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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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eautiful seal brown, and the very poetry of motion, but his careerhad been a checkered one, and when he was matched against Direc-tum at Point Breeze, Philadelphia, on November 27, 1893, fewthought he had the ghost of a chance. The day was cold andgloomy, the dark, low-hanging clouds portended a coming storm,and winter overcoats and mufflers were more than comfortable. Asit was the last race of the season, and Directum was a drawingcard, the largest crowd which old Point Breeze had seen formany years shivered in the grand stand and club house balconies,and packed the intervening spaces. The pool box did a poorbusiness, for Directum had swept everything before him, and few dreamed that Saladin would even make him extend himself. Off they started for the first heat, neck and neck together, butbefore the quarter pole was reached, in 31is., Saladin broke, andDirectum obtained a lead of three lengths, which he steadily in-creased, until at the three-quarter pole, in 1 m. 37f s., it was six
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AMERICAN TROTTING HORSE. 67 lengths. Apparently all was over but the shouting, for no onebelieved that any horse could close up such a gap on the championtrotting stallion, a horse that never made a mistake and alwayshad a reserve of speed to call upon. But all of a sudden the cryran through the crowd, Look at Saladin ! Look at Saladin ! asthe brown whirlwind came like a shot from a gun, and step by stepgained on the too-confident leader. The excitement becameintense, the bitter cold was forgotten, and the whole audience roseen masse to cheer the flying stallions. On they go; in vain didDirectum strain every nerve to keep the lead he had won; grad-ually, but surely, Saladin gained on hiai; the six lengths lead wascut down to two, and as they passed the ladies stand, it was alength and a half; at the grand stand it was only half a length;ten yards from the wire the two horses were on even terms, and asthey flew under the wire with Saladins beautiful head fairly infront, the audience we

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