A GREAT HORSE 



Park track, and the fastest mile ever trotted by a three- 

 year-old on a half-mile track in a race, and the colt 

 was roundly cheered at the conclusion of the race. 

 Cresceus made his next start at Readville, Mass., on 

 August 28 in the 2:20 trot for a purse of $1,000. In 

 this race he simply played with a fast field of veteran 

 trotters like Mediumwood, Edmonia, Charley G., All 

 Day, Emily, Palm Leaf and others. It was a strong- 

 field, but Cresceus was fully equal to the task cut out 

 for him, and he won the event in straight heats in 

 2 : 14 J, 2 : 1 1 J, 2 : 1 1 J. He equaled his Ft. Wayne record 

 of 2:n| in the third heat, and showed that he was 

 fully up to the form shown out in Hoosier land. 



The coming champion then journeyed to Fleet wood 

 Park, New York, where, in the three-year-old trot, on 

 September 7, he met the Village Farm filly, American 

 Belle, the sensational Thorn, the fast Fanny Foley, 

 Timbrel and Honor Bright. Cresceus simply walked 

 away with the race in straight heats, though American 

 Belle was close up each heat. It was rather an easy 

 race, however, for Cresceus, and he reeled off the three 

 heats in 2:14, 2:15!, 2:18^. A few days after his ap- 

 pearance at Fleetwood Cresceus unfortunately threw 

 out a curb, and it was found necessary to lay him up 

 during the next two weeks. 



On September 21, at Portland, Me., he met defeat 

 at the hands of American Belle. Cresceus won the 

 first heat in 2:12, and was then beaten by American 

 Belle in 2 112}, 2 114^ and 2 :i6, being so badly disabled 



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