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FAMOUS DEAD HEATS IN ENGLAND. I ead heats on the flat do not occur with such frequency as they did. As It Is. we get unite enough of "dead heats of two." but there is a spice of romance a Unit a "dead heat of three." At York. In 1SHJ. for the Badminton Plate, three horses passed the post locked togelher. They were M.ss.ihi. Rajardo antt Casse Con. ridden respectively by M. Cannon. T. -I.oates and S. Loates. A third LoStea yvas fourth on Hamptond-ale. and he was Uaten only a short head by the leading trio. In 1880. at the Lewes summer meotiug. ScoUdl. Wandering Nun and Mazurka ran a dead heal for the Aatley Stakes. Only a head behsad the strug-rBnc trio came Thora and Cnnilierlaud. also running a dead heat, and placiil fourth bv the judge. Some good judges who saw the race, says Rallys Maga zin.-. declare tlmt if it had tieen called "a dead heat of live" no one would have cavilled at the olli rial verdict. Ill 1845. on the Thursday of the Newmarket Houghton meeting, two "dead heats of three" ae cniTcil in the same afternoon. In lssu there was a dead heat of three in a field of live for the race called the Sandown Derby, but afterward known as the Electric Stakes, run over the straight five-furlongs course at Sandown Park. The dead healers were R. S. Brans Maiden I R. Wv attl. P. LoriUards Gerald F. Webb and the Duk.-of Hamiltons Leoanrs l.f. Watts. In the run-off Harden, who in tie meantime had had his plates removed aud ran unshod, won by three lengths, a head only separating second and third. Hie most notable dead heat of three yvas the finish for the Cesarewiteh in 1S."iT between El Hakim. Prioress an American entrv and Oueen Bess. There yvere thirtv-four runners, and the starling prices of the dead heaters were 8 to 1 El Hakim. 30 to 1 Prioress and Queen Bess. in the decider, which was run off in the yvaning lighr George Fordh.-im was substituted for Tankeslev on Prioress ami Bray for Little on El Hakim. The chance of jockeys appears to have worked to some advantage in the case of the American mare, for she won the decider by a length and a half, a head separation; the other two. Once there yvas a dead heat of four at Newmarket in a sweepstakes for two vear-olds. run over the first half of the Abingdon mile. Phis was at the Hough ton meeting In 1896. Five started, and tie-race resulted |n a dead heat of four, the fifth horse Brine only beaten hair a length. The decider was Wli by a head, half a length separating second and third Tiny Wells rode the winner, the original favorite, a chestnut filly called Overreach, bv Bird catcher.
