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IS GRAVESENDS 1 1-4 COURSE SHORT? Tlie trainers at Gravesend. says the Morning Telegraph, have a notion that the mile and a quarter of the Gravesend track is a tritle short. Thev contend that it would be Impossible for horses that have been lately stepping the first quarter of a mile and a quarter races In 23 or 24 seconds, to run tiiat fast if tlie starting flag was really 440 yards from the tinisli. Maybe they are right. But whether they are or not, it would not be a bad idea to measure the course and verify tlie distance.
