OVER A DISTANCE OF GROUND. 



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CUP AND WHIP. 



Challenge trophies, though they seem at one time to have 

 enjoyed a certain measure of popularity, must always have been 

 tantalising and unsatisfactory prizes. There is a good deal of 

 responsibility and very little pleasure in holding a piece of plate 

 for a year, nor 

 is its ultimate 

 and absolute 



acquirement 

 through a se- 

 ries of wins 

 (which used to 

 be a common 



possibility) 



thoroughly 

 gratifying, as 

 the object of 

 art is not ne- 

 cessarily iden- 

 tified with one 

 horse — has in 

 fact as a rule 

 been the fruit 

 of a sort of 

 equine colla- 

 boration. 



This form 

 of race now 

 survives, so far 

 as we are 

 aware, only in 



the Cup and Whip at Newmarket, and their temporary posses- 

 sion must be achieved under formidable conditions. Both are 

 run for over the severe Beacon course of 4 m. if. 177 yds., the 



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The Cup. 



