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Chimes in 2 :i6j4- Her sister, Mambrino Swift, was third 

 to Sabledale in the two-year-old stake. Peveril finished 

 third in his race, while Sam Bassett was unplaced, and 

 Elixir divided the honors with Eloise in the team race, 

 which they won in 2:34, 2:35, 2:31^. The other win- 

 ners during the week were Robert J., Incense, Wilkie 

 Knox, Cassie, Riverside, Duchess, Jean Wilkes and Ed 

 Eastin. At the Ohio Breeders' meeting the following 

 week, the regular events on the programme were won by 

 Citizen, Patroclea, Mambrino Swift, Belleflower, Ah 

 There, Florida Monarch, Sam Bassett and Harry Davis. 

 Two sons of George Wilkes also started at this meeting, 

 Bud Crook making a pacing record of 2 :iS J A, and Wilkie 

 Collins a trotting record of 2:30^. W T ith this meeting 

 William B. Fasig's connection as an official with racing 

 affairs in Cleveland terminated. Sidney W. Giles, of 

 Troy, N. Y., was elected to succeed him as Secretary of 

 the Cleveland Driving Park Company, while the writer 

 was selected to wind up the affairs of the Ohio Associa- 

 tion of Trotting Horse Breeders, all of the money on 

 hand being added to three stakes that were trotted the fol- 

 lowing September, Operetta winning the race for two- 

 year-olds, Lea the race for three-year-olds, and Joe Gale 

 the four-year-old event. 



Before following William B. Fasig to New York, 

 where he took charge of the newly organized Trotting 

 Department of the Tattersall Companies in America, a 

 brief resume of the meetings given by the Cleveland Driv- 

 ing Park Company from 1892 will be presented in order 

 to complete the record. When the bell rang for the Cleve- 

 land Grand Circuit meeting in 1893 the high-wheel sulky 

 had become a thing of the past, and the marked reduction 

 in the average rate of speed at the meetings that season 



