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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, 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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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM22A36_246

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38,8Mo (3,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 23,2cm / 4960 x 2737 (300dpi)

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