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noble animals sped on as if life and death called forth their 

 utmost energies. Both jockeys had their whip-hands at work, 

 and at every stroke, each spur, with a desperate stab, was buried 

 to the rowel head. Grey Eagle, for the first hundred yards, was 

 clearly gaining ; but in another instant Wagner was even with 

 him. Both were out and doing their best. It was any body's 

 race yet ! Now Wagner — now Grey Eagle has the advantage. 

 It will be a dead heat ! " See ! Grey Eagle's got him ! "— 

 « ]^o — Wagner's ahead ! " A moment ensues — the people 

 shout — hearts throb— ladies faint — a thrill of emotion, and the 

 race is over ! Wagner wins by a neck, in Y.M, the best race 

 ever run south of the Potomac ; while Kentucky's gallant 

 champion demonstrates his claim to that proud title, by a per- 

 formance which throws into the shade the most brilliant ever 

 made in his native State. Summary ; — 



MONDAY, Sept. 80, 1839.— Sweepstakes for all ages, 3 yr. olds carrying 86 lbs.— 4, 100—5, 110— 

 6, 118-7 and upwards, 124 lbs. ; mares and geldings allowed 3 lbs. Ten subscribers at $2,000 

 each, h. ft., to which the Proprietor added the receipts of the Stands. Four-mile heats. 



Jas. S. Garrison's— John Campbell's— ch. h. Wag7ier, by Sir Charles, out of Maria West, by 



Marion, 5 yrs. 



Caio. 1 1 



Oliver & Dickey's— A. L. Shotwell's— gr. c. Grey JSagle, by Woodpecker, out of Ophelia, by 



Wild Medley, 4 yrs Stephen Welch. 2 2 



Capt. Willa Viley's ch. f. Queen Mary, by Bertrand, dam by Brimmer, 4 yrs. . . .33 

 Bradley & Steel's ch. c. HoAJok-Eye, by Sir Lovell, out of Pressure's dam, by Jenkins' Sir 



William, 4 yrs. 



dist. 



Time, T.48— T.44 



To say that Wagner was better managed and better jockeyed 

 in this race than Grey Eagle, is to express the opinion of every 

 unprejudiced individual who had the pleasure of witnessing it. 

 What might have been the result of the race^ we cannot pre- 

 tend to say, but we assert with perfect confidence our belief, 

 that with Gil. Patrick on his back. Grey Eagle would have won 

 the second heat. People differ in opinion, luckily, and were it 

 not so we should be in a mass. Had the managers of Grey 

 Eagle been content to bide their time, another tale might have 

 been told. "Wait and win" carries ofi" more purses than 

 " Take the track and keep it." Grey Eagle could outfoot Wag- 

 ner in a brush of one hundred and fifty yards — he clearly de- 

 monstrated that fact half a dozen times in the course of the 

 week ; but in a run of five or six hundred yards, Wagner could 

 beat him about the same distance. The two horses were so 

 nearly matched that good generalship and good riding did the 



