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double break near the half. The second time he left 

 his feet Mace bore out, giving Splan a chance to slip 

 through at the pole with Fanny Witherspoon, and at 

 the same time carried Director wide on the upper 

 turn. The manoeuver gave Fanny Witherspoon the 

 heat in 2:17, with Clemmie G. second and j". B. 

 Thomas third. In the third heat Director rushed off 

 in front and was never headed during the balance of 

 the race, his three winning heats being finished in 

 2:20, 2:18, 2:19^.. Both Wilson and Fanny Wither- 

 spoon made a number of breaks, while the balance of 

 the field could not trot fast enough to reach Director. 



After winning a $5,000 race over Forest Patchen, 

 Phyllis, Clemmie G., Josephus, Wilson and Modoc at 

 Narragansett Park, Providence, on September 12, 

 Director was started in a stallion race for a similar 

 amount at Beacon Park against Phallas and Santa 

 Claus. Two breaks cost him the first heat, Phallas 

 winning it in 2 :20. In the second, Bither caught 

 Goldsmith napping at the finish and won by a nose in 

 2:22^2. In the third Phallas had a comfortable lead 

 when he reached the upper turn, where he was seen to 

 stop and almost fall. Director and Santa Claus 

 passed him, the former winning in 2:213/2. When 

 Phallas finished it was learned that he had stepped on 

 a boot strap, and by it lost the heat and race, as 

 Director then went on and won in 2:20, 2:20^, dis- 

 tancing Santa Claus. 



Director trotted his last race at Island Park, Al- 

 bany, where he started against Phallas and Fanny 

 Witherspoon, and won the first, third and fourth heats 

 in 2:23, 2:23^4, 2:19^, the second heat, in 2:22, being 

 placed to the credit of Phallas. During the campaign 



