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approached Mr. Emery, and asked him if he knew who 

 Spier was. When Mr. Emery said that he did not, Craw- 

 ford gave him to understand that Madden and Spier were 

 partners in a number of horses, Robert McGregor being 

 one of them. This was news to Mr. Emery, and when he 

 met Madden he requested him to telegraph W. E. Spier 

 and ask if he would let him have Jeanne for the amount 

 bid. On the following day Madden advised him that he 

 could. The filly was sent to the Forest City Farm, and 

 as she did not prove in foal it looked as though she were 

 a "gold brick." As the years rolled by, however, time 

 balanced the account, as, when mated with Patron, she 

 produced Miss Delia Fox, 2:io^J; Cretonnes, 2:1354; 

 Bernalda, 2:1754; Merlo Erlandi, and the colt Del Toro, 

 that was timed separately in 2:i6y 2 in a race at Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., as a two-year-old. 



Small fields and fast time was the order of the day at 

 the Cleveland Grand Circuit meeting in 1890. There 

 were but sixty-seven starters in the fourteen regular events 

 and two specials, against ninety-eight starters in four- 

 teen events in 1889. What the card lacked in quantity, 

 however, was more than balanced by quality, as the aver- 

 age rate of speed for the meeting was 2:17^4, the thirty- 

 eight heats trotted averaging 2:18^4, and the thirteen 

 heats paced averaged 2:16. A world's record was also 

 beaten when Adonis was awarded the second heat of the 

 free-for-all pace in 2:ny 2 , it being the fastest heat paced 

 in a race up to that date. Two days later Dallas also won 

 a heat in the same time, the time made by the pair being 

 the records with which they retired from the turf. Hal 

 Pointer forced Adonis to his record. In the heat in ques- 

 tion, Pointer was timed the last half in 1 :02y 2 , but a break 

 at the finish gave the Sidney gelding the heat. Pointer 



