workouts that season, before leaving for the North, I 

 drove him to a high-wheeled Toomycart a quarter of a 

 mile in 28^ seconds ; but the hard work necessary to 

 properly prepare him for the coming campaign finally 

 began to affect that leg, and it was with many misgiv- 

 ings that I concluded to start him in the free-for-all 

 pace at Cleveland, in which he had been entered, as 

 he had already commenced to go lame in the fast 

 workouts I was giving him. But it was finally con- 

 cluded that he would probably never be in better 

 condition to go a fast race than he then was, and under 

 all the circumstances we had better start him. In that 

 race were entered several of the fastest pacers then in 

 training, among them being Roy Wilkes, whom I knew 

 to be a dangerous competitor, fori had on several occa- 

 sions met and defeated him with Duplex. In the 

 warming-up heat before the race, Brown Hal showed con- 

 siderable lameness. At the commencement of that race 

 the record of 2.13 held by Brown Hal was the pacing 

 stallion race record, but in the first heat of that race, 

 which was won by Roy Wilkes, the record was reduced 

 to 2.12^, and for a short period Roy Wilkes was the 

 king of pacing stallions. This heat satisfied me that 

 with Brown Hal's lameness increasing all the time, the 

 race would be a hard one, but I still thought that, if 

 he did not give out entirely, I could win the race. We 

 got a good start in the second heat and I called upon 

 Brown Hal for his best effort and he did not disappoint 

 me and won the heat in 2.12^, and thereby again 

 became king of this division. But this heat seriously 

 affected his leg and the next heat was won by Roy 

 Wilkes in slower time. I rushed Brown Hal for the 

 fourth heat, and, notwithstanding his lameness kept 

 increasing, he won the heat. When the horses came 



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