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race with Neri Newcomb, on October 21. Her next ap- 

 pearance was in a team race at the Cleveland fall meeting 

 in 1892, when Eloise and Elixir, driven by William B. 

 Fasig, defeated two other pairs and made a record ot 

 2:31^4. The following spring Eloise was consigned to 

 the May sale and purchased by Fasig and Greenwood for 

 $1,025. They placed her in Cope Stinson's stable but she 

 failed to stand the preparation and was turned out in 

 August. About this time Fasig also purchased T. Green- 

 wood's interest, and in 1894 "Benny" and Pat Shank 

 started out to win Grand Circuit races with Eloise. After 

 trotting second to Rensselaer Wilkes at Columbus, they 

 shipped to Detroit, where Eloise was entered in the 2 127 

 class for trotters, and according to Fasig, the race that 

 followed upset all of his hoodoo calculations. Aside from 

 meeting a cross-eyed girl with red hair or crossing a 

 funeral, Fasig considered the number thirteen as unde- 

 niable evidence of defeat in anything he might be con- 

 nected with, from playing marbles to flying a balloon. On 

 this point the vein of superstition ran close to the surface, 

 but Eloise knocked it into smithereens when she put her 

 right foot forward at Detroit. The 2 127 class was the 

 third race on the card for the first day of the meeting, and 

 when Fasig stepped off the car at Grosse Pointe, he found 

 that Eloise was number thirteen on the score card. This 

 set Fasig thinking, and in a short time he remembered 

 that Eloise had been shipped from Columbus on Friday, 

 July 13, that the numbers on his room door at the Russell 

 House, when added together made thirteen, and on locat- 

 ing Pat Shank he found Eloise in a stall, the figures on 

 which when lumped made the unlucky number. Vowing 

 vengeance on Lem Ullman, the programmer, for putting 

 such a number on his trotter, Fasig climbed into the grand 



