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—Three trotting contests came off at 

 Fleetwood Parle last Wednesday. The first 



was bet woon Mace's Clara (J. and running 

 mate in harness ami John Murphy's Lady 

 Dahlmnu under saddle. Though the latter 

 was admirably ridden by her owner the 

 team won. Best time, 2.2S. The second 

 race was a sweepstakes of $400 between 

 Sherman, Willie, Lady Trimble, and Sorrel 

 Jake. The former won in three slrainlit 

 Heats. Best time, 3:41. The third affair 

 was u sweepstakes for $300, between Black 

 Hawk, Jerry, and Jericho. The former lost 

 the first hea't but won i he next three and the 

 race. 



--Eleven heats were trotted last Thursday 

 afternoon at Fleetwood Bark to decide two 

 matches, five in one and six in the other. 

 The races were between 0. Walker's bay 

 gelding Tommy Moore, to wagon, and R, 

 Smith's bay jjeldinR Humpty Dumpty, in 

 harness; anil F. Lownde's bay mare lluieher 

 Girl, to wagon, anil Ben Wilson's bay geld- 

 ing Bet. in harness, In the first match 

 Humpty Dumptv had the call in the betting 

 for two beats, both of which lie won; hut 

 when Tommy Moore hud scored the third 

 heat lie in turn became the favorite. Tommy 

 Moore also won tiie fourth heat; but when 

 the horses started for the fifth Humpty 

 Dumpty sold for the highest price. The 

 latter won the concluding heat and the race. 

 Best lime, 2-4ui. In the match between 

 Butcher Girl and Pet the first heat was 

 won by Pet, but Butcher Girl won the 

 second'and third beats and became a great 

 favorite. She made a dead heat for the 

 fourth, gave Pet the fifth, and then went 

 about Iter business and won the sixth heat 

 and the race. Best time, 3:04*. 



— Fleming's Alice Gray and Jno. Murphy's 

 Tip trotted at Fleetwood Park last Saturday 

 for a purse of £200, and after four heats the 

 former was winner. Best, time, 2:55. 

 —Walker's Pet and Lownde's Butcher Girl 

 trotted at Fleetwood last Monday, The 

 former wou the race in the fifth heat. Best 

 time, 3:08. 



— Joe Piatt and Lady Woods tried their 

 mettle at Sea View Park last Saturday for a 

 purse of $100. The former won in three 

 straight heats. Best time, 3:504. 



—The Louisiana Jockey Club Fall meet- 

 ing was inaugurated lust Wednesday. The 

 first, was a hurdle race, two miles, over eight 

 liurdles; club purse, §500; $350 to the first, 

 $100 to second, and $50 to third horse. The 

 race was wou by Biloxi, healing Chris 

 Dovle, Huntress, Mary Forrest, and Captain 

 Jack, in the order named. Time, 4:00i. 

 Captain Jack fell at the second hurdle. The 

 second race was Slocum Stakes, for two- 

 year olds; $35 entrance, pay or play, with 

 i§700 added ; second horse to receive $200, 

 and third, $100; one mile, to carry three- 

 year old weights. There were eleven nomi- 

 nations aud three horses started. The race 

 was won by Puss Broadway, beating Leap- 

 year, second, and Pauline Sprague, third. 

 Time, 1:504, The third race was for the 

 Club purse of $500, for all ages; $400 to 

 first, and $100 to second horse; mile heals. 

 Balliukeel, Bonaventtire, MaryL., Bob Brit- 

 toti and Tom Leathers si ailed, but the former 

 winning the first two heats was declared 

 victor.' Time, LTW, 1:4.51-. 



— The third day of the Louisiana races 

 witnessed some excellci.t contests. The 

 first event was a handicap hurdle race of 

 two miles, for a club purse of $500, of 

 winch $350 to the first, $100 to the second 

 and $50 to the third horse. The race was 

 won easily by Biloxi, beating Captain Jack, 

 Chris Doyle," Mary Forrest, Huntress and 

 Astrabel, in the same order. Time, 3:50. 

 The second race was for a club purse or 

 $400, for all age-,; $350 to first, $100 to sec- 

 ond, $50 to third; one mile and three- 

 quarters. The race was won by Ballenkeel 

 by six lengths, beating Carrie P", Falmouth, 

 Colonel Nellig'ftii anil Hainy Day. in the 

 same order. Time, 3:40. The third race 

 was torn club nurse of $700, for all ages; 

 $550 to the first and $150 to the second 

 horse; mile heals; best, three in Jive. The 

 race was won by Lotiiu Moovc in three 

 Straight heats, Crown Prince taking SfiCOlfd 

 money. The first and third heats were 

 secured easily, but the second was almost 

 dead between the winmr and Crown Prince. 

 Time, 1:151-, 1;45J, 1:40}. 



— The last day of the Louisiana races 

 closed last Monday. Pauline Sprague, Puss 

 Broadnax, Nannie and Leap Year entered 

 for ilie Howard Stakes for colts and iillies. 

 The former was the winner. Time, 2:00. 

 In the Consolation Stakes for a purse of 

 $400, Carrie, Brown Prince, KingAmadcus, 

 Mary L., Captain Jack and Bob Britton 

 were entered. The former was the victor. 

 Time, 1:50. For the Club purse of $1,300, 

 four mile heats, there were five entries, and 

 victory fell tu Colonel Nelligan. in the two 

 first heats. Time, 8:34, 8:39. 



—It is announced by the San Franpisco 

 papers that a handicapped running race — 

 two miles and repeat— is about being ar- 

 ranged between Katie Pease, Henry, Hard- 

 wood and a horse called Gilliuipper, Katie 

 Pease to carry 103 pouuds.being four pounds 

 more than rule weight; Henry to <Wy 



ninety-five pounds, which is nine pounds 

 less than the rules call for; Hardwood to 

 carry ninety-two pounds, being twelve 

 pounds less than rule weight; and Galliuip- 

 per, although an aged horse, will be allowed 

 to run with ninety pounds up. The purse 

 is to bo $1,000, and the race to be decided 

 over the new track, the time to be set. 



—Syrian, the winner of the great Shrop- 

 shire handicap, distance one mile, was timed 

 by Benson's ciiiouoarripb in 1 minute, 374; 

 seconds. Syrian is an aged horse and had 

 101 pounds up. 



— F. Archer, a woll known English jockey 

 had 507 mounts during the past season, out 

 of which he succeeded in winning 143. 



— The largest training stable in the 

 country is shortly to be established at Ban- 

 cocas, Burlington County, New Jersey, by 

 William Brown, formerly with TenBroeck, 

 England. 



Challenge. — Mr. John Book, of Man- 

 chester. England, offers to trot his mare, 

 Steel Grey, against, any horse in the world 

 for either $1,000 or $1,500. The sura is too 

 small to cause any American "cracks" logo 

 to the trouble of "meeting the grey mare. 



Speed tn IIorses. — Just at this time, 

 when trotting horses that can trot a mile in 

 2:30 are becoming so common, and when 

 horses taken out of butcher carts in Cali- 

 fornia are trotting a mile in 3:18 with ease, 

 it, may not be uninteresting to inquire 

 whether this class of horses' arc really the 

 most useful as well as the most valuable, 

 their value being judged by the money they 

 will sell for. 



When perseverance as well as speed is re- 

 quired in a horse, another style than the 

 American trotters must be chosen — the well 

 known roadster. He is not built like these 

 celebrated trotters, lie has deeper shoul- 

 ders, a straight back, and much stronger 

 loins. He possesses stouter forelegs, and all 

 his legs are shorter. His foot points straight 

 forward; he lifts it well, and brings it 

 down square on the whole bottom at once. 

 Such a horse is very useful, for he can 

 maintain great speed all day, and can even 

 take with him the commodities and produce 

 which his owner is compelled to transport 

 by this kind of conveyance. 



Some of the recorded achievements of 

 these horses are of a nature to command 

 our admiration, and from various sources 

 we compile some of them for the benefit of 

 our readers. 



On the 25th of July, 1753, in England, 

 Mr. Crocket's gray mare trotted 100" miles 

 in 12 hours, without seeming fatigue, but 



the rider was. so exhausted that he had to be 

 held in the saddle during the last few miles. 

 The celebrated, horse Phenomenon, bred by 

 Sir Edward Astley, in Norfolk, trotted 17 

 miles in 53 minutes, with perfect ease. This 

 mure was pushed so hard In these long 

 heats that, she ran down, and sold in 1810 

 t'oi oboill $35- Under good care she re- 

 covered, and when she was 23 years old 

 trotted it miles in 38-4 minutes, and gained 

 four matches in one day. A Shetland pony 

 in an exciting match ran 44 miles in 3 hours 

 and 45 minutes, and a Galloway nag ran 

 137 miles, all the way at the rate of 8 miles 

 per hour. 



Two noblemen of England, in 1750, fur- 

 nished a rig, consisting of four horses at- 

 tached to a four-wheeled coach, that accom- 

 plished 19 miles in 534. minutes, on ordinary 

 loruls, and Mr. Giles drove his celebrated 

 mare Maid of the Mill, 28 miles in an hour 

 and fifty-eight minutes — on the trot through- 

 out. 



Tile inhabitants of Toorkistan, it is said 

 by way of forcible illustration, are born in 

 the saddle, and their horses are perhaps the 

 best in the world on long, speedy excur- 

 sions. One hundred miles per day is their 

 standard. 



They train them especially for long, hos- 

 tile excursions into neighboring territory, 

 and when a horse is in proper condition, 

 they express it by saying: "His flesh is 

 marble." In 1800 a Toorkaman horse car- 

 ried a dispatch from Shiraz to Teheran, a 

 distance of 500 miles, in precisely six days. 



A GAUD, 



Is the issue of Fokrst and STKBAM of Ttli month 

 3ath last, we inserted an advertisement containing an 

 extract from a teller of James Pnrdey, 3144 Oxford 

 street, London, which, it appears, was only intended 

 for our own information, and not for publication. 

 Our use of it— which wc regret— was caused by our 

 misunderstanding the object of Mr. Purdey's letter, 

 and we very cheerfully make public the following: — 



JOS. C GRUBB & CO., 



71*3 Market street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Lonbow, Hov. 13th, 1874. 



Obi 



of I he r <th of June. Tiiis lc-1 u-r whs intended qui 

 a private communication to you, and certainly never 

 intended for publication. 1 should further remark in 

 simple justice to several well known nun manufactur- 

 ers in Birmingham, that the remarks made in the 

 first paragraph of such teller, in regard to the quality 

 of work turned out by Birmingham gun houses, did 

 not in any way apply to them, for, on Ihe contrary, I 

 am convinced that there are many houses there who 

 have and are manufacturing eeiri , sound, and excel- 

 lent, guns. Begging you to set this mailer right, 



JXlLES PUllDEr. 

 To Messrs J. Gruhb & Co. 



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