366 The American Tboroughhred 



to the post with Wanderer and Katie Pease, 

 both of them four-milers worth beating. Fellow- 

 craft ran a remarkably well-rated and well-judged 

 race. The first mile was done in 1.47 J, two miles 

 in T,.T,S, three miles in 5.29J, and the four miles 

 in 7.19J. That for many years remained the four- 

 mile record. Fellowcraft, for some reason, never 

 got credit for his performance. With the knowl- 

 edge of it before them, turfmen were inclined to 

 throw back to that four miles of Lexington and 

 to discard the one run by Fellowcraft. Lexing- 

 ton had everything prepared for his effort and 

 was running against time only. Fellowcraft was 

 winning a race when he made his record. Yet 

 it was Lexington's four miles that they started to 

 beat in after years, in California, when Matt Storn 

 was trying to gain that four-mile record with his 

 two mares Marigold and Centella. 



Those races were run quite recently, however, 

 and long after the system of American racing had 

 entirely changed, and a new type of animal was 

 being produced and run. The English had for a 

 long time ceased to send their horses at great 

 distances and had created a system of sprint 

 running. Gradually that system took a hold on 

 the American turf, and instead of the old-time 



