114 RACEALONG 



GRAND CIRCUIT OF 1925 



The fifty-second renewal of the Grand Circuit 

 opened at Cleveland June 29 and closed at Atlanta 

 October 10 after a run of fifteen weeks. During that 

 period there were eleven meetings at which three 

 hundred and twenty-one races were decided. The 

 purses amounted to $626,592.25, the most ever paid 

 out in one season since the circut was organized. 

 In 1924 the total was $572,620.95, in 1923 $570,- 

 896.75, and in 1922 $517,012.25. 



The aged events in the 1925 circuit were domi- 

 nated by Murphy's stable. In the colt races the 

 honors were divided between the two and three-year- 

 olds trained by Will Dickerson, Ben White and 

 Walter Cox. 



On the trip from Cleveland to Atlanta, Murphy 

 won fifty-nine races. His winnings amounted to 

 $98,305. These figures placed him at the top of the 

 column and also raised the amount of Murphy's 

 winnings on the trotting turf from 1909 to the close 

 of 1925 to $1,412,135. 



The Belwin gelding Crawford was the leader in 

 the Murphy group. He started by winning two races 

 at Cleveland in July. This was followed by a defeat 

 at Toledo where Peter Fellows finished in front of 

 him after he won a heat. 



During the next seven weeks Crawford won at 

 Kalamazoo, landed four dashes at Aurora, annexed 

 two more races at the Cleveland August meeting, 

 one race at Milwaukee and one at Indianapolis. 



