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versts the best time is 1:08:30, equal to twenty 

 miles in 1:08 :53i, which is by over three min- 

 utes the best performance by a Russian horse 

 at that distance. Comparing these records 

 with those of our American trotters we find 

 the following: 



From the foregoing the superiority of Amer- 

 ican trotters, at all distances, is very clearly 

 shown. I do not share in the often-expressed 

 opinion that our system of training, our tracks 

 and our vehicles are materially better than the 

 Russian. Thousands of American trotters have 

 beaten the best one-mile time made in Russia; 

 and although two-mile races are not common 

 in this country, the exceptionally fast time of 

 5:01| for that distance made by Poitieshnoy 

 has been beaten by nearly all of our great trot- 

 ters; and I have no doubt but that we have 

 hundreds of trotters in training to-day that are 

 capable of beating that time by several seconds. 

 No Orloff trotter has ever succeeded in trotting 

 twenty miles within an hour by nearly nine 



Exceptional time -5:07% being the best with this single ex- 

 ception. 



