96 MEMOIR. 



McLeod defeated Astral, Garnet and Favonia, all three of 

 which were well thought of in the early betting. On the 

 next afternoon Loretta F. added another first to her chain 

 of victories, which was snapped at Rochester, when her 

 driver was expelled for dropping a race to Charley Ho- 

 gan. Arab, Rosaline Wilkes and Belle Hamlin were the 

 other trotters that won races during the week, the flying 

 gaited daughter of Hamlin's Almont, Jr., cutting her rec- 

 ord to 2:i6^4. Also for the first time in its history the 

 Cleveland Driving Park Company had three pacing races 

 on its programme in 1887. They were won by Jenny 

 Lind, Joe L. and Johnston, the last named cutting the 

 track record to 2:11^4 m the deciding heat of his race, 

 the fractional time for his mile being 32^, 32^4, 32^, 



The Cleveland fall meeting in 1887 was a combina- 

 tion affair. The programme presented consisted of 

 twenty events, nine of which were stakes of the National 

 Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, four stakes of 

 the Ohio Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, of 

 which William B. Fasig was Secretary, and the balance 

 specials offered by the Cleveland Driving Park Company. 

 In one of the latter Clingstone defeated Patron, as has 

 been stated, and in another Belle Hamlin started against 

 her record, and reduced it to 2 :i3^4, and in doing so ful- 

 filled the prophecy of her breeder, who, in 1885, said that 

 she would train on to a faster record than that of; Gold- 

 smith Maid. The class races at this meeting were won 

 by Embassador, Trouble, Decorator, Maud and Chimes 

 E., while the stakes of the Breeders' Associations went to 

 Sphinx, Sally Cossack, Chimes, Bettina, Nettle Leaf, Bell 

 Boy, Holmdel, Iowa Harold, James Bailey and Eminence. 



