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the grand stand already black with people, intent 

 upon thus early securing a place from which to 

 view the race. A steady flow of people from 

 the city continued until long after the first race 

 on the programme had been run. It is difficult 

 to estimate a crowd upon this track, and some 

 placed it as high as 30,000. I have been told 

 that the exact number falls between 23,000 and 

 24,000. All agreed that it was the largest by 

 far that had ever been upon the grounds. Masses 

 of strangers arrived by train, extra trains and 

 steamboats throughout yesterday and this even- 

 ing, so that the hotel capacity of the town, great 

 as it is, was fully taxed, and vehicles of every 

 description that could be pressed into service, 

 in addition to the street and steam cars, were in 

 constant use between the town and the track 

 throughout the forenoon. It was a crowd, as 

 the Kentuckians express it, 'sure enough.' I 

 think I have never seen it excelled in numbers 

 at a race, except at the first great stallion trot, 

 at Boston, a few years ago. 



" The mare was first to show up on the stretch, 

 clothed in her white sheets, and received a fair 

 round of applause ; but when the horse made his 

 appearance from the opposite direction a greet- 



