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tron won in 2 : 14.34 > after being taken back in the stretch, 

 they knew he had met what Monroe Salisbury termed 

 the great requisite of a race horse, "more speed." In the 

 deciding heat of the race Patron was at the three-quarter 

 pole in 1 40, after trotting the third quarter in 33 seconds, 

 and many thought that if Fuller had sent him along to the 

 wire Maxie Cobb's stallion record of 2:1334 would have 

 been beaten. What might have been is now a memory, 

 and Patron was never again so fortunate as to find a day 

 and track when he was on edge for a championship per- 

 formance. At Hartford, in September, when he won the 

 Charter Oak Stake without the semblance of a contest, 

 from Prince Wilkes, Loretta F., Astral, Myrtle and Dan, 

 a shower fell before the third heat, in which Fuller in- 

 tended to send him for the stallion record. Again at 

 Cleveland during the fall meeting he was started against 

 Atlantic, Orphan Boy and Tom Rogers, and won the 

 Ohio Association of Trotting Horse Breeders' stallion 

 stake the day before he was named to meet Clingstone in 

 a special. In the latter Patron won the first heat in 2:17 

 after passing the half in 1 '.ojy 2 . The next two heats 

 went to Clingstone in 2 119, after which Patron was drawn 

 on account of sickness. The pair met again at Detroit, 

 the following week, and the Rysdyk gelding was again 

 successful. 



On the opening day of the Grand Circuit meeting 

 in 1887, James Goldsmith sprung a surprise in the bet- 

 ting ring when he won the 2 126 class with Misty Morn- 

 ing, defeating the favorite Class Leader and Globe, after 

 he had won two heats. Amie King, the first of Mambrino 

 King's get to earn Grand Circuit honors, was more for- 

 tunate the following day when she won the 2 \2J class, 

 which was sandwiched with the 2 123 trot, in which 



