16S THE HOESE. 



This is, by very much, the best time ever made up to that 

 date ; and inniiediately afterward appeared a challenge from 

 Dutchman to trot any horse in the world three-mile heats over 

 the Centre ville Course, for $1,000 or 83,000. Should Edwin 

 Forrest or Daniel D. Tompkins choose to enter, Dutchman will 

 give $1,200 to $1,000, to induce them to come to the Island, 

 JS^o takers were found as yet, and it was well for them. 



On the following day. Awful and Lady Sutfolk contended in 

 harness, at two-mile heats, over the same course. 



Awful, . . . . . . .11 



Suffolk, . . . . . 2 2 



Time, 5.28—5.12+. 



Betting was 10 to 1 on A-svful, but it is described by the 

 " Spirit " as no disgrace to the mare to be beaten by the Phe- 

 nomenon, " the rather that she had been fed six quarts of oats 

 and a bundle of straw, before her match." Bryan had refused 

 $3,500 for her, and she is spoken of as a tij)-top mare^ but the 

 world is warned, not to throw away their money in backing her, 

 as she will hardly do aught, but lose, under her present training 

 and management. 



The following are the rules adopted at the Centreville 

 Course, and taken up, with some slight modifications of weight, 

 by all the i^rincipal trotting courses and associations, as pub- 

 lished in the " Spirit of the Times," Vol. viii., No. 10, in the 

 spring of this year. 



" KULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CENTKEVILLE COURSE, LONG 

 ISLAND. 



" Rule I. Every horse shall carry 145 lbs. that starts for a 

 regular purse on this course. 



" Rule II. Thirty minutes only shall be allowed between 

 every heat. 



" Rule III. Ko person shall be entitled to enter more than 

 one horse for any one purse. No partnership or combination 

 shall be permitted or deemed lawful. If, therefore, any horse 

 shall win a purse, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 

 judges, before the purse is paid, that such horse did trot in 

 partnership with any other horse, the purse shall go to the fair 

 owner, and the combined horses shall be deemed distanced. 



