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T. B. Patterson's ch. g. Reube, by imp. Trustee, out of Minstrel by 



Medoc, 5 yrs., • 1 dist.* 



James Talley's b. f. Oratrix, by Orator, out of Sarah Washington, 



4 yrs., 2 dr 



Time — 5 m. 48 sec. ; 5 m. 44 sec. ; 5 m. 59 sec. ; 5 m. 56 sec. 



The first heat was won by Reube in very handsome style, in 5 m. 48 

 sec, and he came in first in the second heat, in 5 m. 44 sec, but he 

 was declared distanced, and the heat awarded to Lithgow, in conse- 

 quence of a cross, just as the two were making play in the rush home. 

 Whips going, flanks spurred, necks outstretched, they came up close 

 together in the last quarter stretch, the heat left to the two — half way 

 up, Reube challenged, and passed ahead on the outside, but hung upon 

 Lithgow, and ran in immediately in front of him. Reube being severely 

 punished, ran unkindly, it is said, and swerved, the rider not being able 

 to keep him straight. Oratrix was withdrawn after the first heat, and 

 Rosa Lee after the second, the old mare running well up in a good posi- 

 tion to the end. The third heat was a very pretty one between Jeff 

 Davis and Lithgow, the former winning it in 5 m. 59 sec. The fourth, 

 and deciding heat, 5 m. 56 sec, was very doubtful to the last, Lithgow 

 just contriving to outlast the young one, who ran a remarkably game 

 race, and, in our judgment, might have won it, if he had been jockied 

 judiciously. He is certainly a very neat, promising three year old, and 

 destined to be distinguished at a maturer age. 



The principle upon which the Club acted in declaring Reube dis- 

 tanced, is identically the same as was settled in a precisely parallel case 

 recently at Newmarket, in England, by the stewards of the Jockey Club, 

 Lord Glasgow and Col. Peel, who called in Lord Stanley to their assist- 

 ance, namely, that no matter whether a cross be accidental or intentional, 

 the penalty is the same, and that according to rule, a horse, though 

 coming in first, is thereby disqualified from winning the race. 



At the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, in last October, for a Handi- 

 cap Sweepstakes, a large field started, Mr. Blyth's Hippogriff, and a filly 

 by Venison, the property of Mr. Armstrong, were the contending horses 

 at the finish. The race was thus described : " within the ropes the 

 Venison filly had the lead — half way up Hippogriff challenged, and got 

 his head first, and on being struck with the whip, hung upon the filly." 



Hippogriff came in first, but an objection having been raised by the 

 rider of the Venison filly in consequence of the jostle, an investigation 



* Reube came in first, but was declared distanced in consequence of a cross. 



