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The turf kept its own books, and they were thorough: Wallace's American Trotting Register recorded the pedigrees of standard-bred trotters by the tens of thousands from 1871, and Wallace's Year-Book printed the summaries of every trotting and pacing performance in the United States and Canada in which any heat was made in 2:40 or better, corrected against the official reports of the National and American trotting associations, with indexes of places and of horses. A Mishawaka horse, owner, or driver of any standing in the sport would stand in those books under the city's name. This pass searched the turf record as it is reachable — the registers and year-books in digital form, the harness-racing reference literature, and the modern standardbred record — for a named horse with a Mishawaka owner, a Mishawaka driver in the summaries, or a Mishawaka stable of record. Nothing came back. No trotting horse of Mishawaka, no driver of Mishawaka, stands in the record.
The settling sources are named with the finding: a page-by-page sweep of the Year-Book's place index across the 1880s and 1890s volumes, and the Enterprise file, are the two records that could overturn it, and neither was pulled.
- Wallace's American Trotting Register (from 1871) and Wallace's Year-Book of Trotting and Pacing: structure and indexes as published; the Mishawaka searches run against the digitized record returned no horse, owner, or driver of the city
- The driving-park negative, above: the course a campaigning stable would have raced from was never here