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really staunch qualities against the well-known fleetness of the mare r 

 and as it turned out, their faith was rewarded by a handsome run- 

 ning. The gong was sounded to a bad start, Annie Laurie being in a 

 full gallop, and it was a full hundred yards before she could be 

 brought to her gait, Button in the meantime taking the lead and 

 holding it to the finish, with Annie second through injudicious 

 driving, and the others pulling up. Time, 2:34?. In the second 

 heat, Button was a great favorite over all the others combined. The 

 driver of Button, this time, was caught napping, and although he 

 had an advantage of nearly eighty yards through a bad break made 

 by Annie at the back stretch, she beat him out in splendid style in 

 2:30, by a neck, with Belle Echo a good third. All the betting was 

 now reversed, and Annie was looked on as a certain winner at two to 

 one against all the others, no one thinking how terribly the previous 

 exertion must have told upon her, and she getting badly off her feet. 

 Button had all the honors to himself in the fast time of 2:29, with 

 Belle Echo a poor second. Now it was all Button's, but the mare 

 would not relinquish the race without a gallant struggle, and making 

 again two bad breaks and a skip, in which she was not so speedily 

 held in hand as the rules require, she came up with a rush and beat 

 Button out by a length, and in consequence was declared a dead heat 

 in 2:302-, the time of the second horse, Belle Echo being a good third. 

 The decision was received, not with murmurs of discontent only, but 

 with slighting remarks as to the animus of the judges, a movement 

 that was at once instantly squelched by the President, Mr. Larue, 

 calling on the gentlemen in front of the stand to point out the 

 offenders, so that they should be at once ejected from the track. 

 This firmness was in excellent form, and deserves all credit, for no 

 gentlemen can possibly be found to act as judges if they are to be 

 taunted by every man who happens to have lost on the race. The 

 President in the last heat called up Donathan, the driver of Annie 

 Laurie, who was smarting under his quasi defeat in the previous 

 heat, and told him that he would distance Annie Laurie if she 

 would indulge in such running as in the previous heat, and on a 

 disrespectful rejoinder, Donathan was fined ten dollars, and then, 

 darkness fast approaching, the horses were dispatched to a bad start, 

 the outside horse being lengths behind. Annie Laurie went all to 

 pieces with a succession of breaks, and Button won as he liked in 

 2:35, with Len Rose second, and Annie last— beaten, but not disgraced. 



SUMMARY. 



Agricultural Park, Sacramento, Septe:nber 22, 1880. — Trotting— Three years old or under 

 class; $25 to accompany nomination, and is to be forfeit; $75 to be paid the first day of th& 

 Fair. If two colts start, $250 to be added; first colt, three quarters ; second colt, one quarter. 

 If three start, $300 to be added; first colt, two thirds; second, two thirds of remainder; 

 third colt, the balance. No added money to be given for a walk-over, except the best time 

 of the State be beaten, in which case $100 added money will be paid the colt beating said 

 time. The colt making the walk-over shall receive all the stakes and forfeits. 



S. Crandall names b. c. Alex. Button, by Alexander, clam Lady Button 12 10 1 



J. C. Newton names b. f. Belle Echo by Echo, clam by Belmont 4 3 2 3 2 



C. A. Durfee names gr. s. Len Bose by A. W. Richmond, dam Barbara 5 5 3 5 3 



John Wade names s. s. Honesty by Priam, dam by Chieftain 3 4 5 4 4 



William Smith names b. m. Annie Laurie by Echo, dam by Tenbroeck 2 14 5 



II. B. Covey names L. Stanford's blk. f. Glencora by Mohawk Chief, dam Lady 



Gilbert 6 dis 



Time— 2:34£, 2:30, 2:29, 2:30J, 2:35. 



