RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



reside in Philadelphia, either: Mr. Gordon, of 

 Cleveland, O., owner of Guy (2.12) and Clingstone 

 (2.14) ; Mr. Emery of Cleveland, owner of Patron 

 (2.14^); Mr. J. S. Clarke of New Brunswick, 

 N. J., owner of Favonia (2.15) ; Messrs. Sire 

 Bros., owner of Harry Wilkes (2.13^) and Rosaline 

 Wilkes (2.14^), any of which horses can beat Belle 

 Hamlin. After Mr. Hamlin's mare could no longer 

 stay in a 3 in 5 race he came out with a challenge 

 for a 2 in 3 race to suit her, and at Buffalo on August 

 10, 1888, he gave a special purse of $3000 for her 

 benefit. Mr. W. J. Gordon entered Clingstone, who 

 beat her easily on her own track, in 2.i8f, 2.17^, 

 having dropped the first heat to the mare in 2.17!, 

 which was half a second slower than the third heat. 

 Since that easy race for Clingstone, Mr. Hamlin has 

 dropped to mile and half-mile heats, and if he keeps 

 on he will soon make a quarter mare of poor Belle. 

 " Mr. Hamlin fails to say why the horses he has 

 named as showing fast miles did not compete in 

 races and split heats, etc. There was no class on 

 the big circuit for Maud S., Jay-eye-see, and St. 

 Julien. They trotted only when a purse was given 

 them to go against time. Guy trotted in class races 

 and specials. Maxey Cobb went single miles to 

 lower the stallion record for the purpose of making 

 him more valuable in the stud. Harry Wilkes was, 

 until he went lame, in the free-for-all. Rarus was 

 retired owing to Mr. Bonner not being willing to 

 trot his horses publicly. Neither Prince Wilkes nor 

 Rosaline Wilkes stopped in the race at Buffalo, 

 which Mr. Hamlin speaks of. Mr. H. fails to state 

 in his article how he deliberately stood in the judges' 

 stand and permitted the driver of Guy to score the 

 other two horses for three-quarters of an hour amid 



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