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race, when we went to get him ready ; and twenty 

 " go- downs/' i.e. swallows of water, three hours 

 before the race, viz. about twelve o'clock. 



Galtee More ran triumphantly through a great 



season, for he gained his triple crown by winning the 



A blaze S*- Leger, and he had also won the New- 



of triumph market Stakes and the Prince of Wales's 

 Stakes at Ascot. There is no wonder that such 

 a big horse began to feel the effects of continuous 

 work for first-class engagements, and some people 

 thought it time to retire him for the season when the 

 speedy Chelandry ran him a close finish for the 

 St. Leger. The truth, however, was that this was 

 a ridiculously false run race, as nothing really 

 went along until they were half a mile from home, 

 and the time in which it was won, 3 min. 31 y sec, 

 was not so good as that for a two-mile race on the 

 same day. When we bear in mind that Night 

 Hawk's time for the St. Leger last year was 3 min. 

 3f sec, we can easily see that Galtee More's 

 race was nothing like a trial over the full course. 

 Anyhow, he was very far from played out for that 

 season, as he ran perhaps the greatest race of his 



A glorious career in the Cambridgeshire later on, 



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finished fifth, not more than a length behind the 

 winner, Comtrey, 7 st. 2 lb. 

 Jack Watts rode him on that occasion, and said 



