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Press, Volume L, Issue 8534, 14 July 1893, Page 6

"Rapier" says a correspondent writes to ask the opinion of sportsmen on two steeplechases that are to be run in Germany this year. The first, for a stake of £100 to the winner, £40 to the second, £30 to the third. -815 to tbe fourth, is over a distance of six miles and a half, "over the hurdle and. steeplechase course," the description runs; and tbe second race Is a mile longer—seven miles and a half. I thick there will be little difference of opinion to the effect that these races are creel and useless. The Liverpool course is quite long enough to test the stamina of any horse, and to ask an animal to go two miles farther at anything like racing pace is to make an unreasonable demand. This is tbe point; there cannot be pace in a race run over six and a half, still less over seven and a half, miles. If the horses go at a slow pace and jump their fence, hunting fashion—l do not quite understand where the hurdles come ie, or why f —that is a. different, matter. Hunting runs of seven miles and more, are not uncommon occurrence!*—though far less common than legend and- rumour make out. tpr four miles and a half are often magnified into seven, aud seven into fourteen. Bat that is not steeplechasiug.