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tually ;i luilo behind. In a nioniont thoy were upon 

 him. 



" Bouts " strove for about six feet to keep his posi- 

 tion in advance, but they swept by hira, and after they 

 had gone out of sight the good old horse had all his run- 

 ning to himself, and cut out the work to his own liking. 



The fourth mile of the race was run under whip and 

 spur; first '' Blan ■' and then ' Pajii^^ (as the specta- 

 tors abreviated their learned names) was ahead ; the 

 feeling of the multitude was intense. In entering the 

 quarter stretch the last mile '' Boots •' was once more 

 discernible, and nothing daunted by the clatter of hoofs, 

 or dispirited by the gibes of such as happened to catch a 

 glimpse of him, was maintaining his accustomed gait 

 steadily, and ju.st rounded the turn, as the ''two bloods" 

 swept by the stand — a dead lock. 



According to the rules of the club, a dead heat was 

 regarded dm though none had been run. The Boots 

 party contended that their horse was not distanced, and 

 to this view of the case, the judges unanimously inclined. 

 Upon examination, the rules were positive upon the sub- 

 ject, and had " Boots " bolted, or had he not run a foot 

 much less two miles of the four, he would be entitled to 

 start a second time. Indeed, no objection was made by 

 any one, none could be made, and accordingly it was de- 

 termined to put him again in the field — the fact of the 

 matter being, that his owner perceiving that the old 

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