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money and Red Cloud third. The next start was at 

 Buffalo, where Camors, who was distanced in the first 

 heat of the race at Cleveland, stepped out in front for 

 two heats, the first one being won by a neck from 

 Red Cloud in 2:20^2, while heads only separated him 

 from Gloster and Nettie in the second in 2:19^4, his 

 record. Prior to the third heat the Judges requested 

 John Wade to turn Red Cloud over to Charles Green. 

 This smashed the slate, which, according to Dan Mace, 

 was made for Gloster to win, and, as a dying chance, 

 Hickok tried to pull the race off with Camors. He 

 carried Red Cloud to the half in 1 '.oj 1 /?, but the Indi- 

 ana gelding had speed to spare, as he inarched on to 

 the three-quarters in 1:42^4. and won in 2:18, the 

 record with which he retired from the turf. In the 

 next two heats Gloster tried to reach him, but as he 

 was unsteady, Red Cloud won in 2:18^, 2:21. This 

 race created a great deal of excitement, which was 

 materially increased when Goldsmith Maid closed the 

 meeting by reducing the world's record for trotters 

 from 2 :i6 to 2 115^. 



Gloster made his record of 2:17 and also trotted 

 the best race of his life at the inaugural meeting of the 

 Rochester Driving Park the following week. He took 

 the word with St. James, Sensation, Camors, Red 

 Cloud and Gazelle. Red Cloud was the favorite, Glos- 

 ter, on account of his behavior at Buffalo, being third 

 choice. At the finish of the first heat the judges were 

 unable to separate this pair at the wire and announced 

 it a dead heat in 2:18. As it was supposed the Volun- 

 teer gelding could not come back in any such time, 

 Red Cloud brought two to one over the field before the 

 word was given for the second mile. In this heatDoble 



