Title

Direct Dillon

Photographer

Guy Kendall

Preview

Creation Date

10-9-1936

Sex of the horse

Gelding

Sire

Dillon Axworthy

Dam

Dixie Direct by Napoleon Direct

Stable/ Owner

Vergie Carson

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Stable/Owner Location

Lewis, New York

Driver Name

Towne

Race

Handicap Pace

Description

Sepia tone photograph of bay gelding, Direct Dillon, agent Charles Towne up for the Handicap Race, Friday, October 9, 1936 at the Fryeburg County Fair races, Fryeburg, Maine. Direct Dillon was owned and trained by Vergie Carson, one of New England Harness Racing's first female drivers who contracted typhoid at the Rutland Fair in Vermont and succumbed to the illness on October 3, 1936.