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Patchen. In the third heat Robert J. chased Frank Agan 

 to the three quarters in 1 132^4, but he could not reach on 

 the trip to the wire. Alonzo McDonald created a ripple of 

 excitement when he stepped out in front with the four- 

 year-old filly, Miss Jennings, and won the 2 125 pace, giv- 

 ing her a mark of 2 :o8*4- Joe Rea also had his day when 

 he won two races with the Gambetta Wilkes mares, Emma 

 Offutt and Lottie Loraine, while the Fred S. Wilkes geld- 

 ing, Walter S., won two races during the week. The 

 other winners at the meeting were Corie McGregor, 

 Frank Bogash, Klamath and Elloree. 



Four of the fifteen races programmed by the Cleve- 

 land Driving Park Company for its Grand Circuit meet- 

 ing in 1897, were won by the Village Farm stable, its win- 

 ners being The Abbot, The Monk, Dare Devil, the hand- 

 somest fast horse that ever stepped on a race track, and 

 Passing Bell. In addition to the above the Village Farm 

 was second to Oakland Baron in the 2:15 class, with 

 Valence second to Bumps in 2:05^, 2:07, 2:06^, with 

 Heir-at-Law, third to Satin Slippers in the 2 125 pace with 

 Elsinore, while Athanio was unplaced in the 2:11 class, 

 which was won by Grace Hastings after Elloree had 

 scored two heats and Bouncer one. The stable's win- 

 nings for the week amounted to $5,875. The record shows 

 that the other races were won by Frank Bogash, Bessie 

 Leach, Octavia, Sally Toler, Senator A., Rilma, and Star 

 Pointer, the last named defeating Joe Patchen and Lottie 

 Loraine in 2:04, 2:05^, 2:04^. The speed rate of the 

 trotters at this meeting was very uniform, the thirty-three 

 heats averaging 2:123/2, William Penn's two heats in 

 2 :o8^4 being the fastest, and Dare Devil's second heat in 

 2:15^4 the slowest. Seventeen of the twenty-eight heats 

 paced were below 2 no, while the average was 2 108^4. 



