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that could run some, and we afterwards saw him 

 in a finish that will be remembered as long as 

 the Brooklyn Handicap remains to memory. 



A host of good ones came in the racing season 

 of 1886. Dwyer Brothers' Miss Woodford was at 

 the very height of her glory. They sent her out 

 to St. Louis to meet Freeland, the Western cham- 

 pion. There was a stake in St. Louis called the 

 Eclipse Stakes, to which ^10,000 was to be added 

 if Freeland and Miss Woodford should start. 

 Freeland declined, Mr. Corrigan, his owner, stat- 

 ing that the horse was unfit to go to the post on 

 account of the condition of his legs. The asso- 

 ciation, with rare liberality, resolved on adding 

 the full $10,000 to the stake at any rate, and a 

 cracking field went to the post in Miss Woodford, 

 "Lucky" Baldwin's Volante, Porter Ashe's Alta, 

 and Corrigan's Modesty. Miss Woodford was a 

 hot favorite and won a grand race by a shade 

 over a length from Volante. It was one of the 

 greatest days that St. Louis had seen in many 

 years. Miss Woodford returned to the East and 

 continued that triumphal career which marked 

 her as one of the best mares that the turf had 

 seen for 5Aears. She met one horse during the 

 season that could hold her level in a fair, square, 



