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The races at the Cleveland fall meeting in 1892 were 

 np to the Grand Circuit standard. The horses, hitched to 

 bike sulkies, the high-wheelers having disappeared with- 

 in a week of the summer meeting, at which there were 

 two or three, reeled off miles at a rate which proved that 

 the ingenious Yankee who had attached a pair of bicycle 

 wheels to a sulky frame had opened another door for rec- 

 ord-breakers. In the first heat of the free-for-all, George 

 Saunders, the driver of Clingstone in his palmy days, re- 

 duced his old favorite's race record of 2 114 to 2 113^4 with 

 Evangeline, and made a still further cut in it in the fifth 

 heat, when the magnificent four-year-old romped under 

 the wire in 2:1 1^4, with Lakewood Prince, Junemont, and 

 the stout-hearted Nightingale behind her. In a four-year- 

 old stake Hulda defeated Muta Wilkes and four others in 

 2:iSy 2 , 2:15*4, 2:1534, while Midnight Chimes, a three- 

 year-old filly that dropped dead in a race at Mystic Park 

 a few weeks later, stepped away from Mambrino Queen 

 and Trevillian in 2:18*4, 2:16*4, 2:19*4. In the two- 

 year-old stake Sabledale defeated Princess Royal, Mam- 

 brino Swift and Tuscarora, in 2:23^, 2:21^, her race 

 beino; sandwiched with the 2:18 class in which the four- 

 year-old colt Moquette, by Wilton, sailed off in front of 

 Lady Belle, Una Wilkes, Fred S. Wilkes and Bonhomme 

 for three miles in 2:14*4, 2:15*4, 2:13^, a record which 

 he reduced to 2:10 at Richmond, Ind., the following 

 week. The get of the Mambrino King horse, Elyria, 

 made a remarkable showing at this meeting. He had 

 seven starters. In the 2 :2~ class Muggins defeated a field 

 of fifteen in a four-heat race, and made a record of 2 :2oy 2 . 

 Gertrude won the 2:16 class from a field of nine, her 

 fastest heat being trotted in 2:15^4. In the three-year- 

 old stake Mambrino Queen was second to Midnight 



