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won in 2:2§^ and 2:26}i and was returned to 

 Palo Alto until the second week in October. She 

 was then shipped to San Francisco, where she 

 was given two repeats, the first in 2 132 and 2 135, 

 the second in 2:28^4 and 2:23, the latter on Oct. 

 18. Two days later she started against the 

 world's two-year-old record of 2:21 held by 

 Wildflower, and although suffering from sexual 

 excitement reduced the record half a second. A 

 iweek later, with only brush work in the mean- 

 time, she trotted in 2:18. She was then taken 

 ho?ne and jogged all winter to skeleton wagon. 

 She was turned out in a paddock and one day, 

 in playing, strained a tendon in her right hind 

 leg. The resultant swelling was kept down by 

 cooling lotions and cold showers. Jogging was 

 commenced on May 19, but she was not brushed 

 for a month, as her hind ankles looked suspicious. 

 She was then given the brush system till she could 

 step a quarter in 30 seconds, then mile and repeat 

 work. On being shipped to San Francisco she . 

 contracted a very severe case of distemper. At 

 Napa the weather was hot and this, with her 

 nervous temperament, kept her much reduced in 

 strength. At Petaluma she was defeated by Lil- 

 lian Wilkes after she had won the fast heat in 

 2:2iJ/2'. A week later, at Oakland, she turned 

 th^ tables and won in straight heats, best time 

 2:20. At Sacramento, on Sept. 12, she walked 

 over;. in 2:i6j^. Five days later she won, best 



