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half-mile pole. I did not wish to leave Eoif. With him 

 under my eye on the outside, I had him just where I wanted 

 him ; and I tliought to myself, " When you get the pole away 

 from me, you'll have won it." Half-way round the Flush- 

 ing end, we were neck-and-neck again. Butler then broke, 

 and Dexter took a lead of a length. Up the home-stretch, 

 Eoif and the black horse tried all they knew, and made a 

 gallant fight for it ; but Dexter was getting better and 

 better. I could feel his stroke growing bolder and firmer 

 the farther he went. Half-way up, Butler broke, and Dexter 

 won it in the splendid time of 2m. 24^s. 



Many of those who had laid wild odds on Butler after 

 the second heat looked as if they felt sick at the stomach 

 when they heard the time given out, and saw Dexter move 

 briskly away, as limber as an eel, and full of the devil again. 

 As Vanderbilt had been distanced in the fourth heat, the 

 only starters in the fifth were Dexter and Butler. It was 

 100 to 60 on the brown horse. We went away head-and- 

 head, and fast. On the turn Butler broke, but caught 

 readily and trotted fast. At the quarter in 37|s., he was at 

 Dexter's shoulder. They went away very fast along the back- 

 stretch ; for they got to the half-mile in Im. 12] s., neck-and- 

 neck. This made the eighteenth quarter in the race better 

 than 35s. ; and the rate at which they trotted the nineteenth 

 and twentieth quarters shows what gluttons they were, espe- 

 cially Dexter, who never made a break in his winning-heats. 

 We went from the half-mile pole to the head of the stretch 

 neck-and-neck, and at a great rate ; but Butler could not stand 

 the pressure any further, and he broke, and I got the lead. 

 Butler made another effort, but broke again, and Dexter 

 M'on it easily in 2m. 24|s. This was the fastest heat in the 

 race, and the fastest fifth heat that ever was trotted. When 

 we consider that it followed the fastest fourth heat that had 

 been trotted, we shall be enabled to appreciate its value. I 

 think that in this race Dexter displayed as much constancy, 

 courage, and unflinching game as any horse ever did in ajij 



