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Title: A short history of the American trotting and pacing horse ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Coates, Henry Troth, 1843-1910 Fleming, George, 1833-1901. What to do before the veterinary surgeon comes
Subjects: Horse racing Race horses Horses
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Julien’s California record, and each achieving the same record of
2 m. 11^3/4 s. At Springfield he gave Darby and Hopeful another
drubbing, and at Hartford, August 27, he reached the climax of
his fame, and lowered his record to 2 m. 11^3/4 s. He then started
for his home in the far west, stopping on the way at Minneapolis,
where he vainly endeavored to beat his record. He wintered well,
and when, in the spring of 1881, he again came east, high antici-
pations of future conquests were entertained by expectant horsemen,
but he caught a severe cold at the very outset and never after-
ward did anything worthy of note, and died in California in the
autumn of 1894—the horse of a day!
France's Alexander, a handsome black stallion, sixteen hands
high, by Ben Patchen, a grandson of Flora Temple's famous com-
petitor, dam by Canada Jack, a grandson of old St. Lawrence, was
foaled in 1874. As a five-year-old, he started six times without
success, having the misfortune to be pitted against Robert Mc-
Gregor, a magnificent chestnut, grandson of Alexanders AbdalUh,
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AMERICAN TROTTING HORSE. 53

who was well nigh invincible that year. The next year he only
won two out of the five races in which he started, but in 1881 he
redeemed himself, and placed himself at the head of trotting
stallions. He commenced the season by beating, at Point Breeze
Park, Philadelphia, May 17, his old opponent, Robert McGregor,
who won the second heat, Jersey Boy, as game a little trotter as
ever trod the local tracks, Silverton, Scotland, Edwin Thorne and
Hambletonian Mambrino. At Belmont Park the following week
he defeated Jersey Boy, Edwin Thorne, Voltaire, Kentucky
Wilkes and Irene in straight heats. He then went to Boston,
where he won two races easily, and then to Providence, where he
showed his heels to Jersey Boy, Sheridan, Wizz and Banquo,
whose ghost did not trouble him that day. With this unbroken
series of victories, he went to Rochester, N. Y., and on July 4
trotted, in the $10,000 purse for stallions, the race of his life.
He won the first heat in 2 m. 19 s., and was second to Robert

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