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ultimately sold the business at Hazardville to him. 

 In his day Burdett Loomis had many tilts with 

 good and bad fortune. Like all Yankees he had a 

 life long fondness for the trotter. In his day he 

 was the companion of William Edwards of Cleveland, 

 C. J. HamHn of Buffalo, George W. Archer of 

 Rochester, C. W. Hutchinson of Utica, and L. J. 

 Powers of Springfield, with all of which he labored 

 zealously to establish and maintain the Grand 

 Circuit. 



BAY STATE CIRCUIT OF 1927 



The fourteenth renewal of the Bay State Circuit 

 closed at Northampton after a run of seven weeks. 

 During the trip from Greenfield to that point there 

 were twenty-three days racing. Sixty-five races 

 were scheduled for the series. All of them were dis- 

 posed of, thirty-six of them being for trotters and 

 twenty-nine for pacers. 



The only check caused by the weather occurred 

 on the last day at Springfield after four heats were 

 contested. This resulted in five heats being can- 

 celled. As they were all in fast classes it made a 

 marked difference in the average rate of speed for 

 the meeting. 



In 1927 the liberal purses brought out the fast- 

 est fields of horses ever seen on the New England 

 half-mile tracks and that the clip was maintained 

 at all of the meetings was shown by the fact that 

 the average for the one hundred and thirty-one 



