268 The American Thoroughbred 



" The time was kept on the Jockey Club stand 

 by Messrs. Robert L. and James Stevens, and in 

 the judges' stand by Senator Barrow of Louisi- 

 ana, Hon. Mr. Botts of Virginia, and J. Hamil- 

 ton Wilkes, Esq., the official timers and judges 

 of the race. We took the time of each mile from 

 the Messrs. Stevens, between whom we stood. 

 Mr. S. M. Neill, Major Ringgold, U.S.A., and 

 other gentlemen of acknowledged accuracy as 

 timers stood in the same circle, and there was but 

 a fraction of difference in the time each declared. 

 Messrs. Stevens made the time 7.33, but as they 

 kept the time of the half, and in some cases of the 

 quarter, miles, their difference of but half a second 

 from the timers in the judges' stand demonstrates 

 the remarkable accuracy of the parties. 



" Both horses cooled out well. Boston always 

 blows tremendously, even after a gallop, but he 

 seemed little distressed. Neither was Fashion ; 

 her action is superb, and as she came through 

 on the fourth mile, it was remarked that she was 

 playing her ears as if taking exercise. She recov- 

 ered sooner than Boston, and though her friends 

 now offered large odds on her, Boston's were 

 no less confident; the seventh mile, they thought, 

 would 'fetch her.' 



