JJSTSOBVCTION. XI 



data, I calculate the value of those in training, and in the 

 • breeding studs, all united, would amount to not less than 

 $15,000,000, being that sum invested in this country in trot- 

 ting and pacing horses alone. 



In 1872, Maine horses did extremely well. August 8, at 

 Buffalo, N. T., Lady Maud, by Gen. Knox, (see page 127) won 

 a race for five-year-olds, beating Zilcaadi, Mary H. Rowe's 

 Tommy, w^A. Vanity'Fgjr, in straight heats, time, 2.29i, 2.29|, 

 2.27i. Oct 10, at Prospect Park, she won a matched race, for 

 a purse of $5000, beating Lucille Grolddust, winning the first 

 heat in 2.30i, the third in 2.22i, and the fourth and- race in 

 2.22it, which is the fastest on record for the age. 



Sept. 14, at Mystic Park, Boston, Camors, by Gen. Knox, 

 (see page 126) beat Crown Prince, Sleepy John, Konesuch, 

 and Dauntless, time, 2.231, 2.24i, 2.25. 



Sept. 19, he beat William H. Allen, Judge Fullerton, Lula 

 and Triumph, at Prospect Park. The time of the first heat 

 was 2.23, and the second 2.21|. The third heat was won by 

 W. H. Allen, in 2.24, and the fourth by Camors in 2.23i, mak- 

 ing four heats, all under 2.25. 



Oct. 21, Ben. Morrill (see page 212) won a four-year-old 

 race, at Prospect Park, beating Kowe's Tommy, and Dixon. 

 Rowe's Tommy won.the first heat, in 2.48i, and Ben. Morrill 

 the second, in 2.34}^, the third in the remarkably fast time of 

 2.32i, and the fourth heat and race in 2.36. 



Mr. Linsley, in his work on Morgan horses, published in 

 1860, in speaking of the average speed of trotting horses' 

 says, " To enable us to form some idea of the average speed 

 of the trotting horses of the country, we made a summary of 

 all the time, at mile heats, reported in the Spirit of the 

 Times for the year 1852, and the average time made by wirir 

 ning horses, at mile heats, during that year, was 2.50, and a 

 small fraction.'' From this it is plain that a horse which 

 could trot a mile within 2150 would, in 1852, have been able to 

 defeat a large majority of the trotting horses of the country. 



