XXVm PACING TROTTING. 



in 1873, and in 1872 he made a dead heat of two miles with Long- 

 fellow in 4:47|. In 1874 he paced a number of races, and was 

 taken East, returning in the Fall. 



After his return he was placed in training to trot, and fi'om the 

 first he could trot very fast, but owing to his long schooling at the 

 pacing gait, it was a troublesome affair for his teacher to overcome 

 the settled propensity. He was weighted quite heavily, and when 

 not permitted to pace he would take a hand gallop, and appeared to 

 have come to a determination to be as annoying as possible. His 

 trainer was a man of a great deal of experience, of an equable tem- 

 perament, and with confidence enough in himself to pursue the course 

 his judgment dictated. After patiently endeavoring to educate him 

 by the gentle method, he adopted the plan of running him until he 

 became so tired that he could neither run nor pace, and by that means 

 he succeeded in educating him to the desii-ed point. The weight 

 made racing very fatiguing, and it was inimical to the lateral 

 motion ; and when it came to the choice between the gallop and the 

 trot, the latter was adopted. As early in 1875 as April 29th, he 

 trotted a race against four competitors, winning in " straight heats " 

 in 2:38, 2:34|, 2:35|. On May 1st he was again victorious, in the 

 improved time of 2:28f, 2:30^, 2.271 ; and on May 11th, he trotted 

 against Abe Edginton, in a match for ten thousand dollars a side. 

 It was a very remarkable race, in which it took five closely-contested 

 heats to decide it. Defiance won the first in 1:M\ ; the second, in a 

 jog, in 2:29, and retained the lead in the last until only a short dis- 

 tance from the goal. Every heat was fought for inch by inch, and 

 owing to the track being soft on the inside, a great deal of ground 

 was lost on the turns by the horses being driven on the extreme 

 outside, which added at least two seconds to the time of each heat. 

 In one of the heats he lost, Defiance broke not very far from the 

 score, and finished on a pace, as much probably owing to his driver 

 not caring to make an effort to recover him in the few vards between 

 the mishap and the wire. In the scoring for the five heats, he/)nly 

 came up once on the pace, and at the finish, amid the yells of thou- 

 sands of spectators, he was as constant as a clock. The finish of the 

 fifth heat is thus described in the account published at the time: 



