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best and gamest four-mile runners that ever looked through a 

 bridle who had the same disadvantage, and was sometimes beaten 

 by inferior horses by reason of it. 



On the 24th of October, American Girl, Judge Fullerton and 

 Camors trotted at Prospect Park. The Judge was the favorite 

 It 100 to 40, but some of his friends were not altogether sanguine. 

 After he beat American Girl and the others on the second of the 

 month he did not do much work. In the first heat American 

 Girl led him a trifle for half a mile. He then passed her and 

 seemed to have the heat in hand till within forty yards of the 

 stand when he tired and she beat him half a length in 2m. 20s. 

 lie was still the favorite. The second heat was just like the first ; 

 he was beaten a neck by American Girl in 2m. 22s. In the third 

 he got oflF behind her again but caught her at the quarter and 

 took the lead. The race between them was exceedingly close but 

 she won the heat by a head in 2m. 22|s. Camors was last in all 

 the heats. On the 1st of November, the same three horses trotted 

 again at the same course for a purse of $4000. This time it was 

 100 to GO on American Girl. In the first heat Fullerton broke 

 just as he got the word, and American Girl won the heat with 

 great ease in 2m. 25^8. It was a very cold day, and the east win(J 

 came sweeping in a blustering gale over the course from the ad- 

 jacent ocean. The horses were taken into boxes between heats. 

 In the first heat American Girl had trotted to the half-mile pole 

 in Im. 9s., and now it was deemed by most people that she 

 couldn't lose it. Odds of 100 to 25 was current on her. In the 

 second heat there was a fine start. The Judge headed her at the 

 turn, out-trotted her by two lengths to the half-mile in Im. Ss.. 

 and won by as much in 2m. 21s. Camors was last. American 

 Girl was still the favorite. Though the heat in 2m. 21s. on such 

 a day was an achievement of enormous merit for the chestnut 

 horse, two to one was still laid on the bay mare. But this infatu- 

 ation was soon removed. In the third heat Judge Fullerton toolr 



