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seventy-five head catalogued, this list including Ina G., 

 2 :2^ l / 2 ; Lady Clark, 2 \2jy 2 ; Whirlwind, 2 124 ; Blue 

 Mare, 2 123 ; Molly Kistler, and that grand old-time pacer 

 Sorrel Dan, 2 114. A few of the fast ones failed to appear, 

 the most noted absentees being Lady Clark, who after- 

 wards produced Hettiemont, 2:16%, and Pattie Clark, 

 2:17*4; but when the returns were all in it was found 

 that sixty-five head had been sold for $23,947, the top 

 figure, $1,620, being paid for Ina G., while Myrtella G. 

 sold for $1,100 and Aleck L. for $1,010. • 



In 1876, on the last day of August, Smuggler, in the 

 first heat of his memorable race with Goldsmith Maid at 

 Hartford, placed the stallion record at 2:15^4, and it re- 

 mained there until July 14, 1884, when Phallas created a 

 commotion by trotting a fourth heat at Chicago in 2:13^, 

 a mark which he equalled at Providence, R. I., on the 

 day his stable companion, Jay Eye See, reduced the 

 world's record for trotters to 2:10, and which stood as 

 his mark when retired from the turf. Another star ap- 

 peared on the horizon at Narragansett Park on the after- 

 noon that the Hickory Grove Farm stable was bidding 

 for the world's record. He was also started to reduce 

 the stallion record, but failed, his fastest mile being trot- 

 ted in 2 115^ . That horse was Maxie Cobb, and his flight 

 of speed encouraged John Murphy to go on with him. 

 At Hartford, August 28, Murphy drove the handsome 

 son of Happy Medium in 2:15, and on September 30 

 crowned him king of stallions by the record, with a mile in 

 2:I 3/4> a t Providence. During the winter months the 

 racing qualities of the two stallions were discussed very 

 freely from one end of the country to the other, and when 

 the warm weather stirred their respective owners' racing 

 blood the pair were matched for $10,000, to trot at Cleve- 



