270 The American Thoroughbred 



" After getting over the hill, Boston, as before, 

 made a rush, and succeeded in collaring the mare, 

 while she, as before, again threw him off, and led 

 through by two or three lengths in 1.57. Gil 

 relieved his horse for the next six hundred yards, 

 but, instead of waiting for Fashion to ascend the 

 hill at the half-mile post alone, he called on Boston 

 just before reaching it, and the two went over it 

 nearly together ; no sooner had they commenced 

 the descending ground than, gathering all his 

 energies for a final and desperate effort, Boston 

 made a dash, and this time he succeeded in tak- 

 ing the track ! 



" The scene which ensued we have no words to 

 describe. Such cheering, such betting, and so 

 many long faces were never seen nor heard 

 before. 



After being compelled to give up the track, 

 Joe Laird, with the utmost prudence and good 

 sense, took his mare in hand, and gave her time 

 to recover her wind. This run took the shine out 

 of Boston. Instead of pulling him steadily and 

 refreshing him with a slight respite, Gil Patrick 

 kept him at his work after he took the track, and 

 ran this mile (the third) in 1.5 1|^. The pace was 

 tremendous. Nothing short of limbs of steel 



