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record shows two firsts at Rhinebeck, two firsts at 

 Poughkeepsie, where Alley won the 2:27 class, Lottie 

 a fourth to Lady Mills and Huntress a second to May 

 Bird, after winning two heats and a dead heat, and 

 one at New York, where Bateman finished second to 

 Big Fellow and Lottie third to Young Sentinel the 

 same week. During the Boston meetings at Mystic 

 and Beacon Parks, Powers won two more races and 

 was twice second to Voltaire, winning heats in each 

 of the races he lost and reduced his record to 2 -.24. 

 At these meetings Bateman picked up two seconds 

 and a third, Driver a second and a fourth and Lottie 

 a second to Clara J. While these horses were trot- 

 ting at Mystic Park another section of the Walnut 

 Grove Farm stable appeared at Hudson, N. Y., where 

 Alley won the 2:28 class, Pelham a second, while 

 Compromise had only a fourth to show after three 

 starts. After starting at Albany, where Alley won a 

 race and Pelham was third to W. H. Arnold, and a 

 trip to Dover, N. H., where Lottie won a four-heat 

 race and made her record of 2:28)^, Powers the 2:38 

 class and Driver a third to Martha Washington, the 

 stable returned to Poughkeepsie, where Powers and 

 Alley were again returned as winners, Lottie awarded 

 second in the race won by Young Sentinel, and the 

 gray mare, Nielson, a fourth to Jack Barry. 



Both Allev and Driver won the events in which 

 they were entered at Springfield the second week in 

 July, the former reducing his record to 2 124 and the 

 latter cutting his mark to 2 125. Powers also started 

 at the same meeting and was unplaced to Lady Snell. 

 They were then shipped to Cleveland, while the other 

 members of the stable moved over to Boston, where 



