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wide hips, a good loin, remarkably fine stifles 

 and thighs, with as fine hocks and legs as ever 

 stood under a horse. Wagner has been in 

 training ever since his three-year old form and 

 has travelled over three thousand miles, without 

 three weeks' rest, this season Mr. Garrison 

 commencing galloping him, just four weeks 

 previous to this race ; he had not even been 

 turned loose in a paddock. 



"A murmur, which was soon lost in a sup- 

 pressed cheer at the head of the quarter-stretch, 

 announced to the multitude about the stand the 

 approach of Gray Eagle ; as he came up in front 

 of the stand, his lofty carriage and flashing eye 

 elicited a burst of applause, which told better 

 than words can express the intense and ardent 

 aspirations felt in his success, by every son and 

 daughter of Kentucky. Clinton, his trainer, 

 immediately stripped off his sheet and hood, 

 and a finer specimen of the high-mettled racer 

 was never exhibited. He was in condition to 

 run for a man's life — a magnificent gray, nearly 

 sixteen hands high, with the step of a gazelle 

 and the strength of a Bucephalus. Mr. Bur- 

 bridge had told us that of one thing he was 

 confident — his horse might want foot, but of 



