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he was able to come again and make a second 

 rally, as brilliant as the first. As we before 

 remarked, we think Wagner could beat Gray 

 Eagle by a desperate rush for six hundred yards 

 at the heel of a very fast heat, but not over a 

 head and shoulders at that ; while Gray Eagle 

 had so much more speed, that in a brush of 

 one hundred and fifty yards he could let in the 

 daylight between them. With so light and 

 feeble a rider as Stephen on his back, it was 

 impossible to place Gray Eagle exactly as his 

 managers would have liked, though he is a fine- 

 tempered horse, and runs kindly; the result of 

 the race, we trust, will be a caution to them here- 

 after, how they venture in a race of so much 

 importance without providing the most indis- 

 pensable of requisites to success — a suitable 

 jockey. 



" Both horses perspired freely, and in much 

 less time than could have been expected they 

 cooled out finely; neither hung out a signal of 

 distress, but came up for the second heat with 

 distended nostrils and eyes of fire, betokening 

 the most unflinching courage. 



" At the tap of the drum the horses were 

 hardly in motion, and Cato drew his whip on 



