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fully for C. F. Emery. Two stallions that were destined 

 to earn world-wide fame on the turf and in the stud also 

 won races at the Cleveland meeting in 1886. Both of 

 them in turn reduced the world's record for stallions, one 

 at the pacing, and the other at the trotting gait, and both 

 of them sired extreme speed, although one died 

 in his prime. They were Brown Hal and Palo Alto. In 

 1885 Brown Hal was started at Cleveland as a trotter in 

 the race won by William T. He was tenth in the first 

 heat and distanced in the second. This showing led to a 

 change, and the following year Brown Hal was a pacer. 

 He never lost a race at that gait. In 1886 he was started 

 at Pittsburg, Cleveland and Rochester, where he won a 

 heat in 2:17^. In 1889 he again appeared at Cleveland 

 in a race with Roy Wilkes, Jewett, Bessemer and Gossip, 

 Jr. Brown Hal's feet bothered him and caused disas- 

 trous breaks, but he finally won after a six-heat contest 

 in which Roy Wilkes cut the pacing record for stallions 

 to 2 113, and Brown Hal recovered the honors in the next 

 heat with a mile in 2 :i2^. The deciding heat in the race 

 created a flutter in the stands. Brown Hal made a break 

 going away and appeared to be a double distance out 

 when the field swept by the half. As it was a case of life 

 and death for ''Old Tennessee" from a racing standpoint, 

 Geers started after the leaders. He soon picked up the 

 field, but was unable to reach Roy Wilkes. As the pair 

 swept by the band stand Brown Hal was all out and 

 swerving. To all appearances Roy Wilkes had the heat 

 and race safe, when John Dickerson let go of his head and 

 struck him. Roy went to a break and Brown Hal won 

 by a head. Frank G. Buford told me after the race that 

 he timed Brown Hal the last half in 1 :oi. This was to 

 high wheels and the showing was worthy of the horse 



