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to advance and to gain popularity, until at the present day, there 

 is scarcely a State in the Union, North, East, or West — the South 

 being devoted almost exclusively to running horses — except that 

 in which I write these lines, and which, in every thing pertain- 

 ing to either physical or mental cultivation, is at least half a 

 century behind the rest of the American World — that does not 

 possess a immber of arenas for the trial and exhibition of the 

 speed of its trotting horses. 



It is a little singular that New Jerseymen, who are so much 

 addicted to levying taxes on all who are so unfortunate as to 

 enter their borders, should be willing, in this instance, to pay 

 a tax to Long Island every time they want to test the power of 

 their nags, and thus to let a dollar or two escape, which might 

 have been kept within the limits of the State, had they a trotting 

 course of their own. In this instance, however, the two ruling 

 qualities are pitted against each other — narrow fanaticism and 

 love of money-getting ; and, for once, the former wins. Bigotry, 

 for the most j^art, triumphs over all beside, but yields at once to 

 the more potent adoration for the dollar. 



The first trotting on the new Baltimore Course is thus re- 

 corded, in the May number of the American Turf Kegister of 

 1830 :— 



"great trotting. 



" Two trotting matches against time came off on the Canton 

 Course on Thursday last. The first for $1,000, that Lady Kate, 

 a bay mare, fifteen hands high, could not do fifteen miles within 

 the hour. The bet was won by the mare doing sixteen, in beau- 

 tiful style, in 56m. 13s., having 3m. 47s. to spare ; she could 

 have done seventeen with ease. Each mile was done in the 

 following time. 



"1st mile, 3m. 41s.— 2d, 3m. 24s.— 3d, 3m. 23s.— 4th, 3ni. 

 20s.— 5th, 3m. 30.— 6th, 3m. 30s.— Tth, 3m. 28s.— 8th, 3m. 28s.— 

 9th, 3m. 59s.*— 10th, 3m. 42s.— Uth, 3m. 42s.— 12th, 3m. 28s.— 

 13th, 3m. 28s.— 14th, 3m. 26s.— 15th, 3m. 25s.— 16th, 3m. 19s. 

 Total, 56m. 33s. 



" The money being staked with the judges, and paid to Mr. 



* " lu this round, the rider was chauged for a lighter one, and the mare was re- 

 freshed by sponging her mouth, nostrils, &c., with strong wine and water." 



