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his owner, Mr. Reginald Ward, who has ridden him. 

 Red Heart, a very speedy animal, bought at auction 

 for 5,100 guineas in 1897, was found a few months 

 after running, and running badly, over hurdles — the 

 almost inevitable preliminary to running over fences. 

 As no hurdle race is ever contested over a shorter dis- 

 tance than two miles it might seem, when the ques- 

 tion of selection arises, that the horses chosen must 

 have shown capacity to stay ; but strangely enough, as 

 has been already noted, this is by no means the case. 



Of recent winners over hurdles, to come to details, 

 Priestholme's best distance was six furlongs, and his 

 last race on the flat before he won over hurdles was 

 over that course. Bayreuth ran a long series of five 

 furlong races, as did the smart but desperately trouble- 

 some Mena ; there was never any suggestion that 

 Montauk stayed ; Pardalo always ran over five fur- 

 longs when he did not attempt six ; Sicily Queen and 

 Athcliath were five furlong horses. Hawkwood ran 

 over a mile and six furlongs, and though he certainly 

 did manage to win a couple of mile races, they were 

 on the easy courses at Epsom and Derby. Fossicker 

 ran over a mile when the distance was not six fur 

 longs ; Amphidamas also usually ran over these 

 distances, and on the two or three occasions when 

 he attempted a little more it was without success ; 

 Jack the Dandy as a four-year-old ran ten times, eight 

 of his races having been over five furlong courses. All 

 these animals have no sort of difficulty about staying 



