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fast. In those in which real good time was made she invaria. 

 bly beat him. Mountain Boy was a bay gelding, about fifteen 

 hands two inches high, a strong, bony horse, and quite plain, 

 not to say coarse. He was bred in Orange county, foaled in 

 1S60, and got by Squire Bingham, dam a common mare, said to 

 have been by Gridley's Roebuck. Mountain" Boy trotted faster 

 while comparatively young than any other horse in the annals of 

 the turf except Dexter, for before he was ten years old he had gone 

 within a fraction of 2m. 20s. in harness. If indeed he had not 

 been impeded and hampered by some trouble in his feet, there is 

 every probability that he would have beaten 2m. 20s. when he 

 was eight years old, and it is quite " upon the cards" that he may 

 again come upon the turf and exhibit his uncommon gift of speed. 

 That was immense. In the fastest heats with Lady Thorn he 

 commonly led_her for seven furlongs in the mile, but then seemed 

 to die away and tangle up tired. That he was not wisely driven I 

 have always believed, for I think that at one time he no doubt had 

 the foot of her, and if this was the case it is difficult to see why 

 he should have gone ahead and made the pace so strong for seven 

 eighths of a mile, that he was then pumped out, as well as leg- 

 weary and otherwise done up. Nevertheless these were the tactic? 

 pursued with him ; and his owner, Commodore Vanderbilt, one 

 of the ablest and most sagacious men in the world, seemed t& 

 think that it was all right. The sire of this horse is now called 

 Edward Everett. He is a son of Hambletonian, and there is but 

 little doubt that his dam was a thoroughbred mare by imported 

 Margrave. On the 3d of July 1868, Lady Thorn and Mountain 

 Boy trotted mile heats three in five in harness, at Mystic Park 

 Boston. It was the fourth race in which they had been engaged 

 The mare had beaten him twice and he had defeated her once, 

 There wore four heals in the race at Boston. She won the first in 

 2m. 20^8., and he took the second in 2m. 20Js. She then won the 

 third and fourth heats, and the race. On the 9th of July they 



