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FAMOUS DEAD HEATS.

Dead heals on the flat <Io not occur with such frequency as they As it ia, we get quite enough of "dead heats of two," but there is a spico of romance about a "dead heat of three." At York, in 1896, for the Badminton Plate, three horses passed the post locked together. They wero Messals, Barjardo, and Casse Con, ridden respectively by SI. Cannon, T. Loates, and S. Loates. A third Loates was fourth on Hamptondale, and ho was beaten only a short head by the leading trio. In 1880 at tho Lewes Summer Meeting Soobell, Wandering Nun, and Mazurka ran a dead heat for the Astlcy Stakes. Only a head behind the struggling trio came Thora and Cumberland, also running a dead heat, and placed fourth by the judge. Some good judges who saw the race, says ''Bavly's Magazine,-" declare that if it had been called a "dead heat of live" no one -would have cavilled at the official verdict.

111 1845, on tho Thursday of the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, two "dead heats of three" occurred in the same afternoon. > In 1882 there was a dead heat of three in a field of five for the race called the Sandown Derby, but afterwards known as tho Electric Stakes, run over tho straight fivo furlong course at Sandown Park. Tho dead-hoators wero R. S. Evan's Harden (R. Wyatt), P. Lorillard's Gerald (F. Webb), and the Duke of Hamilton's Leonora (J. Watts). In tho run off. Marden, who in the meantime had had his plates removed arid ran unshod, won by three lengths, a head only separating second and third. The most notable dead heat of. three was the finish for the Cesaxewiteh in 1857 between El Hakim, Prioress (an American entry), and Queen Bess. There wore thirty-four runners, and the starting prices of tho dead-heaters were 8 to 1 El Hakim, 30 to 1 Prioress and Queen Bess. In the decider, which was run off in the waning light, George Fordham was substituted for Tankesley on Prioress and Bray for Littlß on El Hakim. The change of jockeys appeared to have worked to eome advantage in the case of the American mare, for she won the decider by a length and a half, a head separating the other two.

Once there was a dead heat of four at Newmarket in a sweepstake for two-year-olds, run over tho first half of the Abingdon mile. This was at the Houghton meeting in 1855. Fivo started, and the race resulted in a dead heat of four, the fifth horse beinr; only beaten by a length. The decider was won by a head, half a length separating second and third horses. Tiny Wells rode the winner, tho original favourite, a chestnut filly, called Overreach, by Birdcatcher. .

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7017, 4 January 1910, Page 8

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FAMOUS DEAD HEATS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7017, 4 January 1910, Page 8

FAMOUS DEAD HEATS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7017, 4 January 1910, Page 8