When Boston's Best Sons Met 291 



R. Ten Broeck's b. c. Lexington, by Boston, out of Alice 

 Carneal, by imp. Sarpedon. 4 yrs. 103 lbs. — 3 

 lbs. extra. Gil Patrick won 



Time of first mile i47t 



Time of second mile . . . . 1.52^ 



Time of third mile i-5ii 



Time of fourth mile .... i.48f 



Total time 7-i9f 



And what joy there was in the old Crescent 

 City that afternoon, when, outside of 18 Royal 

 Street, they posted those figures, y.igf. It was 

 a Kentucky horse, to be sure ; but then he had 

 come to New Orleans to do his race, and New 

 Orleans would always be remembered as having 

 given him the opportunity for it. 



There was great sociability in the town the 

 night after, and upon one side of Canal Street 

 they were drinking absinthe and liqueurs and 

 telling of the wonderful thing, as being possible 

 only on such a track as could be made in their 

 dear New Orleans. 



And on the other side of Canal the Americans 

 were saying that a little later in the year, on the 

 Union Course at Long Island, Lexington would 

 set a much better mark than that, although y.igf 

 was so much above all else that had been done 



