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Another was the dead heat between D'Artagnan and 

 Ozark, the brown son of Pat Maloy and imp. Sunny 

 South, which was run at Saratoga. It attracted attention 

 everywhere on the face of the earth where the people are 

 interested in the development of the thoroughbred. 



Of the many sensational races which have been run in Amer- 

 ica during the last twenty-five years, none has given more 

 general interest and concern than the great dead heat for the 

 Saratoga Cup between Preakness and Springbock. When 

 in the same race such brilliant performers as Grinsted, Wild 

 Idle, Olitipa and Ruthiford were left to struggle so far in 

 the rear, the time, 3m. 56i^s., was a record breaker, and 

 remains the record up to this day. Another one of the most 

 noted races which has taken place during the last twenty- 

 five or thirty years on the American turf was the great 

 struggle in the dead heat at Sheepshead Bay between those 

 two giants of the turf, Dobins and Domino. There probably 

 never was any race that took place in the vicinity of New 

 York which created such local interest and enthusiasm as 

 this one. The two memorable victories of the great Mono- 

 chist over the celebrated Harry Bassett, there and then again 

 in a few days, four miles, were very popular local victories, 

 which came like an unexpected avalanche upon the betting 

 public, but not so his trainer or his owner. 



One of the greatest races, especially over a distance of 

 ground, was the four-mile heat race which took place over 

 the Sheepshead Bay track and was between Fereader, Glen- 

 more and some other whose name I don't recall at this time, 

 and was won by Fereader in the best time ever made by 

 any mare in the world, 7m. 23s. The great strug- 

 gles between Harry Bassett and the great Longfellow for 

 the Monmouth Park Cup and the Saratoga Cup, in which 

 they alternated successes, Longfellow winning and beat 

 ing Bassett at Monmouth Park, and Bassett in turn beating 

 Longfellow for the Saratoga Cup the same season. In this 

 last race Longfellow pulled up lame and was never trained 

 afterwards, but was consigned to the stud, where he greatly 

 distinguished himself through his progeny. Another 

 amongst the greatest races that ever took place at any time 

 or place in America, in my humble opinion, and this opinion 

 was shared by the two gentlemen who owned the horses 



