CHAPTER 

 XXXI 



JAMES OGLESBAY 



CRESCEUS'S GREAT RECEPTION AT KANSAS CITY 



KANSAS CITY, the great western metropolis, 

 was the scene of Cresceus's first appearance 

 in the great West, and a royal reception was 

 given the champion. His fame had preceded him, and 

 he was met with one of the most magnificent recep- 

 tions of his entire career. Fifteen thousand people 

 made the trip out to the driving park on October 25, 

 in the expectation of seeing the great stallion trot a 

 fast mile and they were not disappointed. Then when 

 the judges hung out the time fifteen thousand people 

 went mad with delight. 



Staid society matrons, to whom any expression of 

 more than passing interest was the height of bad 

 form, instinctively became imbued with the spirit of 

 success and smiled benignly upon the champion trot- 



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