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also filled the public eye when, as proud as a peacock, he 

 marched in front of the field in the 2 129 class. The star 

 event of the week was the struggle between Director and 

 Wilson in the 2 :22 class. Both of them made their rec- 

 ords in this race, and before the sixth heat was finished, 

 Director, favored by his handy breaks, had trotted the 

 George Wilkes gelding into the ground. Splan laid Wil- 

 son up in the first heat, while Gladiator carried Director 

 to the half in 1 :o8^, and was within a length of him at 

 the wire in 2:19^2. In the second heat Gladiator and 

 Wilson closed in on Director and pocketed him. They 

 went in this order to the half in 1 :oa^, when John Gold- 

 smith took back and pulled outside of the leaders. As 

 soon as clear sailing was secured he started after Wilson. 

 He was at his wheel when the three quarters was passed, 

 and at his neck as they swept by the distance. Then for 

 a few strides they were head and head. Wilson wavered 

 under the strain, and broke into a scrambling run. As 

 he did Goldsmith touched Director with the whip and he 

 broke. Both horses ran under the wire, and as the judges 

 could not separate them it was declared a dead heat, and 

 the time 2 117. Wilson won the third heat by two lengths 

 in 2 :i6^4, and in the fourth heat finished on a break, the 

 finish between him and Director being so close that only 

 the judges could decide. They said Director, and the 

 time was 2 11754- In the fifth heat Gladiator and Wilson 

 were on even terms at the half in 1 107^. The Blue Bull 

 gelding fell back in the third quarter, but as Goldsmith 

 was forced to go around him and Kate McCall he could 

 not reach the flying leader, the heat going to Wilson in 

 2:18. With the non-heat winners out of the way, Di- 

 rector made short work of Wilson, and won in a walk in 

 2:2834. Santa Claus was the fourth stallion to win at 



