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LONG SETS LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. London. Bug., March "i:. Seventeen horses started in tin- Lincolnshire Handicap of one mile at Lincoln today and at tie- lini-li s. Joels ii. real old bay horse. Long Bet, by Rabelais Balle p. nine, lit pounds was tii-t bj four length-: ;. Fabers four-y ,i old i. .iv coll i a. ie p.t. in Baahey Park Ardgzeagh, M pounds, was lepBBd, aud U. P. Nick all- four-year-old bay colt. Warfare, by Yalian*. - Tar Baby, 85 pound-, wa- third. Long s.t won tie- Cambridgeshire Handicap al Newmarket lasl October, starting unbacked at •" •! and winning awav oil by himself live lengths before H. good horse, Mnstapba. lie i- ..f French breed ing :iinl having done nothing of Importance prior to the Cambridgeshire, was handicapped at ninety -i pound-. That -Mee.-- .ailed him his much grt iter impost for the Lincolnshire, but the general public considered him capable of carrying it ami fioin the beginning of ante post betting. Long s.-: was one of the favorites ami frequently backed t" win big sums. Warfare has been the lir-t i.urii. i..r tin race for a fortnight past tad a greal sum in the aggregate masl have been lost because ..i his failure Io win. He and I nele Pal are Irish hie. I horses. The Lincolnshire is annually the tir-i lui p ii. mi event of the English Oat racing season and i» of the guaranteed value of if 7.000.
