| Show A RUN OF SIXTY MILES wonderful speed and endurance shown in winning a race racing at al the overland this ills week ought brought 11 out a goodly array of c speedy 11 ayi I 1 era ii arid and live ilia joI jockeys ys who sported the milk made a wry very appeal ance according to the modern code ot of hut but none of these mounts ever did any great amount of hard bard riding and vl could tint nt hold a candle to tile the hoy boy who rodo rode the lair longest gest race lit in history th tha event took place at dr deer lodge mont on oil no november ember 17 1870 a distance of sixty miles mile contin continuous unus running to test tile the stas ilig qualities of local hore n named amed wizard lizard and dilly billy boy arid tile hie wore were a a tilde side the first selected were for billy nat evans evano 80 0 pounds bobby Gr graham abdin 69 0 eddy 13 eins q ns 7 5 for or liza rd toni tommy my woods 8 83 pounds and ben 81 the Inton intention tInn helm being tp to change chance every tn or fifteen miles as tho the articles pr per p r milten the hors to go BO as they pleased between start plan and mop at 10 the judges mounted tile stand called up the race rac and at 1230 by the judges tamo almo tile the horses on tile the second pr and turn were 0 orf if f fac verl n on oil tho race miles molli both fi holhos aws oil led off it tl tilly nilly 1 going at an casy lope loading it a kongth to the fiu riu arter post cOss ilig tile the a length leng th time I 1 IS 1 jn in tho the second mile lizard meray i as theAd the mile as aa made lit in nith tt illi lizard lard Ij liall a allo in tire irad at tin the end of tho the eighth nill mil billy was a third of a mile behind fifteen miles wro in conr on hour awl sixteen seconds both hoew horw i down to steady work w ork and sn eating freely lizard overtook lik ills competitor on tho the sixteenth anile still and at tire the cond of the eighteenth mill finlo was a mile ahead at tire iho end ot of the tn lanty enty artt mho lizard had gained t one mile arid and one third the horsey kept pretty tell nell together lizard till maintaining lils lili mile leal lead the time from to G GW 0 O except or on tho the thirty fourth mile which may flab mad by billy in ili 10 and the thir ty fifth by lizard lit in 3 15 in the lh forty second mile both horses con Elder ably lizard having the addan tai tago as lie he compelled a lope front from billy th backers of 0 billy who had bad been offering large betm beti let up a little but considerable money was still offered and amil taken billy was oner ocr it a length ahead but it was evident the attempt to get away from lizard and make good ahe ll 11 0 o lost mile wa ut useless teless was going colne heavy and amid lizard was as bright and dinsy ligy on ilia his feet as lit in the first in mile in n the forty eleith mile billy showed punt punishment and wanted to quit both horses walked past pa st the judges stand the fifty miles wore were run in three hours and thirty five and one halt half minutes billy made mada a spurt at the fifty fly fart st in mile ile and wanted to quit at the ou outcome toome when h en he was waa bled lizard kept on trotting tilt g at a rood good rait gait arid and came caine in in in the tha lifty third thard and up to the sixtieth lizard had it all it own way col thornton tire tho owner ot of billy boy was willing to rive give up the race but that there should be perfect satisfaction sent rent out its ilia horse which made the nf ty fourth mile but on the fifty fifth showed such evident signs of exhaustion having refused all entreaties of tho the whip and voice to open a trot that ill he was led from the track while lizard was on the lift fitti ninth mile the game came little horse kept up his salt gryst andee made lit illi sixtieth mile under eight minutes arid and the CO miles la in 4 hours tours and 28 minutes amid the rousing about snouts or of tho the or people who remained to see the race out ile he looked rood good for the rest of tho the hundred and apparently did not appreciate the blankets blanket and ribbons with which he was wag tit in an instant covered as much as 03 lie he would another dash around the lizard made the last seven miles mile 9 in 32 minutes miles not noted lizards aver average Acre time for a mile was denver field and farm |
