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horse that could go a great distance and repeat 

 that distance from two to five times in an after- 

 noon, we soon found ourselves with a horse bred 

 to get away from the post quickly, race at a great 

 rate of speed, and make a single dash for the 

 laurels of victory. 



From 1870 to 1880 this transition was taking 

 place. During the earlier years of that time were 

 brought to the front horses of the type of Alarm. 

 Alarm, though foaled in America, was entirely 

 English bred, being by imported Eclipse out of 

 imported Maud by Stockwell. Alarm began his 

 racing in 187 1 in a match at Saratoga, of $5000 a 

 side, against Inverary by imported Leamington. 

 The distance was one mile, which is a fair lengjth 

 for any two-year-old to go, and Alarm won. He 

 made other endeavors at a mile and was unsuc- 

 cessful. In his three-year-old form he ran five 

 races and won them all. The first of these was 

 at three-quarters of a mile, run at Jerome Park, 

 the ist of June. Then, on the 6th of June, he 

 won a purse at a mile and a quarter. On the 

 13th of June he won one at a mile. In July, 

 at Saratoga, he won another at three-quarters 

 of a mile. Two days afterward, when he beat 

 Fadladeen and Kingfisher a mile in 1.4 2 J, he 



