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has been thirty (in 1825, when Memnon won), 

 and the smallest four (in 1783 and 1785, when 

 Phenomenon — by only ' half a head ' in front of 

 the gray Pacolet — and Cowslip won, respectively, 

 and in the latter of which years there were but 

 ^ve subscribers. The shortest (unofficially re- 

 corded) time for the race, dating from 18 10, has 

 been 3 minutes ii-| seconds (Seabreeze's, in 1888), 

 and the longest 3 minutes 45 seconds, in 1839, 

 when Charles XII. won, af/cj" the dead heat. But 

 the dead heat, though slow, was run many seconds 

 faster (3 minutes 27 seconds is the ' clocking'), and 

 the slowness of the decider is readily accounted 

 for, when we read that ' at starting they both 

 walked from the post for a short distance, when 

 Euclid went away at a slow pace.' Whence the ab- 

 surdity of drawing any conclusion from ' clock- 

 ing,' unless every single circumstance is known 

 and taken into account, is once more to be 

 inferred. 



It remains to be added that in 18 19 (when An- 

 tonio was the winner, and there were fourteen 

 starters, according to the records) nineteen horses 

 came to the post ; only fourteen got off In the 

 race which Antonio won, and which was declared 

 by the stewards of Doncaster races to have been 



