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UNPARALLELED RACING OCCURRENCES An occurrence probably without a parallel in racing was recorded at the Birmingham, England, meeting on November 1, 1910, when three of the six races on the card resulted in dead heats. Frank Wootton and Dan Maher, rivals for the leadership, were the riders in one of the dead heats. Wootton and C Trigg fought out another, and a third was between Trigg and an apprentice named Winter. One of the races was for two-year-olds, and could not be run off under the rules, and in the other cases the owners divided. The form of the judicial eye that day does not, of course, appear in the record. 4
