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Free-for-all race at Charter Oak Park
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From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Shows a part of the enormous crowd and the start and finish of the free-for-all pacing race, in which the fastest harness horse in the world, John R. Gentry (2:00-1/2), the coming Star Pointer and Frank Agan competed for a purse of 6,000. The heat we photographed was won by Star Pointer in the fast time of 2:04-3/4. |
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| Year: | 1897 |
| Genre: | Historical |
| Keywords: | Harness racing--Connecticut--Hartford; Harness racehorses--Connecticut--Hartford; Horse racing--Connecticut--Hartford; Racetracks (Horse racing)--Connecticut--Hartford; Hartford (Conn.); Horses--Connecticut--Hartford; Actuality; |
| Duration: | 00:00:26 |
| Color: | No |
| Sound: | No |
| Amount of Motion: | Medium |
| Language: | English |
| Sponsor: | Thomas Edison |
| Contributing Organization: | Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division |
| Transcript Available: | No |
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| Digitizing Organization: | Library of Congress |
