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"American Eclipse" and one to be named at the post by Colonel Johnson, occurred on the Union Course, Long Island. It was at four-mile heats, for twenty thousand dollars a side. Colonel Johnson named " Sir Henry," and he won the first heat, " hard held," at the termination of which the betting was three to one on "Sir Henry " for the second heat, and the well-known and eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke, Va., who was present and who had backed the Southern horse for a very considerable sum, tauntingly and repeatedly, in his peculiar voice, queried, "Where's Purdy?" Purdy had ridden "Eclipse" on nearly all, if not all, of his previous races, but did not ride him now. This was the first time "Eclipse" had ever lost a heat, and his backers expressed much dissatisfaction that Purdy had not ridden. The result of Randolph's taunts and the advice of the friends of Mr. Van Ranst and the party associated with him, resulted in Purdy's mounting for the second heat, and, to the delight of the North and the dismay of the South, he won it. Colonel Johnson was confined by illness in a house adjoining the course ; he was appealed to, but his directions, and putting up the great trainer, Arthur Taylor, in place of the boy who rode the first two heats, were of no avail, the staying power of "Eclipse " was too much for his three-year-old competitor, and he won also the third heat and race. Time: first heat, 7 m. 37 s. ; second heat, 7 m. 49 s. ; third heat, 8 m. 24 s. ; twelve miles from the score in 23 m. 50 s.

The interest in this race had been extending and accumulating for many months, heightened by the prestige of Colonel Johnson, who was called " the Napoleon of the Turf," and, notwithstanding that travel to the course, in default of railroads, was restricted to vehicles, horseback, and foot, and as the population of that day, compared with that of the present, was but one-fifteenth, the attendance was nearly if not fully equal to that at any of

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