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mile stretch of road between Reigate and Crawley. 

 At twelve o'clock the sky cleared, the sun shone, 

 and the four different teams filed out from under the 

 archway of the ' White Hart.' It would occupy too 

 much space to give a full description of each horse ; 

 suffice it to say they all looked as hard as nails, and 

 fit to run for their lives. Lord Lonsdale had 

 thought if worth doing at all it was worth while doing 

 well, and had taken the greatest trouble that nothing 

 should be wanting to make a record that should 

 occupy a niche in the temple of fame. As far as 

 we in our humble opinion could judge, success had 

 most deservedly crowned his efforts, and look where 

 we might not a flaw or hitch could be seen in either 

 horses, harness, vehicles or arrangements. 



" Walking down the road with the easy, swinging 

 gait of the thoroughbred is that speedy horse War- 

 paint, and he is harnessed to a racing waggon lent 

 by Mr. Fox of New York. Next come a pair of 

 American trotters that have done a very respectable 

 record ere they crossed the Atlantic ; but we shall 

 see to-day that they can gallop as well as trot. 

 The machine that glides smoothly behind them is an 

 ordinary road waggon, lent by the Marquis of 

 Cholmondeley. Then, drawing a char-a-banc, the 

 four-in-hand trot jauntily by ; bloodlike leaders, and 

 wheelers that look capable of carrying fourteen 

 stone in the front rank to hounds. Last of all comes 

 a hogmaned hunter -like chestnut, carrying the 

 postilion's saddle, and alongside of him is a brown 

 mare, which we understand is Violetta, an animal 

 that was lately racing in France ; they are drawing 

 a buggy that was specially made for the purpose by 

 the Hanney Company of Illinois. 



