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distressed, but not euougli to cause me any alarm, and I felt 

 confident that, barring accident, we liiid the race in hand. 

 Again there was a flop in the betting. Rarus bringing $100 

 to $10, Mdth little demand for tlie short end. In the sixth 

 and deciding heat Great Eastern still had some speed, 

 and led to the half in about 1:10, l)nt then gave it u]), 

 and Rarus beat him in the easiest kind of a jog in ^2:'27^, 

 this ending what was considered by those who saw 

 it one of the best races, from the standpoint of peed 

 and endurance, ever contested on the American trotting- 

 turf. 



On September 28, Rarus beat Hopeful a race at Fleetwood 

 Park in straight heats, the fastest mile being the second, 

 wdiich was done in 2:16^, the best ever made up to that time 

 over the track. Then we entered in a special race with Great 

 Eastern and Hoj^eful, at Cleveland, Great Eastern under 

 saddle, and the others in harness. The race occurred October 

 5, Great Eastern winning the first two heats in 2:19|, 2:17|, 

 after which Rarus took the next three in 2:21|^, 2:21, 2:22. 

 From there Great Eastern and Rarus went to Columbus, 

 Ohio, and October 11, Rarus beat the saddler in straight 

 heats, the best mile being 2:17^. Five days later we trotted 

 over a half-mile track at Cincinnati, Great Eastern winning 

 the first heat, after which Rarus ^von, his best mile being 

 2:18, the best, up to that time, ever trotted over a half-mile 

 track in a race against other horses. This was the last time 

 Rarus trotted that year. Beginning on May 26, at San 

 Francisco, when lie beat Goldsmith Maid, he had journeyed 

 from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and started in no less than 

 fifteen races, all of them against fields of crack horses, the 

 best in the land, and in no instance had he met with defeat, 

 although in his contests Avith Great Eastern he was handi- 

 capped by being obliged to pull a sulky, while the other 

 horse went under saddle. During this time he reduced his 

 record from 2:20 to 2:16, and made the best record, both in 

 exhibitions and in a. race, over a half-mile track. These 

 statistics show wliat a wonderful horse Rarus was, even 



