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FAMOUS DEAD HEATS IN ENGLAND. Dead heals on the flat do not occur with such frequencv as they did. As it is, we get quite enough of "dead heats of two," but there is a sjuce of romance about a "dead heat of three." At York, in ISOli, for the Badminton Plate, three horses passed the post locked together. They were Messala. Bajardo and Casse Con, ridden respectively bv M. Cannon. T. Loatos and S. Loates. A third" Ixiatcs was fourth on Ilamptondale, and he was beaten only a short head by the leading trio. In 1SK0, at the Lewes summer meeting, hcobell. Wandering Nun and Mazurka ran a dead heat lor the Astley Stakes. Only a head behind the struggling trio came Tliora and Cumberland, also running a dead heat, and placed fourth by the judge. Some good judges who saw the race, says Baiivs Magazine, declare that if it had been called "a dead heat of five" no one would have cavilled at the official verdict. In 181."., on the Thursday of the Newmarket Houghton meeting, two "dead heats of three" occurred iu the same afternoon. In 1SS2 there was a dead heat of three in a field of five for the race called the Sandown Derbv, but afterward known as the Electric Stakes, run over the straight five furlongs course at Sandown lark. The dead heaters were R. S. Evans Marden R. Wyatt, 1. Lorillards Gerald F. Webb and the Duke of Hamiltons Leonora .1. Watts. In the run ofr Maiden, avIio in the meantime had had his plates removed and ran unshod, won by three lengths, a head only separating second ami third. The most notable dead heat of three was the finish for the Ccsarewitch in 1857 between El Hakim, Prioress an American entry and Jiiccn Bess. There were thirty-four runners, and the starting prices or the dead heaters were S to 1 El Hakim, .SO to 1 Prioress and Queen Bess. In the decided which was run off in the waning light, George Fordham was substituted for Tankeslev on Prioress and Bray for Little on El Hakim. The change of jockeys appears to have worked to some advantage iu the case of the American mare, for she won the decider by a length and a half, a head separating the other two. Once there was a dead heat of four at Newmarket in a sweepstakes for two-year-olds, run over the first half of the Abingdon mile. This was at the Houghton meeting in 1855. Five started, anil the race resulted in a deail heat of roar, the fifth horse being only beaten half a length. The decider was won by a head, half a length separating second and third. Tiny Wells rode the winner, the original favorite, a chestnut filly called Overreach, by Birdcutchcr.
