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land. On that day she dropped in from the bushes 

 and won. At that time McDonald was a stranger 

 on the larger ovals, so much so that a man was sent 

 to get the name of the driver. He came back with 

 the report that the driver of Miss McEwen was 

 Alonzo McDonald and her groom Dusty Rhodes. 

 After that date both of them were seen on many 

 tracks. 



In 1915 a sunstroke started Ben White on the 

 way to the spotlight. Andrews was prostrated so 

 Lee Axworthy and Volga were turned over to him. 

 Volga never lost a race. Lee Axworthy cut the 

 stallion record to l:58l^. 



In 1927 White made it possible for a fellow reins- 

 man to seek the spotlight by handing losola's 

 Worthy to Marvin Childs. This western product had 

 held his own in fast company with Hal Mahone and 

 Hal Bee but their doings look tame w^hen compared 

 with winning the Kentucky Futurity and Hamble- 

 tonian Stake on consecutive weeks. 



The first Hambletonian Stake gave Nat Ray an 

 opportunity to slip in with Guy McKinney. In 1926 

 he won all of this colt's engagements and in the 

 deciding heat of the big race sat as still as a statue 

 behind his mount when Guy Dean was cutting down 

 his lead at each stride on the trip from the distance 

 to the wire. First money was over $45,000 but Ray 

 never lost his nerve. So far as he was concerned he 

 looked as if he were racing for a bushel of oats. Guy 

 McKinney won by a head. 



After the race Ray said that so far as he was 



