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at the Fashion, and trotted two-mile heats in harness. It was a 

 good race and fast Dexter won the first heat by two lengths in 

 4m. 51s. This was within half a second of the best two miles 

 ever made in harness, which was 4m. 50js., by Flora Temple. 

 Dexter then won the second heat in 5m. Ol^s. 



Before this race of two-mile heats in harness, another engage- 

 ment had been made for Dexter. He was matched to trot in har- 

 ness against Ethan Allen and a running-mate in double harness. 

 The terms of it were for two thousand dollars, mile heats, three in 

 five, to come off on the 21st of June. Six years before, Ethan 

 Allen and his running-mate Socks had trotted in 2m. 19fs. It had 

 been lately found, that, in Dan Mace's hands, Ethan was capable of 

 going faster than that in the like rig. He had now for a running- 

 mate a young thoroughbred mare, called Charlotte F. She was 

 got by imported Scythian, out of Blackbird's dam by imported 

 Ainderby ; and Mace had taught her to run so evenly, and with 

 such power of stroke, that she carried the old stallion along by the 

 breeching at an enormous rate. On the 29th of May, Ethan Allen 

 and his mare went against Brown George and his runner, and beat 

 them in three heats. The third was trotted in 2m. 19s. This led 

 to the match with Dexter. 



On the 21st of June, an immense crowd assembled at the Fashion 

 Course to see the race. The team paid forfeit, Charlotte F. having 

 strained a tendon. But a new match was made for five hundred 

 dollars a side, and they came up to the post. The runner substi- 

 tuted for the mare was the one that had gone with Brown George, 

 a black gelding, captured in the war. The betting was two to one 

 on Dexter. 



In the first heat, he had the pole. They went off at amazing 

 speed, and at the quarter the double team led two lengths in 32s. 

 They maintained the rate, and went to the half-mile in 1m. 04s., 

 three lengths ahead. They were four lengths in the lead at the 

 head of the stretch, and won by five lengths in 2m. 15s. A won- 

 derful performance it was all round, but especially for Dexter, who 



