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his reach, but he has challenged all others, oiFering to meet 

 them on their own ground. Napoleon found a Waterloo and 

 so has Boston, but the latter is beaten, not defeated ; like the 

 former, it will be found that " he is never more to be feared 

 than in his reverses." When dead amiss he was beaten, it 

 is true ; the race was a splendid one — one of the best ever 

 run in America — but Boston had no part in it ; he could not 

 have beaten a cocktail on that occasion, and instead of being 

 backed as usual at " 1,000 to 300, nineteen times over," his 

 owners did not lay out a dollar on him ! Since he was taken up 

 this Fall his owners determined to give him a trial, to see whe- 

 ther his speed or game had been aifected by his services in the 

 breeding stud. An eye-witness of this trial, who went over two 

 hundred miles to see it, has assured us that it was not only the 

 best trial Boston ever made, but it was the best trial ever made 

 over a course which has been trained on for half a century ! 

 Since that event, Boston has offered to run four-mile heats 

 " against any two horses in the world^'' for $45,000, which was 

 not accepted, and since his defeat at Camden, by Fashion, he 

 has challenged her to run him next Spring for $20,000. The 

 winner of this match will richly merit and most assuredly re- 

 ceive the proud title of Champion of the American Tuef ; let 

 us hope, therefore, that each will come to the post in tip-top 

 condition, and we may confidently anticipate witnessing the best 

 race without exception ever run in America. 



Boston's pedigree in extenso^ as given in the 13th volume 

 of the " American Turf Eegister ; " — 



1833. Boston, ch., h., by Timoleon, out of Eobin Brown's 

 dam, own sister to Tuckahoe and Eevenge, by Florizel ; her 

 dam — ^the grandam, too, of Luda, — by English Alderman ; great 

 grandam by English Clockfast, and her dam by Wild air. The 

 residue of the maternal line lost ; but of the purity of the blood 

 no doubt. 



1813. Timoleon, by Sir Archy, dam by English Saltram, 

 grandam by Wildair, &c. — See Genealogy, 2. 



1805. Sir Archy, by English Diomed, dam by English Kock- 

 ingham, grandam Tabitha, own sister to Miss Kingsland — out 

 of Pegasus's dam— by Trentham.— See Genealogy, 3. 



