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most all the very best horses, she trotted best when well seasoned 

 by hard work ; and though some have maintained that she was 

 eommonly too thin, it is my conviction that she never was so fast 

 and so steady as when she was fine-drawn. The attendance at 

 Narragansett Park on this occasion was very large, and in every 

 way worthy of the five splendid trotters that were to appear. 

 Lady Thorn was the favorite at more than two to one over the 

 others. She seemed to know that for a really grand performance, 

 her time had come, and "Father McMann" wore an air of un- 

 common satisfaction as he jogged her up and down prior to the 

 start. He was the picture of quiet content. In the first heat 

 American Girl and George Palmer led Lady Thorn for a quarter 

 of a mile. She then passed them with the utmost ease, and came 

 home in 2m. 19Js., winning by two lengths. George Palmer was 

 second, American Girl third, Goldsmith Maid fourth, and Lucy 

 fifth. In the second heat George Palmer led for a little way, but 

 Lady Thorn went on with her long even stroke, and soon headed 

 him. He and Goldsmith Maid got up to her wheel at the quarter, 

 but the latter seemed unable to stand the pace, and Lady Thorn 

 carried the gelding so fast that" he broke up and went all to pieces. 

 At the half-mile pole in Im. 8s., Lady Thorn led Goldsmith Maid 

 two lengths, and such was her speed that James McMann declares 

 ^ that he could have gone clean away from the others from thence, 

 if he had wanted to do so. But Goldsmith Maid trotted exceed- 

 ingly fast and well, and at one time closed up the daylight. But 

 half way up the stretch Doble saw that there was no chance to 

 defeat the bay mare, and eased the Maid. Lady Thorn won 

 very handily in 2m. ISJs., and the best judges who were present 

 concur with Mr. McMann 'in the belief that all she was capable 

 of was not got out of her. It was now any odds, but before the 

 race was over George Palmer performed a grand feat. It will 

 have been seen that in the first Jieat, and the fastest part of the 

 second, he was the real contesting horse with Lady Thorn, and 



