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miles. The other three horses were entirely out 

 of the race after the first two miles. 



When Wrangler yielded to the bay in front of 

 him, Sir Archy continued at the same rate of 

 speed for half a mile farther, and then his jockey 

 boy gradually drew up and finished the heat and 

 the race in a walk, distancing the entire field. 

 The first two miles were run in 346. Had the 

 exigencies of this great occasion demanded it, in 

 other words, had Wrangler been competent to 

 force Sir Archy to continue his rate of speed 

 for the full distance of the heat, the Virginia 

 horse would have made a four-mile record quicker 

 than the distance had yet been run in turf 

 history. 



The next week Sir Archy won the Jockey 

 Club Purse at Newmarket at a single heat. Dis- 

 tance, time, and competitors not given. 



In two weeks Sir Archy met Blank for the 

 Jockey Club Purse, four-mile heats, at Scotland 

 Neck Track, Halifax, North Carolina. They went 

 off slowly the first two miles, when Blank set out 

 to make it a race from thence home. Sir Archy 

 was in the lead some few feet, and maintained his 

 place, winning the heat by more than a length in 

 7.52. The second heat was run in the same 



