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cago, July 20th, starting for the Ashland Stakes, for 

 three -year-olds, against the great Glenview mare 

 Elvira, by Cuyler, and Major MacDowelFs Fugue. 

 Hinda won the race in straight heats without much 

 trouble. She moved a trifle lame before the race, but 

 won the first heat from Fugue in a jog in 2:31^, the 

 track being heavy. Elvira made a bid for the second 

 heat, but could not drive Hinda Rose out faster than 

 2:29f, which, however, left Fugue outside the flag. 

 The third heat we won very easily from Elvira in 

 2:31J. Hinda Rose's next race was at Cynthiana, 

 Kentucky, where she again easily beat Fugue, in an 

 uneventful contest ; and at Lexington, a week later, she 

 won the Mechanical Stakes in straioht heats, beatino: 

 Fugue, Lizzie Wilkes and Early Dawn, trotting the 

 third heat in 2:23 We had Hinda Rose entered in the 

 three-year-old stake, worth 82,500, of the Xational 

 Breeders' Association, so we now journeyed Xorth to 

 Hartford, Connecticut, to win it. The fastest three- 

 3^ear-old record at this time was 2:21, made by Phil 

 Thompson, at Chicago, in 1S81. As Hinda Rose was 

 now rounding into great form, I determined to send her 

 against that record at Hartford. It so happened that 

 no other three-year-old cared to meet her for the rich 

 stake, and she had a walk-over ; but the public knew 

 better after the walk-over than before it that there was 

 no three-year-old on the turf that could give Hinda 

 Rose a race. The day, October 3d, was raw, cold and 

 windy, the track heavy and damp in spots, and the 

 conditions not at all favorable for record-breaking. She 

 trotted the first quarter in thirty-four seconds, went to 

 the half in 1:10, and, though meeting a strong wind 



