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DON CAS TEES WETTEST DAY LONDON, England, September 14. "While Robert the Devils St Lcger day, in 1880, has been regarded as the wettest in the history of Doncaster, England, racing; it could not have been much worse than the St. j Leger day experience yesterday at this fa- mous course. When the thirty-four runners of the Corporation Handicap were at the post the rain was descending in sheets. The light, too, was terrible and the horses had . completed half tho distanco before it yaa known they had started. The paddock was ankle deep in mud and tho state of the track can bo imagined.
