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She accompanied the stable East in her three-year- 

 old form, and had walk-overs in her two first engage- 

 ments — the Annual Nursery Stake and the Stallion 

 Stake for three-year-olds. The stakes were worth 

 $1,250 and $750 respectively, and we were "in luck'^ 

 in having no opposition, for the mare was far from 

 i-igljt. Her old ailment, partial paralysis in the rear 

 quarters, attacked her, and she grew worse before we 

 left Albany, so much so that I hesitated about shipping 

 her to Chicago with the rest of the stable, fearing the 

 risk. However, she went with the stable, and rounded 

 to sufficiently to start at Chicago, September 25th, 

 though she had not wholly recovered from her Albany 

 sickness. 



The field was the best three-year-old material of the 

 year. Patron, Silverone, Eagle Bird and Greenlander 

 are names that all trotting horsemen will remember as 

 giants of the three-year-old class of that great three- 

 year-old 3^ear 1885. George Fuller was behind Patron, 

 Crit. Davis drove Greenlander, Maxwell took care of 

 Silverone, and Eagle Bird had the advantage of Badd 

 Doble's piloting. Before the first heat Eagle Bird was 

 the favorite, Manzanita second choice, while the after- 

 wards mighty Patron was the outsider in the betting. 

 AYe scored nine times before we got the word from 

 Charles M. Smith, the starter, and Patron at once 

 rushed to the pole, and led to the home-stretch, where 

 Eagle Bird closed up, and I also sent Manzanita up to 

 Patron s head. There was a short and sharp fight in 

 the stretch, but Manzanita beat the Kentucky-bred 

 youngsters at the finish, winning the heat in 2:23|, 

 Patron beating Eagle Bird for second place. In the 



