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stone's name, the words "The Demon Trotter." In con- 

 nection with this race it can be added that Clingstone's 

 mile in 2:14 in the first heat stood as the trotting race 

 record of the Cleveland track until September 8, 1892, 

 when Evangeline, hitched to a bike sulky, won the first 

 heat of the free-for-all in 2 : 13^4, and the fifth in 2 :n^4, 

 and it was never beaten in a trotting race at a Grand Cir- 

 cuit meeting until August 11, 1892, when, at Rochester, 

 N. Y., the bay gelding Walter E., hitched to a bike sulky, 

 won the second heat of the 2:17 class in 2:13^, and fur- 

 thermore, it was never equalled in a trotting race at a 

 Grand Circuit meeting until August 6, 1892, when 

 Martha Wilkes, also hitched to a bike sulky, won the de- 

 ciding heat of the 2:19 class by a head from Nightingale 

 at Buffalo in 2:14. This fact, more than anything that 

 can be said, demonstrates the superlative excellence of 

 Clingstone as a fast race-horse, and that the mile was not 

 a flash performance was amply demonstrated at Buffalo 

 the following week, when Edwin Thorne drew the pole, 

 and Clingstone in second position beat him a head in 

 2:14^4. It is true that Clingstone pinched Thorne a 

 trifle at the finish, and Turner might have been given the 

 heat if he had claimed a foul, but he did not want it as 

 his time had not come. The day of triumph was set for 

 Hartford, the birth place of "the demon trotter," and it 

 came, as over Charter Oak Park, the place where Cling- 

 stone took his first lessons, Edwin Thorne defeated the 

 Rysdyk gelding in a special after Clingstone had won 

 a heat in 2:17. Later in the season it was learned that 

 Clingstone was at the time suffering from a tumor, and 

 there is no doubt but that it was the cause for his loss of 

 form after the Rochester meeting. Clingstone was foaled 

 in a paddock that is now included in Elizabeth Park, 



