A driving park on Mishawaka ground — tested, and not found

The driving park was the nineteenth century's standard racing plant: a half-mile or mile oval, a grandstand, a season of trotting meets with published purses, and a permanent line in the county's sporting record. This pass tested Mishawaka for one directly, and the test is negative at the full strength of the records reached. No driving park, trotting course, or race-meet ground on Mishawaka soil appears in the county histories, the city histories, or the fair record. Peter De Kever's commissioned history of the city — read first-hand — contains no occurrence of "trotting" and no "race track" at all; racing enters his book in exactly one place, the Simplex paragraph tested below. The fairs pass of this history ran the same test from the fair's side, through the fair's own record, and reached the same negative.

The negative is printed with its limit named. Mishawaka's nineteenth-century newspaper, the Enterprise, is undigitized; its file survives on microfilm at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, and a driving park that lived and died inside the EnterpriseThe Enterprise run is therefore named as the settling source: until it is read for the purpose, the finding stands as it is stated — no driving park on Mishawaka ground in any record reached, and the county's documented harness racing seated where the fair sat, on South Bend ground.

• De Kever, history of Mishawaka (city-commissioned, mishawaka.in.gov), read first-hand in full text: "trotting" and "race track" searched, neither occurs
• The Enterprise microfilm, 1858–2019, Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library: named, not pulled