26 MEMOIR. 



Circuit meeting at Hampden Park. It was inaugurated 

 in 1857 with an address by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher 

 and closed by the wave of reform in 1894. 



In 1873 Cleveland also selected the last week in July 

 for its summer meeting. It still retains it, "Cleveland 

 Week" being the point from which the other members 

 adjust their dates. The premiums for this meeting 

 amounted to $30,000, of which $28,500 was awarded the 

 trotters. Of the eight harness races on the programme 

 John E. Turner won two with the Hambletonian mare 

 Nettie, one of them being a $5,000 event, in which the 

 fastest heat was finished in 2 '.2^/2 . Clementine also won 

 two races ^t Cleveland that year, the Judges requesting 

 Budd Doble to drive her in the last two heats of the first 

 one. The other winners that week were Mambrino Gift, 

 Judge Fullerton, Castle Boy and Lucy. The daughter of 

 George M. Patchen won the free-for-all, the other starters 

 being American Girl and Goldsmith Maid. The race was 

 for $6,000 and in the betting the "Maid" was a favorite at 

 a $100 to $10. In the first heat American Girl and Gold- 

 smith Maid took the word on even terms. When they 

 reached the turn the favorite stopped and the field went 

 on without her, Lucy winning the heat by a neck in 

 2:2134. Goldsmith Maid was distanced. When Doble 

 returned to the stand he told the Judges that Goldsmith 

 Maid caught a hind foot in a quarter boot and was 

 shocked to such an extent that it was impossible for her 

 to continue. In the running races Port Leonard defeated 

 Nellie Bush and half a dozen others at mile heats, while 

 the four-year-old mare Flush, after running second to 

 Mary L. by Voucher, in a three in five mile heat race, 

 came out on the following day and won over a field of 

 seven at two-mile heats in 3:47^, 3:46. She was by 



