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week in June, at Cedar Rapids, la., he reduced the 

 three-year-old half mile track record from 2 :26}4 

 to 2:2134. On July 2, at ^Minneapolis, ^linn,, he 

 started against the three-year-old stallion record 

 of 2:18, held by Sable Wilkes, and, although it 

 was a cold raw day, with a light rain falling, he 

 trotted in 2:15^. On July 4, at Independence, 

 la., he reduced the half-mile track record to 

 2:20^/2. For the next few days he was jogged 

 eight to ten miles, then shipped to St. Paul, ]\Iinn.. 

 and started to beat 2:15^4, and equalled it, which 

 constituted a losing performance ; the track was 

 dead and cuppy and thought to be about three sec- 

 onds slow. Axtell was then shipped to Independ- 

 ence for a few days' rest, then to Cleveland, O., 

 where he further reduced his record to 2:1444. 

 Then on to Chicago, where he went an exhibition 

 mile in 2:1554 and. two days later, won a race, 

 best time 2:14. The next week at Independence 

 he worked in 2 :22, the following w^eek at Des 

 Moines in the same notch. He was then sent 

 home and jogged three weeks. At St. Louis he 

 worked in 2:19, then was shipped to Terre Haute. 

 Early in the w-eek he was driven an exhibition in 

 2:i4j4. The next day he was not harnessed, the 

 following day he was jogged six miles ic cart on a 

 country road The next day, Oct. 11, he reduced 

 the three-year-old record, and also the all-aged 

 stallion record to 2:12. That night he was sold 

 for $105,000. 



