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his owner and driver be expelled." 



For a time Dr. Sayles was stunned by the an- 

 nouncement. As soon as he recovered he began vow- 

 ing vengeance against the Cleveland race track and 

 everybody connected with it. He plunged into the 

 courts with a $50,000 damage suit. At the time the 

 Cuyahoga County courts were three or four years 

 behind. When the case was finally reached it had 

 to be continued on account of a defect in the com- 

 plaint. Before it came up again Sayles died. The 

 horse also died expelled. Spear succeeded in getting 

 reinstated by turning state's evidence and pleading 

 that he was driving to orders. The name of the man 

 who made the plunge on Leicester was never 

 divulged. He paid for his tickets and took his loss 

 without a murmer. If James Goldsmith had lived a 

 few months longer another chapter would have been 

 added. He was one of the master minds in the 

 transaction. 



George W. Spear had another day in court before 

 he faded from the turf. The stage was set for the 

 act in 1904 but the last scene was not completed 

 until the spring of 1907. 



In the interval between the Temple Bar race and 

 his final appearance Spear trained a formidable 

 stable of race horses for N. W. Hubinger of New 

 Haven, Conn., and one for Elmer E. Smathers of 

 New York. Both of them were plungers in the largest 

 sense of the word so far as gambling on trotting 

 and pacing horses were concerned. 



Spear landed many a long shot for both of them 



