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the clarion voice of Clay of Kentucky, the capital 

 game colt raced. 



" As they swung into the home-stretch the mare 

 had about half a length the best of it and no 

 more. Once in the straight, however, her stroke, 

 strono^ and elastic as the Saxon bow that strewed 

 the field of Cressy, soon decided the matter. 

 She got clear of her gallant opponent, took the 

 track, and won it by two lengths (such was the 

 fiat of the judge) in 7.26J, the last mile having 

 been run in 1.47I. Dangerous was at the end of 

 the iron rails away down the stretch. 



" The race could have been run faster, for the 

 horses lost time by taking 1.59 for the first mile. 

 The last three miles were done in the best time 

 ever made for three consecutive miles, viz., 

 5.2 7j. Brown Dick's was 5.28, and instead of 

 86 pounds, he ought to have had 104 pounds up, 

 to have made him even with what these horses 

 carried. 



" There was a shout at the finish, but an inde- 

 scribable feeling that something extraordinary 

 had been accomplished kept the majority still. 

 It ran through the crowd like a stream of mag- 

 netism, and when the true time was announced, 

 the sensations of the multitude were too deep 



