308 THE TROTTIN-G-nORSE OF AMERICA. 



These wore, in fact, more than half right ; for, upon its oeing 

 measured, it was found necessary to get four feet from tlie 

 pole to make it a mile ; while our Island tracks all measure 

 a little more than a mile three feet from the pole. There- 

 fore the Kalamazoo Course, at that time, was not as long as 

 the Union or Eclipse Course. Still it was but a trifle short. 

 Every tf ^ok, however, ought to be full measure ; and it is a 

 greatly-tcistaken policy to have any course short, be it ever 

 so little. 



