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double break near the half. The second time he left 

 his feet Mace bore out, giving Splan a chance to slip 

 through at the pole with Fanny Witherspoon, and at 

 the same time carried Director wide on the upper 

 turn. The manoeuver gave Fanny Witherspoon the 

 heat in 2:17, with Clemmie G. second and J". B- 

 Thomas third. In the third heat Director rushed off 

 in front and was never headed during the balance of 

 the race, his three winning heats being finished in 

 2:20, 2:18, 2:19^4. Both Wilson and Fanny Wither- 

 spoon made a number of breaks, while the balance of 

 the field could not trot fast enough to reach Director. 



After winning a $5,000 race over Forest Patchen, 

 Phyllis, Clemmie G., Josephus, Wilson and Modoc at 

 Narragansett Park, Providence, on September 12, 

 Director was started in a stallion race for a similar 

 amount at Beacon Park against Phallas and Santa 

 Claus. Two breaks cost him the first heat, Phallas 

 winning it in 2 :2O. In the second, Either caught 

 Goldsmith napping at the finish and won by a nose in 

 2:22^. In the third Phallas had a comfortable lead 

 when he reached the upper turn, where he was seen to 

 stop and almost fall. Director and Santa Claus 

 passed him, the former winning in 2:21^/2. When 

 Phallas finished it was learned that he had stepped on 

 a boot strap, and by it lost the heat and race, as 

 Director then went on and won in 2:20, 2:20^, dis- 

 tancing Santa Claus. 



Director trotted his last race at Island Park, Al- 

 bany, where he started against Phallas and Fanny 

 Witherspoon, and won the first, third and fourth heats 

 in 2:23, 2:23^4, 2:19^4, the second heat, in 2:22, being 

 placed to the credit of Phallas. During the campaign 



