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many horses before him have done, without gaining 

 more than passing notice, and certainly without 

 the least semblance, in point of merit, of having 

 acquired fame. This is just Rodomont's fate; yet 

 if people are told that he established a name for 

 himself, in having run, perhaps, the fastest race on 

 record over the Cambridgeshire Course, few will 

 be disposed to look upon it as otherwise than in- 

 credible. 



The race in question was the Newmarket Handi- 

 cap, run at the Second Spring Meeting, in May, 

 1895. Rodomont carried 8 st. 6 lb., and covered 

 the distance, 1 mile 240 yards, in 1 minute 55 sec- 

 onds, or 2-5 of a second faster than Georgic ran the 

 Cambridgeshire, over the same ground, last season. 

 The 2-5 of the second may fairly be put at 3-4 of a 

 length. 



There was a great deal to be learned by the run- 

 ning of this horse, and also by the result of the 

 race. Nothing need be said of the riding, for the 

 horse set the pace himself, and came right througli, 

 overpowering the jockey from start to finish. I 

 did not see any second horse in it, and my surprise 

 was great when one was given as three lengths 

 away from the winner. From thence on I could 

 but keep in view the career of an animal that had 

 told as plainly as w^ords could express of what its 

 capabilities consisted, both in point of distance I 



