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SOME HISTORIC DEAD HEATS. The dead heat between Tim Whilller and Buck-stone was one of the most tremendous things that was ever seen at Ascot or elsewhere, as they were champions. We had an idea that Fordhain was to have ridden Buckstone. but in the lirst race he met with an accident. He was on his way to the starting post on a mare belonging to Mr. Ton Broeck and, to his surprise, met the royal procession. He did not know what, under the circumstances, to do. and so turned back. and. in fact, headed the royal procession himself, cantering in front of the master of the buckbounds. In the race his mount fell, and he was severely injured. Buckstone was believed to be never so well as he was on this. day. and Mr. Merry snapped up Jacksons offer of 0,000 to 53,000 against him. There was nothing yery remarkable in the lirst heat, in which Tim Whiilier. which had been headed, came again, and just got up in time. Tho second heat was a very different affair. Buckstone. after running for the Epsom Cup, was seized with an attack of megrims, and it became reported to the Tim Whiilier party that the same thing had again occurred. Singularly enough, some one whispered to Mat Dawson that all was not well with Tim Whifller. As a matter of fact, there was nothing wrong with either. Each, however, believing that something was wrong with the other, gave to his jockey cutting down orders, and what a terrible horse Tim Whiilier was at that game we saw iu , the Doncastcr Cup of the previous year when, for the whole two miles and five furlonss of the journey, he went rattling along at the head of the field like a piece of machinery. With such orders as were given the pace was terrific, and In the cad Tom Whilller. who had made it. succumbed. The race was run in the fastest time up to this on record, viz.. four minutes and twenty-four seconds, and we doubt whether it has leen beaten since. Neither horse ever won again. Buckstone died while on his way to China, and Tim Whilller went to Australia to lay. with Fisherman, the foundation of the magnificent breed that now nourishes in that country. The deciding heat won by Buckstone was run In fourteen seconds less time than the first one. The Sportsman, we notice, continues the error of giving l!olprt the Devils time for the Ascot Cup of 1SS1 as four minutes and twelve seconds. As a matter of fact, the race that year was a very slow one. and the real time was live minutes and twelve seconds. An error of a minute crept into one of the accounts, and it is about time that it was corrected or it will deceive future writers. One of the best horses Tom Jennings ever trained was Verneuil. which in 1S7.S won all three of the long races, viz., the Vase, the Cup and the Alexandra Plate. His time for the Cup was four minutes and fifty seconds. Isonomy. one of the best Cup horses that ever ran. took five minutes and twelve seconds over it in his first year. Eider is a horse that seems partial to dead heats, as he ran one with a stable companion iu Paris the week before, but we believe the two merely trotted past the post. When in 1So2 there was a dead heat between the famous Caiuariue and Bowton. which had won the St. Leger, for the Ascot Cup, Sain Chifney. on his own horse, was said to have bumped Camarine, which wan ridden .by Jim Kobinson. This aroused the wrath of Sir Mark Wood mightily, but there was no objection. What Chifney did. it was said, was unavoidable and had no real liearlng on the race. Camarine won the deciding heat oasilj-.
