Captain H---- wins the race, while the former arrives shortly after his contestant with the dead animal upon the sleigh.

Fredericton is reached.

A distance of eighty-five miles is trotted in six hours and thirty minutes, inclusive of twenty minutes for rest and dinner.

This wonderful feat caused general astonishment.

Hundreds drove from Fredericton to meet the contestants, while crowds gathered to see the effect thus produced upon the poor exhausted animals.