532 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 



world-renowned pacing mare Pocahontas (whose pacinff feat o£ 

 2 ni. 17i s. to wagon has never been beaten). The driver of 

 Gift saw Jefferson trot a half-mile over Narragansett Park in 1 m. 

 16f s., and declined the challenge. Jefferson won several races 

 the same year, and reduced his record to 2 m. 42 J s. In 1868, -at 

 Norwalk, Conn., in an exhibition of stallions five years old and 

 under, he outtrottod them all, but was awarded only second money 

 on account of size, a stallion by Eureka taking first premium. In 

 1870 he won nine hotly contested races, and reduced his record to 

 2 m. 29| s. In 1871 he won five hard-fought races, defeating such, 

 prominent trotters as Eoden's Prince, Medoc, Shepherd F. Knapp, 

 George Wilkes, and Major Allen, closing the season with a record, 

 of 2 m. 255 s. From 1871 to 1874 he was mainly kept in the stud, 

 trotting only a few races each fall season. In 1874 he served fifty- 

 three mares, and was withdrawn from the stud only twenty-seven 

 days before the famous stallion race of August 4 at Buffalo, where 

 he defeated the leading champions of the day, Smu'ggler, Mambrino 

 Gilt, Joe Brown, and Pilot Temple, in a six-heat race, winning the 

 last three heats in 2 m. 23} s., 2 m. 20^ s., ajid 2 m. 282 s. On 

 May 27, 1875, at Point Breeze Park, he won the last three of a 

 five-heat race, time 2 m. 25 J s., 2 m. 24 s., 2 m. 25? s., 2 m. 25} 

 a., and 2 m. 2G1 s., beating St. James, Sensation, and Young Bruno, 

 the former taking the first two heats. One week later he again met 

 and defeated Sensation at Prospect Park in three straight heats, in 2 

 m. 2G| s., 2 m. 24 s., and 2 m. 23 s. September 14, 1875, he, 

 won the stallion race at Boston, defeating Commonwealth, Defiance, 

 Parkis Abdallah, Ned Wallace, and William H. Allen. On Mon. 

 day of the next week, on a comparatively bad day and heavy fc-rack, 

 he defeated Comee, Bella (Maud), Molsey, and John H., in 2 m. 

 24J s., 2 m. 23 s., 2 m. 24? s., and 2 m. 24 s. (Comee taking the 

 first heat). Jefferson's time in the last heat as ofiicially announced 

 for the last half was 1 m. 10 J s. In 1871, in a race at Prospect 

 Park, he trotted the last half of a mile in 1 m. 9| s. The follow^ 

 ing week, at Narragansett, he trotted the last half of the third mile 

 outside of two horses in 1 m. 9? s. At Poughkeepsie, in 1875, he 

 trotted three-quarters of a mile in 1 m. 45} s. ; at Boston, in the 

 stallion race, the last three-quarters of the third mile, outside of two 

 horses, in 1 m. 45 s., on a bad day and a heavy track. In 1876, 

 at the American Centennial Exhibition, he received the highest 

 award of merit. The following week he defeated Barney Kelly at 

 Waverly, N. J. In trotting condition he weighs 940 pounds, in 

 stud condition 1050 pounds. Four of his get are now in the 2 m. 

 30 s. class, while fourteen of them have records better than 3 m. 

 In 1879, at Connecticut State Fair, his get were awarded the first 

 premiums in the suckling, yearling, two-years old, and three-years 



