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he received his education in the best school 

 on earth, "hustling for bread." When n 

 years of age he began riding running horses 

 at tracks located in the states of Ohio and 

 Kentucky. Later in life he opened a public 

 training stable in the Middle West, and had 

 some of the best trotters and pacers of 

 his time in the sulky. Colt training was Mr. 

 Burress' special hobby, and he points with 

 pride to having broken and trained Maud S., 

 when she was a two and a three-year-old, and 

 declares she was perfect in deportment, not- 

 withstanding all that was said against her 

 habits. He developed The Moose, which was 

 Canada's greatest trotter of the high wheel 

 sulky days. He owned the stallion Passen- 

 ger (3), 2:30, sire of Passenger Charm, 

 2:13 1-4, etc., and also owned Jack Shackle- 

 ford, 2:22; Sister Passenger, Wm. P>. Fasig, 

 2:241-4, and a number of others. 



New England horsemen, though, know 

 Mr. Burress better in the capacity of a starting 

 judge than in the training of horses. It was 

 in the year 1887 that he appeared in the East, 

 his work in the stand being at the Old Sau- 

 gus track for James O. Gray and W. F. Hitch- 

 ings. His career with the starter's flag was 

 very successful, his skill in getting the fields 

 of horses away with little scoring and on their 

 gait, being greatly appreciated by both the 

 horsemen and the grandstand occupants. 

 Mr. Burress started horses through New 

 England, the South, South. west and in Canada. 



In his wide experience in the judges' stands 

 all over the country, Mr. Burress invented 

 the Time Announcer, which flashes the time 

 of the heats almost instantaneously to every 

 part of the course, while another valuable, 

 acquisition is his designating numbers, arm 

 and saddle back. These inventions are be- 

 coming generally used at the leading race 

 tracks. Mr. Burress resides in Salem, X. H. 



DR. JOSEPH DOUGLAS THOMPSON 



Dr. Joseph Douglas Thompson was born 

 in Sackville, N. B., in 1876. He received his 

 early education in the schools of his native 

 town, and was graduated from Acadia Col- 

 lege and the Baltimore (Md.) College of 

 Dental Surgery. In 1900 he opened a dental 

 office in Newton Upper Falls, Mass., and is 

 located at present at 11 56 Walnut Street, 

 Newton Highlands, Mass. He joined the 

 Metropolitan Driving Club in 1905 and has 

 served on the nomination and other commit- 

 tees. He is also a member of the Masons, 

 Odd Fellows, Encampment and Arcanum 

 orders of fraternity. 



Dr. Thompson has always taken a great 

 interest, in matinee racing, particularly on the 

 Charles River Speedway. Soon after becom- 



ing a member, which was in the earlier days 

 of the club, his name appeared with those 

 entering horses and, from that time to the 

 present, he has taken a very prominent part. 

 His partiality was a speedy pacer; one capa- 

 ble of leading the way, but not of the hop- 

 pled variety. 



One long remembered by the devotees of 

 matinee racing in Greater Boston was Dean 

 Swift, 2 .12 1-4. In the Spring series of 1908, 

 this smooth-going little gelding captured the 

 second point cup for pacers. In the Fall 

 series he was again the winner of the second 

 point cup, and in 1909 he carried away the 

 first point cud in the Spring series. 



With Edith R., 2:181-4; Dr. Thompson 

 won the second point cup for pacers the 

 Spring of 191 1. The season of 1912 the 

 doctor first raced his well-known pacing 

 gelding, Spim, 2:151-4, and in the Spring 

 series won the first point cup, having cap- 

 tured thirteen heats in the average time of 

 1:0811-13; and he also won a Faber road 

 cart. Another that the doctor owned and 

 raced, that cut a wide swath in local matinee 

 circles, was Trixie S., 2:141-2, the pacing 

 mare Dick Lawrence campaigned with suc- 

 cess for several seasons on the professional 

 turf. This mare proved equally at home on 

 the speedway, and won many a clever victory 

 for the doctor before he sold her to R. D. 

 Stetson, of the Old Colony Driving Club, 

 where the mare's chain of victories was 

 continued. Dr. Thompson resides at 15 

 Forest Street, Newton Highlands, Mass. 



CHARLES A. THOMPSON, M. D. 



Charles A. Thompson, M. D., was born in 

 Sackville, X. 1!.. in 1872. He attended the 

 Sackville Superior School, College for 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Aid., 

 and was also graduated from the Harvard 

 Medical School. He began the practice of 

 medicine in 1897, opening an office in New- 

 ton Highlands, where he is now located. 



Dr. Thompson joined the Metropolitan 

 Driving Club in 1906. He served on the 

 board of directors for two years. He is also 

 a member of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Societv, Newton Medical Society, and is a 

 Knight Templar, an Odd Fellow, and also 

 belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and United 

 Workmen. 



Tn matinee racing Dr. Thompson has been 

 a devoted enthusiast. In the matinees held 

 at Charles River Speedway" his name and his 

 horses have occupied a most prominent 

 position. In the season of 1910 he won the 

 first point cup for pacers, in the Fall series, 

 with Johnny Smoker, 2:12 1-2. In the 

 Spring series of 1911 he won the speed cup 



