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Years following years, steal something every day 

 At last they steal us from ourselves away. Pope. 



The other members of the Walnut Grove Farm 

 stable opened the season of 1874 the third week in 

 June, at Jackson, Mich., where Lady Morrison won 

 the 2:45 class and Ristori, after failing to save her 

 entrance in the 2 130 class, won the 2 134 class and made 

 a record of 2:30^. Lottie, another member of the 

 stable, started in the 2:40 class and was unplaced to 

 Kitty Wells, while Huntress was behind the money in 

 the free-for-all, which was won by Red Cloud, and 

 Rescue distanced by Norma. At Saginaw, the fol- 

 lowing week, Ristori won the 2:50 class without re- 

 ducing her record, and was beaten in the 2 150 class by 

 Charles Myers' gelding, Fox. Lottie saved her en- 

 trance in the 2 140 class, in which the big end of the 

 purse went to General Grant, and Rescue was un- 

 placed to Mambrino Star. The next start was at Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, where Ristori broke down in a third 

 heat and was distanced by Granville. At Indianapolis, 

 the next stopping place, Lady Morrison was the only 

 starter. She won the 2 135 class, which was sand- 

 wiched with the event in which Goldsmith Maid de- 

 feated Red Cloud and Judge Fullerton in 2:26, 2:253/2, 

 2:23. This was the race from which Red Cloud had 

 been drawn, and the spectators refused to let it go on 

 without the Indiana bred gelding. A few bold spirits 

 procured a rope, and stretching it across the track, 

 made themselves hoarse shouting "No Red Cloud, No 

 Race." When Red Cloud appeared, pandemonium 

 broke loose, and while the Maid was not very good 



