CHAPTER 

 XIII 



ROY MILLER 



THE GREAT STALLION RACE AT COLUMBUS 



GREAT as was the victory won by Cresceus at 

 Cleveland, he rose to still greater achieve- 

 ments at Columbus, Ohio, the week follow- 

 ing. He met and defeated Grattan Boy, Charley Herr 

 and Dare Devil in the greatest stallion race ever 

 trotted. 



The Columbus Association had offered a purse of 

 $5,000 for free-for-all trotting stallions, and the event 

 was looked forward to by all lovers of the light-harness 

 horse with pleasurable expectancy. Cresceus had 

 shown phenomenal speed in his Cleveland race ; Grat- 

 tan Boy had also proved that he was a grand race- 

 horse, while game Charley Herr and Dare Devil were 

 thought to be capable of fast work. It was one of the 

 big events of the Grand Circuit series, and a crowd 



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