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ing Palo Alto by running across the track. Darkness 

 now stopped the contest, and it went over till the next 

 Monday, with Palo Alto and Deck Wright having two 

 heats each, and Harry Roberts one. The following 

 Monday Palo Alto won the deciding heat and the 

 race comfortably enough in 2:20J. Two daj^s later he 

 "walked over" for a stake at Albany, and then we 

 headed for St. Louis. Here he was brought to the wire 

 again in the 2:20 class, the field against him being 

 Charley Hogan, 2:181; Albert France, 2:20J; Libby S., 

 2:19i, and C. F. Clay, 2:18. I concluded before the 

 race that some of these horses had a trifle too much 

 speed for me, and that it would be better to let them 

 work oif a little of it between themselves, and reserve 

 my effort until they came back a trifle toward my notch. 

 C. F. Clay went off with a rush in the first heat, and 

 Charley Hogan and Libby S. fought it out with him. 

 Clay beating Hogan in 2:18. The same horses cut out 

 the work in the next heat, but the mile in 2:18 took 

 the fight out of C. F. Clay, and the finish was between 

 Libby S. and Charley Hogan, Doble landing the latter 

 winner in 2:20^. After we got by the half-mile post 

 in the next heat I began to take a hand in the dispute 

 with Palo Alto, and beat Libby S. home easily in 2:21. 

 The fourth heat Libby S. and Palo Alto trotted neck 

 and neck nearly the entire distance, and Palo Alto 

 nearly lost it by a break in the stretch, but I caught 

 him on time to snatch it out of the fire in 2:21^, In 

 the next trip Horace Brown, the Buffalo driver, was 

 put up behind Libby S., and in some way he and Van 

 Ness, driving Albert France, got into collision at the 

 first turn, and in the general confusion Palo Alto became 



