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refuses to run for less than fourteen miles, and for a 

 sum of 1,000?. to 10,000?., and tliey, therefore, ad- 

 dress themselves to the sporting world in England, 

 in hopes that some party in England may think it 

 worth while to try the stamina of the English horse 

 asfainst the Arab on the above terms. 



' The race lately run was on the Aboukir Eoad — 

 4 miles 7 furlongs out, and the same back again. 



' The English mare which ran against the Arab 

 is five years old, 15| hands high, strongly built and 

 wide-chested, lengthy, and perfectly sound. Her sire 



was , and her dam by Touchstone, and she had 



already beaten every Arab we had tried against her 

 in short distances up to three miles. But in this 

 last race we had not sufficient time for training— say 

 twenty days — and, in short, took it too easy ; besides 

 which we had not our former jockey, who was laid 

 ujD, and we had to secure the services of a foreigner, 

 who did not understand the thing. If she had been 

 well ridden, we should probably have had a very 

 different story to tell. 



' The Arab horse belongs to Hallim Pasha, one of 

 the old Viceroy's sons, who has constantly been using 

 him in coursing gazelles, and has, he says, beaten, 

 in bottom, all his other horses. In other respects he 

 is a sorry-looking animal, 14 hands high, 6 years old, 

 bright chestnut, and without one single point that 

 would catch the eye of a connoisseur. Yet there is 

 no doubt that he showed game enough in the late 



