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looked round to the other jockeys and said, ' Good- 

 bye,' and increased his lead many lengths more, till 

 Hearing the distance, when Promised Land, who had 

 been lying second all the way, began to creep up, 

 passed him at the stand, and won cleverly, the rest 

 all being beat a long way. It was a heavy betting 

 race, as North Lincoln had won all his races before 

 with the greatest ease, and I did not think any- 

 thing could beat mine ; so we won a good stake, and 

 also had backed him heavily for the Derby at long 

 odds. He had only one more engagement that year 

 in the Criterion, when the two met again at even 

 weights; and AVells, this time riding a waiting race, 

 just won, The Land being second. I may here point 

 to a rather curious coincidence. The two horses met 

 but twice as two-year-olds, and each beat the other; 

 and again as three-year-olds the} 7 met the same 

 number of times with a like result. 



North Lincoln was not in the Derby, for which race 

 and the Two Thousand Promised Land became a 

 strong winter favourite. He did well through the 

 winter, and in the following spring was tried a mile 

 as follows : 



Promised Land, 3 yrs., 8st. 7 lb. . .1 

 Schism, 3 yrs., 7 st. 12 lb. . . .2 

 Nimrod, 3 yrs., 7 st. 3 lb. . . .3 

 Bevis, 3 yrs., 6 st. 7 lb 4 



All stable-lads riding; won by a length cleverly, two 

 lengths and a neck separating the others. As Bevis 



