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Major Slocum," and "Hiram Woodruff names g.m.Lady Smith." "Best three in five.

Time: 2.40, 2.46, 2.50." That set me thinking how very odd this matter of trotting horses is, as an index of the mathematical exactness of the laws of living mechanism.
I saw Lady Suffolk trot a mile in 2.26.

Flora Temple has trotted close down to 2.20; and Ethan Allen in 2.25, or less.

Many horses have trotted their mile under 2.30; none that I remember in public as low down as 2.20.

From five to ten seconds, then, in about a hundred and sixty is the whole range of the maxima of the present race of trotting horses.
The same thing is seen in the running of men.