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gTouiids al'ter this heat I overlieatl Col. John W. Coiiley, a 

 shrewd judge of horses and horse-racing, say to Ureeu: 

 " You have got him now; you'll beat him sure. He stopped 

 at the finish of that heat." From Green's manner I judged 

 that he was of the same opinion, but they were wrong. I 

 alwa3\s formed my idea of what Rarus wouhl do from the 

 manner in which he cooled out after a, heat. lie had just 

 gone the best two ndles of his life, and it would not have 

 surprised me had he shown some distress, but, as Barne}" 

 Stanford remarked, he never drew a long breath after either 

 heat. I thought, from what I Ivnew of the horse, that if Lu- 

 cille beat him the next heat he would see a mark on the black- 

 board that had never been there before. When they came 

 to trot the heat I don't think Green was much to blame 

 for the confidence he had in his mare, as she trotted 

 outside of Rarus every step of the mile and then forced 

 him to the wire in 2:16 — a third heat which, even in 

 these days when a two-year-old trots in 2:18, is not to be 

 sneezed at. 



At Utica,Rarus beat Lucille Gokldust and Great Eastern, 

 in the order named, the third heat, the fastest of the race, 

 being 2:17; and seven days later, at Hartford, we started 

 him against Hopeful, Nettie, and Great Eastern. Hopeful 

 won the second heat of this race in 2:19, Rarus having taken 

 the first in 2:21, and winning the third and fourth in 2:19|^, 

 2:22. Then a special race for these three horses was ar- 

 ranged to be trotted two weeks later over the running track 

 at Long Branch, and this event my horse also won, the best 

 mile being 2:22|. By this time Rarus was the lecognized 

 star of the trotting turf, Goldsnnth Maid with her faster 

 record than his having been retired, and it was a little difR- 

 (^ult to get engagements for him in ordinary class races. 

 Charlie Green had been \vorking Great Eastern under the 

 saddle, and the Fleetwood Park people offered a purse for 

 Great Eastern to go that wa}' against Rarus in harness. 

 This ^proposition was accepted. As this was a remarkable 

 race in more respects than one, and as in it the Great East- 



