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Shandy had told him that it was Miss Porter 's doing , that she had cured him of his sulky moods ; the gallop Langdon had witnessed seemed to bear out the truth of this . What was he to do ? They could n't repeat the trick they had played on Lucretia . The Dutchman might win ; he had worked the full Derby distance , a mile and a half , in 2:45 , nearly all out at the finish . Lauzanne 's gallop was only a mile and a quarter ; he might not be able to stay the additional quarter . But there was ten thousand dollars at stake -- for Langdon . He sought to discover the identity of Lauzanne 's rider ; but nobody knew him -- Dixon had picked him up somewhere .