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second heat ; thus beating by several seconds the best mile 

 Lexington or any other horse ever made. 



" Time is, time was, and soon shall be no more." 



Spirit of the Times, May 5, 1855. 



The performances of this horse, who was got in 1852, by 

 Imp. Margrave, out of Odd Stocking, by Thornhill, were very 

 remarkable. 



This year was the first of his appearance on the turf, and in 

 his first race of mile heats, he made the best time, for two con- 

 secutive heats, ever recorded — 1.46 each, after a first dash 

 of 1.50. 



Five days afterward, in a race of two miles against Bijou 

 and Gallatina, after winning the first heat in 3.39, he ran the 

 first mile of the second, in the unprecedented time of 1.42|-, 

 and the heat in 3.40. 



After this, he ran unfortunately, and came to an unfortunate 

 and untimely end ; being beaten in the following May, two- 

 mile heats, in 3.43|, 3.39^, and subsequently thrice distanced, 

 in two and three-mile heats, at no wonderful time. 



In the autumn he won a race, the best three out of five, at 

 one-mile heats, the best heat in 1.49 ; and a few days later, 

 September 29, he ran and won his last race of three-mile heats, 

 but killed himself in winning. The race was finished in a 

 snow storm, and was all one cliapter of accidents, the horses all 

 falling, shying and bolting ; Perritt coming down twice heavily, 

 and dying in his stable the same night, a gallant winner and 

 good, though I fancy somewhat uncertain, horse, in consequence 

 of cold and exertion. 



"What he could have done can never now be known, for his 

 powers were never fairly tried, since he was, in truth, but a 

 three-year old, though from the Southern mode of reckoning 

 from May-day, he was rated at a year older. H. W. H. 



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