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Buffalo, fourth to Prince Regent in a four-year-old 

 stake at Hartford, and second to Greenlander at 

 Springfield. Silverthread was picked up at Roches- 

 ter, where he saved his entrance in the free-for-all, 

 won by Gossip, Jr., but was distanced by Roy Wilkes 

 the following week at Poughkeepsie. The Canadian 

 bred gelding, John Ferguson, was tried at Buffalo, 

 Rochester, Hartford and Springfield, but failed to get 

 inside the money, while the Almonarch mare, Fred- 

 erica, was third to Maud Muller at Hartford, second 

 to Whalebone at Springfield, where she won two heats 

 in 2. -.23, 2 :22, fourth to Morelight at New York, and 

 won over the half-mile track at Trenton, N. J., in 

 October. Frank T. was also tried in Grand Circuit 

 company at Poughkeepsie, where he trotted fourth to 

 Marksman Maid, and at Hartford, where he was third 

 in the race won by George Singerley's roan mare, 

 Katharine S. Longford, another member of the 

 stable, was second to Geneva at Hartford, unplaced to 

 Alcryon at Springfield and second to Sensation at 

 New York, where he won a heat in 2:22^. James H. 

 Goldsmith also drove Chase in the race Hal Pointer 

 won at Hartford, and was behind Company when he 

 was distanced by Geneva S. at New York. 



The horse, Markland, by Victor Bismarck, was 

 also a member of Goldsmith's Grand Circuit stable. 

 He was tried at Cleveland in the race in which Hal 

 Pointer made his first bow in fast society. On that 

 occasion the flashy gray gelding, William M. Singerly, 

 .sailed out in front and won a heat in 2:17^/2. On the 

 next trip Geers touched the speed button in Hal 

 Pointer's anatomy and it was all over, but the shout- 

 ing, the "Pointer hoss" winning after the first heat 



