24 MEMOIR. 



In September, 1871, five days' racing was given in con- 

 nection with the Northern Ohio Fair. It opened with a 

 stallion race which was won by Pilot Temple in straight 

 heats, the fastest being trotted in 2 :28, and it was the 

 fastest heat at that gait during the meeting. Pilot Tem- 

 ple also started in the free-for-all and won it after a five- 

 heat contest with Byron, Mat Smith and Queen of the 

 West. Of the gentlemen who presided in the judges' 

 stand at this meeting, William Edwards, W. J. McKinnie, 

 J. W. Fitch and R. S. Strader became well known to the 

 admirers of harness racing. 



In 1872 the Cleveland club changed the date of its 

 summer meeting to July 17 to 20. It also followed Buf- 

 falo's lead and made its purses large enough to attract 

 the best trotters in training. The result was that the 

 average rate of speed for the four days' racing dropoed 

 below 2 130, while in the free-for-all Goldsmith Maid 

 trotted three heats below 2 :20, when she defeated Ameri- 

 can Girl and Lucy, her time being 2 119, 2:18, 2 :io,. Dan 

 Voorhees was also again to the front in the only pacing 

 race on the card in 2 122, 2 :2i^J, 2 122, Bay Harry driving 

 him out in each heat. Thomas L. Young, Rosalind, Flora 

 Belle and Derby won races during the week, the last 

 named defeating Mohawk, Jr., Harry Harley and Elmo 

 in a $3,000 purse race for the 2 125 class. On the last day 

 of the meeting C. G. Dempsey started the four-year-old 

 colt Bigaroon, by imported Bonnie Scotland, out of Laura 

 Bruce, by Star Davis, in a race at mile and a half heats 

 and won in 2 48 >4, 2 49^, Christopher Edick getting the 

 place with Nellie Bush, by Revolver. Dempsey also won 

 again with Bigaroon in the fall at the fair, Edick being 

 second again, his starter on that occasion being Sallie 

 Newton, by John Morgan. The premiums' for the trotters 



