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the meantime the bicycle, ball-bearing sulky had 

 been invented, and the last half of this twenty 

 seconds were cut off when this weightless and 

 f rictionless vehicle was used. The Standard Bred 

 Trotter had also been created. My idea is that the 

 Dutchman, Henry Clay, and Lady Suffolk could 

 either of them gone a mile in from ten to fifteen 

 seconds faster than they did under modern con- 

 ditions of training, driving, shoeing and harness- 

 ing and hitched to the modern vehicle. These ex- 

 periments have all been very interesting, but I 

 believe the same results might have been achiev- 

 ed at a very much less cost and loss indeed, 

 with a profit. 



Exceeding high prices for trotting-horses have 

 been very injurious to the horse-breeding indus- 

 try. Whenever a trotting-horse brings twenty, 

 forty or a hundred thousand dollars it sets the 

 breeders, even the small ones wild with a desire to 

 breed a colt that will bring such a price. Mr. Bon- 

 ner began this with his purchase of Dexter, and 

 followed it up by buying many others at very high 

 figures, including Maud S. and Sunol. He doubt- 

 less found this an excellent advertisement for 



