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Glidi'itor. It is said that Bay Middleton ran the same 

 mile in 1:30, but there is no record of such time. 



Brown Dick made the best time for three mile heats, 

 in 5:28. 



Pocahontas paced a full mile in 2:17^, which is the best 

 time on record. 



The greatest performance in double harness, on record, 

 a 2:12 gait to road wagon. Lady Palmer and Flatbush 

 Mare, driven by their owner,' Mr. Bonner, taken out of 

 his stable untrained, to a road wagon, in public, May 10th, 

 1862, one mile in 2:26; May 13th, two miles in 5.01^ ; the 

 second quarter of the second mile in 33 seconds being a 

 2:12 gait to a road wagon. 



Since the writing of this book, Flora Temple's time has 

 been beaten. Dexter in his great match against time on 

 the Fashion Course, Oct. 10, 1865, trotted a mile under 

 saddle in the unparalleled time of 2:18 1-5. 



Twenty Miles Within the Hour — Trustee, Union 

 Course Oct. 20, 1848, in 59:351 Lady Fulton, Centre- 

 ville Course, July 12, 1855, 59-55. Captain Mc Gowan, 

 Riverside Course, Boston, Oct. 81, 1865, 58:25. Dexter 

 beat Flora Temple's best time in harness, July 80, 1867, 

 at Boston, in 2:19. Lady Suffolk's best time for one mile, 

 harness, 2:26. Laucet's best time saddle, 2:25^. 



In order to form an idea of Dexter's superiority over 

 all other trotting horses, it is only necessary to state that 

 during Flora Temple's entire career on the turf, she trotted 

 only four or five heats in less than 2:22, while Dexter has 

 trotted in less than two years, twenty-seven heats in 2:22, 

 or quicker. The horse that has ranked next to Dexter 

 on the turf during the past two years is Lady Thorn, and 

 she has never made even one heat in 2:22, while Dexter 



