26o Tbe American Thoroughhred 



Up to this time the filly had not been called 

 upon ; she pressed Blount all the way without 

 intending to pass him, unless he came back. 

 Blount maintained his lead to the end, and won 

 by three lengths, as Fashion was pulled up 

 inside of the distance stand. Boston, nowhere ! 

 The fourth mile was run in 2.00^, making the 

 time of the first three miles 5.41 J, and of the 

 heat, 7.42. 



Many of Boston's friends maintained that he 

 could not, on this occasion, run a mile under 

 2.10, while others contended that in the third 

 mile (run in 1.48), when Fashion and Blount 

 were going at their best pace, Boston made up 

 a gap of sixty yards in a quarter of a mile. We 

 cannot reconcile the various statements. 



The spectators were astounded. Boston was 

 not only out of his distance, but he did not get 

 within the draw-gate. Many persons on the 

 ground fully believed that, had Fashion pressed 

 Blount throughout the fourth mile as she did on 

 the third, the heat would have been run " down in 

 the thirties." The Camden, a clay course, was 

 not so fast by a second or more in a mile as the 

 Union Course. 



Both horses cooled off well, and the backers 



