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different names and colors. It was redistributed to 

 the owners of the horses which she defeated. 



After being raced as a bay, black, brown and a 

 chestnut, Edna L. was sold in the spring of 1921 and 

 exported to England. Her owner, also had ample time 

 to decide that he wasted what would have proved a 

 Grand Circuit performer, to get what he thought 

 would be a little easy money on the half-mile tracks. 



Perhaps 



The outlaw careers of Jack London, Edna L. and 

 many others prove that a horse which was fast 

 enough to ring had enough speed to win in his class. 

 Some are even better, as was shown by Perhaps. He 

 was owned in Michigan and acted as if he were 

 marked for life when he paced in 2:13%. 



His owner became disgusted with his showing in 

 a race and sold him at auction in front of the judges' 

 stand. A man named Brown, who had been in trouble 

 the preceding year on a Vermont race track, pur- 

 chased him for a trifle. He substituted Perhaps for 

 one called Walter K., which had a few southern en- 

 gagements but was unable to start on account of 

 lameness. 



Brown wintered Perhaps in New Orleans. The 

 following spring he hit the trail for California. His 

 first start was at Santa Rosa, where on July 4 he 

 won in 2:12 and repeated three days later in 2:08. 



With the assistance of N. T. Smith, who was at 

 that time Treasurer of the Southern Pacific Rail- 

 road, it only took a few days to round up the eastern 



