Doncaster Races - the Dead-Heat for the St. Leger Stakes... 1850. Creator: Unknown

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Doncaster Races - the Dead-Heat for the St. Leger Stakes... 1850. Creator: Unknown

Doncaster Races - the Dead-Heat for the St. Leger Stakes, between "Voltigeur" and "Russborough" - "Bolingbroke" third, 1850. Voltigeur, the winner of the Derby, and whose triumph upon the great northern course was looked forward to as a "dead certainty, " and upon whom 6 to 4 was freely offered...was run to a level nose by Russborough, an Irish horse, hitherto unknown to fame...During the final struggle the whole compact mass heaved...with agitation; and the huge...roar of many lusty voices - "Voltigeur wins!" - "Russborough wins!"...There are many - sage men, and of authority - who maintain that there is no such thing as a dead heat - that one horse's nose must be, if even a hair's breadth, a little more forward than the other's. Very possible: but...who is to decide upon so nice a shade of a shaving of a difference?...To the book-maker the occurrence...is perplexing in the extreme. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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