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after Labrador won a heat in 2:041/2 and he had 

 whizz enough to come back on the third trip in 

 2:051/^. 



In the big event at Toledo Labrador led the field 

 to the wire in two trips in 2:03 and 2:031/2- Dean 

 Wilson chased him out in the first heat and Tramps- 

 mug in the second. The third heat went to Volo Rico 

 in 2:04, Labrador finishing fifth. 



Labrador was foaled in 1924. He was got by 

 Belwin out of Memory by Beirne Holt. His second 

 dam Pleasant Moments was bred by Marcus Daley 

 in Montana. She was by Prodigal out of the Baron 

 Wilkes mare Extasy which has been represented on 

 the turf by the trotters Spencer 1 :59% and Ethelinda 

 2:021/4, both Kentucky Futurity winners. 



Counterpart is a Tennessee product. He was bred 

 at Columbia. Geers gave his sire John A. a record 

 of 2:031/4 while his dam Hallie Argoless was got by 

 Argot Hal out of Lady Erectress, a mare which also 

 produced Napoleon Direct 1:59%. 



As a young horse while in Tennessee Counterpart 

 acquired the reputation of an outlaw by running 

 away a few times. Finally he was purchased by R. 

 C. McClenathan of Erie, Pa. He shipped him to Ed 

 McGrath at Reading, Pa. 



Counterpart made a few starts in 1924. The fol- 

 lowing year he was seen in the Bay State and Orange 

 County Circuits and at the Pennsylvania fairs. In 

 his first start at Norwich, Conn., he ran away and 

 made two trips around the track before he could be 

 stopped. At Avon he landed a $5,000 event while at 



