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mind. But this is a long jaunt from the Cleveland fall 

 meeting in 1894, at which Fasig won a first with Rifle and 

 a third with Eloise. The other winners that week were 

 Autrain, Belle J., Patience, Wilkie Knox, Sable Gift and 

 Florida Monarch. 



In 1893, the Cleveland Driving Park Company, when 

 fixing the amount of purses for its Grand Circuit meeting, 

 decided to give the -pacers the same amount of purse 

 money in the class races as the trotters. From that time 

 to the present it has annually increased the number of 

 pacing races, until, in 1901, more money was offered for 

 pacing than for trotting races. In 1894, the association 

 also decided to add one more day to its meeting, and from 

 that time to the present (1902) the Cleveland summer 

 meeting has run for five instead of four days. For its 

 meeting in 1895, the Cleveland Association presented a 

 $38,000 programme, the list of events showing eleven 

 races for trotters and four for pacers, $28,000 being set 

 aside for the former and $10,000 for the latter. One of 

 the trotting events was declared off on account of unfa- 

 vorable weather, reducing the number of races at that 

 gait to ten and the premiums to $35,000. The two free- 

 for-alls were the star events at the meeting. In the trot, 

 Azote, Hulda and Ryland T. started. The Guy Wilkes 

 mare had received a special preparation for the event, 

 while Azote took it in in his regular run of races. A few 

 of the wiser ones thought that Hulda, who had recovered 

 from the mishap which cost her first money, in the Colum- 

 bian free-for-all at Chicago in 1893, would win, but, when 

 it came to racing, Azote smothered her. In the first heat 

 McDowell rushed out in front with Azote and won as he 

 pleased in 2:06^, Hulda giving it up when inside the 

 distance. The first half of the heat was trotted in 1 :02^4 



