Year: 1865

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Great Trosting Match for 5000 Between


Dexter and stonewsn Jsekson-Dexter


the Winner.


The great three mile trotsing match for e6 900 be-
tween the Dr. Dexter and b. g. stonswan Jackson Of
Hartford on yesterday n the Fashion Course and
was witnessed BY large assembage Of ladies gentle
mon, Notwithstanding the delugng rain, which began In
the morning and continued to fall in torrents until the
race was over. Had the day been clear, the proba-
biity is that large crowd would have been at the
Fashion Course ever congTegated TO witness
trotting match The trOt was made 70 come or rain or
shine and the desire 70 these celebrated horses
tend in q three mile brought together people
from far and But such q day and
track have not been since Hector and Lady Suffolk
contended on tho Union Course some thirteen years
ago The track resembled canal more than race
course, the water and mud being fetlook deep This
Of things upset all the calculations well the
BETS time Large amounts had been wagered the
time Of the great Duchman-S 2k-woud be beaten ON
this OCCASION although has stood at the head OF the
cord for about aquarer of century There isno doubt
had everything been favorable, that the above time
would have been wiped out aa the other OF these
horses have headed the list Three very heats
trotted stonowa winning tho rst and Dexter tho
last two and the Dexter was ridden by young
man named Murphy, and stonewall by Dan Mace. The
latter was the favote at one hundred TO sixty previous
TO the start


First Heas-Dexter the pole The horses did not


like the mud and sush and as they began to speed up
the stretch 70 the stand for tho word would break
from the spashng Of the dirt over their legs and bodies
After four attempts TO get TO the score on steady ot
the word given; but il had scarcely passed the lips
OF the judge before Dexter broke up and before he
covered Stonewall sixty yards ahead of him The
r Whine ne d SG cneS
tend himself and was falling further in the every
instant Az half mile poe-which Stonewali passed
In INDY VI rdc ha1s ind hn
having broken up second time on the backstretch.
He began however, TO square himself little better
the stretch and closed or the gap
Sonewa broke at the threequarter poe but
at work again, and as he came up the homestretch
and crossed the score in 80 he looked very much like


winner the other not appearing to like the mud at ALL
and seemed TO be aboring hard in its depths On the
turn OF the second mile stoDewal was moro than hun
dred yards ahead OF Dexter but after passing the quar-
ter pole he broke up and lost trife There little
change Of position all the yay around tho course and
Stonewall to the stand eighty yards ahead making
the two miles in 516. The rain now came down
furiousy than ever drenching the riders TO the skim
STILL for the next half mile the horses splashed away
steadily through it. After passing the half mile pole
and getting into the three-Quarter stretch St0nowa
broke again. and this seemed like tired break and
Dexter shut up considerable daylight before Sonewall
covered Dexter being urged too much mt this time also
broke up but now within fifty yards of his leader
Passing the three quarter pole Stonewa broke again. but
Mace getting him down quickly he up the stretch
winner by forty yards, making the heat in s:O2H.


Second Heat THE hackers OF Dexter were still willing
to take the Odds and anxious to bet forty against
hundred on the Hambetonian, believing that his
game and endurance would carry him through winner
His appearance at the for this heat gave his friends
great confidence On the third attempt the horses got
good send off, but they had not gone many yards be-
fore Dexter broke up, quickly followed by Stoncwan,
and by the time the latter had Dexter broke
up a second time, which gave lead Stonewa 10 tho
quarter pole OF eight or ten lengths Time Sc
ter began to disregard the mud and settled down to his
work in earnest. He closed up gradually, and at the
half mile pole was about six lengths behind Time, 23
Going the three quarter stretch he improved his pace,
and 3tonewa breaking up, Dexter took tho lead. for
hurmh from his friends. and as he came np
sa and Led four lengths past the stand, in 2:4S
his rider was praised BY al parties S s0nswa
round the turn he roed very fast and within two
lengths Of Dexter when he broke up again This gave
the brown geding clear lead of half dozen lengths,
aud his hackers seeing that he going very steady
offered To bet odds Tint he wonld win the Going
down the backstrcch Stonewa broke again. and before
getting TO the three quarter pole he made his seventh
break 10 the heat Mace caught him pretty at each
break aud seldom lost much ground. The two miles
were made In 52lA Stonewall broke up twice more on
the hOmcstretch Dexter going very nicely and
seemed to understand what he had TO do He kept get
around the turn, down past the old stand and up the
threequartcr stretch, and came on the homcstretch
breaks thus far n the race steady pnII brought Dex
ter homo winner Of the heat by 6fty yards Time,
$685.. Stonewall broke three times coming up the
homostrech, and II very evident that if he had had
voice then he would have cried enough.


Third Heat-One thousand TO three Hundred offered
on Dexter without takers; one hundred to twenty
taken few times The rain seemed TO increase
as the progressed Stonewal broke up he left
the stand and be recovered Dexter went up,
and lost ten lengths The quarter passed in
forty two and half seconds On the backstrech Dex-
ter began closing carefully and he only Ave lengths
behind at the half mile poe In :2s Stonewal broke
up after passing that point and Dexter got length or
two closer to him He broke up again on the three quar-
ter stretch and once the homestretch and the
Hambletonan making 1t too warm for him. he broke up
again after crossing the score and Dexter took lead OF
ave lengths Time OF first mile, 2431s. Stonewal made
four breaks in the next half mile and Dexter was forty
yards ahead at the three-quarter pole, and led
past the the second mile by about
that distance. Time Of the two miles, b:35
Tho virtually Dexter had
nothing TO do but go steadily and he could not lose
This he did while the other made five breaks In the last
mile. Dexter by forty yards, and was stopped on
the Time OF the heat, S:091: The following is
summary


Mospiy, June 2e.--Nstch, $1,000, three mile heats,
under the saddle.


H. Woodruff named br 9. Dexter, by Hambleto-


nian, dam by Amepcan Star. j
T. Carpenter named b. g. Stonewall jackson Of


Hartford, pedigree unknown. ................ ! 2


One Mile Tco Miles Three AJes
First eai..........2:39 5:I5 8:02k
heat as