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third. On the next two trips Little Albert broke at the 

 finish and Walter E. won in 2:10 and 2\n l / 2 , Nightin- 

 gale being out of it on account of a break in the first quar- 

 ter of the third heat, and on the next trip she made an- 

 other mistake and was distanced. The struggle in the 

 fifth heat was between the two heat winners, and the 

 Mambrino King mare, Nightingale. The three were 

 lapped at the half in 1 :o8, but from that point the Village 

 Farm mare was unsteady, while Walter E. broke inside 

 the distance, Little Albert winning the deciding heat in 

 the fastest five-heat race on record to that date in 2:13. 

 The official records for the meeting show that the other 

 winners were Alejandri, Miss Lida, May Marshall, Or- 

 iole, Jay Hawker, Hal Dillard, Director's Flower, Ellard, 

 Hal Pointer, Hazel Wilkes and E. T. H., while Directum 

 was started to high-wheel sulky to reduce the 2 :o8^J of 

 Maud S. Hitched to a sulky that had been used by Cling- 

 stone, the horse that eventually reduced the stallion record 

 to 2:05^4, passed the half in 1 104^4, the second quarter 

 having been trotted in 3134 • As he swung into the turn 

 Kelley took him back a little and his hocks hit the axle of 

 the sulky. This was followed by a break, the mile being 

 finished in 2:14^, which stands as the last attempt of a 

 trotter to bid for the record to the old style sulky. The 

 fall meeting in 1893 was held in October. It proved a 

 plain, every-day trotting meeting, with large fields and 

 close finishes, but nothing sensational, the first money in 

 the different events going to Nellie Hardwood, May 

 Homer, Lora, Racine, Gertrude, Red Line, Chimes E. and 

 J. M. K. In the first heat of the 2 124 trot the cream-col- 

 ored gelding, Elixir, by Elyria, gave a remarkable ex- 

 hibition of trotting without a driver. In a collision on the 

 first turn his driver was thrown out and the reins caught 



