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at Philadelphia, Syracuse, Avon Park, Buffalo, Cleveland, tlam- 

 trank Course, Chicago, Milwaukee, Adrian, Kalaniazoo, Pitts- 

 burgh, Baltimore, and Washington. He was everywhere successful. 

 At Buffalo he beat Holla Golddust; at Pittsburgh, the Magoozler 

 pacer and George M. Patchen, Jr. ; and at Washington, Silas 

 Rich. 



October 25th, 1866, there was a race on the Union Course, 

 Long Island, between the celebrated mares Lady Thome and 

 Lady Emma. Judged by the record, there was hardly a choice 

 between them, if anything, the balance was in favor of Lady 

 Emma; both represented the best blood and the form of the 

 trotter in the highest perfection. The race between them was 

 one which any amateur in horses, desirous of seeing a race be- 

 tween equals, would have suggested, and the result proved the 

 wisdom and beauty of such races. The first and second heats 

 were won by Lady Thome ; the third and fourth by Lady Emma; 

 and so closely had each heat been contested that the betting in 

 the last heat was even. When this was trotted, so near were they 

 together at the score that it was generally considered a dead heat; 

 but the judges decided Lady Thome the winner by a head. 



The purchase of the beautiful trotting mare Young Pocahontas 

 by Mr. Bonner, for a very large sum, was among the interesting 

 turf items of the year. This mare is a daughter of Ethan Allen 

 and the pacer Pocahontas. She inherited the wonderful sym- 

 metry and perfect trotting gait of her sire, and the power and 

 endurance of her dam. The great pacing match, in which Poca- 

 hontas distanced Hero, in 2 m. 17J s., is in the memory of all 

 veterans of the turf. Young Pocahontas was owned for a time in 

 Boston, but caught the attention of Mr. Bonner, who obtained the 

 refusal of her. Nevertheless, she was sold to other parties in 

 New York, from whom Mr. Bonner obtained her by paying over 

 twenty-five thousand dollars. 



The trotting season of 1867 is still fresh in the minds of all 

 readers of newspapers. It will be long remembered for its extra- 

 ordinary number of races and trotting horses, and for the great 

 performances of Dexter, and his retirement from the turf. In the 

 first part of the season he was taken to his early home, and gave 

 an exhibition of his speed at Middletown, beating Lady Abdallah. 

 He returned to distance Lady Thome in 2 m. 22 s. on the 28th 

 of May. The next day a race took place on the Fashion Course 

 between Ethan Allen and Brown George, both with running 

 mates, in which Ethan Allen astonished the trotting world by 

 making a heat in 2 m. 19 s. He was forthwith matched to go 

 with a running mate against Dexter. Although a running mate 

 was known to be of very great assistance, yet Ethan Allen, thus 

 assisted, was not generally considered by any means the equal of 



