CHAPTER XX 



THE FOUR-MILER PASSING 



After these races of California the four-mile 

 race-horse began to see his finality. There were 

 many races at the old-time American distance 

 after that, but they were not events of national 

 interest, and we began to develop another type 

 of animal in the cup horse. He was something 

 of a horse too. Still he was not the kind that 

 had done our racing over those old honorable dis- 

 tances. The record which Lexington made at 

 New Orleans of 7.19J stood there as a mark at 

 which they might shoot until 1874, almost nine- 

 teen years afterward. In the meantime many 

 animals of high degree had raced most credit- 

 ably and had started against time. But they had 

 failed to make any impression upon this mark 

 which Lexington had made. 



It was Fellowcraft, a colt by imported Austra- 

 lian out of Aerolite, a daughter of Lexington, who 

 finally accomplished the feat of setting a new 

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