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especially as she had little fast work in her prepara- 

 tion. When I get a four-year-old that can go in the 

 old and tried company she did, where every heat is 

 better than 2:20, I am satisfied, for it has been one en- 

 deavor of my life to be a reasonable man. 



We left the Grand Circuit line for the South, the 

 colts having engagements in Kentucky, and Manza- 

 nita's next race was in a four-year-old stake at Mays- 

 ville, August 26th, where her only competitor was 

 Eagle Bird, who could not give her the semblance of a 

 race. I gave her three easy miles in 2:25^, 2:25J, 2:22. 

 Her next race was one of the same kind, in that she 

 had nothing near her own class against her. This was 

 at the Lexington Fair, September 8d, in the Association 

 Stake for four-year-olds, and Greenlander was the 

 only competitor that faced Manzanita. I jogged the 

 mare the first two heats in 2:22 and 2:22^, and then 

 distance was waived, and I drove her the mile, without 

 a skip, a falter or a waver, in 2:16, lowering her own 

 record by a quarter of a second and making a four- 

 year-old mark that stands unbeaten to this day, and 

 one that has never been equaled or even approached 

 in a race. This race was followed by a walk-over at 

 Albany, September 21st, at the meeting of the National 

 Association of Trotting-Horse Breeders. As Palo Alto, 

 St. Bel, Sphinx and Chimes also had walk-overs at this 

 meeting, our Eastern friends practically conceded that 

 they could not compete with our colts by deciding to 

 bar them from their stakes in future. 



From Albany we turned southward and av est ward 

 again to trot at the Lexington breeders' meeting, and 

 at the " Great St. Louis Fair." Manzanita easily beat 



