A RACE TO WAGON. li 



go faster, he started her three days later against 2:18^4, 

 the four-year-old record of the world, held by Bonita. 

 Her first trial was finished in 2:195^, but on the second 

 attempt Elvira earned a record of 2 :i& l / 2 . This filly was 

 a sister to Beatrice, the dam of Patron, Prodigal and Pat- 

 ronage, the sire of Alix, 2 103^ ; while, after being retired 

 to the stud on account of blindness, she produced 

 Ponce de Leon. On the same afternoon Fuller also gave 

 the yearling colt Nutbreaker, bv Nutwood, a record of 

 2 146, and trotted second to Jim Schriber in the 2 -.23 class 

 with Algath. The other events at this meeting were won 

 by Mambrinette, Uncle Ned, Jim Early and Oliver K., 

 the King Wilkes gelding getting a record of 2:24^ in a 

 six-heat race, in which he defeated Darkness, Lena Swal- 

 low, Homewood, Gladys, G. E. B., Faro and Adam 

 Beebe. W. B. Fasig started the black gelding Boston 

 Davis in the race won by Jim Early, and drew him after 

 finishing sixth in the first heat. At this date the black 

 gelding had a record of 2:34, and could beat it, but he 

 was also as notorious a puller as Captain McGown, of 

 twenty-miles-in-an-hour fame. In November, 1901, 

 three months before he died, William B. Fasig related the 

 following incident in connection with the ownership of 

 Boston Davis, to S. Freeman, who incorporated it in an 

 article that appeared in the Christmas number of "The 

 Horse Review". 



"Col. Wm. Edwards, one of the dearest men that ever 

 lived, was President of the Cleveland Driving Park, and 

 I the Secretary. There was hot rivalry between us. He 

 had an elegant bay mare named Faith, which he thought 

 could beat the Boston Davis family. The feeling was 

 at fever heat, and one day it culminated, after a heated 

 argument, in a match to wagon. The Colonel's son Clar- 



