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In the interval Lady St. Clair was given a let up 

 to get her in condition for another race in the coal 

 country. Belle Vernon was the place selected. Before 

 the race was called, I arrived with Clarence Cole of 

 Indianapolis, Ind. He looked over the horses at the 

 track and soon located Lady St. Clair as the missing 

 Edna L. At the time she was wearing a set of shoes 

 which Cole made for her. 



Both Delay and Russell insisted that it was a case 

 of mistaken identity. They made an effort to sustain 

 their position by producing a statement from John 

 Short in which he stated that he bred Lady St. Clair. 

 They weakened, however, when it was shown that 

 the foal by Sidney St. Clair out of the dam of May 

 Day was a colt instead of a filly, and when they were 

 brought face to face with the man who delivered 

 Edna L. to them at Indianapolis. 



In 1916 a brass moulder named Charley Root took 

 a flyer on the turf. He was raised in a small town 

 near Rochester, N. Y. Being a Jack-of -all-trades, he 

 ran a jitney for a brief period and then entered the 

 employ of J. W. Gyles. From him he had a chance 

 to learn the ins and outs of horse trading and racing 

 methods, which did not require an umbrella to make 

 them shady. 



Early in 1916 Root's sister and her husband moved 

 from Rochester to Grand Marias, a village in Michi- 

 gan on the shore of Lake Superior. Root had his 

 mail shifted back and forth so as to give the impres- 

 sion that he was also located there, training the 

 chestnut mare The Princess by Electmont. Gyles 



