368 THE TROTTING-HOBSE OF AMSBIGA. 



great deal. Stonewall was never headed, and won by al- 

 most a distance in 8m. 2\. Tlie betting was now 100 to 

 40. Our party took these odds freely. There was at that 

 time a prevailing notion that Dexter was not as good a 

 stayer as Stonewall Jackson. The reverse was true. The 

 latter was greatly tired after the heat, while the brown 

 horse did not mind it at all. 



In the second heat, Stonewall took the lead, but was de- 

 prived thereof, and broke badly. On the back-stretch he 

 got to the front again, but was very unsteady. Before they 

 reached the head of the home-stretch Dexter had the lead; 

 and it was now good-by to Mace. Dexter went on through 

 the mud with his fine, square stroke, splashing away, seem- 

 ingly as much at his ease as a duck in a horse-pond. 

 Stonewall, on the contrary, was all abroad, and never in a 

 settled trot. Dexter came in alone in 8m. 5s. It was now 

 four to one on Dexter, who looked, after these two heats, as 

 though he could trot all day. The race was practically won. 

 They started Stonewall again ; but Dexter took the lead at 

 the outset, was never headed, and won just as he pleased in 

 8m. 9^8. Money had been laid before the race that Dutch- 

 man's time would be beaten ; and it might have been, had 

 the weather been good and the track fast. It is not 

 prudent to lay on fast time in a race made to go "rain 

 or shine." 



Dexter's fall racing-season commenced with a match 

 under the saddle, mile heats, three in five, against Gen. 

 Butler, for $2,000. They trotted at the Fashion Course, on 

 the 7th of September. Dexter won it easily in three heats — 

 2m. 26^s., 2m. 24^s., 2m. 22js. He was ridden by John 

 Murphy. On the 21st of the same month. Dexter trotted 

 with Gen. Butler and George Wilkes, mile heats, three in 

 five, in harness, for a purse of $1,000, -at the Fashion 

 Course. He won in three straight heats, the fastest of 

 which was 2m. 25s. Butler was second in this race, the 

 stallion having been drawn after the second heat. 



