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New Jersey, this Decatur. Decatur was a horse 

 of considerable name and in the height of his 

 fame. Both his managers and the pubHc had 

 by this time come to reahze that Boston was 

 a horse of more than ordinary moment, and 

 when he came to the post to front Decatur there 

 was an enormous amount of betting on the race. 

 The course was fetlock deep in mud. Boston 

 was a horse that could go through bad going 

 as cleverly as he could through good. Decatur 

 was a long strider, gathered slowly, and so was 

 unfit to race where the track was not fast. Bos- 

 ton again had no trouble in winning. 



The following year Boston came back to Long 

 Island and to the Union Course. His winter 

 trials had convinced Colonel Johnson that he 

 was a better four-miler than anything in his 

 stable, and he was entered to meet Charles Car- 

 ter and any others in the Jockey Club Purse of 

 $1000, which was the star event of that spring 

 meeting. Charles Carter led Boston to the end 

 of the third mile by a neck, but soon afterward, 

 when Boston went up to him and it came to a 

 struggle, Charles Carter, in the strenuousness of 

 that struggle, gave way in his right fore leg. 

 Boston then galloped home alone. Charles 



