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stake meetings. She kept winning until dropped off 

 at Trumansburg, N. Y. At that point in one heat 

 she pulled three shoes and was drawn but came back 

 later in the week and won. Hamsa Dillon won fifteen 

 races out of sixteen starts. 



Of the four horses that won thirteen races in 1927 

 Shirley Harvester is the only trotter. As a yearling 

 she was sold at the Chicago auction for $110 to 

 Warren Daniels. As he was unable to get an advance 

 on that figure he took The Harvester filly home and 

 trained her. In return for his work Shirley Har- 

 vester won all of her thirteen engagements worth 

 over $3,500, made a race record of 2:09%, and again 

 passed under the hammer at Chicago where W. B. 

 Eckert of Reading, Pa., paid $2,500 for her. 



The other winners of thirteen races in 1927 were 

 the pacers Walnut Grattan Jr., Peter Direct and 

 Beau Dillon. The last named was by Dillon Axworthy 

 out of Zulu Belle by Petigrue. He was raced over the 

 eastern tracks and made a record of 2:06% at 

 Springfield, when he defeated Chattanooga. 



Fred Medium and Millie W. were the only light 

 harness performers that were each credited with 

 twelve races. Fred Medium's races were over the 

 Canadian tracks. Millie W. swept all before her in 

 the Bay State and Orange County Circuits until she 

 met All Bingen in her eleventh race at Middletown, 

 N. Y. The series of races between Millie W. and 

 Wayne Hal were one of the features of the year. 



Five horses were credited with winning eleven 

 races in 1927. They were the trotters Axdale and 



