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Two weeks later, however, he met something 

 that could make him race some when, at Balti- 

 more, he struck Bailie Peyton. He seems up to 

 this time to have always found a heavy track. 

 They ran the first four miles in 8.05, Boston 

 winning rather easily. Then Bailie Peyton was 

 withdrawn, and Boston won the final heat by 

 galloping over. 



The next week, at the Kendall Course, Boston 

 was entered to start in a Jockey Club Purse of 

 ^700 and Colonel Johnson was paid $500 not to 

 start him, because his running would scare every- 

 thing else out of the field and the race would be 

 spoiled. At Camden, New Jersey, exactly the 

 same thing happened the next week. Colonel 

 Johnson received $500 of a thousand dollar purse 

 to keep " Old White-nose " in the stable. 



Then he came on up to the Union Course 

 again, and, in a four-mile race, he signally de- 

 feated in straight heats the chestnut horse 

 Decatur, a son of that Henry which had been 

 beaten by Eclipse in the first of the matches 

 between the North and the South. Decatur 

 was by Henry, one of those contestants, and 

 out of Ostrich, who was a daughter of Eclipse, 

 the other runner in the great match. Although 



