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placed the second heat to his credit the majority of them 

 had followed him, and now here was their first sweetheart 

 once more to the front and selling first choice in the pools 

 for $100 to $20 over the field. At this rate a big business 

 was done, one prominent sportsman of Toronto laying 

 the odds fifteen times in succession. The fourth heat is 

 easily described. The little mare outstayed the party, 

 and from the drop of the flag was never headed. When 

 the books were toted up it was found that $23,500 had 

 been wagered on that race alone. 



NOW FOR THE SEQUEL. 



Later, at Saratoga, the boy who rode Lady Washing- 

 ton in the race at Carlton Park, made the following state- 

 ment how the race was won. It appears from what he 

 stated that the boy rode seven pounds light, and the 

 gang that followed the mare over here from the States 

 so surrounded the boy when he dismounted that they 

 managed unobserved to slip him the necessary seven 

 pounds to weigh in correctly. Alexander Macnab, then 

 the police magistrate of Toronto, was clerk of the scales, 

 and neither he, nor any of the stewards, suspected any- 

 thing wrong. It was a trick carefully and cleverly exe- 

 cuted, if the boy's statement is true, and there is not a 

 shadow of doubt that the slipping of the weights won the 

 mare the race. Many a time the Lady Washington race 

 is the subject of conversation when horsemen gather 

 together, and it will be a long day before another such 

 exciting contest is run. A well known and popular Q. C. 

 won the best part of a thousand on the race, and many 

 other fielders won big bank rolls on small investments. 



