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with which Will Durfee won the Kentucky Futurity 

 in 1912 arid sold the following day to L. V. Hark- 

 ness to place in the stud at Walnut Hill Farm. Mary 

 Coburn was foaled in 1914, her dam being Alma 

 Sedley 2:29% by The Director General. 



The next link in Miss Woerner's pedigree intro- 

 duces Miss Rita. She was one of the pacing team 

 which Orrin Hickok drover to pole in 2:09Vi at 

 Lexington in 1916. Her mate was Josie B. 



This pair of pacers were owned by the Patchen 

 Wilkes Stock Farm. At that time Mrs. Philip Lydig 

 was Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes and the wife of the owner 

 of that establishment. Miss Rita was named for her 

 and when in Kentucky she frequently drove the 

 team on the farm track to a pole cart. 



SULKY DUSTERS 



May and December was seen regularly in the sulky 

 in 1919 at all of the Grand Circuit meetings, many 

 of the best contests in the two-year-old events being 

 between the youthful reinsman Lyman Brusie with 

 the Brook Farm gelding Mr. Dudley and the veteran 

 'Top" Geers behind Dudette, whose sire Etawah and 

 dam Dudie Archdale were in their day the brightest 

 stars in his racing stable. While at the first five meet- 

 ings, Henry Thomas defeated both of them with 

 Natalie the Great, they finally came through in front 

 on the eastern loop, Mr. Dudley winning at Philadel- 

 phit and Dudette at Hartford after sKe defeated The 

 Great Miss Morris at Boston. 



