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THE HORSE. 



BEST PACING IN AMERICA ON RECORD. 



Name. 



Drover 



Top Sawyer.. .. 

 Oneida Chief. .. 



Volcano 



Billv 



Oneida Chief... 

 Oneida Ciiief. .. 

 Oneida Chief. . . 



Bonny Boy 



Btranger 



Time. 



-2.23 . 



2.30—2.31- 



2.31 



2,34—2.33—2.31 



2.39-2.3H— 2.34i— 2.38i 



2.32 



5.14-5 091 



T.-nO- 8.04 



y.17— 8.20i 



5.015—5.071 



5. JO— 5.10 



Beacon Course, N. J. 



Cetitrevillt-, LI 



Harlaeni, N Y 



Beacon Course, N. J. 



Do. 



Uo. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Centreville, L.I 



Do 



MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES OF EXTRAORDINARY PERFORM- 

 ANCES OF AMERICAN TROTTERS. 



On the 21st of October, 1811, a match came off on the Centreville Course, L. I.. 

 for $5500, five-mile heats, between Jmericits, a bay gelding, and Lady Siiffiillc, so 

 often named in the preceding tables. Americas vi'on in two heats, and in the follow- 

 ing time, believed to be the best on record : 



FIRST HEAT. 



Time of first mile 2.54i 



" " second " 2.50^ 



" " third " 2.4G^ 



" " fourth " 2.421 



" " fifth '' 2.44| 



Time of first heat 13.58 



SECOND HEAT. 



Time of first mile 2.51 



" " second " 2.50 



" " third " 2.46 



" " fourth " 2.47 



" " fifth " 2.44J 



Time of second heat 13.58| 



See 



Topgallnnf, by Hambletonian, trotted in harness 12 miles in 38 minutes 

 Turf Register, vol. 1. p. 124. 



Ten miles have been repeatedly trotted in America within two or three seconds of 

 thirty minutes. 



A roan mare called Yankee. Sal trotted, as has been stated without contradiction, in 

 a match agaiust time, on the Course at Providence, R. I., which was at the time 

 heavy and deep, fifteen miles and a half in 48m., 43s. — a rate of speed so pro- 

 digious under the circiumtaiices, th^t we have often suspected there may have been an 

 error as to the time. 



Lady Kale, a bay mare. 15 hands high, trotted on the Canton Course near Balti- 

 more 16 miles in 56m. 13s., and the reporter adds "she could have done seventeen 

 with eascy 



In Oi^tober, 1831, Jerry performed 17 miles on the Centreville Course, L. I., in 58 

 minutes under the saddle. 



In September, 1839, Tom Thumb, an American horse, was driven in England 16i 

 miles in 56m. 45s. We shall have more to say of this phenomenon, when we come 

 to his performance of 100 miles. 



In 183(). the grey gelding Mimiit Holly was backed at $1000 to $500, to trot twenty 

 miles within the hour. The attempt was made on the 10th of October, on tlie Hunt- 

 ing Park Course, Pa., but failed. He performed 17 miles in 53m. ISs., without the 

 least distress. lie was miserably jockeyed for tlie first five miles, doing no one of 

 them in less than five minutes. 



Pelhiim, a laroe bay gelding, in a match to go 16 miles within the hour, performed 

 that distince without any training in 58m. 28s. He went in hnrness aeren miles in 

 26m. 2'.)s., when, the sulkey being l)adly constructed, he was tviken out and saddled, 

 and mounted by Wallace (riding 160lbs. without liis saddle) and won his match. 



Paul Pry, a bay freldinsr. was backed to perform 17,' miles within the liour, under 

 the saddle. On the !Mh of November, 1833, on the Union Course, L. I., he won tlin 

 match, p'Trnrininu; 18 miles in 53in. 52s. Hiram WoodrulT, weinliinnr tlien ISSlbs.. 

 jockeyed bini. Paul Pry was nine years old, bred on Long Island, and got bj 

 Mount Holly, dam by Hambletonian. 



