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the handsome son of Louis Napoleon, after reducing his 

 record to 2 \i6y 2 , in the special with Black Cloud at Buf- 

 falo the following week, was sold and retired to the stud. 

 On the second day John Bostick stripped Warrior and 

 started to win the 2 :25 pace. He had told everyone that 

 his delicate-looking gelding could pace "fo' heats in 

 fo'teen to eighteen and win suah," but he failed, Geers 

 pulling it off with Joe Bowers Jr., while the second 

 money went to the Clear Grit gelding, Fuller. This race 

 was alternated with the 2 129 class, won by London, and 

 followed bv the free-for-all pace, which resolved itself into 

 the usual guessing match. Seven horses started, and seven 

 heats were reeled off before the Lucy tickets were 

 cashed, the other heat winners being Mattie Hunter, Bay 

 Billy and Buffalo Girl, who was distanced in the sixth 

 heat. Aldine and Adele Gould were the winners of the 

 regular events on the programme for the third day of 

 the meeting, and on the following one Rosa Wilkes trotted 

 to her record when she won the 2 120 class, and Clingstone 

 defeated Edwin Thorne, J. B. Thomas and So-So in a 

 special. This was one of the greatest races of the year, 

 and was described as follows by M. T. Grattan, who, 

 with his eye in "Danteic frenzy rolling," did the meeting 

 for the Breeders' Gazette : 



"Positions were drawn in the following order : So 

 So, Clingstone, Thorne and J. B. Thomas. So So broke 

 at the turn, and only recovered in time to beat Thomas 

 home. Nothing more need be said of them in the heat. 

 The interest centered in the great leaders, who gave the 

 assembled multitude the finest heat ever trotted over any 

 track. The pole would have enabled either to win. Right 

 together from end to end, the struggle home became ab- 

 solutely painful in intensity. At the distance Thorne 



