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great friend of Mr. Ten Broeck's. He had a deal of 

 money bet, and so had I. As I got abreast of him I said, 

 " I shan't win if I stay here." " Then go pn," he replied ; 

 and, pulling out, I went on as though going to try for the 

 lead. This compelled Hero to keep the pace good. The 

 fourth mile was done in 2.39, and the fifth in 2.37. Five 

 miles in 13.09 J. The sixth mile was 2.4G ; and now it became 

 clear enough to me that Hero was tiring, and the race safe. 

 It will be remembered, that, in the early part of this 

 work, I remarked that the pace was a much more laborious 

 gait than a trot, for a long distance. It results, that, when a 

 pacer begins to tire in the legs, he gives out, and goes 

 altogether unless he gets rested. Hero had had no ease, and 

 in the early part of the seventh mile he was beaten. The 

 rating for six miles, though nothing like his highest speed 

 for one mile, had " cooked his bacon," to use a common 

 expression. I took the lead, and jogged round this mile in 

 5.08 1-2, the next in 6.16, and the ninth in 6.19. The last 

 mile I drove in 2.39. Hero had been stopped in the 

 seventh mile. Mr. Ten Broeck had money laid that Prince 

 would trot the tenth mile in threo minutes ; and, when I 

 started the horse up to win it, he felt so well that he went 

 much faster than I supposed him to be going. If the pacer 

 had been suffered to slack up when he began to get a little 

 tired, he might not have got so completely tired as to go 

 all to pieces. Ten days afterwards we went a race of the 

 same kind on the Union Course, for $5,000 a side. This 

 was play or pay, and had been made before the other race took 

 place. I took the lead in this, Hero making it a waiting 

 race from the start. The first mile was 3.01, the second 

 2.52, the third 2.49, the fourth 2.45 1-2, the fifth 2.41, the 

 sixth 2.46 1-2, the seventh 2.38 1-2, the eighth 2.42 1-2, 

 the ninth 2.40, the tenth 3.12 1-2. Hero quit in this mile. 

 The total time of this was 28 m. 08 l-2s., and Prince won 

 it easy. Hero made a good race too ; for the nine miles in 

 less than twenty-five minutes showed good rating, and great 

 power of lasting at the pacing-gait. 



