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know what was required of him, frequently bursting off in 

 spite of his rider. On the fourth mile, as he passed his own 

 stable, the rubbers and riders standing on its roof gave him a 

 hearty cheer, and the gallant horse broke off, and in spite of 

 Cato's utmost exertions, ran at the very top of his speed for near- 

 ly 600 yards, as if plied with steel and whalebone the whole 

 way ! We never saw a more magnificent exhibition of un- 

 flinching game ; even the friends of Grey Eagle forgot their dis- 

 tress for a moment, in doing justice by a cheer to the gallant 

 and victorious champion of Louisiana ! Eecapitulation ; — 



Saturday, Oct. 5.— Jockey Club purse, $1,500, conditions as before, four-mile heats. 

 Jas. 8. Garrison's, John Campbell's, ch. h. Wagner, by Sir Charles, out of Maria West, 



by Marion, 5 years, ......... Cato. 311 



A. L. Shotwell's gr. c. Grey Eagle, by Woodpecker, out of Ophelia, by Wild Medley, 



4 years, ......... Stephen Welch. 12* 



Willa Viley's b. f. Emily Johnson, own sister to Singleton, by Bertrand, out of Black- 

 Eyed Susan, by Tiger, 4 years, ........ 2 dist 



Time, 7.51 — 7.48 — third heat, no time kept. * Grey Eagle gave way in second mOe. 



For more convenient reference, we repeat the time of each 

 mile in tabular form : — 



riEST HEAT. 



1st mile 2.05 



2d mile 1.55 



3d mile 1.56 



4th mUe 1.55 



7.51 

 AmeHcan Turf Register, vol. II., p. 119. 



SECOIO) HEAT. I THIRD HEAT. 



1st mile 2.08 | No time kept, as Grey Eagle 



2d mile 1.52 gave way in running the second 



3d mile 1.55 mile. 



4th milo 1.48 I 



7.43 



The event of this race is one of the things which lead me 

 to deprecate the extremity to which four-mile heat racing is 

 carried in America. 



That such races test to the utmost the pluck, the endurance, 

 and the powers of the blood-horse, is granted. That they must 

 kill, at last, is certain. 



The question is this ; Cannot a horse's game, his endurance, 

 and his speed be tested, short of destroying his physical ability 

 ever to prove them more ? 



There must be a limit even to the wear of a machine. I do 

 think that such exhibitions as the twenty-mile race, from the ef- 

 fects of which one mare died, and, probably, not one fully recov- 

 ered — as Wagner's and Grey Eagle's two four-mile races within 

 five days, and other similar performances — are to be honored in 

 the avoidance, not the imitation. — H. W. H. 



