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Dillon's pace-maker when she made her two- 

 minute record. I think such a shield from dust 

 and dirt might be allowed, but a careful restric- 

 tion as to the size of any shield should be drawn 

 up for further trials. The mile made by Lou 

 Dillon in a high-wheel sulky in 2.05 and her mile 

 in 2.00 in a bicycle sulky seem to establish the 

 difference between the two rigs as five seconds. 

 If this is a true measure, then Arion's two-year- 

 old record of 2.1 of would be equal to 2.05^, if he 

 could have had a bicycle sulky in his trial in the 

 year 1891. You will say that he had an oppor- 

 tunity later in the new rig when a mature horse. I 

 feel that his speed was diminished by letting him 

 be trained the year he was three years old, before 

 he had got thoroughly acclimated to the Eastern 

 air and food. I have since that time in many 

 cases found that a horse was far from being him- 

 self the first year after coming from California." 



There are eighteen volumes of the Year Book, 

 and the last one before me contains 1181 closely 

 printed pages. The parent volume of Chester's 

 Trotting and Pacing Record contains 1000 pages 

 packed with meat. This statement will explain 

 to every intelligent reader the utter impossibility 

 of giving even a summary of the achievements 



