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across the course, and he finishes in the same manner ; the 

 times being taken automatically. The length of the course, 

 if I remember rightly, is one verst, which is equal to 3500 

 English feet (nearly two-thirds of a mile) ; and the length 

 of the races is one or more versts. Hence, one horse is 



Photo by\ 



[L. C. Gorodetzky, Tzarskoe Sclo. 

 FIG. 52. Russian Match Trotter. 



usually started at the winning-post in front of the principal 

 stand, the corner of which we may see on the right-hand side 

 of Fig. 50 ; and another horse, at the winning-post of the 

 small stand, which is half-way round, and which was the 

 place this photograph was taken from. The Russian drivers 

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