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was sold for $100 because she showed a disposition 

 to pace, was carrying everything before her on the 

 mile and half-mile tracks. In 1919 she won thirteen 

 out of fourteen starts and pulled up with a record 

 of 2:01l^. 



Later on this mare raced into the two minute list 

 and was retired with a record of 1:581/4. Also after 

 the death of A. B. Coxe, all of the horses at Naw- 

 beek Farm were purchased by the Hanover Shoe 

 Farm, Hanover, Pa., where the successes of the Dil- 

 lon Axworthy family were continued. 



GRAND CIRCUIT OF 1929 



After a run of seventeen weeks the Grand Circuit 

 series of meetings which started at Lexington, June 

 17, closed at the same point in Kentucky on October 

 9. Between those dates there were fifteen race meet- 

 ings on the mile tracks, the only gap being the week 

 between Cincinnati and Lexington. There were 

 sixty-eight days' racing during which two hundred 

 and ninety-seven races were contested, one hundred 

 and fifty-six of them being for trotters and one hun- 

 dred and forty-one for pacers. This circuit was also 

 very fortunate in the matter of weather, Cleveland, 

 Toledo and Aurora being the only members that lost 

 a day on account of rain. '^'^ 



As usual the colt races were the leading attract 

 tions at the majority of the meetings, the climax 

 being reached at Lexington where three changes 

 were made in the world's record for two-year-old 



