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tanced by Midnight at Toledo. Hannis was also 

 started in the $6,000 stallion race at Chicago, where he 

 took the word with Wedgewood, Santa Claus, Pied- 

 mont, Robert McGregor and Monroe Chief. He also 

 saved his entrance in this event, Piedmont winning it 

 after Robert McGregor had been awarded two heats 

 and Santa Claus one. After skipping Cleveland and 

 Buffalo Hannis was defeated by his old rival, Charley 

 Ford, at Rochester and Utica and took the word for 

 the last time in a stallion race at Fleetwood Park, New 

 York, September 21, 1881, where he was fourth to 

 Santa Claus in 2:20*4, 2:19^, 2:21, with Wedgewood 

 second and Voltaire third. 



Edwin Thorne, a thrifty Quaker who amassed a 

 fortune in "the swamp" in New York and retired to a 

 farm in Duchess county, usually sent his racing ma- 

 terial to Turner, as the man from Philadelphia knew 

 how to make a trotter pay his way. His best products 

 were Edwin Thorne and Daisy Dale, both of which 

 were by Thorndale. They proved a great pair of 

 money makers. Turner did not strive to give them 

 fast records, but he did do considerable thinking when 

 it came to placing them where they could win. In 

 1880 he won four consecutive races with Daisy Dale 

 and gave her a record of 2:39^ at Buffalo. He had 

 Edwin Thorne the following year. Picking up a race 

 in Detroit in June he did not win again until the Grand 

 Circuit opened at Cleveland, where he disposed of Vol- 

 taire and Lucy, trotting one heat in 2 120^. At Buf- 

 falo he trotted a sixth heat in 2:19^4, and at Rochester 

 he finished the last three heats of a six-heat race with 

 Kate Sprague, J. B. Thomas and Pilot R. in 2:20, 

 2:19^, 2:25. He also won again at Utica, and landed 

 another event on the first day at Hartford. 



