1887 — WALNUT GROVE FARM SALE. 205 



On July 25, at Hamtramck Park, Domestic took 

 the word in the 2 125 class with Garnet, Mambri- 

 nette, Marvel, White Stockings, Edwin C, Gean 

 Smith and Lowland Girl, in what proved one of the 

 worst snarled races ever seen on a mile track. Low- 

 land Girl, the favorite, won the first heat in 2:2054, 

 with Marvel second and Gean Smith distanced. On 

 the next trip the favorite made a break going away 

 and was laid up. Marvel went on and won in 2 122, 

 with Garnet second and Domestic third. As S. Caton 

 jogged around behind Lowland Girl he overlooked the 

 fact that the distance flag had been moved from the 

 one hundred and fifty-yard stand to the one hundred 

 on account of the field being reduced to seven, and 

 when the winner of the heat passed under the wire 

 he was inside the long distance, but the flag fell in his 

 mare's face before she reached the one hundred-yard 

 mark. Lowland Girl was sent to the stable and the 

 race went on without her, Domestic winning the third 

 and fourth heats in 2\2oy 2} 2:23, and Marvel the fifth 

 in 2:21^4. With the non-heat winners out of the way, 

 Domestic and Marvel were the only starters in the 

 sixth heat. The latter made a break going away and 

 Domestic won in 2:24^. The judges called it "no 

 heat" and put up B. Stanford behind Marvel. He 

 could not make him strike a trot and Domestic won 

 again in 2:30^. When the announcement of the 

 premiums was made the bets were declared off. Do- 

 mestic never recovered from this race. After a long 

 spell of sickness at the Detroit track he was shipped 

 to Walnut Grove Farm, where he died the following 

 winter. 



