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would say nothing about spring board tracks, Ken.
be more choice in the selection of terms if only please
a oung Turiman," the writer hoped he would not be
again called upon to expose the prejudice inconsistent
cy, contradiction and want of that charac-
terses your reports when you determined to make
/" the worse appear the better cause'


Although there mach Objectionable matter in
report OF the match between Fashion and Peytona,
over the Union Course Long Island would not have
marks that accompany your report of the race between
these mares over the Camden Course, and appear in
your paper Of the 3st Of May, under the head OF the
" Late races ON Long Island and at Camden"


The very heading OF your report OF the match" De-
feat of Fashion by Peytona, in I'm. 39ss7m -
81 the Championship Decided speaks, when compared
with the heading of your report Of the at Camden
+" The Northern Fashion still the Fashion, -
one s for be Of Sus tSs a
whole libraries; and shows PLAIN as straws in
which shoulder of your sail the wind doth set 1t is but


too plain that the result OF the match did not accord with
the wishes of the Editor the Spirit OF the Times and
perhaps with his betting book is true that in the
paper the Unon you published the defeat of Fashion
and proclaimed the championship setted yet but
evident that, you


"sad as Angels for the good mans SIM"


"Weep to record and blush to give it in"


1t worthy of remark that although Peytona travel
led exposed to all the evil effects of change of climate
of water Of food and OF stables two thousand miles to
meet this Northern Fashon-"the very mark and model
OF the tmeat her own doors and meeting did defeat
her under the most favorable circumstances in I'm 80


I'M 45 over deep course in the best Fashion
maze, yet you ask, (al nnpreudiced you are
NOT one cheer lof great boldly
demand for Fashion nine cheers and one more merely
because she beat Peytona with not sound foot under
herr over quick course in I'm 4ss-7m 57s. And with
loud voice you proclaim from No Barclay street
the matter OF the championship settled by this msera-
bic Why, you well know there not horse at
the Camden Course that had any pretensons be dis.
horse, that could not have beaten Peytona that
day. Yet, is there any one who would have been alb
surd as to claim for him the proud title Of champion Of


We contend them that if Peytona won the champon's
saddle by beating Fashion when in prime condition as
shall prove She was) in I'M 39as-7m. 45ls over a
slow course Fashion would not win it back by beating
Peytona, when dead miss, over quick course in I'm.
4ss-7m. 57s and that the evidence Of superiority is
with Pcytona, and must remain with her until Fashion
meets and defeats her upon equal terms


1t is with much reluctance, we approach the subject
Fashions want of condition the day of the match
regret to destroy the delightful halucinaton
der which you have been luxurating for time
this point We know YOU will not without a struggle
give up this avorite creation Of your fertile brain But
ALL who have the patience to read this
will doubt accord to you most poetical imagination
gently may In your report of the match you
assert the track was two seconds mile slower, thar
when Fashion beat Boston, equal TO eight seconds ~ in
four miles In your report of the Fashion and Boston
match, you declared, Boston wanted little help
of his slow second heat the not quick
on some previous occasions To be within reason we
will say it was second mile of, equal to four
seconds in four miles. In your paper of the
7th .of June you state there is not doubt that, il
there had only thousand persons the Union
Course Fashion would have made better time than Pey
tona did-who you are pleased to admit there is some
doubt she would then have beaten
We will say four seconds heat for the crowd
Surely second mile is not much for delicate mare,
that has been frightened nearly to death by three
motives behind the Ladies Paviion to be back by
sixtynine thousand people 1t is generally admitted
that there 10000 persons on the ground We wish
to be particular in this matter as will doubtless here
after be quoted as precedent.


Altogether then, we have sixteen seconds Now, ac-
cording to your showing Mr. Editor if the track had
been its best condition, and there had been


there to see, Fashion would have her first heat in
I'm l3ss and her second in I'M 2gls Pretty we'll WI
shan fora hor not in fix In all
would ask how fast do you think Fashion could
heat quick track and she not off her foot"


In your report of the match state that the Messrs
Laird considered Fashion in fine order and that they
served great credit for the blooming condition in which
was very much shrunken "and in getting The aesh of
they had taken away her foo" OF eight miles
under the spur calculated to fill out her attenu
ated FORM to put her her foot You state that ae
her match at the Union, there was "let up in hel
work. and that she took her gallops regularly with
occasional breeze down the quarter stretch BY this
course of strong work she was got round, and twas
again herself When she beat Jeannetteau, four mile
o % e7en asr s Ss4 seSs ns
mile race, Mr.. Laird was enabled to bring her
out at Camden in superb condition and on the
day OF her there, 'Fashion Fashion" indeed
Is it not plain if Fashion "o her foot" before her
first race, and worked down and shrunken as to at


tract the of unpactced observer that the mode
Of treatment pursued by Mr.. Laird according to your
paper could not have improved her condition at all
but certain to increase the evils under which you
assert she labored in her match the Island Again. il
Fashion not in condition. and your assertion that


condition won the match that. ii means any


thing how did happen that she fell of only 81 seconds
in the second heat-thus making the best repeat
made at the Northl


Your reports and remarks full of contradic-
tons, will mention only one instance. You state
that Peytona won the second heat of the match with
Fashion close up that you could hardly
between them" In some subsequent remarks you de-
clare Peytona could not have let daylight between
them have saved her life" This expression ('could
hardly see daylight between themD means there was
ceded that one cannot sec even with difficulty thing
that does not exist.


While on the subject OF stable secrets why did YOU
not tell your readers, that Peyona will yard
without whip spur and that consequently her being
spured is no evidence that she is at the top of her
That Peytona has very fiat feet with low heels and that
Mr.. Van Leer trains in uncommonly thick and heavy
Shoes which keep her heels and frogs off the ground
that she very thin plates which allow heels
frogs much in contact with the small gra
vel that is lie found the Union Course-and in CON
sequence OF which, her feet were made SO sore in the
race, that her WORK was in measure suspended until
within few days of the Camden races and that her last
move there, to ascertain whether she fit start
made her feet sore and they all equally
tender it not discovered until after she started her


We will now venture to predict that if they ever meet
again in equal condition, Peytona will beat Fashion In
her day. Fashion doubtless Of the best if not
the very best bred in this country; but her
prime is past and then you know MIR. Editor "a good
big one will always beat good little one whether II be
a steamboat or a horse"


Fashion was bred at the North it is true but it took
Southern man to breed her. 'and he could hardly,
unproptous is your climate for the full development of
all the higher qualities of perfect racer.


We regret you said any thing about the magnanimity
of Northern gentlemen, in not disancng MIR kirkmans
horses in their subsequent to the match 1t was
indeed, magnanimous in them not to distance horses
that had travelled two thousand miles meet them es
pecialy nothing to be made by 1t. We have been
lead to believe that, to distance adversarys horse
without necessity not in accordance with the usage
OF gentlemen on the turf We know this is the received
opinion in this section Of the country.


Some years since, at Grand Gull, in this State (Miss)
Telie Doe and ch. in Colonel Bingaman's stable
together in three best in five race After tie
second neat evident to all that Tee could beat
her opponent far as she pleased. gentleman entire.
Iy ignorant OF the rules and customs OF racing offered
bet OF 500 that the chi would be dstanced the next
heat "blackleg instantly took the bet The hacker
OF Telie applied to her owner to permit her to for
distance II was explained to him that such thing was
unheard on snd he advised to try and draw his bet
This the leg refused to do coolly remarkng at the
time that he knew when he made the bet Tec
would not be allowed to distance her opponent ii she
could. At the call to start for the third neat the eh
appeared so much distressed, that Colonel Bugaman
determined TO draw her, and blackey" thus at last,
lost his hundred.