WINNINGS OF BOSTON. 279 



1841. 



In the Spring Boston stood at Chesterfield, Va., and covered 42 mares 



at $100 each. 

 Sept. 30. Petersburg, Va Purse Four-mile heats won VOO 



Beating Texas without an effort. 

 Oct. 8. Alexandria, D. C Purse Four-mile heats won 800 



Boston walked over though several cracks were present. 

 Oct. 15. Washington City Purse Four-mile heats won 800 



Beating Accident, Ned Hazard, and G-reenhlll with ease. 

 Oct. 21. Baltimore, Md Purse Four-mile heats won 600 



Beating Mariner, who won 1st heat in 8.00^—8.05— 8.10— course very heavy. 

 Oct. 28. Camden, N. J Purse Four-mile heats lost 



Distanced by John Blount and Fashion in 7.42— Blount broke down in 2d heat, 

 which was won by Fashion in 7.48. Boston dead amiss, and unable to 

 run a mile under 2.10. 



Starting thirty-eight times, and winning thirty-five races — twenty-six of 



them at four-mile heats, and seven at three-mile heats — winning $49,500 



Add for his earnings in the breeding stud. Spring of 1841 4,200 



Boston's winnings and earnings amount to the enormous sum of $53,700« 



It is due to Boston to state, that in his four-year-old form he 

 was prevented from starting for the large j)urses offered for four- 

 mile heats, by being in the same stable with Atalanta, Lady Clif- 

 den, Argyle and Mary Blunt. And it is no less due to him than 

 to his liberal and high-spirited owners to add, that from a regard 

 to the best interests of the Turf, they have frequently allowed 

 him to remain in his stable, when by starting him they could 

 have taken the purses without an effort. Boston, after his match 

 with Gano, at Augusta, could have won a Jockey Club purse 

 there, and at Savannah and Charleston. In the Spring of 1840, 

 he started but twice, though he could have easily won every four- 

 mile purse given between Petersburg and Long Island. His 

 owners, in the latter instance, were personally appealed to, and 

 consented to send him home from "Washington, while one of the 

 JSTorthern proprietors proposed to exclude him from running. 

 Several other occasions might be named on which Boston has 

 been withdrawn from the contest, at the request of the pro- 

 prietors of courses, upon a representation that his entrance 

 would destroy the sport and disappoint the public. 



Boston now at the advanced age of eight years^ after a racing 

 career of unparalleled severity is still as sound as a dollar, with 

 legs as free from blemish as a 3 yr. old. The field of his bril- 

 liant, never-fading victories extends from New York to Georgia, 

 and he has not only beaten, one after another, every horse within 



