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these latter slower than those submitted for the 

 corresponding distances run by English horses in 

 England, will be perfectly entitled to suspect that 

 there may be a mistake somewhere, either of dis- 

 tance or time, in the English record. For 

 instance, if the very shortest 'clocking' for four 

 miles in America — where ' clockings ' are noto- 

 riously shorter than in England — be Ten Broeck's 

 7 minutes 15 seconds and a fraction 'against 

 time,' anything under that time in England for the 

 same distance may well be regarded with a certain 

 amount of doubt, for the odd fifteen seconds or a 

 quarter of a minute represent more than a furlong 

 in distance for a horse that is reputed to run (as 

 Filho da Puta for the Gold Cup at Richmond, 

 after meeting with an accident too, in 18 15) four 

 miles in 7 minutes. Else a Filho da Puta could 

 have more than ' distanced ' a Ten Broeck or 

 a Lexington (four miles in 7 minutes igf seconds 

 in 1855), which is either absurd or a terrible 

 reflection upon the race-horse of the latter half 

 of this century, for even in the short distances 

 we have apparently made no headway, though we 

 are accused of * sacrificing everything to speed.' 



And now for a word to the reader as to another 

 little matter. There may be many to whom the 



