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 run to a level nose by Russborough, an Irish horse, hitherto unknown to the final struggle the whole compact mass agitation; and the of many lusty voices - "Voltigeur wins!" - "Russborough wins!"...
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 run to a level nose by Russborough, an Irish horse, hitherto unknown to the final struggle the whole compact mass agitation; and the 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: is to decide upon so nice a shade of a shaving of a difference?...To the book-maker the perplexing in the extreme.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
Size: 4960px × 2737px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: /, 19th, 19th-century, 2nd, animal, animals, black, britain, british, bw, century, collector, concept, crop, crops, dead, doncaster, dundas, earl, england, engraved, engraving, equal, equality, guy, heat, horse, horse-race, horse-racing, horseman, horsemen, horses, illustrated, iln, job, jockey, jockeys, leger, london, lord, male, man, marson, men, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, people, press, print, race, racecourse, racehorse, racehorses, races, racing, rider, riders, riding, south, sport, sports, sportsman, sportsmen, st, stakes, thomas, unknown, unusual, victorian, whip, whips, white, winner, winners, winning, yorkshire, zetland
