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Julicn a close second. St. Julien then cut loose and won the 

 three remaining heats and the race in 2 ni. 30 s., 2 m. 261- s., 

 and 2 ui. 30| s. Three days later at the same place he started 

 in the 2 m. 34 s. class, winning the first, second, and fourth 

 heats in 2 ni. 26J s., 2 m. 30 s., and 2 m. 26| s., Tom Moore, 

 a young stallion by Jupiter Abdallah, t;iking the second heat 

 in 2 m. 28 s. He then went to Hampden Park, Springfield, 

 Mass., where on the first day of the meeting he won the 2 m. 38 s. 

 purse easily in straight heats, best time 2 m. 28 s. Three days 

 later at the same place he met Nerea, John W. Hall, Unknown, 

 Frank Munson, Sir William Wallace, Queen, and Lady Morrison 

 in the 2 m. 34 s. class, and a desperate struggle ensued. Nerea 

 was the favorite at two to one over St. Julien, and justified the 

 partiality of her friends by winning the first heat in 2 m. 23^ s., 

 by a head, with St. Julien second and Unknown third. The latter 

 then won the second heat in precisely the same time, St. Julien 

 again coming in second. St. Julien now went to the front and 

 won the three remaining heats and the race in 2 m. 22j s., 2 m. 

 26J s., and 2 m. 27 s. At Hartford, x\ugust 31, he defeated a 

 good field in straight heats in 2 m. 28^ s., 2 m. 26} s., and 2 m. 

 26 J s., and two days later at the same meeting he appeared for the 

 sixth and last time that year, winning as he pleased from Great 

 Eastern, Sister, and Goldfiuder in straight heats in 2 m. 25| s , 

 2 m. 23| s., and 2 m. 242 s. This was his last engagement that 

 season. His career had been a brief one, but exceptionally brilliant. 

 He had met some of the fastest and most promising trotters then 

 on the turf, and not a single defeat dimmed the glory of his achieve- 

 ments. His winnings in purses alone in that brief campaign of 

 less than a month amounted to $8400, and consequently when he 

 passed into the hands of Mr. Orrin A. Hickok, the skillful Cali- 

 fornia driver, for the princely sum of $20,000, good judges did not 

 consider the price extravagant. His career on the Pacific slope 

 was at first a disappointment to his new owners. He trotted but 

 one race the next year at San Francisco, September 2, 1876, in a 

 match for $10,000, defeating Dan Voorhees, who won the first 

 heat, in 2 m. 26^ s., 2 m. 251- s., 2 m. 30i s., and 2 m. 29| s., by 

 no means remarkable time for such a phenomenon as he was claimed 

 to be. He did not trot again that year, nor in 1877, nor in 1878, 

 and when on the 13th of September, 1879, he appeared as one of 

 the contestants for the Free-for-all Purse at Sacramento, it was like 

 a resurrection from the dead. Nutwood won a hard-fought race of 

 five heats, the best of which was 2 m. 20 s. St. Julien made such 

 an inglorious showing, being absolutely last in the first two heats 

 and having the distance flag dropped in his face in the third, that 

 when at Stockton one week later he defeated Graves and Nutwood 



