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Friday, Feb. 24. — Jockey Club Purse, $288.81. — 2 mile heats. 

 Weights the same. Col. Spann's b. 'c. Seagull^ 4 yrs., by Sir Archy, 

 beat Mr. Singleton's b. f. Juliet, 3 yrs., by Kosciusko, and Mr. J. J. 

 Harrison's ch. c. Frantic, 3 yrs., by Director. This was a race of in- 

 tense interest throughout. There were four heats before the race 

 •was decided ; each of them run under whip and spur. Seagull won 

 the first heat in 3 m. 52 sec ; Frantic took the second heat in 3 

 m. 50 sec. ; Juliet won the third heat in 3 m. 51^ sec. Then came 

 the deciding heat, which was a beautiful trial of speed and bottom 

 between the three. It was finally won by Seagull, in 3 m. 57^ sec. 

 No horse allowed to start that was not under 5 years. 



Same day. — Second Race. — Jockey Club Purse. — 2 mile heats. 

 Feather weights. Mr. Litle's b. h. Shylock beat Mr. Cooper's h. 

 Stride, and Mr. Harrison's Susan, 3 heats. Time — 1st heat, 3 ra. 50 

 sec. ; 2d heat, 3 m. 52|- ; 3d heat, 3 ra. 57^. 



Saturday, Feb. 25. — Handicap Race. — 3 mile heats, — As this is 

 one of the most gallant races that has been run in our country up 

 to this time, we insert here "a full, true, and particular account," 

 which was published in the New York Sporting Magazine, March, 

 1833. It is decidedly the best account of the race that we have seen, 

 " take it for all in all ;" but reviewing the original report, as we 

 are now doing, after the lapse of years, by curtailing it a little here 

 and there, we think we have succeeded in toneing down the article 

 somewhat, without injuring any of its life and spirit. 



We recollect the race well ; who is there, whose good fortune it 

 was to witness it — " who is there, with soul so dead "■ as to forget it ? 

 It was a glorious sight, to see the style in which Bertrand, after 

 having contended for every heat, answered to the call made upon 

 him by his jockey in the last quarter, and though almost fainting 

 from desperate distress, coming again, with genuine pluck, like one 

 of the " right sort," as he was, and with an almost electric burst of 

 speed, collaring his gallant antagonist, and beating him on the post 

 by half a neck 1 It was a brilliant finish, " a glorious sight, indeed, 

 to see !" 



GREAT RACE AT CHARLESTON, S. C, FEB., 1826. 



The Annual Races over the Washington Course, Charleston, South 

 Carolina, ended on Saturday, February 25, 1826, with a Handicap 

 Purse, three mile heats. The horses named to the Stewards, as compe- 

 titors, were — 



