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take another dip into the future) went to show, with 

 the light cast upon the Two Thousand by the home 

 trial, that it could not be Paradox's running. The 

 fact was the horse did not really run the race for 

 more than a quarter of a mile, if he ran it as much. 

 And this is the explanation of the apparent mystery. 

 All the circumstances of that sensational battle 

 proved how easily calculations based upon a carefully 

 set and accurately run trial may be overthrown by a 

 false run race. The bare result proved satisfactory, 

 but the squeak was too narrow to be pleasant. 

 Paradox ought to have been driven along for much 

 more than a quarter of a mile. Proof up to the 

 hilt that the jockey did wrong in waiting with the 

 horse was afterwards supplied. Not to unduly 

 anticipate matters, let us come to the Derby, for 

 which, by-the-bye, there was no further trial. 

 The Blue Riband was lost by the adoption on the 

 part of the jockey of the very tactics which had 

 nearly lost the Two Thousand. It was to all in- 

 tents and purposes Archer's Derby. He had a 

 good horse under him, it is true, but there was 

 one better in the race, and it was The Tinman's 

 ' head ' that won. That same head of his landed 

 him victor in many a hard-fought fray, but never 

 more brilliantly than on that memorable occasion. 

 He was familiar with Paradox ; knew the horse's 

 peculiarities down to the ground, no one better, 

 and he rode, by keeping away, to beat him. 

 On the other hand, this was one of Webb's 'fine 

 rode ' races. There is not, and never could be, a 



