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when she turned into the stretch, she made the second 

 half as fast as the first, finishing the mile without a 

 skip or a falter in 2:20. In the full flush of this honor 

 she went to Lexington, and on October 10th eclipsed 

 her own performance. AVilkes Boy and Fugue started 

 against her in the stake for three-year-olds at this 

 meeting. It is not necessary to take much space to 

 tell so short a story even though the race resulted in 

 putting on record a mark that stood unbeaten for four 

 3^ears. The first two heats she had only an exercise 

 jog in 2:2Si and 2:32, but in the third heat I drove her 

 for a record, and she trotted the mile in 2:19^, Wilkes 

 Boy and her old enemy Fugue being distanced. Fugue 

 was a good mare, but she could never meet Hinda 

 Rose at any time or place but she met her master. 



With this race Hinda Kose finished her campaign of 

 1883 in a blaze of glory. She had won everything she 

 started for durmg the year, never being beaten a 

 single heat, and outclassing everything of her age in 

 the East. 



Hinda Rose did nothing in public in 1884 beyond 

 trotting a mile in 2:20^ at San Francisco in an unsuc- 

 cessful attempt to beat Elvira's four-year-old record of 

 2:18^, which we, after failing with Hinda Rose, suc- 

 ceeded in beating witn Sallie Benton. Though Hinda 

 Rose was in our stable in the East in 1885 she was 

 never ready to start, and in 1886 she only started once, 

 at Lexington, October 1st, where she, in company with 

 Tom Rogers, C. F. Clay and Olaf, was beaten by 

 Patron ; but the defeat was handsomely avenged a 

 few days later at St. Louis by her stable-companion 

 Manzanita, when, in a great race, she defeated Patron 



