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is descending, and from thence up the straight 

 run to the stand, a distance of perhaps six hun- 

 dred yards, it is ascending. At the half-mile 

 post, Cato called upon Wagner, and the critical 

 moment having arrived, Stephen collared him 

 with the gray, on the outside. For three hun- 

 dred yards the pace was tremendous ; Gray Eagle 

 once got his head and neck in front, and a tre- 

 mendous shout was sent up; but Wagner threw 

 him off so far in going round the last turn, that, 

 halfway up the stretch, Mr. Burbridge ordered 

 him to be pulled up, and Wagner won cleverly, 

 Queen Mary dropping just within her distance, 

 one hundred and fifty yards. Hawk-Eye was 

 nowhere. Time, 7.48. 



" The disappointment and mortification was so 

 great, that for the first twenty minutes after the 

 heat, Queen Mary was freely backed against Gray 

 Eagle, while so far as Wagner was concerned, it 

 was considered 'a dead open and shut.' Before 

 the forty-five minutes had elapsed, however, a 

 reaction took place in favor of Gray Eagle. Not 

 a Ke7ituckian on the ground laid out a dollar on 

 Wagner! From the first, the very few individ- 

 uals who were disposed to back him on account 

 of his blood, his form, his performances and his 



