sixth heats In 2.12, 2.14^', and 2.14. One of her best 

 races in 1893 was the Consolation Race at Buffalo, for 

 a purse of $7,000, in which she met and defeated the 

 black mare Nightingale, the bay mare Alix, and the 

 bay gelding Greenleaf. It took seven heats to decide 

 this contest, the time being 2.121^, 2.12, 2.12^, 

 2.13^, 2.141^, 2.141^, and 2.18, Nightingale winning 

 the fourth, sixth and seventh heats. 



The stallion Greenlander had justly acquired the 

 reputation of being one of the speediest, long-distance 

 race horses that had been upon the turf for many 

 years, and as Nightingale was an aspirant for first 

 place as a two-mile performer, arrangements were 

 made to bring these two contestants together. They 

 met at the Grand Circuit Meeting at Buffalo, August 

 9, 1894. Nightingale won the first heat in 2.36;^, 

 Greenlander was drawn after this heat and Nightingale 

 won the race. Her time in the first heat of this race 

 is the World's race record for two miles, but Green- 

 lander holds the trial record for that distance. 



At Fresno, Cal., on February i, 1895, she defeated 

 Azote and Klamath by winning the first, third and 

 fourth heats in 2.14, 2.14, and 2.13^. This race was 

 trotted in the mud, when the track was several seconds 

 slow, and was a severe test of gameness and endur- 

 ance. She won the 2.10 class at Fort Wayne in the 

 fall of 1895, in straight heats, in 2.10^, 2.10, and 2.10. 

 No race ever seemed too long for her and she would 

 trot the third, fourth or fifth heat with the same ease 

 as the first. In October, 1895, I started her at Terre 

 Haute against Onoqua, Dandy Jim, and David B. 

 Nightingale won the third, fourth and fifth heats in 

 2.08, 2.10, and 2.09^. She also won the same year 

 at Louisville ; and at Lexington, in October of that 



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