CHAPTER 

 IV 



SCOTT HUDSON 



AT COLUMBUS AND FT. WAYNE 



THE real test of Cresceus's ability as a race horse 

 came at Columbus, Ohio, the following week, 

 after his great race at Circleville, and grandly 

 did the great young horse earn the right to take his 

 place among the "Grand Circuiters." It was his first 

 appearance in the "big ring," and while the fame of 

 his performances on the half-mile tracks had to some 

 extent preceded him, but few of the regular followers 

 of the Grand Circuit paid much attention to the rather 

 plain-looking sorrel colt which scored down for the 

 word in the 2 :20 trot. 



Luxon had won a sensational race at Detroit just a 

 few weeks before, and had shown such extreme speed 

 that he was thought to have the race at his mercy. 

 Pat Watson, the Pennsylvania trotter, had shown him- 



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