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I was browsing through old horse prints at
a
gallery on Newbury Street in Boston
yesterday
and I came across a print that
commemorated
a new "world" record set in the
1880's...
A Hambletonian/TB cross had trotted 20
miles
in harness in 58 minutes and change.
He
was pulling a high-wheeled wooden
sulky
on dirt roads. The print gave all the splits
and what-not.
Evidently these kind of
medium-to-long-distance
harness trotting
records were quite the thing
in 19th century
America.
Linda B. Merims
Massachusetts, USA
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