphy up almost took the legs from under Miriam 

 Guy in the third heat of the race that Cox won with 

 McGregor the Great. It cost Hyde's mare the 

 difference between fourth and second money, $400 

 net. Lyman Brusie also got a jolt with Dr. Elmore. 

 He felt like fighting. Hyde knew how to stop that 

 kind of work. His chance came at Toledo where Oscar 

 Watts raced so close to Peter Chenault that Murphy 

 had to take the overland route. Brusie won a heat 

 with Emma McGowan and Peter Billiken landed the 

 event in 2:05^/4. 



After the race, peace was declared. The dove 

 perched on the banks of the Maumee. The backers 

 of Peter Chenault paid for their tick^s. Only one 

 or two of them knew why they never had a chance 

 to win. 



