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did not consider that he had a chance, but after six heats, 

 he wore down the field and won, while the "pikers" who 

 bought him for $5 in $225, were all smiles. The other 

 winners during the week were Little Fred and May 

 Queen, the last named defeating Rarus in the 2 120 class 

 in 2\26 l / 2 , 2\2$y 2 , 2:2jy 2 . Nutwood was one of the 

 starters at the Northern Ohio Fair in 1876. On the sec- 

 ond day of the meeting he took the word in the 2 40 class 

 and was beaten by Dick Harvey after winning a heat in 

 2 137. Two days later he again started in the 2 150 class 

 and won a five-heat race in which the last mile was fin- 

 ished in 2 131, it having been carried over to the following 

 day on account of darkness. Silversides also started in 

 two races at this meeting. On the opening day he won 

 the 2 124 class in straight heats from John B., Sleepy 

 John and Lew Scott, and on the fourth he was distanced 

 for running in the deciding heat of the free-for-all, which 

 was won by John B., with Sleepy John second and Hylas 

 third. Kinsman Boy and Belle of Fairfield were also 

 winners that week, while after a two-day bout ''Cart" 

 Wilson pulled off the pacing race with John Tod's horse 

 Sweetser. The other starters in the pace were Shaker 

 Boy, Velocipede and Sleepy George, the last named being 

 handicapped to a wagon. Sleepy George won the first 

 heat in 2:26 and Sweetser the next two in 2:24, 2:23^. 

 Prior to the fourth heat the Judges requested John 

 Forbes to drive Sleepy George, and he won it in 2 :20,. 

 The race was then postponed. On the following day 

 Sweetser marched to the half in 1 :o8 x /2 and when he 

 passed the judges in 2:23^ Sleepy George was beyond 

 the distance. This was the second pacing race at a Cleve- 

 land meeting in four years, but from the early eighties, 

 and especially after the hoppled horse became a factor on 



