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was a cold raw day, with a light rain falling, he 

 trotted in 2:15^4. On July 4, at Independence, 

 la., he reduced the half-mile track, record to 

 2:30^1 For the next few days he was jogged 

 eight to ten miles, then shipped to St. Paul, Minn., 

 and started to beat 2:15^/2, and equalled it, which 

 constituted a losing performance; the track was 

 dead and cuppy and thought to be about three sec- 

 onds slow. Axtell was then shipped to Independ- 

 ence for a few days' rest, then to Cleveland, O.,' 

 where he further reduced his record to. 2:14^. 

 Then on to Chicago,, where He went an exhibition 

 mile in 2:15^4 and,, twp days later, won a race, 

 best time 2:14. The next week at Independence 

 he worked in 2 :22, the following week at Des 

 Moines in the same notch. He was -then sent 

 home and jogged three weeks. ,At St. Louis he 

 worked in 2:19, then was shipped to Terre Haute. 

 Early in the week he was driven an exhibition in 

 2:14^^. The next day he was not harnessed, the 

 following day he was jogged six miles to cart on a 

 country road. The next day,,. Oct. 11, he reduced 

 the three-year-old record, and also the all-aged 

 stallion record to 2:12. That night he was sold 

 for $105,000. 



In Conclusion. 



We have now followed the colt from the day of 

 its birth to the fall of its three-year-old form. By 

 this time the reader, if he has absorbed and di- 

 gested all that has been written, by the famous 



