A DOUBLE DEAD HEAT.
If for no other reason, the racing at Sandown Park will be made memorable by reason of the double dead heat between Deuce of Clubs and Sea Song in connection with the Surbiton Handicap. An exciting flnishresulted in a dead heat between the pair mthefirstinstance, and tneaecondheat between them was fought out with the like result. Their respective owners then determined to put the matter to the test of a further contest, and on the third time of asking tbe result was in favour of Deuce of Clubs by a neck. Cases of a precisely similar nature have not been so unusual as might at first blush appear, as a search through turf records would show ; but the last exactly parallel case that happened in En-land was at the Newmarket Houghton Malting in 187 L This was in connection with a Maiden Plate for two year olds, over the T.Y.C., in which the dead-heaters were Mr Joseph Dawson's Marquis of £orne (ridden by T. French) and Capt. M-chell-sCurtluaT(E. Martin up). For both the second and deciding heats odds were betted on Marquis of Lome, who eventually won by a neck.
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7158, 20 September 1888, Page 3
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