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heat. Coralloid tired after going two heats, and Merle 

 Moore was drawn after the fourth. There were eleven 

 starters in the three-year-old stake, but after it was once 

 under way the race settled down to a struggle between 

 Ponce de Leon, Conductor, and the favorite, McGregor 

 Wilkes. In the first two heats it was Ponce de Leon all the 

 way in 2 125^4 > 2 :26^J. The slippery footing made the big 

 colt leg-weary in the third heat, and when he made a break 

 in the stretch, McGregor Wilkes slipped by and won in 

 2 126^4. The race was then postponed. On the following 

 day Ponce de Leon's driver decided to make a runaway 

 race of it. After laying with the field to the quarter in 

 36 seconds, he picked him up and drove him the second 

 quarter in 34^ seconds. This opened up a big gap of 

 daylight, but when the field came to the black colt in the 

 stretch he had nothing to finish with, and McGregor 

 Wilkes won by a length in 2:22^4, with Conductor at 

 Ponce de Leon's wheel. In the fifth heat McGregor 

 Wilkes made a break in the first quarter and was out of it, 

 the struggle from that time to the finish of a record 

 breaking seven-heat race for three-year-olds being be- 

 tween Ponce de Leon and Conductor, the latter winning 

 the fifth, sixth and seventh heats in 2:26^, 2:25^4, 2:28. 

 The time in the sixth heat was the fastest ever made in 

 the sixth heat of a race by a thrte-year-old, the perform- 

 ance taken the place of Patron's 2 :26y 2 in the Gasconade 

 stake at St. Louis in 1885, when he defeated Manzanita 

 and Silverone. In the race at St. Louis, a son of Pancoast 

 defeated a daughter of Electioneer, while at Cleveland the 

 tables were turned as Conductor, by Electioneer, defeated 

 Ponce de Leon by Pancoast. Another peculiar feature in 

 connection with the breeding of the two colts, caused con- 

 siderable comment, on account of Ponce de Leon being 



