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custom, rule, or precedent that a horse having a 

 faster record could not start to obtain a lower 

 record, is satisfactory to me. The inference, 

 however, that in the future no horse having a 

 faster record than 2.08J could start against Maud 

 S.'s performance and obtain a record is not pleas- 

 ing or satisfactory. If the owner of any horse 

 should wash to make a thoroughly honorable and 

 upright comparative test and succeed, both my 

 brother Frederic and myself w^ould gladly ac- 

 knowledge Maud S.'s performance surpassed with- 

 out regard to the fact as to whether or no such 

 a performance was a technical record." 



From a letter written to the New York Sun, 

 by Hugh E. McLaughlin, giving the mathe- 

 matical side of the question, I take the follow- 

 ing : " The two-minute horse on a dead calm 

 day, facing a thirty-mile wind created by himself, 

 meets an opposing force of |- of 5 pounds per 

 square foot, or 2^ pounds ; and the section of the 

 cylindrical surfaces in this case being 12 square 

 feet w^e find by multiplying 12 by 2^^ a pressure 

 of 30 pounds against the unshielded trotter. 



" Behind the shield the horse benefits most 

 when close up, but benefits some if within any 

 reasonable distance. The partial vacuum and 



