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Btillinn in harness, in straight heats. Iler next race was one of 

 the most notable triumphs she ever achieved. In my judgment, 

 it was upon the whole, a greater than that she won at Narragansett 

 Park in her third year, when she beat Goldsmith Maid, Lady 

 Thorn, Lucy and George Palmer in three heatSi and trotted in 

 2m. 19s. It came off at Fleetwood Park on the 9th of July. 

 The course at that Park is good, and very excellent for dashes of 

 speed in places, but it is not fast for the mile. Perhaps there is 

 not one in the country more favorable for a bulge of half a mile 

 at the best rate, although the first turn is sharp ; but the third 

 quarter is all up hill, and, moreover, there is a twist in it, which 

 is likely to knock a horse out of his stroke. My belief has always 

 been that no fast trotter or speedy runner ever goes so well, or 

 extends himself so freely, provided his bottom is strong and his 

 pluck good, as when he sees plain sailing and a long straight 

 stretch before him. Why should a horse lunge out with hia 

 mightiest effort when he sees a fence a little way ahead of him? 

 Now, in the third quarter at Fleetwood Park these two impedi 

 ments to speed both exist. The trotter finds himself going up 

 hill with a vehicle and driver to pull after him, and he finds him- 

 self upon a twist, which shuts out the head of the homestretch. 

 The course, for a full mile, is slow, and I believe everybody admits 

 the fact. In the race on the 9th of July the field was composed 

 of Goldsmith Maid, American Girl, Lucy and Henry. The latter 

 is a bay gelding bred in Michigan by a Mr. Spencer, and after- 

 wards owned by a very respectable gentleman in Kansas. Henry 

 was foaled in 1801, and first distinguished himself at Buffalo in 

 1809, where he beat Dutchman and other horses. He won six 

 times that year, and three times in 1870. In 1871 he made his 

 best race by beating St. Elmo at Boston in three straight heats, 

 the last of which was 2m. 2C|s, IIo was tlien in the hands of 

 lloden, and was purchased by Mr. T. P. Wallace of New York, a 

 gentleman who has spared neither trouble nor expense in the 



