CHAPTER 

 XX 



EDWARD BENYON 



THE ABBOT DETHRONED 



THE champion's great race at Detroit gave the 

 turf world a short fleeting glint of his won- 

 derful speed. The following week, on Ohio 

 soil, the land of his birth, Cresceus became the cham- 

 pion trotter of the world. 



At the beautiful Glenville race-course there was a 

 coronation on July 26th. Cresceus, already undisputed 

 king of trotting stallions, dethroned The Abbot and 

 became champion of the world. No horse before him 

 ever held so many world's records ; no horse was ever 

 his equal. All that he had done the past two years had 

 been done as horsemen expect a real champion to do 

 it. There was no cloud on his performance that July 

 day. He trotted his mile as resolutely as if it had been 

 one of the 2 :o8 variety, and he finished so strong and 



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