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the meantime the bicycle, ball-bearing sulky had 

 been invented, and the last half of this twenty 

 seconds were cut off when this weightless and 

 frictionless vehicle was used. The Standard Bred 

 Trotter had also been created. My idea is that the 

 Dutchman, Henry Clay, and Lady Suffolk could 

 either of them gone a mile in from ten to fifteen 

 seconds faster than they did under modern con- 

 ditions of training, driving, shoeing and harness- 

 ing and hitched to the modern vehicle. These ex- 

 periments have all been very interesting, but I 

 believe the same results might have been achiev- 

 ed at a very much less cost and loss — indeed, 

 with a profit. 



Exceeding high prices for trotting-horses have 

 been very injurious to the horse-breeding indus- 

 try. Whenever a trotting-horse brings twenty, 

 forty or a hundred thousand dollars it sets the 

 breeders, even the small ones wild with a desire to 

 breed a colt that will bring such a price. Mr. Bon- 

 ner began this with his purchase of DeXter, and 

 followed it up by buying many others at very high 

 figures, including Maud S. and Sunol. He doubt- 

 less found this an excellent advertisement for 



