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first turn, Dexter's head began to swim, and the 

 team passed him and took the track, reaching the 

 first quarter pole in 32 seconds, with Dexter 

 three or four lengths behind. The same lightning 

 speed was kept up during the second quarter, 

 reaching the half-mile pole in 1.04, with Dexter 

 further in the rear. Mace then took a pull on his 

 team and came home a winner by six or eight 

 lengths in 2.15. When this time was put on the 

 blackboard the response of the multitude was 

 like the roar of old ocean." 



The team also won the next two heats in 2.16 

 and 2.19, and Wallace is of opinion that the team 

 might have won the first heat in 2.12 had it been 

 necessary. This enthusiastic description of Ethan 

 Allen's performance was written before Wallace 

 "took a brief" for the Hambletonians. Then he 

 belittled the Morgans in every way, and when re- 

 minded of his previous admiration of Ethan Al- 

 len, expressed a doubt of his Morgan ancestry. 

 But the Morgans have kept on going fast, when it 

 has happened to be their nature so to do, and that 

 really is as much as can be said of any horses. 

 The dams of the following remarkable perform- 



