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over a distance of ground with such heavy weights. At 

 eight years old his owners issued a challenge to run any 

 horse in the world, four miles, with top weight, for any 

 amount, the parties who might accept to name the amount 

 of the stakes to be run for; but as no one accepted the chal- 

 lege, he was withdrawn from the turf, without even an oslet 

 or splint, and as sound as an American dollar. 



