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wbicli the result is now made known all over the 

 world. It is the work of moments. No sooner is the 

 number of the winning horse displayed on the signal- 

 board than the electric flash conveys to London the 

 ansioLisly-waited-for intelligence ; if the race has been 

 won without doubt, the news will be in London, and 

 perhaps in Manchester or Birmingham, and many 

 other places as well, in a moment or two. By a dex- 

 terous motion a telegraph-clerk can communicate with 

 a sporting chum at Edinburgh or Glasgow, and that 

 chum can speedily find ways and means to convey 

 the news to friends long — that is, a minute or two 

 ■ — before any message can be delivered. A few years 

 ago the name of the Derby winner was known in a 

 small provincial town in Scotland within a period of 

 seven minutes of the race being run; and in Edin- 

 burgh, in some years, the result has been talked of on 

 the streets within nine minutes after the race has 

 been decided. In Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, 

 and other towns, editions of the evening papers are 

 issued on Derby Day often within ten minutes after 

 the struggle has taken place. The result of the Derby 

 is known in Paris almost as soon as it is in London. 

 That the name of the winner is wired to America 

 and India, and known in Bombay and New York with 

 great celerity, is a matter of annually recurring gossip. 

 The ' Iropertow,' that denoted the first three in the 

 American Year, was in the New York clubs a few 

 minutes after the event. The word quoted gave in 

 abbreviated form the names of the first three which 

 passed the post — Iroquois, Peregrine, and Town Moor. 



