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As Lancet he won twice of Flora Temple, and was defeated 

 by her four times, as above. Under the narre of Know-Noth- 

 ing he won twice, beating Chicago Jack and iSTelly, and two 

 others, and was beaten twice bv Chicago Jack, 



He is a line slashing black gelding, though in past years he 

 has been reported as a brown, and is well bred. Good sport is 

 expected of him the coming summer, as it is believed that, like 

 Tacony, he will make an effort to retrieve his laurels of the 

 mare. 



Tacony started six times, but with little success, winning 

 twice only, against Chicago and Zachary Taylor, and losing four 

 times, to Flora thrice, and once to Lady Moscow ; still he can- 

 not be said to have lost caste or to have shown himself other than 

 a good horse, since he was beaten only by animals of the highest 

 character. 



Chicago Jack, Lantern and Lady Moscow, the latter a most 

 stanch and honest mare on the turf, now in her tenth season on 

 the trotting course, all distinguished themselves, and did good 

 work. 



Tib Hinman, the mare, concerning whom the jDrodigious 

 story was circulated in 1855, about the trot on the ice at Og- 

 densburgh, in 2.22, trotted creditably this year, winning five 

 times out of seven trots for which she started, but against no 

 first-rate horses, except Lady Moscow, and in no time which 

 gives the smallest reason for believing that she ever went with- 

 in eight or ten seconds of that rate, her best race this season 

 being 2.32—2.31—2.32—2.34—2.36 against Miller's Damsel. 



There were three ten-mile matches tliis season, by Cincinnati 

 against McComb's double team in 41.50. Duchess against 

 Boston Girl and Racker in 29.17, and Gipsey Queen against 

 Olive Rose, in 31.05. One match to go six miles and one 

 hundred and fifty-two rods — eight hundred and thirty-six yards 

 — with two men weighing three hundred and sixty pounds, in a 

 sleigh, in twenty-five minutes — was won by 2^^el]y Bly in 

 23.08 ; and two five-mile matches were won by Jessie Fremont 

 against James Buchanan — a curious collocation of names ! — in 

 16.15 — and by a bay mare of D. Piter's against Hiram Wood- 

 rufi"'s black horse, in 18.30. 



As I do not propose to attempt any notice of the early trots 



