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a month Gloster and Huntress were started at Pros- 

 pect Park, Brooklyn, where the former won the 2:50 

 and 2 138 classes and made a record of 2 130, while 

 Huntress set all the tongues of the turf world wag- 

 ging by clipping eleven and a quarter seconds off 

 Dutchman's three-mile record, which had stood at the 

 top of the column for thirty-three years. The event 

 in which she started was a $1,250 purse for a dash of 

 three miles, with $1,000 added if Dutchman's time was 

 beaten. Six entries were received, and of that num- 

 ber Fanny Fern, Huntress, Wallace and Constitution 

 started, the absentees being H. B. and George Gillett. 

 Huntress drew the pole and made a runaway race of 

 the event from the word. She trotted the first mile in 

 2:28^, the second with two breaks in it in 2:26, the 

 middle half being made in i ioo,^, and the third, after 

 a mistake near the half, in 2:26^4, winning by over 

 two hundred yards, there being two lengths between 

 Wallace and Constitution as they passed the stand. 

 Fanny Fern was pulled up in the first quarter of the 

 third mile. The 7:21^ made by Huntress in 1872 re- 

 mained unbeaten until 1893, when Bishop's Hero won 

 a race at three miles in 7:19^4. while Hamlin's Night- 

 ingale the same season trotted the distance against 

 time in 6:553/2. After the Brooklyn meeting Gloster 

 won a first and second at Fleetwood in October, and 

 a first at Kingston, where he defeated St. James, Joker 

 and Fred. 



