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in condition to race until the following season, Root 

 tacked her name on his pacer and shipped to Wind- 

 sor, Conn., for the overcoat meeting. Upon his 

 arrival he entered his mare as Flora A. in the 2:14 

 pace. 



When race day arrived, Harry Brusie was selected 

 to drive her. Before taking the mount, he skirmished 

 around among the trainers and grooms who had 

 been racing in New York state and asked them if 

 Flora A. had a chance. ''Red" Hanifan and a few 

 others, who had seen the genuine Flora A., thought 

 she had. Brusie made a bet on her and won the first 

 heat in 2:13l^. O'Brien landed the next two with 

 R. C. H., Root having in the interval backed his mare 

 to win the event. The fourth heat went to Tillie 

 Tipton in 2 : 111/2. It was Saturday. The sun was drop- 

 ping behind the trees when Tillie Tipton finished her 

 heat. Night stopped the race. R. C. H. with two heats 

 won was awarded first place. Root's money was gone. 



There was still another chance at Woonsocket the 

 following week. After a five-heat session. Flora A. 

 won. The deciding heat was paced in 2:191/4. The 

 judges declared the bets oif. Root was up against it 

 again. He shipped his gambling tool to Waterbury, 

 Conn., charges to follow. She was Edna L. dyed 

 chestnut. 



In 1917 a slip of a boy named Erie Shelton of 

 Davidson, Mich., appeared at Wheeling, W. Va., with 

 a brown mare named Ethel Starplex. He had been 

 racing a mare of that name and color -over the tracks 

 on the Michigan thumb without getting her out of 



