CRESCEUS, 2:02 1/4 



ion. The Kentucky stallion responded gamely and kept 

 trying, but his efforts were useless, as the chestnut 

 stallion kept increasing his lead. The half was reached 

 in I :o2j, with the champion still marching along with 

 steady, resistless force. Ketcham did not urge the 

 champion, but simply let him rate himself naturally. 

 At the three-quarters the watches registered i 135^ 

 w4th Charley Herr six lengths back. The champion 

 swung into the home-stretch and Ketcham merely 

 steadied him home in 2 :o6!f , while Kelley was whip- 

 ping Charley Herr to make sure of getting inside the 

 flag. 



The crowd cheered when the time was announced, 

 but the second heat fairly took their breath away, so 

 sensational did it prove. He got away in good style 

 in the second heat, and Cresceus was at the quarter in 

 :3oJ, and the half in i :o2^. Cresceus evidently felt 

 that his effort was a record-breaking one, and went by 

 the three-quarter pole in i .-35, and rounding into the 

 stretch five lengths to the good, the champion came 

 on at a clip which would break the heart of an ordi- 

 nary trotter. 



Never did a horse show truer action or more cour- 

 age. There was no thundering of runner's hoofs to 

 urge him on, no whipping, nothing but his own de- 

 termination and the encouraging voice of the man who 

 had driven him since his colthood days. The mile was 

 trotted in 2:05, the fastest second heat ever trotted in 

 a race, a new world's record. 



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