is the world's race record for three-year-olds. She also 

 won in straight heats at Detroit, Rochester and 

 Chicago, making a record for her first season's cam- 

 paign of winning every race in which she started and 

 all, with one exception, in straight heats. She 

 made several successful starts in 1894, and took a 

 record at Terre Haute in September of that year of 

 2.06, which is the world's record for mares of that age. 

 I took her with some of the other horses I had in 

 training to California in the fall of 1894, where she 

 wintered. Her first race in 1895 was the free-for-all 

 at Minneapolis, July 3d, where she met and defeated 

 Directum, David B., and Kentucky Union, three race 

 horses of the highest quality. This was a great race 

 and was desperately contested from start to finish. 

 Directum, by reason of his almost unbeaten record, 

 was looked upon by the public as the probable 

 winner ; while the reputation of David B. and Ken- 

 tucky Union was scarcely second to anything then in 

 training. Fantasy, while a nervous, high-strung mare, 

 was level headed, and up to the time of this race had 

 never made a break in all the races I had driven 

 her; but on the Minneapolis track was a roadway 

 across the track, used by carriages in crossing to and 

 from the inside enclosure of the track, and when she 

 came to that crossing, in the second, fourth and fifth 

 heats, she jumped and left her feet, and these were the 

 only times during her life that she ever broke in a race. 

 Fantasy won the first heat in 2.09, Directum the 

 second in 2.12^, Fantasy the third in 2.09, Directum 

 the fourth in 2.13^^, and Fantasy the fifth in 2.11^. 

 From Minneapolis I went to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 

 where I started her in the free-for-all against the great 

 race horses Azote and Phoebe Wilkes, and here it was 



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