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horses took their age from the ist of May, 

 so that the runners would be two-year-olds, 

 ' rising ' three, and not, as now, three years old 

 die7i sounds. Again, the Two Thousand used to 

 be run on Tuesday and the One Thousand on 

 Thursday, instead of, as now, on Wednesday and 

 Friday respectively ; and, though the former has 

 always been run on the Rowley Mile, the latter 

 was run on the Ditch mile up to 1873. It is 

 worthy of notice, too, that though the Two Thou- 

 sand and Derby have been frequently won by the 

 same horse since 181 3, Sir Charles Bunbury, who 

 won the first Derby (with Diomed), and was the 

 first to win both Oaks and Derby with the same 

 mare (Eleanor, in 1801), was the first to win both 

 Two Thousand and Derby (with Smolensko in 

 1813) ; and that Mr. ' Kit' Wilson, ' Pater Ces- 

 pitis,' who was the first to win both Derby and 

 St. Leger with the same horse (with Champion in 

 1800), won not only the first Two Thousand 

 (with Wizard) but also the first One Thousand 

 (with Charlotte). 



For the Two Thousand there has been 

 one dead heat (Moslem and Formosa in 1868) 

 recorded ; for the One Thousand not any. 

 The greatest number of runners for the Two 



