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horse can meet is to make a ^ood fight against odds, 

 and struggle bravely and with undaunted courage 

 throughout a losing battle. 



Palo Alto's next race was at the Cleveland Grand 

 Circuit Meeting, in the 2:29 class, July 22d. The field 

 was not nearly of the class that he was in at Detroit, 

 and, though he lost the first heat to Mabel A. in 2:23J, 

 he won the subsequent heats too easily to call for any 

 lengthy remarks. Clipper and Mabel A. were the best 

 of the lot, and they finished, alternately, second and 

 third, Palo Alto winning in 2:23, 2:22^, 2:21|^, improv- 

 ing as the heats went on. 



At Covington, Kentucky, August 2Sth, he met a fast 

 field in the 2:20 class, among them being old Deck 

 AVright, Tom Rogers and C. F. Clay. I decided that my 

 best chance for victory was in letting the rest do the 

 fighting for awhile, and so I laid Palo Alto up in the 

 first three heats. Tom Rogers won the first in 2:20|-, 

 and Deck AYright the second in 2:22^. As my time 

 for action was at hand I trotted for a fair position 

 only in the third heat, finishing third to Tom Rogers 

 in 2:23J. Then I cut Palo Alto loose and won the 

 race in 2:22f, 2:25^, 2:24|, Palo Alto again demon- 

 strating that his forte was staying rather than 

 "sprinting.'' 



At Cleveland, September 18th, he again met fast and 

 thoroughly seasoned company in Harry Roberts, the 

 perennial Deck Wright, Alert and George AY. Deck 

 AYright won the first heat in 2:20J, and Harr}^ Roberts 

 the next in 2:20. Then I got Palo Alto settled for 

 business and he won the third and fourth in 2:21, 2:21-J. 

 The fifth heat I lost to Deck AYrio'ht, a bov fricj:hten- 



