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She certainly made good running on several occasions, and 

 was a good winner ; and a most successful animal to lier owners, 

 for whom she had won upward of $42,000 before her match 

 with Fashion, hj which she netted them $10,000 more. 



She had previously beaten Blue Dick with some ease, who 

 was any thing but a contemptible adversary ; and she won, in 

 her match with Fashion, laurels which, like those of Bascombe, 

 whom I last considered, were for a moment thought to be peren- 

 nial, though the}'- were soon faded, and trailed comparatively in 

 the dust. The two heats were done in 7.39 3-4, 7.45 1-4. " Her 

 immense stride and strength," says Porter, in one of his telling 

 descriptions of a race, which no man who wields a pen can de- 

 scribe as he can, when he is in the vein — " and her ' nice ideal 

 of perpetual motion ' did the business. It is a matter of doubt 

 with some, whether Fashion ever saw the day when she could 

 beat Peytona. Certainly Peytona not only outfooted her but 

 outlasted her. In our opinion condition won the race. It is 

 very remarkable that after so fast a first heat, there should have 

 been so little falling oif as five seconds in the second heat." 



I saw this race myself, and I unquestionably was not one of 

 those who doubted whether Fashion ever saw the day, &c. — so 

 far from it that I stood my small stake, very confidently, on the 

 return match at Camden a fortnight later, when on that far 

 heavier and slower course Fashion — who had been kept con- 

 stantly at hard work, never missing a gallop since the day of 

 her defeat, while her conqueress, if one may coin a word for 

 the occasion, had sufi'ered so severely by victory that she had 

 hardly been able to take one — fairly reversed the tables, and 

 won, in two heats, without ever being put to her speed, in 7.48, 

 7.59. There is no doubt. Fashion's rider having, by order, pulled 

 her up, and passed the winning-post at a hand gallop, that, if 

 he had chosen, he could have distanced Peytona. 



After this race she was withdrawn from the turf, a fine animal, 

 and a good and honest mare, able to go the pace and stay the 

 distance ; but, it must out — "Impar congressus Achilli." 



Blue Dick by imported Margrave, dam by Lance, &c., a blue 

 roan horse, and a fair good one, though not what one could fairly 

 call a successful horse or a good winner — for he was continually 

 over-matched. With Kegister of his own years, it was a tougli 



