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mile, Im. 8s., the order of the horses was the same. In the third 

 quarter, on the hill, American Girl f^ot further away from Henry 

 and Goldsmith Maid, and Lucy passed them to challenge for the 

 heat. When they entered the home-stretch, Ilickok called upon 

 her for a winning effort and laid on the whip. She answered very 

 honestly, and the struggle between the two mares was close and 

 obstinate. But American Girl always had a little the best of it, 

 and she won the heat, in the midst of tremendous cheering, in 

 2m. 2 Is. Lucy trotted very fast in the last half-mile and was 

 beaten only three-quarters of a length. Goldsmith Maid was third, 

 several lengths from Lucy. Although Goldsmith Maid had been 

 beaten in the heat by both the other mares, and had plainly shown 

 to Doble that she was not, on that day, capable of the electric 

 rush with which she had so often dashed away from formidable 

 competitors, the majority of the betting men took it into their 

 heads that she had not been meant to win that heat. She was 

 still backed for the race at about five to one on her. At the start 

 in the second heat she led, American Girl second, Lucy third, and 

 Henry in the rear, but all moving well and nearly together. On 

 the turn Goldsmith Maid lost ground by a break, but still went ou 

 second to American Girl. The latter led two lengths at the 

 quarter, and the others were as before, but pretty ^vell strung out. 

 The pace was very hot in the second quarter, and Goldsmith Maid, 

 by a desperate effort, gained a length in it and was at American 

 Girl's wheel at the half-mile. The time of the first quarter was 

 given as 34^8., that of the half-mile Im. 7^8., according to which 

 the second quarter was 338. Lucy also gained in this quarter, 

 and closed up towards Goldsmith Maid, notwithstanding the 

 rapid speed at which the latter had gone. The excitement was 

 now intense, but it became so great as to hold the spectators 

 speechless when Goldsmith Maid was seen to collar American 

 Girl on the first of the hill and to show in the lead. The su- 

 premo\ effort, however, in her actual condition was too much 



