CRESCEUS, 2:02»/4 



on account of the curb that he was unable to extend 

 himself, although his splendid courage enabled him to 

 struggle gamely through the race and finish second. 

 Thus closed the champion's first campaign over the 

 mile tracks, and he returned to his winter quarters 

 at Ketcham Farm the most admired three-year-old 

 trotter ever seen on the turf. He met and defeated 

 some of the best fields of aged trotters of the year, 

 and his victories were always clean cut and decisive. 

 Wlienever a three-year-old starts in a field of aged 

 horses he starts heavily handicapped, but Cresceus was 

 equal to the task laid out for him, and not until he met 

 with an accident did the gallant three-year-old lower 

 his colors. It would be very creditable for a three- 

 year-old to trot against time in 2:11^, but when in a 

 hotly contested race, lasting through two days, one 

 trots the eighth heat of a race in 2:11^, it shows most 

 wonderful stamina and speed. 



No performance by a three-year-old can compare 

 with that great, long drawn out eight-heat race at Ft. 

 Wayne ; even the three-year-old performance of Di- 

 rectum is cast in the shade, although the time was the 

 same. 



Cresceus closed the season the undisputed three-year- 

 old champion racing stallion of the day. He proved 

 himself to be the greatest three-year-old trotter of 

 either sex, and had the world's eight-heat-race record 

 to his credit. There had been three-year-old trotters 

 of wonderful high class before Cresceus appeared, but 



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