Ji90 THE HOKSE. 



daughter of Trustee and Bonnets o' Blue. Too much cannot be 

 said of her, or of her jockey. She ran as true as steel, as game 

 and honest a race as was ever recorded of a high-mettled 

 racer. 



Both horses cooled out well. Boston always blows tremen- 

 dously, even after a gallop, but he seemed little distressed. 

 Neither was Fashion ; her action is superb, and as she came 

 through on the fourth mile, it was remarked that she was play- 

 ing her ears as if taking her exercise. She recovered sooner 

 than Boston, and though her friends now offered large odds on 

 her, Boston's were no less confident ; the seventh mile they 

 thought would " fetch her." We should not have been sur- 

 prised to have seen both swell over the loins, nor to have found 

 them greatly distressed. We examined them carefully after 

 the heat, and state with great pleasure, that though tliey 

 "blowed strong," they recovered in a few minutes, and 

 came to the post again comparatively fresh. After the heat 

 was over, the crowd rushed into the enclosed space en masse y 

 an endeavor was made to clear a portion of the track of the 

 multitude who had now taken possession of it, and after great 

 exertions, a lane was formed, through which the horses came 

 up for the 



Second Heat. — Fashion led off with a moderate stroke, and 

 carried on the running down the back stretch with a lead of 

 about three lengths. After making the ascent of the hill Bos- 

 ton challenged, closed the gap, and lapped her. A tremendous 

 shout arose on all hands at this rally, but as it subsided on the 

 part of Boston's friends, it was again more tumultuously caught 

 up by the friends of the mare, as she outfooted him before 

 reaching the head of the quarter stretch. She came through — 

 in Im. 59s. — three or four lengths ahead, and kept up her rate 

 down the entire straight stretch on the rear of the course. After 

 getting over the hill, Boston, as before, made a rush, and suc- 

 ceeded in collaring the mare, while she, as before, again threw 

 him off, and led through by two or three lengths in Im. SYs. 

 Gil. relieved his horse for the next 600 yards, but instead of 

 waiting for Fashion to ascend the hill, at the half mile post, 

 alone, he called on Boston just before reaching it, and the two 

 went over it nearly together ; no sooner had they commenced 



