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former owner, Tim Lockhart, upside down was not good 

 enough to take the cake, but the absurdity of the idea of a 

 countrybred, however good, beating a waler, was again de- 

 monstrated, for although he finished in front of Triplets and 

 Torchlight (who were eased when pursuit of Red Deer was 

 hopeless), he never at any period of the race flattered his 

 backers. In the maiden 13-2 pony race that smart 12-3 pony 

 Jessamine by far the best piece of goods in Messrs. Fitch 

 and Go's celebrated emporium showed up the mediocrity 

 of the 13-2 ponies opposed to her, by beating them hand- 

 somely. Pulled out again half an hour later in the 13 hand 

 pony race, she was equally successful in disposing of the 

 much-fancied but now broken down Fleur-de-lys. The result 

 of the maiden countrybred race was a perfect illustration of 

 the difference between public and private form. Greased 

 Lightning had invariably in trials shown his heels to his 

 Jaintpore stable-companion Thunderstorm, and Harry Abbott 

 consequently planked it down manfully on the former, but the 

 wrong one outstayed the slippery one, and the Jaintpore 

 dollars went into the coffers of Jimmy and Baby Canning. 

 Bob Lockhart's stable, however, produced the favorite in 

 Behar, a very blood looking bay, full of quality and very 

 English, but not gifted unfortunately with the faculty of 

 going. The second day was better than the first ; an easy 

 win of Colleen Bawn's commenced the proceedings, and 

 it was quite in the order of things that the timehonored 

 Behar Stakes should fall to Jimmy's stable. Favorites did 

 not, however, have all the best of it, and the plungers 

 determined to recoup themselves in the countrybred race, for 

 which Vice Versa was thought to be the best of good things. 

 And very happy the said plungers were, until the nags were 

 within three lengths of the winning post, when it was seen that 

 the favorite, who had been running level with the despised 

 Thunderstorm, could not get his head in front of him, and after 



