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“Starter Fitzgerald’s first effort to line his field up proved unavailing, as Hurstbourne, Toboggan, and Lord Badge proved troublesome, and the starter left his box, and, walking across the track before the horses, gave final orders and emphatic promise of punishment for any rider who disobeyed by attempting to beat the barrier…”