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one of the greatest amateur performances ever 

 placed on record when W. H. Vanderbilt drove Maud 

 S. and Aldine to a top wagon over Fleetwood Park 



in 2:151/2. 



C. J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., was the next 

 aspirant for leadership in team trotting. He had a 

 number of splendid pairs and made world's records 

 with Belle Hamlin and Justina when they trotted 

 in 2:13 and with Belle Hamlin and Honest George 

 when they trotted in 2:1214. The last mile was made 

 in 1892. In 1904 C. K. G. BiUings reduced it to 2:07% 

 with The Monk and Equity, an amateur performance 

 that was equalled at Lexington, Ky., the next 

 October by J. D. Gallery with Lettie Lee and 

 Brighton B. Both of them, however, are a long way 

 from the record of 2:031/4 that Uhlan and Lewis 

 Forest made at Lexington, Ky., in 1912. 



VAN NESS 



Frank Van Ness, the last of the leading reinsmen 

 who retired from light harness racing before the 

 bike sulky put the high wheelers out of business in 

 1892, died in France in 1929. He was born in Lock- 

 port, N. Y., in 1850 and had been connected with the 

 gallopers for thirty years in America and Europe. 



The future reinsman was brought up among 

 horses. His father was a dealer who shipped to the 

 New York market. Frank's flare was for racing. 

 When about seventeen years old he built a track on 



