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Temple Bar. As is well known, he went on and won in 

 2:j8^4, 2:19^4, 2:23, after showing Temple Bar's tre- 

 mendous flight of speed by trotting the last half in the 

 fourth heat in 1 \oj %, and the third quarter of it in 32^2 

 seconds in order to stall a rush made by Junemont. At 

 the conclusion of the race there was a brief consultation 

 in the judges' stand, and then William Edwards stepped 

 to the rail and announced that the manner in which Tem- 

 ple Bar had been driven by Spear was an insult to the 

 ladies and gentlemen who had come to the track 

 to see an honest race, and that it was the order of the 

 judges that Temple Bar, his owner and driver, be ex- 

 pelled. It was a sad ending to Temple Bar's brilliant 

 campaign, or as C. A. McCully put it in one of his let- 

 ters : "Last week he had roses on his stall door in De- 

 troit. Tonight there is nothing but crape on the latch." 

 The other races programmed for the meeting were won 

 by Commonwealth, Maggie R., Happy Bee, Alambrino 

 Maid, Ivorine, Ryland T. and Alvin, while Pickpania and 

 Wonder won the team race, in which they trotted a fourth 

 heat in 2 .22, Splan carrying them to the three quarters in 

 1 47^2 with Problem and Abbie V. 



In September Cleveland had two week's racing over 

 the mile track, the fall meeting of the Cleveland Driving 

 Park Company being followed by a four-day meeting un- 

 der the auspices of the Ohio Association of Trotting 

 Horse Breeders. On three of the mornings of the first 

 week, Emery and Fasig had a sale, at which forty-two 

 head were sold for $41,870. On the opening day Fred 

 Folger was bid off for $1,150, and on the second day 

 Millard Sanders sold ten head of Count Valensin's 

 stock for $29,485. In this consignment Simmocolon sold 

 for $13,000, while Ferndale, a yearling filly that had the 



