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stand, satisfied in his own mind that either Pat Shank or 

 Eloise would break a leg or fall over the fence before the 

 race was finished. When the race was called it was found 

 that there were but twelve starters and Fasig breathed 

 easier. He even bought a few pools, but told everyone if 

 that thirteen combination could win they could have all 

 they wanted of it. Sixty-six was the favorite. He did not 

 get away well in the first heat, and Clemmie G. II. won in 

 2:1854, with Eloise second. Sixty-six won the second 

 heat, Eloise driving him out in 2:i8y 2 , and on the third 

 trip the Kentucky Prince mare was in front in 2 :i8}4- By 

 that time Sixty-Six had the thumps and was drawn, while 

 Eloise went on and won in 2 119, 2:17. 



When Eloise won at Cleveland, Fasig was as happy as 

 a boy with his first pair of red-topped boots. Time and 

 again he told me how, on the morning of the race, "Knap" 

 McCarthy called and told him how fast Anna Mace could 

 go. The wily "Knap" also hinted that it would be bad 

 business to kill off such a fast pair of mares when they 

 had the race between them. A settlement was what "Knap" 

 was after, and what he did not get, as the crisis was 

 reached when Fasig jumped out of his chair in the office 

 at the sale building and pointing towards the race track 

 said : "Knap, there is the race track. If you can beat 

 Eloise, put on your trotting shoes and do it!" He tried, 

 but that was all the good it did him, as after Anna Mace 

 chased Sixty-Six out in 2:15^ in the first heat, Eloise 

 went to the front in 2:17, 2:15, 2:19^, the last half of 

 her second winning heat being trotted in 1 :o6^4. Eloise 

 scored another first at Buffalo the following week, after 

 which she was laid up until the Medina fair, where she 

 landed the free-for-all, and was then shipped to Cleveland 

 to start in the 2 114 class at the fall meeting. This proved 



