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which could race several seconds faster than 

 Margaret Dillon did the preceding week when Sister 

 Hal finished behind the flag. Surmising that some- 

 thing was wrong, the wise folks pulled away and 

 let the Williams outfit and a few from Waterbury 

 have it to themselves. 



When the race started Rowe rushed Princess 

 Cecilian off in front and won a heat from Sister Hal 

 by a narrow margin in 2:1414,. This jarred the Wil- 

 liams family. For the next twenty minufes they were 

 busy looking for help They got it. During the balance 

 of the race the other starters were constantly inter- 

 fering with the Princess while Sister Hal had a clear 

 path and won in 2:1514. 



Between heats Sister Hal was tucked away in a 

 stall with the door fastened on the inside. No one 

 ever saw her stripped except when she was on the 

 race track. When the last heat was finished, instead 

 of cooling her out, she was transferred from the 

 sulky to a cart and started over the road towards 

 Hartford. The next morning it leaked out that after 

 Sister Hal was distanced the first week of the meet- 

 ing, she was driven to Williams Bros, stable in Hart- 

 ford in the night and not returned. In the interval 

 Edna L. was brought over from Waterbury in a 

 truck, dyed black and the night before the race driven 

 over the road to Windsor. She was slipped into the 

 stall which had been occupied by Sister Hal. 



This was Edna L.'s last race. Squires was expelled 

 for the part that he took in it. Later on Delay re- 

 funded every dollar that the mare won under her 



