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Here is a list of her other achievements in 1889 : — 



Sacramento, September 12th, walk-over. Time, 

 2:16i. 



Sacramento, September 17th, beat Margaret S. Time, 

 2:20i, 2:26i, 2:18. 



Fresno, October 2d, against time — 2:13f. 



San Francisco, October 12th, walk -over. Time, 

 2:15i. 



San Francisco, November 9th, walk -over. Time, 

 2:101 



Napa, November 16th, against time — 2:15. 



The fight between Axtell and Sunol, for the three- 

 year-old championship, Avas the all-absorbing event of 

 the trotting turf of 1889. When Axtell trotted in 

 2:14, at Chicago, our Eastern friends were confident, 

 but SunoFs 2:13i set them at work again, and at Terre 

 Haute Axtell trotted in 2:12. Then all the East was 

 ablaze with joy, and hardly a man dared be so rash as 

 predict that Sunol would beat it, but when she trotted 

 in 2:10|^ all candid men recognized that, great as Axtell 

 is, the world has never seen Sunol's equal. For a three- 

 year-old to beat 2:12 by one and one-half seconds is 

 certainly conclusive. Seconds are big things when you 

 go down around 2:12. So the season of 1889, opening 

 somewhat unfavorably, was one of great triumph for 

 Sunol, for she closed it as plainly the greatest of all 

 three-year-olds, as she proved herself in 1888 the 

 greatest of all two-year-olds. If no mishap befalls 

 her she is destined to reign queen of the turf ! 



Though I have left many really great young trotters 

 unsketched, here we must conclude the historical por- 

 tion of this work. It has already gone far beyond the 



