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move with a victory in the 2 :20 class behind Adelaide. 

 This was one of the best betting races, and also one of the 

 greatest turn-overs, ever seen at Cleveland. In the early 

 betting Adelaide sold as low as $15 in $500, and her 

 owner, Daniel De Noyelles, had almost all of the tickets. 

 Adelaide made good after Prospero won a heat and Mid- 

 night had placed two to his credit. How it was done is 

 another matter, but at this late date it will be charitable to 

 drop the curtain on the whole affair. There were sinister 

 rumors at the time, and from what De Noyelles stated late 

 in life there were good grounds for them. The excite- 

 ment over the Rarus special, two heats of which were 

 sandwiched with the 2 :20 trot, caused what was going 

 on in that race to be lost sight of, and that Rarus was 

 good, was evidenced by the fact that he trotted the three 

 fastest consecutive heats on record up to that date, and in 

 the last one equalled the world's record of Goldsmith 

 Maid. The following is the fractional time for the three 

 heats : 



First heat 33% 



Second heat. . . 33%, 

 Third heat . . 33 



Had Rarus not made a misstep at the head of the 

 stretch in the first heat, there is little doubt but that he 

 would have reduced the world's record in that trial. But 

 as it proved, the crowning performance was only delayed 

 a week, as at Buffalo, after taking the word four times, 

 he placed the figures at 2:13^, the fractional time for 

 his mile being 33^, 1:05^4, 1:38^, 2:1314. In his 

 special at Buffalo, Rarus started to trot three heats to 

 average 2:18 or better, with $500 added if 2:14 was 

 beaten. His first mile was in 2:17. In the second Splan 

 pulled him up after making two breaks on the back 



