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the following was repeated in 2 -.^6 and 2 1331/2. 

 She won her race in 2:341/0 and 2:25. She was 

 taken home and brushed quarters and halves. 

 She was shipped to Petaluma and on Aug. 20 

 worked in 2 138 and 2 133 . Two days later she 

 won in 2 :28^ and 2 126% and w^as returned to 

 Palo -Alto until the second week in October. She 

 was then shipped to San Francisco, where she 

 was given two repeats, the first in 2:32 and 2:35, 

 the second in 2 \2^y2 and 2 123, the latter on Oct. 

 18. Two days later she started against the 

 world's two-year-old record of 2:21 held by 

 Wildflower, and although suffering from sexual 

 excitem.ent reduced the record half a second. A 

 week later, with only brush work in the mean- 

 time, she trotted in 2:18. She was then taken 

 home and jogged all winter to skeleton wagon. 

 She was turned out in a paddock and one day, 

 in playing, strained a tendon in her right hind 

 leg. The resultant swelling was kept dowm by 

 cooling lotions and cold show-ers. Jogging was 

 commenced on May 19, but she w^as not brushed 

 for a month, as her hind ankles looked suspicious. 

 She was then given the brush system till she could 

 step a quarter in 30 seconds, then mile and repeat 

 work. On being shipped to San Francisco she 

 contracted a very severe case of distemper. At 

 Napa the weather was hot and this, with her 

 nervous temperament, kept her much reduced in 

 strength. At Petaluma she w^as defeated by Lil- 



