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recorded, in 1891. As a campaigner, he takes rank 

 with Lady Suffolk, Flora Temple, Goldsmith Maid, 

 Joe Ripley and Tom Keeler, and while he did not pos- 

 sess the record-breaking speed of the mares in the 

 above group, I am of the opinion that with the single 

 exception of Rams, he raced nearer the limit of his 

 speed, season after season, than any harness, per- 

 former that ever took the word. The following table 

 presents a synopsis of Driver's races during the eleven 

 years that he was campaigned. It shows that he 

 started in one hundred and fifty-five races, of which he 

 won sixty-two, and as he was unplaced in but seven, 

 those who had him never found it necessary to send 

 home for a few dollars to bridge them over what 

 Turner termed a "severe week" : 



