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felt alike interested, and Grev Eagle's success was enjoyed as if 

 eacli was personally concerned. The odds, from being two and 

 three to one in favor of "Wagner, now changed, and Grey Eagle 

 had the call at fonr to three. Considerable sums were staked, 

 as Garrison declared " the old sorrel stud " had sulked, but 

 would show his hand the next heat. The fact was. Grey Eagle 

 for the first time had been properly managed ; instead of run- 

 ning the whole last half mile, he had taken advantage of the 

 ground, and made his first run down the descent from the Oak- 

 land House to the head of the stretch, and then being braced 

 up for three hundred yards, which allowed him time to recover 

 his wind, he was able to come again and make a second rally, 

 as brilliant as the first. As we before remarked, we think Wag- 

 ner could beat Grey Eagle by a desperate rush for six hundred 

 yards at the heel of a very fast heat, but not over a head and 

 shoulders at that ; while Grey Eagle had so much more speed, 

 that in a brush of one hundred and fifty yards he could let in 

 the daylight between them. With so light and feeble a rider 

 as Steplien on his back, it was impossible to place Grey Eagle 

 exactly as his managers would have liked, though he is a fine- 

 tempered horse, and runs kindly ; the result of the race, we 

 trust, will be a caution to them hereafter, how they venture in 

 a race of so much importance without providing that most in- 

 dispensable of requisites to success — a suitable jockey. 



Both horses perspired freely, and in much less time than 

 could have been expected they cooled out finely ; neither hung 

 out a signal of distress, but came up for the second heat with 

 distended nostrils and eyes of fire, betokening the most un- 

 flinching courage. 



At the tap of the drum the horses were hardly in motion, 

 and Cato drew his whip on Wagner the very first jump. The 

 pace was little better than a hand gallop for the first half mile, 

 but as Wagner led past the entrance gate, Gooding bid him 

 " go along," and he increased his rate. Stephen seeing this, let 

 the gray out a link, and in going down the descending ground 

 below the Oakland House, went up on the inside so suddenly, 

 that he had locked Wagner before Cato was aware of his close 

 proximity. The run up the quarter stretch was a pretty fast 

 thing, though neither was doing his best; the time of the 



