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Soon after this, Ivleanwood, by this time com- 

 pletely pumped out by his exertions, was pulled up, 

 as were 7'ony Lumpkin and Princess Dagmar from 

 the same cause. 



At Becher's Brook the trouble beean in earnest. 



First Bally casey fell, 

 and Stanton, being 

 interfered with in con- 

 sequence, lost so much 

 ground that he was 

 pulled up. Finally Ar- 

 bury, who was pulling 

 double at the time and 

 looked all over like 

 winning, o\'er jumped 

 himself and c a m e 

 down a burster, Fm- 

 blematic (who Lord 

 Coventry declared to 

 w in with) b e i n g 

 also out ot it here. 

 Merrimac now took up the running twenty lengths 

 in front of Hall Court, well up with whom were 

 7 he Czar, Flyfisher, and Alcibiade, the only others 

 near being Fmblem, Mistake, Philosopher, and 

 Lightheart. The Czar, compounding at Valentine's 



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