140 MEMOIR. 



For its Grand Circuit meeting in 1898, Cleveland pro- 

 grammed eight trotting and six pacing races, the purses 

 offered for the trotters amounting to $17,500, and for the 

 pacers $13,500. Sixty-three heats were required to clear 

 the card and dispose of two specials to wagons, the aver- 

 age time for them being 2:11^2. The trotters required 

 thirty-five heats to win their events and the two specials, 

 the time averaging 2 \i2 l / 2 . Seventeen of the twenty-eight 

 heats paced were below 2 :io, the average time for the en- 

 tire number being 2:09^. The showing made by T. 

 Keating's stable was the feature of the week. His score 

 was five starts and five firsts, his winners being Search- 

 light, Klatawa, Anaconda and Dione, three pacers and a 

 trotter. Dione won the 2:24 trot in 2:10^4, 2:12^, 

 2 109^, with a field of eleven behind her, the lot including 

 W. B. Fasig's black gelding Alrich. Anaconda won the 

 2 105 pace after losing two heats to Frank Bogash, his fast- 

 est heat being finished in 2 :04^J. Klatawah, a three-year- 

 old, won the 2 114 pace in 2 107, 2 :09^J, 2:11^, after losing 

 the third heat to Pentland in 2:11^, and Searchlight the 

 2:08 pace in 2:05^4, 2:05^, 2:06^, and 2:10 pace in 

 2:04^4, 2:093/2, 2:09, after losing a heat to Lena N. in 

 2:05^4. In this race Lena N. made a world's record for 

 pacing mares and Searchlight a world's record for pacing 

 colts. The Village Farm stable also made a very strong 

 showing. It won with The Abbot, Lady of the Manor, and 

 Tommy Britton was second to Directum Kelly in the 2 123 

 trot, with True Chimes third to Gayton in the 2:18 trot 

 with Battleton, and unplaced with Incarnate in the 2 125 

 trot, which was won by Angelina after Percy and Belle J. 

 each had a heat. The race won by Tommy Britton was one 

 of the uncertainties that add a charm to racing. He won 

 the first heat in 2 : io l / 2 . In the second heat Cresceus made 



