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count of a number of split heat races, in which the win- 

 ners were literally raced into the ground. This did not, 

 however, prove to be the case in the 2:10 class, in which 

 there were ten starters, Tommy Britton winning the first 

 two heats in 2 :io, 2 :i2^, Cresceus the third in 2 :io, and 

 Elloree the next three in 2:08^, her record, 2:12^, 

 2:12. The 2 :04 pace was sandwiched with this event, and 

 in it Searchlight made the best race of his career. Ana- 

 conda started favorite, and won the first heat in 2:04^. 

 Searchlight then went on in 2:03^, 2:06%, 2:04. Dur- 

 ing the week Ed Geers won his engagement with The 

 Queen, Merriment and The Abbot, trotted second to 

 Copeland with Tudor Chimes, was unplaced with Battle- 

 ton in the 2 :io trot, and behind the money with Lady of 

 the Manor in the race won by Miss Logan. The other 

 winners at the meeting were Sphinx S., Dorothea S., Bob 

 Fitzsimmons, Fritz, Hal B., Hydrogen, Surpol, The Maid, 

 Dainty Daffo, Harry O. and Owyhee. 



Cresceus, Coney and Prince Alert were the record- 

 breakers at the Cleveland meeting in iqoo. On the first 

 day of the meeting Cresceus won in 2 :oy}4, 2 :o6^4, the 

 time made being the two fastest consecutive heats trotted 

 in a race to that date, the trotting race record of the track 

 being reduced in each pi the miles. On the following day 

 Coney, after flitting about on the turf on a reputation 

 established by T. Keating's faith in him, made good by 

 winning in 2:02^, 2:043/2, after losing a heat to Prince 

 Alert in 2:04^. In the fast heat Coney started in sixth 

 position and finished with a little to spare. His time, 

 2 10234, was a new track record. On the last day of the 

 meeting Prince Alert made his second appearance in the 

 2 :04 class with Anaconda and Indiana. In the first heat 

 Anaconda made a break going away and Prince Alert won 



