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miles of the journey, as he swept along leading his field 

 by three lengths, but as they rushed by the stand enter- 

 ing on the third mile, the despised outsider, Country 

 Maid, moved from the rearguard and challenged for the 

 lead, amid the breathless excitement of the big crowd, 

 which for a moment was fairly paralyzed with astonish- 

 ment. Not only did the Maid stand the pressure of a 

 head to head struggle for a quarter of a mile, but actu- 

 ally raced to the front and led the Colonel by a length 

 into the home stretch. Bedlam broke loose couldn't 

 match the scene that then ensued. Men's hats went 

 whirling aloft and Tom Gillespie, of Hamilton, sent his 

 so far and so high that he never set eyes on it again. At 

 the draw-gates the Maid had the heat won, and finished 

 an easy winner by three lengths. The fourth heat, 

 though stubbornly fought out, was won by Country Maid 

 by three lengths, and thus ended one of the gamest and 

 finest heat races ever contested on any track. It was 

 calculated that fully ten thousand dollars went into the 

 pockets of the greenhorns who had backed Charley 

 Gates' Country Maid. 



