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Show LI) PRINCETON MAKES JAST TIME HARTFORD. Conn., Sept. 2. The opening day of the Grand Circuit race meeting here this afternoon was made noteworthy by Lu Princeton's performance perfor-mance in the free-for-all trot, Walter Cox piloting the horse in the two fastest fast-est heats ever made by a stallion in a race. The new world's record was acclaimed ac-claimed by an enormous crowd. More tman 50,000 people attended the Connecticut Con-necticut fair, In connection with which tho Grand Circuit program is being conducted. Lu Princeton's victory was a clean cut one, and, although the stallion went in record time, at no stage of the race was he pushed hard by his closest rival, St. Frisco, who took second money. . J. IT. Lawrence's fast Hoboken marc, Lizzif March, took all three heats in the 2:07 pace, the concluding event of tho day's program, and thus made tho card a straight heat affair. The summary: The Acorn, threo-year-olds, trotter, 2:20 class, two in threo, purse $20Q0: David Guy (Murphy) 1 1 Hollywood Bob (Dodge) 2 3 Miriam Guy (Hyde) 3 2 Miss Dewey Watts (McDonald) 4 1 Truxton, "Tho. Divorcee and Forbes Robertson also started. Time, 2:0SVi. 2:08. Free-for-all trot, two'hr three, purae $2500: , , . Lu Princeton (Cpx) '. ....1 1 Sf. Frisco (Geers) ..2 2 Heir Reaper (Walker) . r. ..... l"i 3 Time, 2:02U, 2:02. The 2:07 paco (three heats), purse $1000: Lizzie March (Lawjcnce) . .1 1 1 Zombrlno (Murphy) 3 2 2 Windsor Todd (Stout) 2 3 4 Abbe Bond (Snow) 4 4 3 j Time, 2 : 04 U , 2 : 03 , 2 : 06 |