238 The American Thoroughbred 



Carter, being the only one of a number of entries 

 to respond to the call, was of course drawn after 

 that first heat, and Boston galloped over for the 

 second. After the race $15,000 was refused for 

 Boston. 



Under unfortunate conditions, that is, on a 

 muddy track, but against a horse that was known 

 to be good in the mud, Boston had his first gruel- 

 ling race just a week after the Union Course affair, 

 at the Beacon Course. Again it was the Jockey 

 Club Purse of $1000, and again, of course, it was 

 four-mile heats. This was the first race in which 

 Boston lost a heat after he passed into Colonel 

 Johnson's hands. The animal which he had to 

 beat was the bay horse Duane, by imported 

 Hedgford. Boston did not run kindly in the 

 race. He sulked repeatedly, and Duane beat 

 him the first heat in the good time of 7.52, track 

 conditions considered. Boston won the next two 

 heats and the race, though he was so full of 

 notions at the start of the third heat that he had 

 to be whipped off from the post. 



They did not start him again until the autumn, 

 and then, at the Newmarket Course at Peters- 

 burg, Virginia, he had a galloping victory over a 

 mare called Polly Green, at four-mile heats. 



