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elder' than he should have been, broke his leg in 

 running^, was shot the same afternoon, had his 

 lower jaw removed before, and his upper jaw 

 after, his burial (having been dug up for the 

 purpose), and was declared by two different 

 ' vets.,' who had each a jaw submitted to him, 

 to have been four years old if he was a day. 

 Whereupon the race-courses of England, wherever 

 the rules and regulations of the English Jockey 

 Club prevailed, were declared laboo ' for ever ' to 

 our open-handed German friends and customers, 

 the ingenious but over-ambitious Messrs. Licht- 

 wald. 



Nor were Running Rein and Leander the 

 only horses suspected of superannuation that ran 

 for that memorable Derby of 1844, but the 

 suspicions led to no noteworthy action. 



At Ascot, however, a horse called Bloodstone, 

 professedly a two-year-old, came in first for the 

 New Stakes, was objected to, examined, declared 

 to be a three-year-old, and of course disqualified, 

 though the Master of the Buckhounds and two 

 Stewards of the Jockey Club, who conducted the 

 investigation, very properly complimented the 

 horse's jockey, Bell by name, for coming in first, 



