The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1896-09-24
SIXTY MILES AT A RUN.

| -FOUR AouTs and Twenty eight Minutes.
The longest horse race in history
took place at Deer Lodge, Mon, on
NOV. II, 1870, a distance CT 60 miles
continuous running, to test the stay
ing qualities Of two local horses
called Lizard and Billy BOY, and the
stakes were 81, coo side. The first
riders selected were: For Billy Boy,
Nat Evans, 80 pounds; Bobby Ora
ham, SO; Eddy Evans, 75 for Liz
ard, Tommy. Woods, 50 pounds, and
Ben Phillips, "a, the intention being
to change every 10 or Is miles, as
the articles permitted the horses to
go as they pleased between start
and stop.
At 1920 the judges mounted the
stand, called up the race, and pre-
| cisely at 1890 by the judges time
the horses, on the second turn, were
off even on the race of so miles.
Both horses led off slowly, Billy 60
ing at an easy lope, leading length
to the quarter post, crossing the
stretch length behind. Time, Alb.
In the second mile Lizard was
ahead. The fifth mile was made in
3:15, with Lizard half mile in the
lead. AT the end of the eighth mile
Billy was third of a mile behind.
Fifteen miles were covered in
; hour and Is seconds, both horses
being down to steady work and
sweating freely. Lizard overlook
his competitor on the sixteenth milo
and at the end of the eighteenth
mile was mile ahead.
At the end of the twentyfr mile
Lizard had gained one mile and one
third. The horses kept pretty we'll
together, Lizard still maintaining
his mile lead. The time ranged
from 3:45 to $3.50, except on the
thirty fourth mile, which was made
by Billy in 30 and the thirty-fifth
by Lizard in 1915. In the forty-sec-
ond mile both horses trotted consid-
erably, Lizard having the advantage,
as he compelled lope from Billy.
The hackers of Billy, who had been
offering large bets, let up little,
but considerable money was still
offered and taken. Billy was over
length ahead, but it was evident
the attempt to get away from Liz
ard and make good the lost mile
was useless, as Billy was going
heavy and Lizard was as bright and
springy on his feet as in the first
| mile.
In the forty eighth mile Billy
showed punishment and wanted to
! quit. Both horses walked past the
I judges stand. The so miles were
run in 3 hours and 3515 minutes.
Billy made squirt on the fifty first
mile and wanted to quit at the out
come, when he was bled. Lizard
kept on trotting at a good gait and
came in in 7:10. In the fifty third
and up to the sixtieth mile Lizard
had it all his own way. Colonel
thornton, the owner of Billy Boy,
was willing to give up the race, but
that-there should be perfect salts
/ faction sent out his horse, which
made the fifty-fourth mile, but on
the fifty fifth mile showed such evil
dent signs of exhaustion, having re-
fused all entreaties of the whip and
voice to open trot, that he was led
from the track while Lizard was oD
the fifty ninth mile.
The game little horse kept up his
gait, and he made his sixtieth mile
under s minutes, and 60 miles in 4
hours and % minutes, amid the
rousing shouts of the 40Oor 500 peo-
pie who remained to see the race
out. He looked good for the rest of
hundred, and apparently did not
appreciate the blankets and ribbons
with which he was in an instant
covered as much as he would another
dash around the course. Lizard
made the last seven miles in 32A
minutes, miles not noted. Lizards
average time for mile was 4:3S.-
Denver Field and Farm.