A COLT that gave promise of becoming one of the 

 best ever produced at Village Farm was Milan 

 Chimes. He was broken as a two-year-old, and in 

 the fall, when three years old, I took him with the pros- 

 pective campaigners for the next year (1898) to Selma, 

 Ala., and from the time I first commenced to work him 

 he was a pure-gaited and very fast trotter. I never tried 

 to drive him to his limit, and have no means of telling 

 what it was. His first and only race was at Hartford, 

 on July 5, 1898, in the 2.20 class. He won the second 

 heat in 2.13^ in a jog, and could have trotted that 

 heat several seconds faster. He was unsteady in the 

 third heat and lost it, but won the fourth in 2.165^. 

 He was leading in the fifth heat and when coming 

 down the home stretch, without any warning or known 

 cause, he fell and died almost instantly ; and by his 

 death I think the turf was robbed of one of its bright- 

 est ornaments. 



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