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bridgeshire course, it is in accordance with tlie time 

 taken as I have just mentioned. 



In view of this, and as a matter that may be of 

 interest to my readers, I deal with the running of 

 Georgic at Manchester, in the Cambridgeshire, and 

 also in the Old Cambridgeshire last autumn, for the 

 purpose of showing of what it consisted relatively, 

 and to enable a comparison to be made with the 

 running of Best Man in the two latter events to 

 which I have referred. 



In the Prince Edward Handicap at Manchester, 

 Georgic carried 7 st. 4 lb., and covered the distance, 

 1 mile, in 1 minute 40 2-5 seconds, or the same time 

 as Clwyd, carrying 7 st. 12 lb., in 1895. 



In the Cambridgeshire she carried 7 st. 8 lb., dis- 

 tance 1 mile 240 yards, in 1 minute and 55 2-5 sec- 

 onds. In the Old Cambridgeshire, in which she ran 

 second, she carried 7 st. 12 lb., and covered the dis- 

 tance in 2 minutes 2 1-5 seconds — that is to say, 2 1-5 

 seconds behind the winner. Best Man ran second 

 for the Cambridgeshire in 1 minute 58 3-5 seconds, 

 and won the Old Cambridgeshire in 1 minute 58 

 seconds. 



By this it will be seen that, on the New Cam- 

 bridgeshire course, Georgic beat Best Man's time 

 by 4 seconds, while on the Old course things were 

 reversed to the etxent that Best Man beat Georgic's 



