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was kept ; but this detracts in nothing from the stanchness or 

 capacity to repeat in the horses. 



One hundred pound plate for three and four years old. Three, 7 st. 5 lbs.— 103 lbs. ; and four, 

 8 St. 7 lbs.— 119 lbs. Maiden colts allowed 2 lbs., and maiden fillies 3 lbs. Two-mile heats. 



Lord Kelburn's ch. f. Purity, by Octavia, 4 years, . . . 4 3 10 1 



Mr. Richards' bl. c. Brmcnlock, 4 yrs 16202 



Sir J. Byng's ch. c. Thale.% by Tramp, 4 yrs 5 10 3 3 



Sir Wm. Milner's b. c. by Tramp, 3 yrs 6 2 3 dr. 



Mr. Eidsdale"s br. c. by Oiseau, 3 yrs 3 4 dr. 



Duke of Leeds" bl. c. by Crowcatcher, 3 yrs 2 5 dr. 



Each heat was most obstinately contested, and a vast deal of 

 betting between Purity and Brownlock, The course was nearly 

 deserted before the contest was over, the deciding heat being 

 absolutely run by twilight. 



From these data — the running, I mean, in Osbaldeston's two 

 hundred mile match, and that in the two minor races described 

 above, the counterparts of which, had one the time to hunt them 

 Tip, and the space to record them, might be reproduced a hun- 

 dred times from the annual racing calendars of Englisli provin- 

 cial meetings — I deduce this fact, and challenge denial or dis- 

 proval, that English thoroughbred racers of inferior grade on 

 the Turf, do still retain the capacity to run long heats as stoutly 

 and gamely as they ever did, and that at unusual weights and 

 in respectable time. 



I say that second and third-rate horses, horses valued at 

 £200 and under, can do this ; and that first-rate horses, valued 

 at £1,000 and upwards, cannot do it at all, or cannot do it as 

 gamely and in better time than their own inferiors, is simply to 

 talk nonsense. 



Again ; to say that a horse, which can run sixteen miles in 

 four four-mile heats, in 33m. 19s., with 154 pounds on his back, 

 could not run the same number of heats of the same length, in 

 much better time, with only 114 pounds on his back, is absurd. 



So it is absurd to say that a much better, stouter, fleeter, in 

 every way superior animal, could not run the same race, under 

 the same conditions, in better time than its inferior. In other 

 words, that Tranby, with 154 pounds on his back, coidcl run 

 sixteen miles at four-mile heats in such time, but that Fleur-de-lis, 

 or Glencoe, or Plenipotentiary, could not, or could not, with that 



