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Wonderful Performance of a Yearling Trotter. — 

 Another Record Broken. — The yearling trotting record 

 of the American turf has again been lowered, a filly 

 by the celebrated Sherman's " Humbletonian " having 

 made a mile in 2 min. 35^sec. at the Fair Grounds, 

 Leamington, Kentucky, on the 14th of last month. 

 The previous record was 2.36. The newly fledged 

 queen of the yearlings was purchased immediately 

 after the performance at $5,000. 



MISCELLANEOUS ANECDOTES 

 AND NOTES. 



Case of Driving Unshod Horses. — Mr. P. H. Fagin, 

 a furniture and piano mover at Meldon, . gives his 

 experience in the Bostofi Trajiscript with barefooted 

 horses. He has driven three horses (two w^eighing 

 iioolb. each, and the other 1 30olb.)Tsince January, 

 1885, without shoes. The large horse has always been 

 lame since he bought him, fourteen years ago, until he 

 took his shoes off. The animal has not gone lame 

 since. He has driven on hard, flint roads, and, of 

 course, on pavements in Boston. The horses travel 

 better than before their shoes were taken off They 

 are not afraid on slippery pavements, as they w^ere 



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