A GREAT HORSE 



trotting horse of the world. There is nothing that gives 

 me greater pleasure than to have had this event take 

 place before a Cleveland audience." 



He was given three rousing cheers, and when he 

 entered the grand stand was given another ovation, and 

 hundreds rushed to his box to congratulate him. It 

 was a world's champion that Tim Murnen led back to 

 the barn that day, and the performance of Cresceus's 

 marked a new epoch in the history of the American 

 trotter. Great as it was, it was still greater as a prom- 

 ise as a portent of still greater things to come, of 

 greater things by this horse, and of the great fact that 

 we are slowly, but ever surely approaching the ultima 

 thule of the trotting horseman's dreams and ambitions 

 the two-minute mark. 



