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tated as Mr. Potter might see a reference to it in 

 the papers. Wright soon convinced him that the 

 easiest way was to change her name and race in slow 

 classes. 



With this pair, to think was to act. Sure money 

 looked good to Hammond. The last week in August 

 Hammond and Wright arrived at Syracuse, N. Y. 

 with a trotter She was entered in a slow class as 

 Lady Leicester. 



When the race was started. Lady Leicester lost 

 the first two heats. Wright then went on and won. 

 Before the deciding heat, William Johnston of New 

 York, who was acting as a judge, became suspicious 

 on account of the clever manner in which the un- 

 known trotter was finishing her miles. He called her 

 driver to the stand. When he appeared, Johnston 

 looked him over and asked if he was not the expelled 

 man Bill Wright. He replied without a moment's 

 hesitation, *'No sir, I am his brother." 



Two weeks later a mare named Mollie A. appeared 

 on the entry list for a fall meeting at Cleveland, 

 Ohio. She was shipped from Buffalo. Mollie A. 

 was entered in the 2:40 class. The other starters 

 were Exarch, a brother to Wyandot owned by George 

 Hopper, who made a fortune manufacturing barrels 

 for the Standard Oil Company before tank cars 

 and pipe lines were thought of; Myrtle R., a clever 

 trotter by Monaco, that was bred by a farmer named 

 Conkey, who lived near North Rand^tll; Beatrice 

 Patchen owned by Dr. Day of Waterloo, N. Y., and 

 two others, both of which were distanced. 



