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Stakes, was always admired, and he won the same race again on the celebrated 

 Sweetmeat. Twice in the same afternoon he ran a dead heat of three, the first for 

 the Glasgow Stakes on Binnacle; the second a ^50 Handicap Plate, Ditch In, 

 for which he finished on Naworth on level terms with Little Hampton and Alice 

 Hawthorn. In the Nursery Stakes next day he made yet another dead heat on 

 Green Pea, with Chappie on Dexterous. Such close finishes seem to have been more 

 common then than now. In 1827 in a handicap plate Across the Flat, Robinson on 

 Goshawk (4 yrs., 8st. 6lb.) twice rode a dead heat with Arnull on Stumps (5 yrs., gst. 

 2lb.), and only just won the ,50 on the third attempt. The next year there was a 

 dead heat for the Derby. 

 In 1840 five two-year- 

 olds started over the last 

 half of the Abingdon 

 Mile, and S. Rogers 

 twice rode a dead heat 

 on Jessica against T. 

 Stephenson on the 

 Fanchon filly. Then the 

 owners divided. In 1839 

 Charles XII. only won 

 the Leger, after running 

 off a dead heat with 

 Euclid ; and his half- 

 brother, Voltigeur, ran 



another dead heat with Russborough in the same event, but beat the Irish "dark 

 horse " by a length in the decider. Curiously enough, both half-brothers won 

 the Doncaster Cup two days later, as if to emphasise their previous hard-fought 

 victories : Charles XII. beat Beeswing and Lanercost ; Voltigeiir beat The Flying- 

 Dutchman, with whom his jockey, Marlow, played the fool even worse than he had 

 done in the Derby of the year before. Neither of these results tends to show that 

 a dead heat is necessarily a severe test to a real good horse. Listen, a moderate 

 bay belonging to Mr. W. H. Johnstone, also distinguished himself in this manner. 

 Ridden by W. Gates, he ran a triple dead heat for a sweepstake of 10 sovs. 

 with Bcauclerc (S. Rogers) and Jenny Lind (Flatman). In the decider, ridden by 

 F '. Butler, he beat Bcauclerc by a neck, and the mare was a bad third. He 



Melbourne " by " Hiimphrey Clinker " ( 1834). 



