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On the day after the meeting, however, there was "a trotting 

 match under the saddle, for a purse of $200, three-mile heats, 

 deserviug of especial notice, for the unexampled speed in which 

 it was performed. The horses entered were Columbus, Confi- 

 dence, and Charlotte Temple, and they came in as follows ; — 



" Tlie course is forty four jards short of a mile, and the time 

 was tlierefore for three full miles, 7m. 57s. ; 7m. 54s. ; 8.ra. Is. 



" "Wliich time has never been made before in a trotting 

 match in any part of the world. The course is, it is well known, 

 a heavy one ; has a bad hill and a short turn. 



" Betting, on starting, was any odds on Columbus against the 

 field. On the first heat, Columbus was led by both the horses 

 for the ^rst two miles, he then passed them easily. On the 

 second heat, Charlotte Temple was, for the first mile, more than 

 a distance ahead, owing to Columbus having broke on rising the 

 hill. On the second mile, he gained a little, and on coming out 

 was about six lengths behind, the mare a good deal distressed. 

 On the third heat, Columbus lay behind, and the mare led him 

 for the first mile and three-quarters sixty or seventy yards. He 

 did not make a push till he entered on the third mile, and then 

 he passed her, on the first quarter afterwards. The course was 

 well attended." — New York Courier. 



" 1834.— A match came ofi" on Friday, May 9th, for $1,000, 

 h. f. mile heats, between Sally Miller, of celebrated memory, 

 and Edwin Fon-est, who had his laurels yet to win. They got 

 off well together, and kept head and head for about two-thirds 

 of a mile, when Sally Miller broke, and was left by her antago- 

 nist some distance in the rear — Edwin Forrest trotting his mile 

 in the unprecedented time of 2m. 31^s. 



" On the second heat, the start was again good, although the 

 judge did not tap the drum until both horses had got past the 

 starting post — again they kept together for some distance around, 

 when the horse unceremoniously left the lady in the lurch, and 

 came in under a hard pull, beating the mare very easily. — 

 Time, 2.32. 



