Word: sec
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...final heat of the mile-race was between Messrs. Swan and Sturgis, '81. The former won by beautiful riding, in 3 m. 22 1/8 sec., - remarkable time, when the bad weather and sharp turns are taken into account...
Messrs. J. H. Taylor, B. I., and J. A. C. Wright, '81, rode in the final heat for the one-hundred-yards slow race. The former won very leisurely, in 4 m. 8 sec...
...Herrick, '82, and S. Williston, '82, entered in the mile maiden-race for riders that had never taken a prize. Williston reserved himself till the fourth lap; and then, by a brilliant spurt, he took the lead, and won by a hundred yards, in 3 m. 47 1/2 sec...
...second trial-heat, W. D. Swan, '81, beat F. L. Creesy, '82, by about a third of a lap; coming in easily, in 3 m. 36 1/2 sec...
...race was a pretty one. Swan gradually passed every one but Williston, who had taken the lead; and, for the last two laps, there was a continual spurt between the two. Swan, however, won, by about three feet. Time, 7 m. 30 1/4 sec...