A GREAT HORSE 



headed Cresceus that day, and he came steady and 

 strong through the stretch and won the heat in 2:ii|'. 

 It was a wonderful mile, and the four thousand specta- 

 tors cheered the grand three-year-old to the echo as 

 he came jogging back by the stand. It was nothing but 

 Cresceus throughout the mile in the eighth and closing 

 heat. He won quite easily in 2:11^, and was crowned 

 the winner of the hardest fought eight-heat trotting 

 race ever seen on the turf. At the close of the great 

 race Cresceus and his driver were given a most mag- 

 nificent ovation, and the delighted spectators cheered 

 lustily when it dawned upon them that they had just 

 witnessed a record-breaking performance, such as had 

 never before been seen on any race track in the world. 

 The time of the heats was as follows: 2 115 J, 2:13^, 

 2:i2i, 2:i2i, 2:121, 2:12]-, 2:iii, 2:11^. The average 

 time for the race was 2:12}. It was a great race, 

 grandly won by a grand colt ; old circuit followers 

 gazed at him in wonder, and pronounced him the great- 

 est three-year-old trotter that had yet appeared. 



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