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TROTTING TEAMS 



A wagon race for trotting teams proved one of 

 the most attractive features on the programme for 

 the Grand Circuit Meeting at Syracuse, N. Y., in 

 1917. In the first heat Woodlawn Girl and Helen 

 Audubon reduced the world's race record for trotting 

 teams to 2:12% while on the next trip Roy Miller 

 and Lucy Van won by a head in 2:101/4. The old 

 record was 2:151/4. It was made at Columbus, Ohio, 

 in 1894, by Roseleaf and Sally Simmons when they 

 defeated Azote and Answer. 



In the "good old days" team racing was very 

 popular in the vicinity of New York and Boston 

 when Jessie Wales with Darkness or Honest Allen 

 as mate trotted many splendid races with celebrated 

 teams. The fast pairs drifted from the tracks to the 

 road. In a short time the rivalry between them 

 became very keen especially in New York where W. 

 H. Vanderbilt maintained the lead for a number of 

 years. In 1877 his pair Small Hopes and Lady Mac 

 placed the world's record at 2:23. When John 

 Shepard of Boston cut it to 2:22 with Mill Boy 

 and Blondine, another Vanderbilt pair, William H. 

 and Lysander Boy, brought the honors back to New 

 York with a mile in 2:20. At this point Frank Work 

 started out with Edward and Dick Swiviller. They 

 trotted in 2:161/2. These figures were afterward 

 beaten twice by pairs owned by W. H. Vanderbilt. 

 Early Rose and Aldine led off with a mile over 

 Charter Oak Park in 2:161/4 and were followed by 



