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in her getting away well, and he told the jockey to take her 

 to the front at once. The boy did so, and she maintained 

 the lead all the way around, wearing out her agile adversary. 

 The third heat was a repetition of the preceding one. Flir- 

 tilla had tired Ariel, and she stepped out and won all the 

 way without the slightest difficulty. In the last heat Flir- 

 tilla was about eighty yards to the good, and she did the work 

 in 5:54. 



Another remarkable race was that of Leviathan against 

 Brimmer. The former carried 180 pounds and the latter 90 

 pounds. It was for a distance of five miles, and was run at 

 Tappahannock, Virginia, in 1701. The lightly-weighted 

 Brimmer, who was, by the way, fleet of foot and full of all 

 kinds of speed and endurance, took the lead at the fall of the 

 flag and held it all the way around to the last quarter. Then 

 the bulky rider of Leviathan called on the son of The Flag 

 of Truce and he responded nobly. He quickly closed the 

 gap there was between them and forged to the front under 

 the wire by a head. The Brimmer beaten on this occasion 

 was not Colonel Goode's Brimmer, but another of the same 

 name. Still he was a fast horse and deserves credit for the 

 game race he ran, even though he had far the better of the 

 impost. 



On October 30, 1830, there was a celebrated race run at 

 the Rocky Mount track in Virginia between Red Gauntlet, 

 a famed horse, and Aratus. It was a famous race and was 

 for $30,000 a side, two-mile heats. The owners of the two 

 horses were mortal enemies, and each hoped the other would 

 lose all his earthly possessions. They put up their money as 

 long as they had anything to put up. Red Gauntlet took 

 the lead at the start and held it all the way around to the last 

 quarter, when Aratus challenged him. Then began the tug 

 of war, and each boy whipped his horse until the blood 

 flowed in a crimson stream down his sides. The sharp spurs 

 worn in those days were dug deeply into the flesh, and they 

 spared nothing to win. But, in spite of all the game Aratus 

 could do, Red Gauntlet forged to the front when they were 

 head and head and won by a short neck. 



His owner was not discouraged and was just as game as 

 when he had first had the blanket taken off his horse. He 

 wagered at this juncture what he could borrow from his 



