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hands two inches, and had a deal of style. A little after 

 this race, in the same year and on the same course, he 

 trotted thirty-two miles in two hours ; and in that Harvey 

 Eichards rode him. Lady Jackson was a red gray mare, 

 fifteen hands and half an inch high. She was quite hand- 

 some. Moonshine was a dark gray gelding, fifteen hands 

 and a half high with a long tail. He was a fine, stylish 

 horse. 



The odds at the start for the first heat was on Columhus, 

 a hundred to seventy against the field. It was one of the 

 finest sights I ever saw when these eight splendid bays and 

 grays, all in the finest order, and their jockeys in the 

 richest and most varied colors and beautiful costumes, came 

 thundering along for the word, in a group, at the flying 

 trot. Eight such horses and such riders had never met 

 before, and it is doubtful when they will again. Never, 

 certainly, until the good old customs of using trotting- 

 horses under saddle, and requiring the jockeys to ride in 

 dress, are revived. 



At the period I speak of, and prior to that, the riders of 

 the trotters had always to be dressed in jockey costume for 

 the race ; and there was a great deal of expense and taste 

 laid out in the rich velvets and silks of vivid hue of which 

 the jackets and caps were made up. The word being given, 

 away they went for the first heat of three miles ; and Col- 

 lector had Hie speed of the party. Columbus did not 

 go as well j,s usual. At this distance of time, and referring 

 to nothing but my own memory, I do not venture to place 

 all the horses. If it be required, with some further con- 

 sideration and a look at a document or two calculated to 

 freshen my recollection, I may hereafter do that. I know 

 that Collector won the heat with great ease in 8.16 ; and 

 that Peter Whelan said afterwards that he could have 

 distanced the whole of the others, in his opinion, if his 

 party had let him go along. The next heat was won by 

 old Topgallant ; and in this Columbus broke down. There- 



