138 MEMOIR. 



Cleveland, Ohio, September 5, 1902. 

 Amateur Drivers' Challenge Trophy. _ Free-for-all 



trotting. 



John A. McKerron, b s, by Nutwood Wilkes 



(H. K. Devereux) 1 1 



Lord Derby, b g, by Mambrino King (E. E. 



Smathers) 3 2 



The Monk, b g, by Chimes (C. K. G. Billings) . 2 3 

 Time — 2:07^, 2:08. 



Five of the fifteen races programmed for the Cleveland 

 Grand Circuit meeting in 1896 were won by Ohio horses, 

 three of them having been bred in the state, and the other 

 two owned and developed in Cleveland. In addition to 

 this they had three third moneys and three fourth 

 moneys placed to their credit. The Forest City Farm 

 won a first and a fourth with the Patron mare Helen K., 

 the other winners being Rifle, who was only a head in 

 front of Franklin, by Gold Leaf, when he made his rec- 

 ord of 2:11^4, Derby Princess, Newcastle, and Dan T. 

 W. B. Fasig won a third and a fourth with [Marguerite, 

 a handsome little mare that, according to her owner, 

 "doesn't ask to have her track taken around with her to 

 trot on, but says: 'Come on, boys; if that track is good 

 enough for you it is good enough for me ; let's have a 

 race' ;" while W. C. Ong was awarded a third with Atlan- 

 tis, and both Franklin and Rubenstein saved their en- 

 trance. A heavy track on the opening day and the ab- 

 sence of a free-for-all trot on the programme made a cut 

 in the rate of speed, the sixty heats contested averaging 

 2:13^2. The forty heats trotted averaged 2:15^, and 

 the twenty paced, 2:09^4. The free-for-all pace was the 

 best race of the meeting, and proved the greatest surprise 

 when Frank Agan defeated Joe Patchen and Robert J. in 

 2:05, 2:04, 2:04^4. The finish in the second heat was 

 very close, Frank Agan winning it by a head from Joe 



