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• 4 . WEIRS EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL CAREER. Frank D. Weir, the trainer of the Farrell-Johnson-Sullivan -table, lias had a remarkahle career on the turf. He began training race horses in ISM. and since then he has saddled 1.200 winners. l,03o sec- onds and 873 thirds. These horses have won. in stakes and purses, a total of $.V 0.240.2." . It was at Cloueestcr, in MB9, that W«ir sent IM winners to the ost. together with l-lo seconds and 145 thirds, for a total of 4,010. .This is a record which be has never been able to equal since. He began operations on the New York tracks in 100:;. when the horses trained by him won forty-seven races and clea%ed up 7.5.".2. In 1004 he won fifty -four races for 0,575. He handled forty winners in MM for S40.040. In 1! 00 the stable ataaj twenty-eight races and :t.*05. Last year wa- Weirs most successful campaign on the Jatfcej Club circuit, for his horses finished first forty-eight times, second twenty-seven times and third twcnl -six times for a total of .J15. Few trainers who are now identified with the sport can show a better record in the same length of time.
