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credit of Annie Watson, a chestnut mare by Vermont 

 Boy, that retired with a record of 2 133. The gray geld- 

 ing Dan Voorhees was the winner of the only pacing race 

 on the programme. In the third heat of it he placed the 

 track record for harness performers at 2 125, which he 

 reduced to 2 1243/2 at the September meeting, when he 

 defeated Sorrel Frank and Lady Mack. The Buffalo 

 horse Byron won the free-for-all on the last day of the 

 meeting, while both of the running races, which were at 

 a mile, were awarded the six-year-old chestnut horse 

 Boaster, by imported Eclipse, out of Vanity, a daughter 

 of Etiquette, whose dam was the celebrated Trustee mare 

 Fashion. Boaster was in good form that afternoon as 

 he galloped one of his miles in 1 44^4, and for that mat- 

 ter, he was prominent all of the season after his owner 

 succeeded in evading Joseph Cairn Simpson and the 

 Bonnie Scotland colt, Van, formerly Blenkiron. The 

 judges for the day were John Tod, E. A. Buck, a former 

 resident of Cleveland, but at that time living in Buffalo, 

 and L. J. Powers, of Springfield, Mass., all three of 

 whom were named as stewards of the Quadrilateral Trot- 

 ting Combination when it was organized in 1873, their 

 associate being E. Z. Wright, of Utica, N. Y. W T hat is 

 now known as the Grand Circuit can be traced to the 

 Judges' Stand at Cleveland in 1871. 



While speaking of the beginning of the Quadrilateral 

 Trotting Combination, L. J. Powers, who has been 

 continuously connected with harness racing in - an 

 official capacity longer than any man living, and 

 who is the only surviving member of the first 

 Board of Stewards, told me that the question of 

 giving a consecutive series of meetings for large 

 purses was first discussed in William Edwards' house in 



