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DEAD HEATS BETWEEN THREE OR MORE MOREA A recent occurence in racing at Sandown Park led London Sportsman to say Dead heats be ¬ tween three are rare There was an instance at haudowu Part yesterday when tho Portia colt Kittyi OHara and Somali finished In a line for the Walton TwoYearOjd Plate and according to rule the stakes were divided Probably the most re ¬ cent instance of a triple dead Leat was at Hay dock July Meeting 1902 when Ardandra Pledge and the Outcry filly could not be separated for the Makcrfield Handicap In the runon Pledge won only to be disqualified on behalf of Ardandra for a cross the ultimate winner also being the original favorite Another notable instance was for the Astley Stakes at Lewes In 18SO when five horses finished so close together that it caused no sur ¬ prise when the numbers went up to find that Prince Soltykoffs Scobell Mr II Chaplins Wander Ing Nun and Lord Cadogans Mazurka were bracket ¬ ed for first place the other pale deadheating a short head away for second iiosltlon At Newmar ¬ ket Honghton Meeting 1855 there was a dead heat between four for a Sweepstakes with the fifth runner only beaten a half length The quar ¬ tette ran off with the result that Overreach won by a head from The Unexpected with Gamester a half length away T Cannon figured in a triple dead heat at the Newmarket Second October Meet Ing In 1877 In Iost Sweepstakes he rode Mr Honldsworths Tredegar Confer had tho mount on Jlival owned by Count F de Lagrange and Con ¬ stable rode Fair Lyonese for Mr Cartwright Tlie trio deadheated but Cannon won the runoff from Juval Singularly enough T Cannon and Goater rode in the Lewes dead beat already mentioned Seobell Cannon up afterwards walking over There was a peculiar dead heat l etween three nt Sandown on June 2 1SS2 between Marden Gerald nml Leonora peculiar Inasmuch that the ultimate winner Marden carried five pounds more than the conditions stipulated for while Leonora carried five pounds loss than she ought to have done though thes errors were not discovered until it was too Inte for an objection to be made A famous triple dead heat was that for the Cusaivwltcli of 1S57 between Prioress Kl Tlnklni and Oneen Bess which in the runon finished In this order G Ford ham being substituted on the winner for Tankesley who rode in tho dead heat Fordhams original mouiit St Giles making no show
