Eclipse and Henry 



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Crafts, in using his whip wildly, had struck him 

 too far back, and had cut him not only upon his 

 sheath, but had made a deep incision upon his 

 testicles, and it was no doubt the violent pain 

 occasioned thereby that caused the noble animal 

 to complain, and motion with his tail, indicative 

 of the torture he suffered. The blood flowed 

 profusely from one or both of these foul cuts, and 

 trickling down the inside of his hind legs, ap- 

 peared conspicuously upon the white hind foot, 

 and gave a more doleful appearance to the 

 discouraging scene of a lost heat. 



" The incapacity of Crafts to manage Eclipse 

 — who required much urging, and at the same 

 time to be pulled hard — was apparent to all ; he 

 being a slender-made lad, in body weight about 

 loo pounds only. A person interested in the 

 event, seeing Buckley, who had ridden the horse 

 on a former occasion, with me, requested that I 

 would keep him within call, and ready to ride 

 in case of an emergency. It was, however, soon 

 settled, and announced, that Mr. Purdy would ride 

 him the second heat, upon which long faces grew 

 shorter, and Northern hope revived. Six to four 

 was, nevertheless, offered on the Southern horse, 

 but no takers. 



