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miles in 7:32^, a desire took possession of him to 

 breed and own a horse that could change the figures 

 placed on record that day, and unlike the many day 

 dreams of youth, he lived to see the wish a reality, 

 when Huntress, by Volunteer, in 1872, trotted three 

 miles to harness over Prospect Park, on Long Island, 

 in 7:2134. 



Technically, Dutchman's three-rnile record of 

 7 132^ to saddle is still unbeaten, as that style of rac- 

 ing was no longer in vogue when all of the old-time 

 records to harness and to wagon were changed by the 

 later day champions which succeeded him and his 

 contemporaries. It was also the best on record at 

 any way of going in 1866, when Hiram Woodruff's 

 book, "The Trotting Horse of America," was written 

 by Charles J. Foster, the following description of the 

 performance being taken from its pages : 



'The odds were two to one on Dutchman when we 

 brought him out and stripped him. At six o'clock 

 in the evening he was saddled, and I mounted, feeling 

 fully confident that the feat set would be done with 

 much ease. We were allowed a running horse to 

 keep company, and I had a nice blood-like mare, she 

 being under my brother, Isaac. 



"We went off at a moderate jog, gradually in- 

 creasing the pace, but conversing part of the way at 

 our ease. Isaac asked me how fast I thought I could 

 go the mile, to which I replied, "About two minutes, 

 thirty-five." It was accomplished in 2111. 34^ s., and 

 Dutchman never really extended. Now occurred a 

 circumstance which must be related, because it was 

 curious in itself, and had its effect on the time. Mr. 

 Harrison, the backer of Dutchman, had lent his watch 



