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ever he undertakes, came last. As an exhibition of pool 

 box methods, the showing made by Charley Ford and 

 Hannis in this race stands as the most glaring sample in 

 the history of the Cleveland track. At the time both of 

 these horses could have trotted in 2:18 or better, but in 

 this heat they did not go in 2 40. 



The free-for-all pace, at the Grand Circuit meeting in 

 1880, was a very closely contested race. As has been 

 stated, Sorrel Dan was added to the "big four," and he 

 had a strong following. Mattie Hunter was a head in 

 front of him in the first heat in 2 :i6y 2 . On the next trip 

 the judges could not separate Lucy and Sorrel Dan, the 

 announcement being a dead heat in 2 :i 5^4. In the third 

 heat Sleepy Tom lay rather close to Mattie Hunter as they 

 swung into the turn, and when Rhea made his drive for 

 the pole, he pinched Sorrel Dan. While they were mixed 

 up Rowdy Boy slipped out and won the heat in 2:16, 

 and the judges distanced Mattie Hunter for the foul. 

 By this time the field had come back to Lucy, and Keyes 

 won a heat in 2:1634. Mace tried his hand on Rowdy 

 Boy in the fourth mile, and won it by half a length in 2 117. 

 The effort killed him, and Lucy had it all her own way in 

 the sixth and seventh heats in 2 :i8%, 2 :i9^. The other 

 winners during the week were Daisydale, Will Cody, Wil- 

 bur F., Bay Billy, Parana, Wedgewood, Hattie Wood- 

 ward, and Unolala, her race being at two-mile heats. On 

 the last day of the meeting Maud S. also gave the public 

 ample notice of the record-breaking miles which kept her 

 before the public during the next five years, by trotting 

 a half in 1 1043/2, the second quarter of it being in 31^ 

 seconds. From the standpoint of extreme speed the 

 Cleveland meeting in 1880 was the best up to that time, 

 the trotters averaging 2 :2iy 2 for thirty-five heats, and the 



