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on that very point, that he could not be proved thoroughbred. 

 He was by Mount Holly, dam by Ilambletonian. 



Of the sportsmen of this year, in his introduction to the 

 events of the July meeting on the Harlem Trotting Course, the 

 Editor of the " Spirit of the Times " writes as follows ; — 



" One would suppose that the excessive heat of the weather 

 would put an end, for the present, to trials of bits of blood on 

 the trotting course ; but that such is not the fact will be proved 

 by the annexed report of several capital trotting matches, within 

 the last few weeks. 



" Many of our country readers may not be aware that a 

 fondness for fast cattle is a passion among our whips, and that 

 we have some odd hundred roadsters belonging to private gen- 

 tlemen, who can trot their mile in harness under three minutes, 

 that we have sixty who can perform that distance in 2.40, and 

 more than one that can do it under 2.30. 



"Edwin Forrest, now owned in Philadelphia, has been 

 matched against time to trot his mile under the saddle in 2.28 ; 

 and it is currently believed that on the day he received forfeit 

 from Confidence, last fall, he trotted a mile half a second within 

 that time, over the Hunting Park Course — a feat unparalleled 

 in the annals of the turf. 



" Every pleasant afternoon, the Third Avenue — a superb 

 macadamized road, extending from Broadway to Harlem — is 

 covered with crack nags and amateurs in horseflesh ; and dozens 

 of private matches are the consequence. As these are of a 

 personal nature, made up between friends, and as the horses 

 themselves are as well known on the road, as are their owners 

 in society, we have not felt ourselves at liberty to chronicle 

 their results, nor to allude to them, except in general terms, 

 though they frequently create a great sensation in sporting 

 circles." 



The events worthy of notice in this year are — 



Harlem Trotting Course, July 28, 2 miles in harness. John 

 Tyler, Papa, Maria Monk, Rienzi,— 5.55 ; 6.10; 6.04. 



This trot is only worth recording, from the curious fact, that, 

 by the rules, all the horses were distanced — Rienzi and Tyler 

 for foul riding, Maria Monk for bolting the course, and Papa's 

 rider for dismounting before reaching the stand. 



