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2:061/2, Mary Coburn 2:071/4, Volga 2:0414 and the 

 champion stalhon Lee Axworthy 1:581/4. 



Few sportsmen had a greater fund of reminis- 

 censes than Frank Elhs. One day he referred to 

 Larry Jerome a well known figure in New York when 

 the four in hands were seen at all of the race tracks. 



"Larry Jerome was one of three brothers that 

 went to New York City from Rochester. Their father 

 had a stage line in the northern part of the state 

 where Larry, Leonard and Tom learned to drive a 

 four in hand before they were old enough to leave 

 school. Leonard became a man of affairs in the busi- 

 ness and racing world. His name was given to Jerome 

 Park. He had three daughters, one of them mar- 

 ried Lord Randolph Churchill. Larry married and 

 was the father of three sons. Fortune chased him 

 up hill and down but he never worried." 



''For years Larry was the companion of James Gor- 

 don Bennett owner of the New York Herald and was 

 on his boat in the race across the Atlantic. Before 

 sailing Larry purchased a Wild West outfit. It was 

 not so well know in those days as since Buffalo Bill's 

 cowboys carried them all over the world. He selected 

 a pair of long boots with spurs that would make a 

 Mexican vaquero look green with envy, buckskin 

 trousers, flannel shirt, and a hat with a rim large 

 enough to make a race track for a colony of ants." 



''The news of the ocean race soon carried with it 

 the names of all who were on the boats so that it 

 was not long before , JL-arry Jerome, the uncle of 

 Lady Churchill, was the talk of London." 



