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ORANGE COUNTY CIRCUIT IN 1927 



The Orange County Circuit of 1927 closed at Mid- 

 dletown on August 19 after a run of four weeks 

 during which forty races were contested. Of that 

 number twenty-eight were for trotters and twelve 

 for pacers. In order to distribute the $130,000 in 

 premiums, seventy-nine heats were trotted and 

 thirty-four paced. The heats trotted averaged a 

 shade over 2:11% and the heats paced averaged a 

 trifle under 2:08. 



The Orange County Circuit started at Endicott 

 where rain cut five heats from the last day's card. 

 The high spots at the meeting were touched by 

 Doane and Bert Abbe. The first named reduced the 

 three-year-old record for trotters over a half-mile 

 track to 2:07% when he defeated Radium. In the 

 last pace Bert Abbe won in 2:031/4, reducing the 

 track record from 2 :05 where Hodson placed it with 

 Adioo Guy when he raced the white-faced horse for 

 the Johnson family. 



At Endicott the average rate for the trotters was 

 2:101/4. The pacers placed their figure at 2:07%, 

 making the average for the meeting 2:091/2- 



A heavy track on the opening day of the Monroe 

 meeting cut the rate of speed at that point, the 

 average for the meeting being 2:101/9. For nineteen 

 heats the trotters averaged 2:10%. The rate for 

 the pacers was 2:091/2 for nine heats.. Trumpet and 

 Victor Frisco dropped in from the mile tracks and 

 won. 



