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reached, receiving an ovation, of which the American 

 nation may well be proud, in recognition of his unsur- 

 passed 'gameness.' 



I think I have said sufficient to show that you must 

 have a stayer if you want successfully to compete in a race 

 so difficult to win as the Cambridgeshire is. And, more- 

 over, to prove the result of the respective trials as shown 

 all the six horses had a most excellent chance for the 

 race on the six different occasions in which they took 

 part in it ; for four of them won it, and the other two 

 were only just beaten, and then through circumstances 

 which, in a sense, were accidental. The evidence 

 gathered from the facts before us goes largely to 

 supplement what I have insisted upon in my previous 

 work the reliance to be placed upon trials when 

 properly conducted. 



I now propose to give a detailed account of what took 

 place in the Cambridgeshire Stakes when Catch'em Alive 

 won, as we all know that, after winning, he was 

 objected to for not carrying, as was alleged, his proper 

 weight. I suppose the excitement caused over this race 

 was never equalled over any other that took place at 

 Newmarket certainly not over any that I can remem- 

 ber. To show how madly some of the partisans of 

 Merry Hart acted, it will only be necessary to say that 

 when Adams left the scales without drawing the weight, 

 one of them rushed furiously over to the ring and laid 

 1,000 to 10 on Merry Hart getting the stakes. But 

 others, better informed, advocated the claim of the 

 winner. In the interval between the race and the 

 decision, a few days after, a good deal of betting took 

 place. Sir Joseph Hawley bore up with unabated zeal 

 to the last in support of Merry Hart conjointly with his 

 noble owner, whilst I believe the Admiral thought from 



