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fastest time was 1:15; reduced by Domino, two-year-old, carry- 

 ing 128 pounds, at Morris Park, September 29, 1893, to 1:09, 

 The fastest seven furlongs is Bella B's, five-year-old, carrying 

 103 pounds, at Monmouth Park, July 8, 1890, (straight course), 

 l:23|^. The fastest one mile in 1880 was by Ten Broeck, 

 1:39 f ; reduced by Salvator, four-year-old, carrying 110 pounds, 

 (straight course, against time), at JNIonmouth Park, August 28, 

 1890, to 1:35|-. One mile and twenty yards. Maid Marian, 

 fom*-year-old, carrying 101 pounds, Washington Park, Chicago, 

 July 19, 1893, 1:40. One mile and seventy yards, Wildwood, 

 four-year-old, carrying 115 pounds, Washington Park, Chicago, 

 July 5, 1893 ; and Faraday, four-year-old, carrying 102 pounds, 

 Washington Park, Chicago, July 21, 1893, each 1:41. In 1880 

 the best time for one mile and one-eighth was 1:54 ; reduced by 

 Tristan, six-year-old, carrying 114 pounds, iS'ew York Jockey 

 Club, June 2, 1891, to 1:51. One mile and a quarter. Banquet, 

 three-year-old, carrying 108 pounds, JNIonmouth Park, N. J,. 

 (straight course), July 17, 1890, 2:03| ; Salvator, four-years-old, 

 carrying 122 j)ounds, at Sheepshead Bay, X. Y., June 25, 1890, 

 and ]Morello, three-year-old, carrying 117 pounds, Washington 

 Park, Chicago, July 22, 1893, each 2:05, on circular courses. 

 One mile and five hundred yards. Bend Or, four-year-old, car- 

 rying 115 pounds, Saratoga, N. Y., July 25, 1882, 2:10|-. One 

 mile and five-sixteenths. Sir John, four-year-old, carrying 116 

 pounds, Morris Park, X. Y., June 9, 1892, 2:11^. One mile 

 and three-eighths, Versatile, five-year-old, carrying 100 pounds 

 Washington Park, Chicago, July 7, 1893, 2:19f. One mile 

 and a half, Lamplighter, three-year-old, carrying 109 pounds, 

 Monmouth Park, (straight course), August 9, 1892, 2:32f. Of 

 the long distance running, Ten Broeck's two miles, Louisville, 

 Ky., May 29, 1877, 3:27| and his four miles, Louisville, Sept- 

 tember 27, 1876, 7:15f yet stand as the best. 



If the time occupied by a running horse in going a mile be one minute 

 and forty seconds, and the length of stride twenty-five feet, (as rep- 

 resente<l by some horses), it would follow that he must be off the 

 ground a full half second at each bound, and according to the la\v 

 of falling bodies, he woidd, if he moved horizontally, during that 

 lime, fall a distance of four feet.— The Horse in Motion, J. D. B. 

 Stillman. 



In 1889, Prof. W. H. Brewer of Yale College, published a tabulated analy- 

 sis of the recoi'ds of one thousand and thirty-seven running horses, 

 whose performances extended over a period of nineteen years, hav- 

 ing records of one mile in 1 :45 or better, made on ninety-three trades 

 in twenty-eight different States. This table sliowed that tliere was 

 but one best horse; six within one second of the best; fifty-three 

 within two seconds of the best; one hundred and ninety-two within 

 three seconds of the best; four hundred and sixty-six within four 

 seconds of the best, and one thousand thirty-six within live and 

 one-fourth seconds of the best. " The results," says Professor 

 Brewer, "illustrate in an impressive manner that low records are 

 due to the qualities of the breed rather than to any local excellence 

 of track, climate, jockeys, or training." 



