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and Junemont. Harry Wilkes won the first two heats 

 in 2:15%, 2:15. In the third heat he shifted to a 

 pace at the head of the stretch and Jack won in 2:19. 

 The next two heats were easy for the Pilot Medium 

 gelding. 



While campaigning Harry Wilkes, Frank Van Ness 

 also raced Albert France, Rosalind Wilkes, and 

 Gossip Jr. The last time I saw him in the sulky was 

 at Hartford in 1888 when he defeated Arrow, 

 Jewett, Joe L., and L. C. Lee with Gossip Jr. Arrow 

 was a California bred gelding. John H. Shults pur- 

 chased him in 1887 and turned him over to Budd 

 Doble. He won with him at Cleveland in 2:1414, at 

 Buffalo in 2:131/4, and Rochester in 2:1434. 



In the Hartford race Jewett rushed off in front 

 and won the first heat in 2:15%. The second went 

 to Arrow in 2:15. At that point it looked as if 

 Arrow would win but Van Ness after desperate 

 drives in the stretch won the next three in 2:17%, 

 2:15%, 2:16%. Arrow was ordered home to Park- 

 ville Farm. Gossip Jr. won again the following week 

 at Springfield from the balance of the field in 2:161/2. 



Four years after he went over to the gallopers 

 Frank Van Ness found a star in the Eolus colt 

 Morello which was purchased for a trifle. He won 

 twenty-four out of thirty-two races, one of them 

 being the Futurity. 



