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one was laid on Dexter o^tore the start ; and he won with great 

 ease in two heats, 5m. 01 s., 5in. 09s. 



He had an engagement on hand with Ethan Allen and Char- 

 ictte K.. for the Fourth of July. It was to go mile heats, three in 

 five, on the half-mile track at Morristown, N.J. The track 

 was not calculated for a very fast race ; but yet the team was com- 

 pelled to go in 2m. 20|s., 2m. 20s., and 2m. 20s., to beat Dexter. 

 Some maintained at the time, that, considering the nature of the 

 course, this was quite as good a race as the one at the Fashion. 



Dexter now met Lady Thorn for the last time. On the 10th of 

 July, they trotted mile heats, three in five, in harness, at Trenton, 

 N.J. Dexter won in three heats. The last was fast, 2m. 20-|s. 

 The track was sandy, deep, and heavy ; and it was now clearly 

 perceived that the hour for surpassing Flora Temple's crowning 

 heat 2m. 19|s. was close at hand. 



On the 16th of July, Dexter was at Albany, and there trotted 

 against Brown George and running-mate on the Island-park 

 Course. Brown George was not much of a trotter by himself; but, 

 with the aid of a good running-mate, he could put in three heats 

 very fast. Inferior as he was to Ethan Allen in that and in every 

 other way of going, he could still, with his running-mate, beat any 

 horse in the country save Dexter. But Dexter he could not beat. 

 The little wonder won in three heats, 2m. 22s., 2m. 20js., 2m. 

 20ls. The great fact which had so often been insisted upon, by 

 the admirers of Dexter was now being made manifest to the dull- 

 est mind ; viz., that his deep bottom, and immense constitutional 

 power of standing fast work, enabled him to improve under a 

 course of travelling and racing which would have upset, and for the 

 time ruined, any other trotter in existence. 



Dexter beat Brown George and running-mate in three heats at 

 Providence on the 26th of July, and then, going on to Boston, 

 surpassed any thing that had ever before been done by a trotter. 

 It was on the 30th ; and he went in harness against Brown George 

 and running-mate on the Riverside-park Course. The track is a 



