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This Post Stakes was a sort of an inter- 

 state race, and was the reason for the bringing 

 of Lexington from Kentucky to meet Lecompte 

 of Louisiana, Highlander from Alabama, and 

 Arrow, also from Louisiana. 



The condition of the course was such as 

 to render this a most disappointing contest to 

 everybody, except, of course, the backers of Lex- 

 ington. Lexington won the race in straight 

 heats. The belief in Lecompte, however, was 

 unshaken, and, as a result of the Post Stakes, 

 a match was proposed and accepted to be run 

 between Lexington and Lecompte on the eighth 

 day of April. On that afternoon there was to 

 be run a jockey club purse of ^2000. Lexington 

 and Lecompte were both regularly entered in 

 it, but so far as practical purposes were con- 

 cerned it was a match, since nothing else 

 started in it except the two sons of Boston and 

 a horse called Reube by imported Trustee. The 

 conditions of the race required three starters, 

 and Reube was merely tossed in to fulfil the 

 requirements. 



Great as had been the interest in the meeting 

 between these two horses, it was intensified when 

 it was known that they were to come together 



