CHAPTER XII. 



TIME {continued.) 



I cannot, in the present work, enter upon the 

 subject of defining distance by time, when it comes 

 to a question of showing the relative running of 

 horses which have finished within measurable dis- 

 tance behind the actual winner. For instance, sup- 

 posing a horse to have run, say, second, third, 

 fourth, or even fifth, in a well contested race, it 

 nmst not be imagined that the time cannot be as 

 accurately taken as though he finished first. On 

 tlie contrary, there is no difficulty in this, and I 

 have found the time thus taken to be in every 

 respect as correct as though it referred to the win- 

 ner only. In stating, therefore, that Best Man's 

 performance in the Old Cambridgeshire, which he 

 won, was faster by a length and a half than when 

 he ran second, behind Marco, on the New Cam- 



