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best and gamest four-mile runners that ever looked through 

 bridle who had the same disadvantage, and was sometimes beatei 

 by inferior horses by reason of it. 



On the 24th of October, American Girl, Judge Fullerton an( 

 Gamors trotted at Prospect Park. The Judge vras the favorit 

 at 100 to 40, but some of his friends were no.t altogether sanguine 

 After he beat American Girl and the others on the second of th 

 month he did not do much work. In the first heat America! 

 Girl led him a trifle for half a mile. He then passed her ani 

 seemed to have the heat in hand till within forty yards of th 

 stand when he tired and she beat him half a length in 2m. 20i- 

 lie was still the favorite. The second heat was just like the first 

 he was beaten a neck by American Girl in 2m. 22s. In the thin 

 he got off behind her again but caught her at the quarter an( 

 took the lead. The race between them was exceedingly close bu 

 she won the heat by a head in 2m. 22Js. Camors was last in al 

 the heats. On the 1st of Novelnber, the same three horses trotte( 

 again at the same course for a purse of $4000. This time it wai 

 100 to 60 on American Girl. In the first heat Fullerton brok( 

 just as he got the word, and American Girl won the heat witl 

 great ease in 2m. 25^8. It was a very cold day, and the east wine 

 came sweeping in a blustering gale over the course from the ad- 

 jacent ocean. The horses were taken into boxes between heats 

 In the first heat American Girl had trotted to the half-mile poh 

 in Im. 9s., and now it was deemed by most people that shi 

 couldn't lose it. Odds of 100 to 25 was current on her. In th( 

 second heat there was a fine start. The Judge headed her at the 

 turn, out-trotted her by two lengths to the half-mile in Im. Ss. 

 and won by as much in 2m. 21s. Camors was last. Americai 

 Girl was still the favorite. Though the heat in 2m. 21s. on sucl 

 a day was an achievement of enormous merit for the chestnu 

 horse, two to one was still laid on the bay mare. But this infatu 

 ation was soon removed. In the third heat Judge Fullerton tool 



