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with previous performances, but this paper is not exactly tlie 

 proper arena for that interesting discussion. The columns of 

 the " Spirit of the Times " are broad and ample, and there we 

 anticipate reading many pleasant recitals of the incidents, and 

 comparisons deduced from the figures and blood displayed 

 during the late meeting, from many able pens. The whole sea- 

 son has been most profitable to the enterprising proprietor, Mr. 

 Ten Broeck, and has given much gratification to a larger num- 

 ber of persons than were ever before assembled in this portion 

 of the country on similar occasions. — I^. 0. Picayune. 



These campaigns of 1854, 1855, and 1856, the principal 

 events of which, as above recorded, will long stand conspicuous 

 in the annals of the American Turf, are certainly to be con- 

 sidered of great mark. 



Although the springy and elastic nature of the New Orleans 

 courses are peculiarly favorable to the making of fast time, and 

 the excessive lightness of the Southern weights tend to the same 

 result, no one can deny the greatness of the achievements. 



The fastest four-mile heats in 7.26^ by Lecomte, in 7.19f by 

 Lexington, against Lecomte's time, and lastly in 7.23f by Lex- 

 ington, against Lecomte; the fastest three-mile heats in 5.30| 

 and 5.28, by Brown Dick against Arrow ; and the fastest mile 

 that ever was run, of truly recorded time, and that the third of 

 a two-mile heat, constitute certainly a record of which to be 

 proud. 



But, alas ! of these cliampions what remains to record ? 

 Lexington, blind prematurely ; Henry Perritt, dead of his over- 

 exertions ; Lecomte, said — it is hoped unti-uly — to be amiss, in 

 his forelegs, in England ; Pryor and Pryoress alone left to 

 support their country's glory on the classic sod of Newmarket 

 heath and Goodwood. To judge of the powers they have 

 shown, and of the vast allowances with which they will run, 

 one would say that they ought to conquer ! But the race is not 

 always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. H. W. H. 



