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sentiment horse-racing can never retain the 

 popular support which was given it in the old 

 days when the names of Goldsmith Maid and 

 Dexter were household words, and when every 

 slip of a lad with a hobby-horse or a sled desig- 

 nated it with a name that had become prominent 

 on account of record-breaking performances." 



Utica, Springfield, Rochester, Poughkeepsie, 

 Pittsburg, Albany, Philadelphia, Saginaw, Fort 

 Wayne, Indianapolis, Glens Falls, and Portland, 

 which at different periods were members of the 

 Grand Circuit, are no longer links in the chain; 

 but individual meetings are given at the majority 

 of these places. The circuit has changed in 

 many ways since the days when my enthusiasm 

 was greater than now and I first began the 

 pilgrimage from Cleveland to Hartford. 



