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tween them. But the spirit of Ariel was unsubdued, and her 

 efforts unabated. She firmly maintained the arduous struggle 

 — half a mile more, they were again ' side by side ' — not con- 

 tent, she still pressed forward and regained her lost place. On 

 closing the mile she had gained the track and swept around the 

 turn ' nose and tail.' Up the back stretch continued a tremen- 

 dous struggle — Ariel still maintaining the lead — ^but, in making 

 the sweep of the last tui^n, the prospects of Trumpator seemed 

 to brighten — ^he closed in and entered the quarter stretch ' nose 

 and nose,' Intense interest was at its height — when the for- 

 tunes of Ai-iel decided the conflict — having the track and the 

 firmest ground, Ariel beat him down the stretch, at her utmost 

 speed, by only a few feet — closing the race, and bearing off her 

 well earned laurels, in 8m. 4s. — after one of the most arduous 

 contests ever kno-svu, — amid the acclamations of the multitude. 

 — ' I saw Hemy * do the first heat, with Betsey Richards on 

 his haunches, in 7m. 54s., and repeated it in 7m. oSs. — the best 

 four-mile heats ever run at !N^ewmarket." 



We regret our limits have compelled us to abridge the 

 account furnished by om* valued correspondent " Numidiajj^^." 



Kumidian might also have said, that the last heat was the 

 best fourth heat " ever run," in any quarter of the world — 8m. 

 4s. ! — 20s. better than Eclipse's third heat with Henry, when 

 both were at their utmost speed ; but the rate of their first and 

 second heat " toldy 



47. At Tree Hill, the next week, for the Jockey Club 

 purse, SljOOO, four-mile heats, all her older competitors being 

 beaten off or broke down, Kate Kearney and Star, two extra- 

 ordinary three-years-old, only entered the lists with her — it was 

 "gold to copper" on Ariel, notwithstanding her severe race 

 of sixteen miles the preceding week. She led off, in good 

 style, trailed by the others. Star, dm-ing the first three miles, 

 made unavailing efforts for the lead, and then fell back far in 

 the rear — Kate Kearney still trailing — until, on entering the 

 quarter stretch, with an unexpected burst, she went ahead and 

 won the heat in 7m. 59s. Notwithstanding the loss of a heat, 



* This performance being compared with Henry's on the same course, when run 

 at his best speed, in the very zenith of his fame, leaves scarce a doubt that Ariel 

 was fully equal to him or Eclipse, in their best days. 



