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backed Mella G. to win at from $5 to $8 in pools running 

 from $80 to $100. When the race started Mella G. 

 stepped out and won two heats in 2:22^2, 2:22^. In 

 the third heat she was in trouble and Cypress won in 

 2 \22%. This did not help matters any as the money was 

 on Mulatto. The talent breathed easier when Cypress 

 broke in the stretch in the fourth heat and the favorite 

 raced home in 2:23^- Mella G. was laid up that trip, 

 but when the word was given for the fifth heat her driver 

 moved out in front and made a runaway race of it, win- 

 ning as he pleased in 2 124. Fasig cleared up $4,000 in 

 the race, the purse netting $800, while the balance be- 

 longed to the combination that laughed at him when he 

 was backing the little gray mare. Later in the season 

 Mella G. won another race for him at Medina, Ohio, but 

 she failed to get inside the money in the race that Fugue 

 won at the Cleveland fall meeting. At this meeting Fasig 

 also started Keokee and Wyandot, the two Ambassadors 

 which he had bred in partnership with "Uncle" Ben 

 Wrisrht. Wvandot won the Buckeve stake for three-vear- 

 olds after a five-heat contest with Clonmore, the Forest 

 City Farm entry, and Keokee was second to Heckothrift, 

 which was C. F. Emery's entry in the Excelsior Stake. At 

 this meeting Prince Wilkes and Patron met in a special, 

 the Red Wilkes gelding going to the front after Patron 

 had won a heat in 2:16. The other races offered by the 

 Cleveland Driving Park Company were won by Baroness, 

 Lettie Waterson, Lady Bullion, Argentine, Alcagetta, 

 Blue Grass Hambletonian and Belva Lockwood, while the 

 stakes of the Ohio Breeders' Association not already re- 

 ferred to were won by Gold Leaf, Mohawk Gift, Harry 

 Wade, Holmdel, Orphan and Brandoline. 



