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Racing in the Olden Time, although, perhaps, in 
 interest and merit equal to that of our day, was want- 
 ing in the modern excellence of chronicles, descriptive 
 and pictorial. 
 
 The specimen at the head of this page, faithfully 
 copied from an old print representing "A view of a 
 Horse Match at Newmarket, between Grey- 
 Windham and Bay Bolton, painted from the Life, 
 by that celebrated artist, Mr. John Wootton" will bear 
 sufficient testimony to the character of the pictorial 
 representations of those famous races, which no chro- 
 nicler has been found to describe. 
 
 As a specimen of the different style of modern days, 
 the present volume is offered to the public, in the 
 belief that a complete collection of the Annals of the 
 Turf, during the past ten years, will not be found 
 uninteresting by those who take pleasure in its pursuits. 
 
 In confining the extent of his operations within the 
 
11 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 last ten years, the Editor has been influenced by two 
 reasons : — Firstly, by the number of so-called " His- 
 tories of the Turf," already in circulation. Secondly, 
 by the conviction that nothing new can be made of old 
 materials, in which information is so scanty, and well 
 authenticated facts so rare, that thrice-told tales must 
 necessarily be repeated, " usque ad nauseam." 
 
 For himself, the Editor would only claim the merit 
 of having endeavoured to perform his duties impar- 
 tially and well. Where time has altered aspects, 
 changed appearances, unfolded mysteries, or made the 
 darkness clear, advantage has been taken of the new 
 light, to explain or simplify. In other cases, he has 
 assiduously endeavoured to avoid giving offence to 
 any ; and sought to bury all unpleasant reminiscences 
 with the bones of the by-gones in 
 
 THE GRAVE OF ECLIPSE. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 No. Subject. Painter. Engraver. Page 
 
 1 Recovery C. Hancock R. Parr Fron. 
 
 2 The Life of the Racer H. Aiken Landells Title. 
 
 3 Racing in the Olden Time From an Old Print.Landells 
 
 4 The Grave of Eclipse Wildrake Landells ii 
 
 5 The Wellington Statue Wildrake Landells 3 
 
 6 Spaniel J. F. Herring J.R.Scott 4 
 
 7 Oxygen A. Cooper, R. A. . . J. R. Scott 16 
 
 8 Thomas Thornhill, Esq Seymour 17 
 
 9 His Grace the Duke of Grafton ...Seymour 22 
 
 10 The Old Duke of Grafton From an Old Print.Landells 23 
 
 11 Chorister J. F. Herring .. . .J. Webh 24 
 
 12 George Osbaldeston, Esq T.C.Wilson 33 
 
 13 " The Squire" beating Time Wildrake Landells 35 
 
 14 St. Giles J F. Herring J. R. Scott 36 
 
 15 Reiram J. F. Herring J.Webb 48 
 
 16 Galata A. Cooper, R.A. ..J.R.Scott 49 
 
 17 Margrave J. F. Herring ....J.R.Scott 55 
 
 18 The Eclipse Foot Landells 66 
 
 19 John Gully, Esq Seymour , 71 
 
 20 Old Buckle Wildrake Landells 73 
 
 21 Dangerous J. F. Herring ....J.R.Scott 74 
 
 22 A " Dangerous" Spree H. Aiken Landells 77 
 
 23 Vespa J. F. Herring .. ..J. R. Scott 7 8 
 
 24 Rockingham J. F. Herring J. R. Scott 81 
 
 25 Plenipotentiary A. Cooper, R. A. . . J. R. Scott 91 
 
 26 Glencoe C. Hancock R. Parr 99 
 
 27 Taking a Gallop H. Aiken Landells 100 
 
 28 Pussy A.Cooper, R.A. ..R. Parr 101 
 
 29 General Grosvenor Seymour 102 
 
 SO Touchstone J. F. Herring H.R.Cook .... 112 
 
 31 Miindig C. Hancock R. Parr 123 
 
 32 The Queen of Trumps J. F. Herring ...,R. Parr 130 
 
 33 The Run in over the Round Course, 
 
 Newmarket Wildrake Landells 142 
 
 34 Bay Middleton J. F. Herring R. Parr 143 
 
IV LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 No. Sabjecl. Painter. Engraver. Page 
 
 35 Cyprian J. F. Herring R. Parr 150 
 
 36 Elis J. F. Herring R. Parr 153 
 
 37 The Caravan A. D. Cooper . . . . E. Hacker 156 
 
 38 The Earl of Jersey Seymour 163 
 
 39 The Ascot Cup, 1836 Landells 165 
 
 10 Phosphorus A. Cooper, R.A. ..J. R. Scott 168 
 
 41 Miss Letty F. C. Turner ....T. E. Nicholson.. 17a 
 
 44 Mango A. Cooper, R.A. ..T. E. Nicholson.. 176 
 
 43 C. C. Greville, Esq T. C. Wilson 190 
 
 44 Amato A. Cooper, R.A. . . W. B. Scott 193 
 
 45 Industry A. Cooper, R.A. ..W. B.Scott 197 
 
 f\i tS / v\ f 46 Don John J. W. Snow W. B. Scott 203 
 
 47 Grey Momus A. Cooper, R.A. ..J. W. Archer 205 
 
 48 The Earl of Chesterfield Seymour 208 
 
 49 Bloomsbury A. Cooper, R.A. . . J. W. Archer 217 
 
 50 The Dons at the Corner H. Aiken Landells 220 
 
 51 The Ascot Cup, 1840 < Landells ,.. 221 
 
 52 The "Vates"of Westminster Bridge. Wildrake Landells 226 
 
 53 Deception A. Cooper, R.A. . . W. B. Scott 227 
 
 54 Charles XII J. F. Herring ....W.B.Scott 233 
 
 55 Euclid J. F. Herring .... W. B. Scott 235 
 
 56 The Goodwood Cup, 1840 Landells 238 
 
 57 The Ascot Cup, 1839 Landells 245 
 
 58 The Goodwood Cup, 1839 Landells 247 
 
 59 Harkaway J. W. Snow W. B. Scott 248 
 
 60 The Dead Heat H. Aiken Landells 251 
 
 61 Little Wonder A. Cooper, R.A. . . W. B. Scott 252 
 
 62 Launcelot A. Cooper, R.A. . . W. B. Scott 256 
 
 63 Crucifix A Cooper, R.A. ..J. W. Archer 260 
 
 64 Lord George Bentinck Seymour 266 
 
 65 The Last Ride H. Aiken Landells 271 
 
RBCOYBEY, 
 
 FRONTISPIECE. 
 
 Recovery, a chesnut horse, 15 hands 2 inches high, 
 was bred by Colonel Wilson in 1827 ; his sire Emilius, 
 his dam, Camarine's dam, by Rubens, out of Tippity- 
 witchet, by Waxy. 
 
 In 1830, Recovery started ten times and won thrice ; 
 namely, a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, at 
 the Newmarket First Spring- Meeting, for all ages, 
 D.M., beating Toso, Glenartney, Spaniard, Versatility, 
 and others ; the Members' Plate, at Ipswich, two-mile 
 heats, beating Scarlet-runner, Screw-driver, Naughty 
 Tommy, and Talma ; and the Duke of Bedford's Plate, 
 at Bedford, one mile and a half, beating Taglioni, 
 Frederica, Whip, Apuntador, and Amoret. 
 
 In 1831, Recovery, then the property of Mr. Turner, 
 ran six races, two of which he won : — The Croxteth 
 Stakes, at Liverpool, beating Perseverance, Rex, 
 Brambilla, Speculation, Lady Constance, Her High- 
 ness, The Captain, and Butterfly ; and, at the same 
 Meeting, the Stand Cup of 100 sovs., added to a 
 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, thirty-three subscribers, 
 two miles and a distance, Birmingham being his only 
 competitor. — Betting: 4 to 1 on Birmingham. AtKnuts- 
 
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2 RECOVERY, AND MR. M. C. WYATT. 
 
 ford, for a Piece of Plate, value 100 sovs., three miles, 
 Recovery, having fallen lame in the race, ran second 
 to Birmingham, beating The Cardinal and Moss 
 Rose. 
 
 In 1832, Recovery started thrice, but did not win, 
 as he had not perfectly recovered from the lameness 
 in his leg. In that year he was withdrawn from the 
 turf, and put to the stud. He is a horse of great 
 muscular power and fine action. His stock are very 
 promising, and those which have already been out, 
 have proved frequent winners. 
 
 Recovery is now the property of Messrs. Tatter- 
 sall, of Hyde Park Corner, and stands at their farm, 
 "The Willesden Paddocks," on the Edge ware Road. 
 And now, no doubt, our readers are at a loss to know 
 why we should have selected him to lead our string of 
 " Cracks" — but we will soon explain. 
 
 An Equestrian statue having been finally deter- 
 mined to be the fittest subject for " The Wellington 
 Testimonial," and the execution of the group 
 entrusted to the taste and skill of Mr. Wyatt; he, 
 after looking long in vain for any horse of such 
 proportionate beauties as should be pleasing to 
 the common eye, without offending the severe taste 
 of the classic ; declared at last that such rare qualities 
 were only to be found united, in the shape, and sym- 
 metry of limb displayed by the subject of this memoir. 
 Recovery having therefore been modelled from mea- 
 surements taken by the artist himself, is destined to 
 associate his name, however humbly, with the fame of 
 Wellington — and to play a conspicuous part in the 
 perfection of this honourable testimonial of a nation's 
 
THE WELLIGTON STATUE. 3 
 
 gratitude, to one, to whom his country owes so 
 much. 
 
 We have not yet seen Mr. Wyatt's sketch, but we 
 have boldly taken upon ourselves to enter the Lists 
 with the favoured artist, and give our friends a " touch 
 of our quality" in the shape of a design of our 
 own for 
 
 THE WELLINGTON STATUE. 
 
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SPANIEL. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1831. 
 
 One evening in the spring of the year 1828, a small 
 but merry party, sat around the dinner-table of that 
 fine old English gentleman, the late Lord Egremont. 
 The bottle was in active circulation, and the good old 
 Peer in merry glee ; — his friends around him, and his 
 race-horses the theme. " What will you do, my lord, 
 with that young Whalebone weed, in the farther pad- 
 dock ?" quoth one of the guests. " Sell him," was the 
 reply. "The price?" "A hundred and fifty." — 
 "He is mine." That "weed" was Spaniel — win- 
 ner of the Derby ! 
 
 Spaniel was bred to win, if stoutness, and good 
 lasting qualities availed at all. His sire was Whale- 
 bone, — his dam by Canopus — grandam by Young 
 Woodpecker — out of Fractious, by Mercury — Wood- 
 pecker — Everlasting by Eclipse — Hysena by Snap — 
 Miss Belsea by Regulus — Bartlett's Childers — Hony- 
 wood's Arabian — dam of the two True Blues. 
 Such pedigrees as this have made our racing stock 
 what it now is ; — and had the subject of this memoir 
 lived in the days of Four mile Races, or of Three mile 
 Heats, we should have doubtless had a lengthy list of 
 victories, with which to grace his name ; but short 
 
FIRST APPEARANCE OF SPANIEL. O 
 
 and speedy running did not suit his book, nor enrich 
 our's. 
 
 Spaniel's debut was as a two-year-old, in the New- 
 market Second Spring Meeting, 1830 — where he 
 
 made his first appearance on the turf, on Thursday, 
 May 13th, in a Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each; for 
 colts, 8st. 51b. ; and fillies, 8st. 21b.— T. Y. C.— (not 
 quite three quarters of a mile). 
 
 Mr. Pettit's br. c. Zany, by Morisco, out of Bupta 1 
 
 Mr. Rogers's b. c. Spaniel, brother to Lapdog L 2 
 
 Mr. D. Radclifl'e's br. c. by Mustachio, out of Virginius's dam .... 3 
 Mr. Gully's b. c. by Wrangler, out of Miss Rush ; Lord Tavistock's br. c. 
 Barbet, by Lapdog, dam by an Arabian ; Mr. Angerstein's gr. f. Araby, by the 
 Napoleon Arabian, dam by Lord Dartmouth's Arabian, out of Humming Bird ; 
 and Mr. Lane's b. f. by Woful, out of Parma, also started, but were not placed. 
 Betting: 6 to 4 agst. the Mustachio colt; 4 to 1 agst. Spaniel; and 4 to 1 
 agst. Zany. 
 
 In the Newmarket July Meeting of the same year, 
 on Monday, July 12th, Spaniel appeared again in 
 the Renewal of the July Stakes, a subscription of 50 
 sovs. each, 30 ft., for two yr. olds; colts, 8st. Gib.; 
 and fillies, 8st. 4lb. — Twenty-eight subscribers.- -New 
 T. Y. C. — About three quarters of a mile. 
 
 Mr. Scott Stonehewer's br. c. Zany, by Morisco 1 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. f. Oxygen, by Emilius, out of VVhizgig 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. c. Ramazan, by Sultan, out of Miss Cantley .... 3 
 Mr. Rogers's b. c. Spaniel ; Mr. Scott Stonehewer's b. f. Sister to the Lion ; 
 Lord Chesterfield's ch. c. Massaroni, by Emilius ; Mr. Sowerby'sb. c.Sir Thomas, 
 by Abjer; and Lord Cleveland's br. c. by Emilius, out of Camilla, also started, 
 but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 7 to 4 agst. Zany, 4 to 1 agst. Oxygen, 6 to 1 agst. Sir Thomas, and 
 10 to 1 agst. Spaniel. 
 
 In the Newmarket Second October Meeting, on 
 Tuesday, October 19th, we again find Spaniel running 
 in the ruck for Fifty Pounds, for two yr. olds ; colts, 
 8st. 41b. ; and fillies, 8st. 21b.— T. Y. C. 
 
 Lord Cleveland's br. c. by Emilius, out of Camilla i 
 
 Colonel Wilson's ch. f. by Juniper, dam by Rubens 2 
 
O SPANIEL S SECOND SEASON'. 
 
 Mr. Cookes's b. c. Hofer, by Swiss ; Mr. Payne's b. c. Turk ; Sir M. Wood's 
 br. f. Seviglia, by Figaro ; His Majesty's b. f. by Mustachio, out of Orion's dam ; 
 Mr. Price's b. c. by Gulliver, out of Historia; Lord Jersey's br. f. Alea, by 
 Whalebone ; Duke of Richmond's br. f. Ardelia ; Duke of Grafton's br. f. by 
 Abjer, out of Zinc ; Lord Egremont's ch. f. by Centaur, out of Sola ; Mr. 
 Thornhill's Earwig, by Emilius ; Lord Lynedoch's gr. c. by Little John, out of 
 Luna's dam ; Mr. Rogers's b. c. Spaniel ; Duke of Rutland's b. c. by Partizan, 
 dam by Andrew ; Mr. R. Prince's ch. f. Barbara Bell, by Middleton ; Mr. 
 Sowerby's ch. c. Moloch, by Muley ; and Lord Orford's br. f. Naiad, Sister to 
 Merman, by Whalebone, also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 5 to 2 agst. the winner ; 6 to 1 agst. Seviglia ; 8 to 1 agst. the 
 Mustachio filly ; 9 to 1 agst. Turk ; 10 to 1 each agst. Ardelia, Spaniel, The 
 Juniper filly, the Partisan Colt, and Earwig. 
 
 Spaniel closed this list of two year old failures by 
 a " last appearance for the season," on Friday the 
 5th November, in the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, 
 for The Nursery Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for two yr. 
 olds. — D. M. — Not quite a mile. 
 
 Lord Orford's b. f. Naiad, 8st. 4lb 1 
 
 Duke of Richmond's b. f. Conciliation, 8st. 2lb 2 
 
 Mr. Rogers's b. c. Spaniel, 7st. 12lb 3 
 
 Mr. WagstaflPs b. f. Joan of Arc, 8st. 2lb 4 
 
 Mr. Hunter's b. c. by Gustavus, out of Sprightly, 8st. 2lb 5 
 
 Betting : 5 to 4 agst. Spaniel ; 2 to 1 agst. Conciliation ; and 6 to 1 agst. 
 Naiad. 
 
 Here Spaniel, the favourite with only seven stone 
 twelve pounds upon his back, ran a bad third. The 
 Whalebone blood seldom comes into proper form at 
 two years old. 
 
 The next season (1831) shewed our little " weed " 
 to be somewhat improved — for the Newmarket 
 Craven Meeting brought him out on Monday, the 4th 
 of April, as the winner of a Handicap Sweepstakes 
 of 10 sovs. each, for two and three yr. olds. — Ab. M. 
 — Not quite a mile. 
 
 Mr. Rogers's b. c. Spaniel, 2 yrs. old, 6st. 12lb 1 
 
 Lord Verulam's b. c. Whip, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 81b 2 
 
 Lord Anson's b. f. Zillah, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 81b 3 
 
 Lord Orford's b. c. Coventry) 3 yrs. old,8st. 10lb. ; Lord G. H. Cavendish's 
 
THE DERBY FAVOURITES OF 1831. 7 
 
 br. c. by Godolpbin, out of Mouse, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 91b.; His Majesty's cb. f. 
 Frederica, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb. ; Capt. Rous's br. c. Steamer, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 31b. ; 
 Mr. Roberts's cb. c. Cloudesley, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 2lb. ; Mr. Payne's br. f. Ladybird, 
 3 yrs. old, 7st. 12lb. ; Lord Egrernont's bl. f. by Wbalebone, out of Tbalestris, 
 2 yrs. old, 7st. 9lb. ; Mr. Udny's b. b. by Tramp, out of Consul's dam, 3 yrs. old, 
 7st. 81b.; Colonel Russell's Papillotte, 2 yrs. old, 7st. 31b.; Mr. Fortb's b. f. by 
 Emilius, 2 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; Duke of Ricbmond's br. f. Andelia, 2 yrs. old 
 6'st. 61b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 At starting Steamer was the favourite at five to one 
 — Spaniel, with seven to one against him, won very 
 easily ; whilst Whip, the second horse, received a 
 liberal allowance of his namesake. Spaniel, however, 
 from some cause, either because the lot were all so bad, 
 and he so lightly weighted ; or from his former run- 
 ning ; or from the slashing first appearance of his op- 
 ponent for the Derby, Riddlesworth, fell back ten 
 points in the betting speculations on the approaching 
 Derby. 
 
 A host of Derby rivals at this time came forward to 
 eclipse the glimmering fame of Spaniel. Lord Jersey's 
 Fillagree colt, backed readily at 5 to 2, whipped oft' the 
 Riddlesworth with such apparent ease, that "Riddles- 
 worth " thenceforth was booked to win the Derby in a 
 canter, whilst Spaniel stood the tenth upon the list, 
 with thirty to one against him. Vestris made light 
 work of the Column stakes, in his turn giving up 
 the Dinner stakes to Riddlesworth ; whilst Colwick, 
 Blunder, and Black Daphne, had each and all their 
 several admirers. 
 
 Spaniel did not appear again until the 17th of May, 
 two days before the Derby ; when he came out a 
 winner of The Shirley Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for 
 three yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies, 8st. 41b. — 
 One mile. — Seven subs. 
 
8 SPANIEL. 
 
 Mr. Rogers's b. c. Spaniel 1 
 
 Mr. Sadler's b. f. Euryone 2 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's b. f. Penance, by Emilius 3 
 
 Mr. R. Clark's b. c. by Borodino, dam by Glow-worm 4 
 
 For this race Spaniel was the favourite, at 4 to 1 on 
 him, and though he won his race in the easiest possible 
 style, yet, strange to say, he went at once down in the 
 betting list no less than twenty points, standing with 
 fifty points to one against his efforts for the Derby. 
 Alarmed at such a sudden change as this, so contrary 
 to their expectations, Spaniel's few backers now 
 deserted him, and Wheatley, who had been engaged 
 to ride him for the Derby, hastened to Mr. Stewart to 
 beg off a five pound bet which he had booked with 
 him, at forty points to one. Stewart, with his accus- 
 tomed good nature, relieved him of his fears at once ; 
 but old Joe Rogers, the trainer, who had also made a 
 small investment on the chance, at the same odds, 
 could not get off, and was obliged to stand the shot. 
 
 At length the eventful day arrived, which was to 
 settle all the doubts and certainties, — the hopes and 
 fears, — the speculations and the peculations of the 
 past twelvemonths. In the opinion of the principal 
 betting men, Riddlesworth, and Riddlesworth only, 
 could carry off the great prize. He appeared even to 
 have risen in favour with a fresher spirit, from the 
 moment Lord Jersey publicly declared to win with 
 the Blunder colt if he could! The odds in the 
 Town were 6 to 4 on Riddlesworth, and 20 to 1 
 against the Blunder. On the Heath, when the 
 ring was formed, the favourite even improved to 7 
 to 4 and 2 to 1 on him. And this state of things 
 continued up to the time of starting. But we must 
 quit the ring, and take a peep at the Warren. 
 
THE DERBY HOUSES, 1831. 9 
 
 The first horse we saw was His Majesty's Colt, by 
 Mustachio, out of Electress'sdam — a lengthy — leggy- 
 lame animal, with the awkwardest action in his walk 
 that we ever witnessed. Riddlesworth and Blunder 
 looked commanding and well, and if Blunder's heart 
 had been as good as his coat, he would have been 
 dangerous indeed. But he had the reputation of dis- 
 liking contested elections, and of declining the going 
 to the pole, if any other candidate evince a deter- 
 mination to persevere beyond a mile. Riddlesworth 
 looked very blood-like — but leggy, rather straight in 
 the posteriors, and, when stripped, light for his size. 
 
 The iron state of the course was against him ; and 
 there is no doubt in our minds, that the want of rain 
 materially aided his defeat. Vestris was blooming and 
 well, and by his personal appearance gained many 
 friends, rising to the decided place of second favour- 
 ite, at 12 to 1. Rasmus and JEneas were big enough 
 for anything but winners ; and Bras de Fer looked fit 
 to run, which is the great secret of the Derby. But 
 the bright, light, airy little Spaniel, had arrived at 
 the exact pitch at which a horse, to win a Derby, 
 ought to be. His coat was silk itself, and he trod the 
 turf as though he disdained the earth and trod on air. 
 The other nags need merely have official mention 
 here, as follows. 
 
 Thursday, May 19. — The first year of a renewal of 
 the Derby Stakes of 50 so vs. each, h. ft., for three yr. 
 olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies. 8st. 21b. — Last mile 
 and a half; the owner of the second horse to save his 
 stake, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the 
 expenses of the police. — One hundred and five subs. 
 
10 SPANIEL, WINNER OF THE DERBY. 
 
 Lord Lowther's b. c. Spaniel 1 
 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c. Riddlesworth 2 
 
 Mr. Cookes's b. c. Incubus ; Sir G. Heathcote's b. c. Ferdousi ; Mr. ThornbiU's 
 b. c. Africanus ; His Majesty's b. c. by Mustacbio, out of Electress' dam ; Lord 
 Exeter's br. c. Ha?mus; Mr. S. Day's br. c. Caleb ; Duke of Richmond's gr. c. 
 Cuidad Rodrigo ; Mr. Vansittart's ch. c. by St. Patrick, out of Slight ; Lord 
 Sligo's ch. c. Bras de Fer ; Mr. Beardsworth's b. c. Colwick ; Mr. W. Chifney's 
 br.c. by Emilius, out of Pigmy ; Lord Egremont's b. c. Brother to Recruit ; Gen. 
 Grosvenor's b. c. Sarpedon ; Lord Verulam's b. c. Vestris ; Lord Chesterfield's 
 b. c. by Emilius, out of Cressida ; Mr. Rush's b. c. Roadster ; Mr. Petre's ch. c. 
 Rattler; Sir R. Bulkeley's b. c. Pickpocket; Duke of Grafton's b. c. yEneas, and 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c. by Middleton, out of Blunder's dam, also started but were 
 not placed. 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Riddlesworth ; 12 to 1 agst. Vestris ; 1 6 to 1 agst. Blunder ; 
 23 to 1 agst. Bras de Fer ; 25 to 1 agst. Cressida ; 25 to 1 agst. Roadster ; 30 
 to 1 agst. the Mustacbio colt ; 50 to 1 agst. Caleb ; 50 to 1 agst. Spaniel ; 50 to 
 1 agst. Colwick ; 50 to 1 agst. Surprise, and 100 to 1 agst. Incubus. 
 
 The horses, after many tiresome attempts and delays, 
 got well together, and went a good pace ior a few 
 hundred yards, when all appeared to give a pull as if 
 by common consent ; and, with the exceptiun of Mr. 
 Rush's colt, and Colwick, the whole cluster came 
 round Tattenham-corner, in what are called good 
 places. Indeed, old Sam Spring, the quondam 
 quiz of a box-keeper, declared that he never 
 saw so many fro?it places hocktd in the whole course 
 of his life. The run home was anything but 
 severe; how, indeed, could it be severe? when 
 Incubus and Riddlesworth were together, gossiping 
 with a thing belonging to Sir Gilbert Heathcote 
 (and from which nothing was really to be feared), 
 until the very finish, when Spaniel came up with 
 perfect ease, and showing something like a pace for 
 thirty yards ; won in a most triumphant style. Rid- 
 dlesworth was second. His length and speed were, 
 in effect, forbidden to be used. Had proper use been 
 made of these from the top of the hill, it would have 
 been difficult for the other jockies to have kept thtir 
 
WHEATLEY's CATASTROPHE. 11 
 
 horses with him. Vestris ran a beaten horse at the cor- 
 ner. Conolly is said to have received waiting orders — a 
 sort of order which Vestris appeared to have heard, 
 and well understood, and obeyed. His place belied 
 his promise. Sam Chifney rode the Surprize filly, 
 and looked at the race with the composure of a phi- 
 losopher, who feels that what he sees is far beyond 
 his reach. The sporting world, the betting world — 
 even the careless world, were astounded at the cata- 
 strophe ; but whilst the losers "couldn't possibly 
 account for it," the winners did not care to do so, and 
 the unflinching patrons of Riddlesworth, still looked 
 for better things. The truth, however, was, that whilst 
 the favourites were cutting one another's throats, they 
 totally forgot that by-standers are apt to see a great 
 deal of the play. The stout little " Whalebone 
 weed," was so ripe on the day, that he held on his 
 best and only pace, from first to last, and though he 
 could not work an atom faster, yet, as his jockey, 
 Wheatley, said, " he could have gone that one pace 
 right away to London.'"* 
 
 The race was won and lost ; — and galloping expresses 
 sped, and pigeons flew, to spread the unexpected 
 tidings abroad " to all whom it might concern." 
 Amongst all others, and to none more welcome, came 
 the news to Wheatley 's worthy helpmate, who, over- 
 joyed at her good husband's luck, forthwith called all 
 her neighbours in to a most famous spread. — The 
 supper passed off with most undeniable eclat. The 
 
 * " By Jingo!" exclaimed a celebrated Sporting Baronet, when he heard of the 
 untoward event, " What with Lapdogs and Spaniels, the Derby beems really to 
 be going to the dogs!" 
 
12 SPANIEL— 1831. 
 
 winner's health was toasted three times three, with 
 nine times nine ; and only the next morning, came a 
 letter from the lucky husband to the loving wife, to 
 say how he had won the race, and begged off all 
 his bets! Joe Rogers won his money, in spite of 
 himself. 
 
 The settling day at TattersalFs passed off severely. 
 There was a good deal of paying, and a good deal of 
 parrying. Bills, accepted at short and payable at 
 long dates, were, in some instances, given, and several 
 winners were dismayed at finding their cash account 
 not exactly tally with their paper account. Spaniel, 
 however, as a winner, was, we think, a more harmless 
 horse than Riddlesworth would have proved himself 
 for the pay-day. When a favourite wins, he generally 
 occasions what the Americans would call " an awful 
 splash." 
 
 As one swallow does not make a summer, so one 
 race will not make a good horse ; but we feel confi- 
 dent that little Spaniel would have oftener shown 
 himself first at the winning post, had not his lot been 
 cast in a year when Camarine, Lucetta, Priam, 
 Tranby, Cetus, and Fleur-de-Lis, were still upon the 
 Turf, far too great rivals for a better horse than ever 
 Spaniel was. 
 
 We find our horse again in the Newmarket First 
 October Meeting, running on Monday the 3rd of 
 October, for The Trial Stakes, a subscription of 10 
 sovs. each, for three yr. olds, 7st. 71b. ; four, 8st. 
 91b.; five, 9st. 21b.; six and aged, 9st. 61b. A.F.— 
 Six subs. 
 
SPANIEL BEATEN. 13 
 
 Sir M. Wood's cb. f. Camarine, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Lord Lowther's b. c. Spaniel, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Duke of Portland's b. b. Theban, 3 yrs. old 3 
 
 Lord Orford's b. f. Naiad, 3 yrs. old 4 
 
 Lord Jersey's bl. b. Juryman, 6 yrs. old 5 
 
 Lord Exeter's entry was made just in time to be 
 too late ; only five, therefore, came to the post ; — the 
 betting being 5 to 4 against Spaniel, and 20 to 12 
 ao-ainst the winner. Theban made the first running, 
 but at a pace so moderate, that Spaniel took it up at 
 the Two year old Course Post, and kept in front to 
 the Abingdon Mile Bottom ; but here his nose was 
 put quite out of joint by Camarine, who came in 
 front, and won with perfect ease by a length. It may 
 be worthy of remark, that in this meeting Camarine 
 beat easily the winners of both Derby and Oaks. 
 
 On Friday, November 4, in the Houghton Meeting, 
 we again find Spaniel's name, "without a place," 
 for The Audley End Stakes, of 30 sovs. each, for 
 horses of all ages (two yr. olds excepted), Audley 
 End Course. — (A mile and three quarters.) 
 
 Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 51b 1 
 
 Mr. Chapman's The Cardinal, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 71b , 2 
 
 Gen. Grosvenor's Sarpedon, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 21b 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's Anthony, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 12lb 4 
 
 Lord Wilton's Rough Robin, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 81b. ; Mr. WagstatFs The Saddler , 
 
 3 yrs. old,8st. 31b.; Mr. Henry's Protocol, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 12lb. ; Mr. Cosby's 
 
 Sketchbook, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 5lb. ; Lord Lowther'.s Spaniel, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 51b.; 
 
 and Lord Verulam's Vestris, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b., also started, but were not 
 
 placed. 
 
 Betting : 3 to 1 agst. Protocol ; 4 to 1 agst. Lucetta ; 5 to 1 agst. Spaniel ; 
 
 5 to 1 agst. Vestris; 6 to 1 agst. The Saddler; 13 to 1 agst. Cardinal, and 8 to 
 
 1 agst. Rough Robin. 
 
 Thus, as far as regards Spaniel, ended the Racing 
 Season, 1831, a year of promise which was not to be 
 fulfilled — A year which opened to him gloriously, and 
 closed over him disgracefully. A Lord Mayor's 
 
14 SPANIEL— 1832. 
 
 year; in which he came in like a king, and sneaked 
 out like a kicked cur. 
 
 In the next season (1832), we find Spaniel, still, 
 like the cow's tail, " all behind," on the Turf. — Firstly, 
 on Wednesday, 25th April, 1832, in the Newmarket 
 Craven Meeting for the Second Class of the Oat- 
 land's Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. — D. I. — Nine 
 subs. 
 
 Mr. Gully's Tranby, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 9lb 1 
 
 Lord Wilton's Chancellor, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 9lb 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's Bohemian, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 12lb 3 
 
 Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 51b. ; Mr. Greatrex's Schumla, 4 yrs. 
 
 old, 8st. 61b. ; and Lord Lowther's Spaniel, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 61b.; also started, but 
 
 were not placed. 
 
 Again, at Ascot Heath, on Wednesday, June 20, for 
 a Plate of 50 sovs. ; three yr. olds, 7st. 41b. ; four, 
 8st. 71b. ; five, 9st. lib, ; six and aged, 9st. 51b. — 
 One mile and a half. 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's Frederica, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Vansittart's Zebra 2 
 
 Lord Lowther's Spaniel and three others also started, but were not placed. 
 
 At Hampton, on Thursday, June 28, for The Gold 
 Cup, value 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 
 sovs. each, — Heats, once round and a distance. — 
 Seven subs. 
 
 Mr. Payne's Sluggard, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 7lb 1 1 
 
 Lord Lowther's Spaniel, 4 yrs. old, 8st 2 2 
 
 Mr. G. Dockeray's Rosebud (late Runnymede) 4 yrs. old, 8st. . . 3^3 
 Three others started but were not placed. 
 
 This was Spaniel's last appearance in the name of 
 the noble owner for whom he had won the Derby. 
 He was now sold to Mr. Meyrick, for whom he ran in 
 Wales with fair success, winning a Fifty pound Plate 
 at Brecon, on the 7th of August — at two-mile heats, 
 beating two others ; the Tradesmen's Plate of 40 sovs. 
 
DEATH OF SPANIEL — HIS CHARACTER, 15 
 
 at two mile heats, beating St. Govius ; and the Dynevor 
 Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 sovs. added, on the 
 12th of September, at Carmarthen. He was beat 
 again at Brecon, on the 26th of September, for the 
 Ladies Plate of 50 sovs., two mile heats; and won, 
 on the same day, the Members' Plate of 50 sovs., at 
 two mile heats, and a free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, 
 with 25 sovs. added. — Heats one mile and a half. 
 
 With these exploits he terminated his career of 1832. 
 
 His further history need be but brief — for now his 
 race through life was run — his short time — sped. On 
 Wednesday, August 21, 1833, at Canterbury, Spaniel 
 broke down, in running the first heat for the Canter- 
 bury Stakes, against Mr. Messer's Cricket; and in the 
 same year, died ; having run 19 races, of which he 
 lost 11, and won 8, of the collective value of £3,675. 
 
 Spaniel was rather diminutive in form, but lengthily 
 proportioned, with a remarkably high shoulder, and 
 his tail set low. The picture given of him here, by 
 Herring, is generally esteemed to be an excellent 
 likeness, In colour he was bay, with the near hind 
 leg white. 
 
 His blood was of the best, — and he did not belie 
 his sire, for he was honest, stout, and true. Unequal 
 in speed to struggle with success against the slashing 
 rivals of his day, he always tried his utmost, and that 
 he did not win was not for want of will. In short, he 
 would have been a good horse, if he could ; — possessing, 
 as he did, those two best attributes of the pure 
 English blood — a hide of silk, and heart of oak. 
 
jG 
 
 OXYGEN. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS, AT EPSOM, 1831. 
 
 Oxygen — undoubtedly the best mare of her year, 
 was bred by the Duke of Grafton, in 182S : — got by 
 Emilius, out of Whizgig, by Rubens out of Penelope, 
 by Trumpeter — Prunella, by Highflyer — Promise, 
 by Snap — Julia, by Blank — Spectator's dam by 
 Partner. 
 
 Here again is a good pedigree, but altogether of a 
 different texture from that of Spaniel, with whom she 
 made her first appearance in public, beating him easily 
 for the Newmarket July Stakes, 1830, and herself 
 running second to Mr. Stonehewer's Zany, as already 
 detailed.* 
 
 In the First October Meeting following, she won 
 the Anson Dinner Stakes of 300 sovs. each, half-for- 
 feit — Four subs., T.Y.C., beating Lord Exeter's 
 Bohemian, and Lord Lichfield's colt by Morisco, out 
 of Ina. 
 
 The Second October Meeting placed her the winner 
 of the Clearwell Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 forfeit. 
 — Thirty-seven subs., T.Y.C. beating Lord Egremont's 
 filly by Whalebone, out of Thalestris, and eleven 
 others who were not placed. 
 
 * Vide page 5. 
 
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OXYGEN. 17 
 
 All these races she won by her speed, and her suc- 
 cess placed her deservedly upon the betting Lists, at 
 the close of the season 1830, as second favourite 
 for the Oaks. 
 
 In the Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 1831, 
 Oxygen began the season pleasantly, by walking over 
 the Abingdon mile, for a Filly Stakes, which counted 
 Nine subscribers of £100 each, half-forfeit. She was 
 not so lucky in the Renewal of the 1000 gs. Stakes, of 
 lOOsovs. each, h. ft. for fillies, 8st. 41b.— D.M.— 
 Twenty-five subs- 
 
 Sir M. Wood's b. f. Gallantine, by Reveller, out "of Snowdrop .... 1 
 
 Mr. Scott Stonehewer's b. f. Lioness, Sister to the Lion 2 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. f. Oxygen ; Duke of Grafton's b. f. Catalpa, by Centaur, 
 out of Sister to Pastille ; Lord Exeter's b. f. by Catton, out of Dulcinea ; Mr. 
 W, Chifney's b. f. by Emilius. out of Surprise ; Mr. Gully's b. f. by Lottery, out 
 of Stotsworth's dam ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. f. by Filho da Puta, dam by Rubens, 
 out of Altisidora ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 2 to 1 on Oxygen, 6 to 1 agst. Lioness, and 10 to 1 agst. the winner. 
 
 The pace was poor, and the performance of Oxygen, 
 who ran an indifferent third, such as to make the 
 " knowing ones" declare, that the Oaks race was over; 
 Circassian being able to carry Mr. Thornhill (no feather 
 as may readily be seen) and distance all the fillies 
 that had been out, in a common canter. So much for 
 prophecy ! But those who held these sentiments, 
 subsequently found that they were not in any way 
 connected with the profits. 
 
 On Friday, May 20, speculation was rife upon the 
 Oaks, Circassian and Lioness being first and second 
 favourites, whilst Oxygen stood almost friendless at 
 12 to 1. The following twenty-one came to the 
 post, viz. : — 
 
 The Duke of Grafton's Oxygen 1 
 
 Lord Exeter's Marmora, by Sultan, out of Miss Catton 2 
 
18 OXYGEN, AND THE OAKS, 1831. 
 
 Mr. Rogers's b. f. by Partisan, dam by Rubens, out of Pennytrumpet 3 
 Mr. Houldsworth b. f. Circassian, by Sultan 4 
 
 Mr. Scott Stonehewer's br. f. Lioness, by Tiresias ; Sir G. Heatbcote's b. f. 
 Shirine, by Blacklock, out of Maldonia's dam ; Lord Jersey's br. f. Alea, by 
 Whalebone ; Mr. Sadler's br. f. Euryone, by Reveller ; Mr. W. Chifney's br. f. 
 by Emilius, out of Surprise ; Lord Warwick's b. f. Water Witch, by Whalebone ; 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Titania, by Merlin ; Mr. Maberley's ch. f. Farce, by 
 Swiss, out of Comedy ; Mr. Sadler's b. f. Delight, by Reveller ; Lord Exeter's 
 b. f. by Catton, out of Dulcinea; Duke of Grafton's b. f. Blassi, by Emilius; 
 Mr. H. Wagstaff's br. f. Streamlet, by Tiresias, out of Bizarre ; Mr. Gates's b. f. 
 by Little John, out of Vulcan's dam ; Mr. Delrae Radcliffe's ch. f. by Woful, out 
 of Posthuma ; Lord Egremont's b. f. by Whalebone, out of Harpalice (Clare's 
 dam) ; Mr. West's b. f. by Shaver, out of Charming Molly ; and Duke of Rich- 
 mond's b. f. Syma, by Swiss, also started, but were not placed. 
 
 6 to 4 agst. Circassian ; 8 to 1 agst. Delight ; 12 to 1 agst. Alea ; 12 to 1 agst. 
 Oxygen ; 12 to 1 agst. Lioness ; 12 to 1 agst- Pennytrumpet ; 14 to 1 agst. 
 Streamlet ; 20 to 1 agst. Water Witch ; 30 to 1 agst. Marmora ; 30 to 1 agst. 
 Farce ; 30 to 1 agst. Surprise ; 30 to 1 agst. Euryone, and 100 to 1 agst 
 Titania. 
 
 It was a very fine race, and very true. Every inch 
 of the ground was well contested, and undoubtedly the 
 best mare won it. 
 
 Circassian ran in distress, a good mare. In the 
 dip, near the distance post, she looked like a winner, 
 so much so, that Crutch Robinson offered 4 to 1 on 
 her ; but she was then dead beat, and Lord Lowther's 
 filly whipped, or rather was whipped a-head of her. 
 The struggle, however, eventually lay between Lord 
 Exeter's Sultan filly (Marmora), and Oxygen — the 
 latter winning by a neck. John Day rode like a 
 prince ; and ought to have been at once raised to the 
 peerage. Indeed, after the race, several of the sur- 
 prised exclaimed, "Lord John Day!" and, as a 
 jockey, he certainly had made out his title. Jem 
 Robinson, on the Lioness, had a beautiful view of 
 the race, and brought his mare to the grand stand — 
 still! 
 
 At Ascot, Oxygen encored her Oaks running, beating 
 
OXYGEN, A THREE YEAR OLD. 19 
 
 two Oaks fillies, for a Filly Stakes of 100 sovs. each, 
 h. ft. — The Old Mile, — Twelve subscribers ; coming in 
 an easy winner, with Lord Exeter's Marmora, and Lord 
 Lowther's Guitar, playing second and third in the 
 trio. 
 
 The Newmarket First October Meeting, brought 
 her out to add another to the triumphs of the redoubt- 
 able Camarine, in the St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs. 
 each, for three year olds ; colts, 8st. 71b., and fillies, 
 8st. 41b., D. I. — Seventeen subs. 
 
 Sir M. Wood's ch. f. Camarine 1 
 
 Duke of Grafton's br. f. Oxygen -2 
 
 Duke of Rutland's br. c. Clansman 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's cb. c. Bohemian 4 
 
 Mr. Henry's br. e. Scipio 5 
 
 Mr. Chifney's b. c. Caleb 6 
 
 Scipio made the running for a quarter of a mile, 
 when Oxygen took it up, and brought them at a good 
 pace to the Duke's Stand, Camarine all the while 
 waiting on her ; until Chappie let her go, when the 
 instant she got into her stride the race was over — 
 she came from them like a dart, and won in a canter 
 by four lengths, having in one week beaten the winners 
 of the Derby and Oaks, and proved her claim to speed 
 as well as stoutness. The odds at starting were 6 to 5 
 agst. Camarine, 2 to 1 agst. Oxygen, and 9 to 2 agst. 
 Clansman, who was two or three lengths astern of 
 Oxygen, who now wound up her racing season, 1831, 
 by walking over A. F. for one third of a subscrip- 
 tion of 25 sovs. each, for three yr. olds. — Seven subs. 
 
 The season 1832 brought Oxygen again into the 
 field, on Tuesday, the 24th of April, in the Newmarket 
 Craven Meeting, an easy winner of the First Class of 
 
 c 2 
 
20 OXYGEN. 
 
 the Oatlands Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. — D. I. — 
 Nine subs. 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. f. Oxygen, by Emilius, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 91b 1 
 
 Mr. Watt's ch. c. Mazeppa, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb 2 
 
 Gen. Grosvenor's b. c. Sarpedon, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 9lb 3 
 
 Col. Wilson's br. c. by Coinus, out of Rotterdam, 4 yrs. old, 9st. ; Sir M. 
 Wood's ch. c. Captain Arthur, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 101b. ; Mr. Chifney's br. c. Snarl, 
 4 yrs. old, 7st. 131b. ; and Lord Exeter's ch. c. Anthony, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 61b. ; 
 also started, but were not placed. 
 
 The betting being 2 to 1 agst. Oxygen, 4 to 1 agst. Mazeppa, 5 to 1 agst. 
 Captain Arthur, 5 to 1 agst. Rotterdam, and 6 to 1 agst. Snarl. 
 
 In the Newmarket First Spring Meeting, she met and 
 beat Lucetta, for the King's Plate of lOOgs. for 
 mares ; three yr. olds, 8st. 41b. ; four, 9st. 41b. ; 
 five, 9st. 101b. ; six and aged, lOst. — R. C. 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. f. Oxygen, by Emilius, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Sir M. Wood's br. m. Lucetta, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Betting : 5 to 2 on Oxygen. 
 
 but in the Second Spring, Lucetta had her revenge 
 in the Jockey Club Plate of £50 for horses the property 
 of Members of the Jockey Club, four yr. olds, 7st. 
 21b. ; five, 8st. 31b. ; six, 8st. 91b. ; and aged, 8st. 
 1 lib. — Beacon Course. 
 
 Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, 6 yrs. old 1 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Oxygen, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Betting : 4 to 1 on Oxygen. 
 
 This was a fast run race of four miles, in which 
 the old mare's good lasting qualities landed her a 
 clever first at the post, much to the confusion of the 
 " knowing ones," whose " Oxygenated" four to one 
 evaporated from their pockets in a giffy, leaving them 
 nothing but the empty atmospheric air behind. 
 
 On Monday, in the Second October Meeting, 
 Oxygen opened the ball upon her favourite play-ground, 
 
OXYGEN.— 1833. 21 
 
 the Newmarket Turf, in a Sweepstakes of fifty sovs. 
 each.— R. M. 
 
 Mr. Henry's Margaret, 3 yrs. old, 7st 1 
 
 Lord Orford's Naiad, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 1 31b 2 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Oxygen, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 9lb S 
 
 The betting was five to four against either Margaret 
 or Oxygen, who was as much over-burdened at 8st. 
 91b., as Margaret was in comparison under-weighted 
 at 7st. Yet with all this inequality, it was a 
 beautiful race, Margaret beating Naiad by a neck 
 only; and Naiad beating Oxygen by scarcely half a 
 length. 
 
 On Tuesday in the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, 
 Oxygen wound up her season, 1832, by getting a 
 clever beating in a Match for 100 sovs., h. ft. — 
 T. M. M. 
 
 Mr. Vansittart's Rubini, 8st. 9lb 1 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Oxygen, 8st. 31b 2 
 
 This was a very sporting race; the betting being 
 five to two upon Rubini, with plenty both of betters 
 and of takers — who, in this instance, were in no wise 
 bettered by it. 
 
 The first appearance of Oxygen for the season 1863, 
 on the Thursday in the Newmarket Craven, was as 
 unsuccessful as her finish of 1832. For the Forfeit 
 Class of the Oatlands Stakes of ten sovs. each. — D. I. 
 — ^Thirteen subscribers, — the jockies weighed for 
 Emancipation, Oxygen, and Dinah ; the ring was 
 formed and a good deal of money laid out, at even, on 
 Emancipation, two to one against Oxygen, and five 
 to two against Dinah ; nor till the horses had actually 
 started, did it transpire that Emancipation had paid ! 
 Those, therefore, who, trusting to the favourite, had 
 
22 THE PRESENT DUKE OF GRAFTON. 
 
 betted two to one against Oxygen, were now con- 
 strained to lay six to four upon her, but this was only 
 jumping out of the frying pan plump into the fire, for 
 after a very severe race, the effect of the nine pounds 
 produced the unexpected result of 
 
 Mr. Kirby's br. f. Dinah, by Champignon, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 121b. . . 1 
 Duke of Grafton's b. f. Oxygen, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 7lb 2 
 
 with which defeat Oxygen's career upon the turf 
 terminated. 
 
 This being the only occasion within our limited 
 space in which we shall have occasion to congratulate 
 the noble owner of Oxygen, His Grace of Grafton, on 
 the success of any of his " Cracks," as winners of either 
 of the " great events" of the year; we here present to 
 our readers, an acknowledged likeness of one of the 
 finest and most honourable sportsmen England can 
 boast of. Born on the 14th of January 1760, and 
 succeeding to the dukedom on the 14th of March 1811. 
 The present Duke of Grafton is one of the truest and 
 best supporters of the British turf, and master of a 
 splendid pack of fox-hounds, which he hunts in green 
 uniforms. 
 
 To the present Duke, as well as his father, known 
 as " the old Duke of Grafton," the turf is largely 
 indebted for the vast improvement effected by them 
 in the blood of the English race-horse. A mere list 
 of their most celebrated winners would occupy more 
 space than we can well afford ; suffice it now to say, 
 that they have won four Derbies, seven Oaks, the 
 Two Thousand, five times, the One Thousand, eight 
 times, the Riddlesworth, thrice, the Trial Stakes, four 
 times, the July, five times, the Port, three times, the 
 
THE OLD DUKE OF GRAFTON. 
 
 23 
 
 Claret, three times, the Duke Michael, and the Clear- 
 well, once, and the Newmarket St. Leger, four times ; 
 and that they are said to have netted nearly a quarter 
 of a million in public stakes ! 
 
 The two dukes have been alike and equally dis- 
 tinguished for their extreme honour, liberality, and 
 love of sport, but that time and fashion has worked 
 some slight difference in the " outward man," will be 
 readily acknowledged, on glancing at the annexed 
 sketch, copied from a very rare old cotemporary print 
 of his Grace of the eighteenth century. 
 
 THE OLD DUKE OF GRAFTON- 
 
24 
 
 CHORISTER, 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1831. 
 
 Here stands Chorister, the first of Lottery's get who 
 proved a winner, and made the " knowing ones" to sing 
 a laughing chorus on the wrong side of their mouths. 
 
 Chorister, a dark bay colt, about fifteen hands, 
 three inches in height, was bred by Mr. John Smith 
 in the year 1828. He was got by Lottery, his dam 
 (Crowcatcher's dam,) by Chorus, grandam Anticipa- 
 tion, by Beningbrough, out of Expectation, sister to 
 Telemachus, by Herod. 
 
 Chorister was purchased, when a yearling, by the 
 Duke of Cleveland, for three hundred guineas. 
 
 His first appearance on the turf was in the York 
 Spring Meeting, ] 830, where he won a Sweepstakes 
 of £450, beating Victoire, Clarence, and eigh 
 others. For the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, in 
 the same year, he was disgraced by Frederica, and 
 several others. 
 
 In 1831, at York Spring Meeting he was beat for 
 the Shorts Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for 
 three yr. olds. — Last mile. — Six subs. 
 
 Mr. Skipsey's br. c. The Saddler, 8st. 51b 1 
 
 Lord Cleveland's b. c. Chorister, 8st. 51b 2 
 
 6 to 4 on the winner ; 
 
 and again at York, in the August following, he won a 
 Renewed Subscription of 25 sovs. each, for horses 
 
MSSM 
 
 ■■, ■■:■■ 
 
CHOKISTER. 25 
 
 the property of a subscriber, or his declared confede- 
 rate ; three yr. olds, 7st. 2lb. ; fillies, 6st. 11 lb. ; 
 four, 8st. 31b. ; and five, 8st. 101b. — Two miles. 
 
 Lord Cleveland's b. c. Chorister, by Lottery, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's ch. m. Fortitude, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Lord Scarbrough's b. h. Cistercian, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Duke of Leeds's ch. f. Lady Mowbray, 4 yrs. old 4 
 
 Lord Milton's b. f. Sister to Ballad-singer, 3 yrs. old 5 
 
 6 to 4 agst. Chorister. 
 
 Chorister, however, remained as yet unmentioned in 
 the cogitations of the sages of the betting ring, as 
 having half a chance for the St. Leger ; nor did the 
 thought once cross their minds that he might win it. 
 Circassian, who had lost the Oaks, and Ridcllesworth 
 and Colwick, who had lost the Derby, were the 
 favourite nags, whilst Liverpool, The Saddler, Mar- 
 cus, and in fact every thing in turn, was touched upon 
 except THE ONE. 
 
 The Derby and the Oaks have passed through our 
 pages, but though last, " the best of all the three" the 
 Great St. Leger, crowns the racing of the year. We 
 may safely say that no event throughout the year causes 
 such intense speculation, or creates more general 
 interest among all classes and conditions of persons 
 than this great midland race. To it the tried of all 
 England's studs from north to south, and east to west 
 arrive, to contest in one grand struggle for the spolia 
 opima of the Turf. Here the victors on Newmarket 
 Heath or Epsom Downs meet the champions of the 
 Aintree or the Yorkshire courses, and north country 
 versus south, is the order of the day. 
 
 Of eighty-six subscribers, the following showed at 
 the post, viz. — 
 
 Lord Cleveland's b. c. Chorister— J. Day ; Mr. Skipsey's br. c. The Saddler— 
 
26 THE ST. LEGER, 1831. 
 
 T. Nicholson; Mr. Golden 's br. f. La Fille Mai Gardee— R. Johnson ; Mr. F. 
 Richardson's b. f. Lady Elizabeth — Wakefield ; Lord Cleveland's br. c. Marcus 
 
 S. Chifney ; Mr. Robinson's b. c. Liverpool — W. Scott ; Lord Fitzwilliam's b. 
 
 c. Creole W. Wheatley ; Mr. Bower's br. c. Sir John — T. Wbitehouse ; Lord 
 
 Scarbrough'e b. c. Brother to Tarrare — G. Nelson ; Mr. Sadler's ch. c. Achilles 
 
 Wrio-ht; Mr. Sadler's b. f. Delight— J. Chappie; Col. Cradock's b. c. Brother 
 
 to Homer — H. Edwards ; Mr. R. Bower's b. c. Chancellor — Holmes ; Lord 
 Slio-o's ch. c. Bras de Fer — P. Conolly ; Mr. Wag-staff's b. f. Joan d'Arc — Great- 
 head ; Mr. Wagstaff's b. f. Streamlet — J. Garbutt ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. f. 
 Circassian — S. Darling ; Mr. Beardsworth's br. c. Colwick — Calloway ; Mr. 
 R. Harrison's b. c. Braithwaite — Dodgson ; Mr. Vansittart's ch. c. Rubini — F. 
 Boyce; Mr. W. Turner's b. c. Shrigley — J. Spring ; Mr. Singleton's b. c. Tre- 
 maine — S. Templeman; Mr. Ferguson's b. c. Teetotum — Jacques; Mr. S. Reed's 
 b. c. Panton, by Arbutus — Marson, jun. 
 
 The odds, after undergoing several important fluctuations, averaged as follows : 
 — 3 to 1 agst. The Saddler, 7 to 2 agst. Marcus, 9 to 1 agst. Liverpool, 12 to 1 
 agst. Delight, 13 to 1 agst. Circassian, 14 to 1 agst. Tarrare, 15 to 1 agst. Sir John, 
 18 to 1 agst. Colwick, 20 to 1 agst. Chorister, 25 to 1 agst. Creole, 25 to 1 agst. 
 Lady Elizabeth, 30 to 1 agst. Chancellor, and 40 to 1 agst. Achilles. 
 
 The start was admirably managed — not a single failure 
 occurred. As usual, Lord Scarbrough's horse went 
 off first ; and also, as usual, Sam Chifney went off last, 
 and, not as usual, he contrived to keep so throughout 
 the race ; but we anticipate. Tarrare did not lead 
 above half-way to the hill, where he fell back into the 
 crowd ; Chancellor immediately took up the running, 
 followed by Teetotum and Mai Gardee ; behind whom 
 were The Saddler, Rubini, Tarrare, Liverpool, &c. 
 Chorister lying near the centre ; in this order they 
 went over the hill at a capital pace, Shrigley being 
 beaten thus early. There was no change of importance 
 till they got to the Red House, where the ragged ones 
 began to drop off; first went Marcus, and before they got 
 to the rails, Creole, Circassian, Delight, Achilles, Col- 
 wick, Sir John (who was as fat as a bullock), Streamlet, 
 Joan of Arc, and Panton, were hors de combat. By 
 this time Teetotum had retired into the crowd, and La 
 Fille Mai Gardee was leading, with The Saddler coming 
 up — at the distance he passed her, and here to all 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1831. 27 
 
 appearance Nicholson had nothing to do but to sit 
 quiet and win ; Chorister, however, was yet to be dis- 
 posed of; he now came gently forward, but did not 
 venture to challenge The Saddler till he got to the 
 stand, and there he made a rush a la Chijney, 
 Nicholson made a desperate effort to shake him off 
 without success ; and Chorister, solely by the 
 superiority of his jockey, won by about half a head. 
 Mai Gardee ran a tolerable third ; Chancellor, Lady 
 Elizabeth, and Liverpool, making a kind of draw for 
 the honour of being fourth. 
 
 " Now comes the settling when the banquet's o'er," 
 and a sorrowful settling it was for many, whose too 
 great confidence had induced them to stand their 
 money out and out upon The Saddler. Lord Cleve- 
 land is said to have bagged eight thousand pounds, 
 and a select few of his friends joined chorus. The 
 Brumagems, the Newmarket, and the Manchester folk, 
 bled on Marcus, Colwick, and Liverpool, and had real 
 reason to repent that they had not taken shares in the 
 Lottery ticket ; whilst Mr. Skipsey and the Stock- 
 tonites were well pommelled by The Saddler, 
 
 Thus to the great surprise of all did Chorister run 
 off with the St. Leger, and " betters round" had seldom 
 such a year ; the Derby, Oaks, and Leger, having 
 been won by three horses, starting respectively at 50 
 to 1, 12 to 1, and 20 to 1 — making an average of 27 
 points to 1. 
 
 On the Thursday following the St. Leger, Liverpool 
 was the only horse who had the hardihood to face 
 Chorister for ''The Gascoigne Stakes of 100 sovs. 
 each, 30 ft, for three yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 61b. ; and 
 
28 CHORISTER AND LIVERPOOL. 
 
 fillies, 8st. 31b, ; the winner of the St. Leger to carry 
 41b. extra. — St. Leger Course. — Eleven subs. 
 
 The betting was five to two on Chorister, and his 
 noble owner thought that he need but put out his 
 hand, to pocket the Stakes ; but " Audi alteram 
 partem." The horses walked part of the way for the 
 amusement of a part of the spectators, cantered nearly 
 a mile for the entertainment of a few more, and finished 
 the remainder at a rattling pace for the gratification 
 of the whole. From the stand in it was neck to neck, 
 and head by head, so that the judge was " pretty 
 considerable dumbfoundrified" to say who had won, 
 and therefore proclaimed it, a dead heat. 
 
 The betting now was six to four on Chorister, but 
 he did not sustain the honours he had gained two days 
 before. The race was very cleverly won by Liverpool 
 by a length, and people who had stared before, now 
 stared again. 
 
 On Friday, the fourteenth of October, Chorister 
 appeared again a winner, at Northallerton, for the 
 Gold Cup, value 100 gs. by subscription of 10 gs. 
 each ; for three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. ; five, 
 8st. 91b. ; six and aged, 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. 
 — Two miles. 
 
 Lord Cleveland's b. c. Chorister, by Lottery, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Richardson's b. f. Lady Elizabeth, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Skipsey's b. c. by Welbeck, dam by Walton, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 and then retired into private life for the remainder of 
 his days. 
 
29 
 
 THE RACING SEASON, 1831. 
 
 The Racing Season, 1831, was undoubtedly a 
 " Crack" season, although its favourites did not fulfil 
 the sanguine expectations of their backers. But whilst 
 the three great events of the year, the Derby, Oaks, 
 and Leger were productive neither of an Eclipse, nor 
 a Comet, nor even a fixed star of any magnitude ; the 
 several Cups, and Plates, and Stakes, and Matches 
 filled by such nags as Priam, Cadland, Camarine, The 
 Colonel, Tranby, Lucetta, and Augustus, could not be 
 otherwise than sporting events of very great interest to 
 all the lovers of the turf. 
 
 The best productions of this season, were "The 
 Saddler," Riddlesworth," and "Oxygen," but, 
 although the year 1831 produced fewer "flyers" than 
 many which preceded it, this was made up for, by the 
 excellent character of the racing. The races for the 
 Derby, Oaks, and Leger; the Ascot, Goodwood, and 
 Doncaster Cups ; the Two-year-old Stakes ; the 
 Matches ; and in fact the struggles for every stake, 
 were such as will seldom be seen again, so numerous 
 and severe, in any one year; whilst many little 
 improvements in the various details of turf management, 
 gave promising prospects of the next year's sport. 
 
30 epsom, 1831. 
 
 The principal sporting events of the year must 
 be summarily disposed of, to suit our limited 
 space : — 
 
 The Newmarket C haven Meeting brought out 
 Riddlesworth, the horse "wot ought to have won the 
 Derby, only didn't, "but the field was so very indifferent, 
 that it was "wondrous truly," to see the people all so 
 sweet upon him, but sweet indeed they were, until 
 they caught some cream of "Tartar," in the draught, 
 and then they all turned sour. 
 
 This same meeting produced another " bite" in the 
 shape of Circassian, who from her running jumped 
 at once into the betting first favourite for the Oaks, 
 and then lost it. Many other alledged " flyers," 
 were likewise stripped of their false plumage in the 
 course of a week, throughout which, Priam cantering 
 in advance of sundry dilatory nags, for two good 
 stakes, was the only true picture of a race horse that 
 appeared. 
 
 The two first days at Epsom afforded some excellent 
 sport. But who, with the Derby so near, could spare 
 much of his attention to the races which precede it ? 
 Suffice it to say, that The Colonel proved himself no 
 craven, by the style in which he won the Craven 
 Stakes, although he left Fortitude behind him. Suf- 
 folk Punch won the Cup ; and Spaniel won the Shirley 
 Stakes in a canter : but the Magnates of the betting 
 having made up their minds that he had not the 
 requisites for a Derby winner, his success only served 
 to send him back in the betting. 
 
 It was not, however, long before they were unde- 
 ceived — twenty-three horses came to the post, but the 
 
ASCOT AND YORK. — 1831. 31 
 
 multitude saw but one — Riddlesworth was to them the 
 field, and their feelings were less of anxiety or doubt 
 about winning, than impatience to finger their gains. 
 Spaniel will be a lesson to those who think the first 
 performances of a two year old an infallible criterion 
 of his future running. 
 
 The Oaks was considered as safe a race as the 
 Derby, and here again the "backers of their Circas- 
 sian" favourite discovered that the "laughing gas" 
 was not Oxygen ! 
 
 Ascot was not this year so bright and sparkling with 
 its favourites as usual. The Cup race, won by Cetus, 
 was a dull affair ; and the Oatlands Stakes alone 
 brought any " Crack" nags to the post. For this The 
 Colonel, notwithstanding his weight (9st. 61b.), was 
 the favourite, nor did he do any thing to detract from 
 his high reputation in running a dead heat with Mouche 
 (who ran second in the Oaks in 1830), carrying- 
 only 7st. 51b. The second heat proved that a willing 
 horse may be ridden too heavily, as well as too hard ; 
 and in running it the gallant Colonel broke down, and 
 for ever closed his career upon the Turf. Beiram came 
 out the winner of a two-year old stake, and was at 
 once declared the first favourite for the Derby, 1832. 
 And thus closed Ascot. 
 
 The results of the York August Meeting effected 
 some important changes in the betting. Chorister ad- 
 vanced considerably in favour, — whilst Liverpool was 
 forced back a few points, and Creole gained some 
 credit at his expense. Towards the end of the month, 
 however, an announcement was made which materially 
 affected the betting, and unsettled the books. Rid- 
 
32 MR. osbaldeston's match. 
 
 dlesworth, who had never been looked upon as certain 
 to come to the post, declined a trip northward, and 
 The Saddler rapidly increased in favour. 
 
 Goodwood was remarkable only for the announce- 
 ment of a visit from Royalty which never took place ; 
 and Egham deserves notice only for the purpose of 
 entering a protest against the conduct of the parties 
 to the celebrated " Pilgrim case," (of which we have 
 since had a second edition, " corrected and improved," 
 in the equally notorious " Old Bill case") at once dis- 
 graceful to all concerned, and highly prejudicial to the 
 best interests of the Turf. 
 
 Doncaster came on and went off much as usual, 
 there was a full attendance, a field winner of the 
 Leger, and some excellent racing, which, however, 
 had no novelty to recommend it. Epsom October 
 Meeting was as dull as usual : and the Newmarket 
 Meetings in October were remarkable only for the 
 match of Priam with Augustus, and for Sir Mark 
 Wood's mares, Camarine and Lucetta, triumphing 
 over the three great Cracks of the year, Oxygen, 
 Spaniel, and The Saddler. 
 
 There still remains, however, one great sporting 
 event of the year to be noticed. In the Newmarket 
 Houghton Meeting, Mr. Osbaldeston undertook to ride 
 two hundred miles in ten hours over the Round 
 Course, for a bet of a thousand guineas, he (" the 
 Squire") not being limited in the number or choice 
 of horses. 
 
 The task was an Herculean one, nor had any such 
 performance been ever attempted since the days of 
 the celebrated Miss Pond, who, in the months of April 
 
jZ^-t^jt *s£ -V *c£. Wj^*^^ 
 
MR. OSBATDESTOn's MATCH. 33 
 
 and May, 1758, rode one horse one thousand miles, in 
 one thousand successive hours. To be sure "The 
 Squire" had had his competitors. On the 27th of 
 June, 1759, Jennison Shafto, Esq., went, with several 
 horses, fifty miles in one hour, forty-nine minutes, and 
 seventeen seconds ; and on the 4th of May, 1761, Mr. 
 John Woodcock rode one hundred miles a day for 
 twenty-nine successive days ; and lastly, on the 30th 
 May, 1761, Thomas Dale rode an ass one hundred 
 miles in twenty-two hours and thirty minutes. But 
 none of these, with the exception of Miss Pond's 
 achievement, was to be compared with Mr. Osbal- 
 deston's undertaking, which some facetious folk de- 
 clared to have entitled him to the name of "Rashly 
 
 OsBALDESTON." 
 
 In appearance, Mr. Osbaldeston has little of what 
 is usually understood by the term sporting : he is 
 rather below the middle size, with a large and muscular 
 frame, the legs somewhat disproportioned to the body, 
 and appearing, when on horseback, to belong rather 
 to the animal than the man, so firm and steady is his 
 seat ; his weight was eleven stone. The saddles were 
 covered with lamb-skin, and marked with the names 
 of the horses to be ridden, and the order in which 
 they were to be brought to the post. At twelve 
 minutes past seven, Mr. Osbaldeston, dressed in a 
 purple silk jacket, black velvet cap, doe-skin breeches, 
 and top boots, started on his own mare, Emma, and 
 dividing the distance into heats of four miles each, 
 performed it with twenty-eight horses, as follows : 
 
34 
 
 MR. OSBALDESTON S MATCH. 
 
 S3 
 34 
 35 
 36 
 
 37 
 
 38 
 
 40 
 41 
 4 '2 
 43 
 41 
 45 
 46 
 47 
 48 
 49 
 50 
 
 Owners' Names. 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston': 
 Mr. Sowerby's . . 
 Mr. Osbaldeston': 
 Mr. Sowerby's . , 
 Mr. Osbaldeston': 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Mr. Tilburne's . , 
 Mr. Sowerby's . , 
 Mr. Osbaldeston' 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Mr. Shrigley's . , 
 Mr. Tilburne's . 
 Mr. Sowerby's . , 
 Mr. Osbaldeston' 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Ditto , 
 
 Mr. Shrigley's . 
 
 Mr. Gully's 
 
 Mr. Tilburne's . 
 
 Ditto , 
 
 Mr. Gully's . . . 
 Mr. Arnold's 
 Lord Lowther's - 
 Lord Lowther's . 
 Mr. Gully's . . . 
 Mr. J, Robinson' 
 Mr. Rush's 
 Mr. Arnold's . . . 
 
 Mr. Rush's 
 Mr. Henry's 
 
 Mr. G. Edwards'. 
 Mr. Wagstaff s . , 
 Col. Wilson's.. . . 
 Vlr. Gully's 
 
 Mr. Pettit's 
 
 Mr. J. Robinson': 
 
 Mr. Rush's 
 
 Mr. Wagstaflfs . . 
 Lord Ranelagh's. 
 Mr. Payne's 
 Mr. W. Cbifney': 
 Col. Wilson's... 
 Mr. Gully's 
 Mr. Wagstaff's . 
 Mr. Pettit's . . . 
 Lord Ranelagh's 
 Mr. Wagtaff's . 
 Mr. J. Robinson' 
 
 Names of the Horses. 
 
 Emma 
 
 Paradox 
 
 Liberty 
 
 Coroner 
 
 Ebberston 
 
 Don Juan 
 
 Morgan Rattler .... 
 
 Paradox 2d time 
 
 Cannon-ball 
 
 Clasher 
 
 Ultima 
 
 Fairy 
 
 Coroner 2d timp 
 
 Liberty 2d timp 
 
 Emma 2d time 
 
 Don Juan 2d time 
 
 Ebberston 2d time 
 
 Cannon-ball .... 2d time 
 
 Ultima 2d time 
 
 Tranby 
 
 Fairy 2d time 
 
 Morgan Rattler, 2d time 
 
 Tramp colt 
 
 Dolly 
 
 Acorn colt 
 
 Smolensko colt 
 
 Tranby 2d time 
 
 Skirmisher 
 
 Guildford 
 
 Dolly 2d time 
 
 Ikey Solomons. 
 Tam-o'Shanter . 
 
 El Dorado. 
 Coventry . 
 Ringleader 
 
 Tranby 3d time 
 
 Ipsala 
 
 Skirmisher ....2d 
 
 Guildford 2d 
 
 Streamlet 
 
 Donegani 
 
 Hassan 
 
 Surprize filly 
 
 Ringleader 2d 
 
 Tranby 4th 
 
 Coventry 2d 
 
 Ipsala 2d 
 
 Donegani 2d 
 
 Streamlet 2d 
 
 's|Skirmisher ... .3d 
 
 time 
 time 
 
 time 
 time 
 time 
 time 
 time 
 time 
 time 
 
 Iff 
 
 .gd 
 
 4 
 agd 
 
 6 
 
 agd 
 agd 
 agd 
 
 4 
 
 -J 
 
 gd 
 agd 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 agd 
 agd 
 agd 
 
 gd 
 agd 
 
 gd 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 gd 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 9m0a 
 9 20 
 
 8 40 
 
 9 21 
 9 21 
 9 8 
 
 8 10 
 
 9 45 
 9 
 8 10 
 
 8 8 
 
 9 28 
 8 58 
 
 8 58 
 
 9 2 
 8 52 
 
 8 
 
 9 25 
 8 25 
 8 45 
 
 12 
 9 40 
 
 9 20 
 9 
 8 45 
 8 19 
 8 20 
 
 8 45 
 
 9 10 
 
 8 50 
 
 9 12 
 
 
 10 
 30 
 50 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 10 15 
 9 40 
 
 A very heavy rain at 
 the beginning, and 
 continued at times 
 nearly for 3 hours. 
 
 24 miles in 58 minutes, 
 including stoppages. 
 
 Fell lame ; came in at 
 
 a trot. 
 48 miles in 2h. lm. 5s. 
 
 60 miles in 2h. 33m. 
 
 72 miles in 3h. 4m. 
 Rain subsided, very cold 
 80 miles in 3b. 25Am. 
 
 100 miles in 4h. 19m. 
 52 sec. 
 
 120 miles in 5h. 11 ^m 
 and took refreshment 
 in the stand. 
 
 Ikey stopped short and 
 turned round, and Mr. 
 O. threw himself off, 
 but soon remounted. 
 
 Even betting on match. 
 
 136 miles in 6 hours. 
 
 156 miles in 6h. 49m. 
 Odds 6 to 4 in 9 hours 
 and 10 to 1 in lOhrs. 
 The weather improved. 
 
 Pulled up lame. 
 
 Weather unfavourable. 
 Tranby did his 16 
 miles in 33m. 15 sec. 
 
 A tremendous shower. 
 
 200 8 42 h. m. s. 
 
 Performed in 7 19 4 
 
 Allowed tor stoppages, &c 1 22 56 
 
 5J 42 0~ 
 
THE SQUIRE BEATS TIME. 
 
 35 
 
 This arduous undertaking was thus completed, one 
 hour and eighteen minutes within the time specified ; 
 and performed, allowing for stoppages, at the rate 
 of twenty-six miles an hour. Whilst the performance 
 of Tranby, who completed his four four-mile heats in 
 thirty-three minutes, fifteen seconds, found him such 
 favour in the eyes of the American turfmen, who judge 
 altogether of a horse's powers by the tune of his per- 
 formances, that he was soon afterwards purchased to 
 go to the new world. 
 
 Time " 'gainst the field," the parsons cry, 
 
 And add by way of comment'ry 
 
 To warn each racing sinner, 
 
 " Whatever length life's course may be, 
 
 AT. M.M. orT.Y.C, 
 
 Time's sure to be the winner." 
 
 " Out upon their authority !" 
 
 The 'Squire exclaims ; " What's Time to me 
 
 That I his steps should follow : 
 
 To challenge him I am not afraid V 
 
 " Done," replies Time ; — a match was made, 
 
 And Time was beaten hollow. 
 
36 
 
 ST. GILES. 
 
 WINNER OF THE EPSOM DERBY, 1832. 
 
 St. Giles, whose portrait is the next upon "our 
 book," was bred by Mr. Ridsdale in 1829, got by- 
 Tramp, out of Arcot Lass, by Ardrossan, her dam by 
 Cramlington, out of Floyerkin, by Stride — Little Eng- 
 land's dam, by Javelin — Sister to Toby, by Highflyer. 
 St. Giles's first appearance, was on the Newmarket 
 Turf, in the Second October Meeting, 1831, where he 
 made a nameless, and as it proved, inglorious debut, 
 for a Two Year Old Plate of £50 for two yr. olds ; 
 colts, 8st. 41b., and fillies, 8st. 2lb. — T. Y. C. 
 
 Sir R. K. Dick's b. f. Miss Mary Anne, by Truffle 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Kittums 2 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. by Tramp, out of Arcot Lass ; Mr. Arnold's b. c. by 
 Truffle, dam by Andrew, grandani by Quiz, out of Selim's dam ; Mr. Gratwicke's 
 gr. f. by Middleton, out of Jest ; Mr. Day's b. c. Gratis ; His Majesty's ch. c. by 
 Waterloo or Middleton, out of Virginius's dam ; Lord Lowther'sch.f. by Partisan, 
 out of Rivulet ; Mr. Batson's b. f. Banquet, by Truffle, dam Saffi, by a son of 
 Dick Andrews ; and Colonel Peel's br. f. Eccentricity; also started, but were not 
 
 The betting : 5 to 2 agst. Mr. Ridsdale's colt, 3 to 1 agst. Kittums, 7 to 2 agst. 
 Gratis, 10 to 1 agst. Miss Mary Anne. 
 
 And he was again beaten on the Friday in the 
 Houghton Meeting of the same year for the Nursery 
 Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for two yr. olds. — D. M. 
 
 Mr. Day's Gratis, by Middleton, 8st 1 
 
 Sir R. K. Dick's Miss Mary Ann, 8st. 31b 2 
 
 Lord Jersey's b. c. by Middleton, dam by Merlin, 6st. 131b 3 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. St. Giles, by Tramp, out of Arcot Lass, 7st. 81b. 4 
 Duke of Rutland's br. c. by Truffle, dam by Williamson's Ditto, 6st. 131b. ; 
 and. Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Brother to Nessus, 6st. 10lb. ; also started, but were 
 not placed. 
 
 2 to 1 agst. Brother to Nessus, 5 to 2 agst. Lord Jersey, 5 to 1 each agst. Miss 
 Mary Ann and St. Giles, and 10 to 1 agst. Gratis- 
 
THE DERBY FAVOURITES, 1832. 37 
 
 On Tuesday in the Newmarket Craven Meeting 
 1832, St. Giles bestowed a name and fame upon 
 himself; when for a match of 100, h. ft. — R. M. 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. St. Giles, by Tramp, 2 yrs. old, 
 8st. 2lb., beat Capt. Rous's b. f. Lioness, 3 yrs. old, 
 9st. Gib. ; the betting being 7 to 4 on Lioness. And 
 on Friday in the same meeting, he booked him- 
 self for the first place in the Derby list, by winning 
 a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two 
 yr. olds.— D. M. 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. St. Giles, 8st. 51b.— Wheatley l 
 
 Mr. Gratwicke's gr. f. by Middleton, out of Jest, 7st. 8lb 2 
 
 Duke of Richmond's gr. c. Casador, 7st. 121b 3 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's b. c. by Emilius, out of Sal, 8st. 51b. ; Lord Lowther's ch. f. 
 Mersey, 7st. 21b. ; and Lord Exeter's ch. c. by Mountebank, dain by Woful, out 
 of Zealot's dam, 7st. 3!b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 Betting : 6 to 4 agst. St. Giles. 
 
 So Ions* as St. Giles had remained in the dark 
 Spencer and Beiram had been at issue for the first 
 place in the betting on the Derby, 1832. Margrave, 
 subsequently the winner of the Leger, 1832, and 
 Non Compos, were together as next favourites, Mar- 
 grave advancing gradually, and Non Compos at the 
 same time retrograding, until Byzantium dropped from 
 the clouds into the situation of first favourite. His 
 reign, however, was but short. The Beiramites mus- 
 tered in force, and Byzantium having been displaced, 
 Beiram finally reigned in his stead. Soon after this 
 Spencer was " dowsed," and Mr. Gully purchased 
 Margrave for 2500 guineas, but as yet, so late as 
 May, 1832, " Mr. Ridsdale's lot," including St. 
 Giles, stood last but one upon the list, at ten to one. 
 
 Another month worked wondrous changes in the 
 books. Beiram put a final extinguisher upon Non 
 
38 THE DERBY, 1832. 
 
 Compos, and sent him " out of his mind." Trustee 
 and Perion jumped up like mushrooms in the moon- 
 light, and St. Giles, in the same stable with Trustee 
 and Margrave, kept gradually rising in the public 
 favour, until he finally established himself " upon the 
 day" a good first favourite. 
 
 On Thursday, the 7th of June, 1832, came off the 
 Second Year of a Renewal of the Derby Stakes of 50 
 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; 
 and fillies, 8st. 2lb. ; the owner of the second horse to 
 receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the winner to 
 pay 100 sovs. towards the expenses of the Police. — 
 Last mile and half. — One hundred and one subs. 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. St. Giles, by Tramp, out of Arcot Lass 1 
 
 Mr. Vansittart's ch. c. Perion, by Whisker , , 2 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. Trustee, by Catton 3 
 
 Mr. Gully's ch. c. Margrave, by Muley ; Mr. Forth's b. c. Gratis, by Middle- 
 ton; Sir G. Heathcote's br. c. Damascus, by Reveller ; Mr. Mills's b. f. Kate, by 
 Lapdog; Lord Exeter's ch. c. Beiram, by Sultan; Mr. W. Chifney's ch. f. Emi- 
 liana, by Emilius ; Lord Mountcharles's b. c. Minister, by Catton; Lord Chester- 
 field's ch. c. Non Compos, by Bedlamite ; Lord Lowther's b. c. Lazarone, by 
 Partisan, out of Trictrac ; Mr. West's ch. c. by Claude Lorraine, out of Ange- 
 lica ; Lord Exeter's ch. c. Spencer, by Sultan ; Lord Portarlington's b. c. 
 Bedouin, by Tramp; Mr. Wheeler's b. c. Revealer, by Reveller, out of Enchantress ; 
 Lord Orford's ch. c. by Whisker, out of Selma ; Mr. Hunter's b. or ro. c. by 
 Partisan, dam by Orville, out of Pea-blossom ; Mr. Batson's b. c. Mixbury, by 
 Catton ; Lord Lowther's b. c. Messenger, by Partisan ; Lord Worcester's b. c. 
 Haymaker, by Wrangler; and Mr. Garritt's b. c. Wallace, by Sir Huldibrand. 
 out of Birmingham Countess (who carried 9st. 61b.) ; also started, but were not 
 placed. 
 
 3 to 1 agst. St. Giles, 4 to 1 agst. Perion, 6 to 1 agst. Margrave, 15 to 2 agst. 
 Mixbury, 12 to 1 agst. Kate, 20 to 1 agst. Minister, 20 to 1 agst. Beiram, 25 to 
 1 agst. Trustee, 25 to 1 agst. Gratis, 30 to 1 agst. Non Compos, and 50 to 1 agst. 
 Damascus. 
 
 The course was in beautiful order, with just suffi- 
 cient moisture from a recent down-pouring to call for 
 a little strength as well as speed. As usual the horses 
 were paraded for some time, giving all the knowing, 
 and would-be knowing, ones time to calculate their 
 
THE DERBY, 1S32. 39 
 
 pretensions, until the sun burst forth in splendour, 
 making a fine contrast between the gay, many-coloured 
 silk jackets of the jockies, and the quiet healthful 
 verdure of the surrounding country. 
 
 Of the horses about to start, St.. Giles having 
 arrived at the distinguished post of first favourite, was 
 of course the chief object of attraction. He was rather 
 late in coming into the Warren, but in the meantime 
 reports were not wanting of his superior form and 
 condition. Nor were they far wrong; his condition 
 did great credit to his trainer — a quality that has pro- 
 duced more winners of the Derby than of any other 
 race. Beiram, who so long held the first place in the 
 betting, looked very dejected ; no doubt from the 
 thoughts of what he had lost. Messenger, another 
 pseudo-favourite, kept him in countenance, being " as 
 lame as a cat" as the saying goes. 
 
 In consequence of endless " little goes," it was past 
 three o'clock before a start was effected. When they 
 did get away, Trustee jumped off at a pace which 
 shortened the field in double quick time ; Perion, St. 
 Giles, Beiram, Margrave, Non Compos, and Kate, 
 lying well up with him. Trustee led them along a 
 clipping pace to Taltenham Corner, where the ragged 
 ones sold out. Here George Edwards set to work on 
 Trustee, and by this means finding that the speed 
 had told so well, and that St. Giles maintained it with- 
 out difficulty, he continued leading till about two 
 distances from home, and not till then did Scott bring 
 up St. Giles. Perion followed, and made a vigorous 
 push for the race. St. Giles, however, was in hand, 
 and won without difficulty by nearly two lengths. 
 
40 ST. GILES DISQUALIFIED. 
 
 Trustee was beaten only a neck from the second horse, 
 and Margrave a good fourth, without having been 
 called upon. Non Compos was fifth, Kate sixth, and 
 Beiram about seventh. 
 
 This was one of the fastest races ever seen for the 
 Derby, and a proud triumph for the North country, 
 their horses being first, second, third, and fourth ; and 
 both the owner and jockey of the winner, " York- 
 shire." The St. Giles party won a heap amongst 
 them ; the trainer also pocketed a large sum, while 
 Mr. Crockford was said to clear about six thousand 
 by his book. The principal sufferers were the gentle- 
 men, most of whom " lodged" on Perion. 
 
 The settling day at Tattersall's produced a little 
 variety, in the shape of an objection to the qualifica- 
 tion of the winner, — early in the morning, the West 
 End was industriously placarded with a " poster" 
 headed, 
 
 "St. Giles not entitled to 
 The Derby Stakes !" 
 
 but which it is useless to insert here, since it failed of 
 having the desired effect. The gist of the objection 
 was, that St. Giles had been entered as a " chesnut 
 colt, St. Giles, by Tramp, out of Arcot Lass, by 
 Ardrossan, her dam Floy er kin;" whereas it ought to 
 have been " by Ardrossan, dam by Cramlington, out of 
 Floyerkin." At first law proceedings were talked of, 
 but subsequently a more satisfactory and sportsman- 
 like course was agreed on, viz. by referring the 
 question to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, Lord 
 Stradbroke, and Mr. Charles Greville, than whom 
 
ST. GILES, BEIRAM, AND PRIAM. 41 
 
 more honourable or competent arbitrators, could not 
 by possibility have been selected. The "cause" was 
 heard at Newmarket on Saturday morning, and a 
 " verdict" given in favour of Mr. Ridsdale, " damages, 
 £2,675." There cannot be two opinions as to the 
 propriety of settling all turf disputes by reference to 
 persons conversant with the laws and usages of racing ; 
 although we have lately had occasion to see a different 
 course adopted. The case just noticed, clear enough 
 to sporting men, involved a question of pedigree that 
 would have puzzled fifty learned judges, " wigs and all." 
 St. Giles rested upon his laurels now for a few 
 months, until they were torn from him at Goodwood, 
 by one who had gathered in " so many, and so 
 glorious" before, old Priam. 
 
 The Goodwood Cup of 1832, was a very sporting 
 race, — the entry comprising many of the chief 
 " Cracks of the clay," as may be seen by the annexed 
 authentic "return." 
 
 The Gold Cup, value 300 sovs. the surplus in 
 specie, a subscription of 20 sovs. each, with 100 added 
 by the City of Chichester, for three yr. olds and 
 upwards. — Once round. — The owner of the second 
 horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes. — Thirty- 
 three subs. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. h. Priam, by Emilius, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 131b. . . 1 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. c. Beiram, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 10lb 2 
 
 Mr. Sadler's br. g. Jocko, aged, 9st. 81b. ; Mr. Sadler's b. f. Delight, 4 yrs. 
 
 old, 8st. lllb. ; Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. St. Giles, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 101b. ; Mr. 
 
 Gully's b. f. Lady Fly, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 71b. (carried 6st. 91b.); Mr. Forth's 
 
 b. c. by Whisker, out of Scandal, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 8lb. ; and Mr. Wheeler's b. f. 
 
 Florine, by Polygar, out of Barbara, by The Laird, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 71b. ; also 
 
 started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : Even on Priam, 5 to 2 agst. St- Giles, 9 to 1 agst. Lady Fly, 10 to 
 1 agst. Beiram. 
 
42 THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1832. 
 
 The Cup was a most elegant one — called gold, no 
 doubt because it was made of silver ; and as the time 
 approached for the horses to " show out," intense 
 anxiety was visible in every face. — " Priam" — " Bei- 
 ram" — "St. Giles" — "Delight" were at the tip of every 
 tongue, and all at once. You couldn't ask " what's 
 o'clock" without being answered "ten to one!" or 
 " twenty-five to two," and if you only looked a man hard 
 in the face, he roared out " Done, sir," and scrawled you 
 in his book " in no time." It was indeed a sight — 
 there was so much uncertainty, such difference of 
 opinion, such interest, and such betting, that half 
 the people's hearts were in their mouths. " Oh crikey ! 
 what a pity Rowton does not start," says one. " They 
 say he's got a bone in his leg" says another. What 
 a hubbub here is — " Take care of your pockets, gentle- 
 men — take care of your pockets." " Allow me to 
 pass if you please, sir." "You've got your spur in 
 the lady's flounce, sir." " By Jove, here are the 
 horses comma 1 out. There is Old Priam with the 
 jockey in the red jacket and blue sleeves, and a boy 
 leading him — That's Conolly on him — He rode him 
 last year — I don't quite like the old horse's looks — he's 
 drawn too fine. What a fine horse St, Giles is." 
 "Which is him pray?" " There — that chesnut, 
 with the jockey in light blue and white sleeves. He's 
 a splendid horse. If any thing, perhaps not quite fine 
 enough — for though full belly never made a bad 
 day's work, it wont do where there is only a few 
 minutes allowed. He moves like a goer though." 
 What will any body lay against St. Giles ?" " I'll lay 
 you six to five — I'll lay you six to five." "I'll take 
 
SCENES ON THE RACE-COUItSE. 43 
 
 you, Gully." " In thousands." — " Yes ; twice over 
 if you like." " Done, sir, done." " What are these 
 two just coming out, with the jockeys in white and 
 red sleeves?" "Oh, only old wooden Jocko and 
 Delight — no chance for either of them. Here's 
 Beiram — He looks stiff after his gallop on Tuesday. 
 What weight has he on?" — "Seven stone ten." 
 "Here comes Lady Fly — she carries two pounds 
 above her weight. I'll lay seven to one again her." 
 "I'll lay eight." "Will you take eight, sir— eight 
 ponies to one?" " No, I wont ; I'll name the winner 
 for a hundred. The field again Priam for a thousand." 
 "Bar St. Giles, and I'll take you." " No, sir, no." 
 " I'll take yer," says another. " Here are Florine, 
 and the Scandal colt ; and now they're all out." One 
 — two — four — six — eight — they draw together — what 
 a moment of excitement. " They're off." " Delight 
 takes the lead — only look — how slow." " I wish I'd 
 brought my night cap." " Now they turn the corner. 
 Still as slow as a top. Now they're out of sight — 
 don't you see 'em." " Hark ! there's the trumpeter 
 — here they come. Hats off — hats off." "May I 
 trouble you, sir, to knock that gentleman's hat off?" 
 " Couldn't you shorten yourself a leetle bit, sir — you 
 are so tall." " All the better to see with my dear." 
 "Look. Delight's still leading — now Priam's close 
 to her. Go on, Conolly, my boy- — go on. That's 
 Lady Fly, third ; Beiram next." " Where's St. Giles?" 
 " Up the spout." Now they round the turn ; St. 
 Giles comes forward. "St. Giles for a hundred." 
 "St. Giles," "St. Giles." "No." "No." "No." 
 " St. Giles is beat — Priam wins." " No." " Beiram." 
 
44 ST. GILESE ATEN AGAIN. 
 
 " No— Priam." "Priam." " Beiram." " Beiram." 
 " Priam," "Beiram," "Beiram." "Priam." 
 "What won? — what won?" " What'll ye give to 
 know." "Priam." "No; Beiram." " I'll bet a 
 hundred on Priam." " What won?" " Can't tell." 
 " Oh, Priam — see the crowd follow him, that's a sure 
 sign." "What won?" "Priam — I was sure he 
 would — / told you so." " Huzzah, huzzah — the old 
 horse for ever," and so the hubbub sinks to rest. 
 
 In 1834, St. Giles came out again at Goodwood, to 
 try his luck a second time for the Cup, but he was 
 once more unsuccessful, Glencoe's white hind legs 
 were seen by him, as well as many others. r l he fol- 
 lowing horses started. 
 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c Glencoe, by Sultan, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 4lb 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Colwick. 6 yrs. old, 9st. 2lb 2 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. f. Famine, 3 y is. old, 6st. 101b 3 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's The Saddler, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 121b. ; Mr. Theobald's Rock- 
 ingham, 4 yrs. old, 9st. 41b. ; Mr. Kirby's ch. h. St. Giles, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 131b. ; 
 Col. Peel's Nonsense, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 10lb. ; Mr. Forth's b. f. Marpessa, 4 yrs. 
 old, 8st. 7lb. ; Mr. I. Day's b. g. Burgomaster, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 61b.; and Mr. I. 
 Day's b. g. by Spectre, out of Liston's dam, 6 yrs. old, 7st. 91b, ; also started, but 
 were not placed. 
 
 5 to 2 agst. Colwick, 4 to 1 agst. Glencoe, 6 to 1 agst. Nonsense, 8' to 1 agst. 
 Mr. Forth's two, 9 to 1 agst. Rockingham, 12 to 1 agst. St. Giles, 12 to 1 agst. 
 The Saddler, and 17 to 1 agst. Liston's dam. 
 
 The start was beautiful, every horse getting off well ; 
 Burgomaster, by virtue of his title, took the lead, with 
 Famine, St. Giles, and Marpessa lying immediately in 
 his wake, two or three lengths from him, and the 
 others well laid up. In this way they ran to the hill, 
 where we lost them— on again getting in sight, Mar- 
 pessa was leading, with St. Giles in close attendance, 
 and evidently forcing her into stronger running than 
 was exactly agreeable to her ; on passing the T. Y. C. 
 
THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1834. 45 
 
 post she ran out a little, at the same time a simulta- 
 neous movement brought all the horses together, and 
 for several strides they were so close that it would 
 have puzzled a Philadelphia lawyer to say which had 
 the best of it. On nearing the distance they broke, 
 and we could perceive at a glance that Isaac Day's 
 white jackets had already taken their places, — they 
 were last. Colwick and Glencoe were gallantly lead- 
 ing the van, the old horse having such a winning look- 
 that, for the moment, Lord Chesterfield was booked 
 to win as a certainty ; and if we might form an opi- 
 nion from the joyful exclamations from all quarters of 
 the course, his lordship's success would have been 
 highly gratifying to the public — but there is " many 
 a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip." It was soon seen 
 that Colwick was in difficulty, indeed, although going 
 honest as a horse could run, he was so heavy in hand 
 that Scott had no slight work to keep him together ; 
 Glencoe, on the contrary, was full of running, gained 
 on him every stroke, headed him at the Stand, and 
 won by three lengths in a canter. Famine was third, 
 St. Giles fourth, Rockingham and The Saddler fifth 
 and sixth, but all tailed off. 
 
 The joke of the day was, that some one in a conver- 
 sation with Count D'Orsay, just before the race, hav- 
 ing spoken of Colwick's extreme nervous temperament, 
 the Count refused to admit it, on the ground that he 
 had "endured the Chichester band without betraying any 
 symptoms of irritability , while it had kept him in an 
 agony for two hours !" 
 
 St. Giles had now run out his " year's allowance." 
 At Plymouth, after running the first heat for a Sweep- 
 
46 ST. GILES IN 1835. 
 
 stakes, he bruised his foot, fell lame, was drawn, and 
 did not start again in 1834. 
 
 On the 22nd of April, 1835, St. Giles commenced 
 the season well at Catterick Bridge, by winning the 
 Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p. p. ; three yrs. old, 
 6st. ; four, 8st. ; five, 8st. 91b. ; six, 9st. ; and aged, 
 9st. 41b.; mares and geldings allowed 31b. — Craven 
 Course, one mile and three furlongs. — Nine subs. 
 
 Mr. Kirby's ch. h. St. Giles, by Tramp, 6 yrs. old 1 
 
 Col. Cradock's b. m. Fanny, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. W. Crumpton's b. f. Mayflower, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Valparaiso, 4 yrs. old; Lord Eglintoun's b. m. Zillah, 
 
 by Jerry, 4 yrs. old ; Mr. Attwood's b. c. Adrian, 3 yrs. old ; Mr. Armitage's ch. 
 
 f. by Velocipede, 3 yrs. old ; and the Hon. T. O. Powlett's g. g. by Figaro, 4 yrs. 
 
 old ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 At the York Spring Meeting he carried off the 
 Stand Purse of 501., for horses of all ages. — Heats, 
 one mile and three quarters. 
 
 Mr. Kirby's ch. h. St. Giles, by Tramp, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 3lb 1 1 
 
 Mr. Armitage's ch. f. by Velocipede, out of Crazy Jane, 3 yrs. old, 
 
 6st. 111b 3 2 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's b. m. Lady Elizabeth, aged, 9st 2 3 
 
 3 to 1 on St. Giles. 
 
 And at Goodwood he came for the " third time of 
 asking," to " throw in" for the Cup, but again with- 
 out success. Out of forty-seven subscribers, the follow- 
 ing field came to the post. 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. h. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, 5 yrs. old, 
 
 9st. 41b 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus, 5 yrs. old, 9st. lllb 2 
 
 Mr. Kirby's ch. b. St. Giles, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 71b 3 
 
 Mr. Sowerby's Rioter, 4 yrs old, 8st. 51b 4 
 
 Mr. Gully's Lady Fly, 6 yrs. old, 7st. 121b 5 
 
 Col. Peel's Castaway, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 131b. 6 
 
 Col. Peel's ch. c. Sylvan, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 101b 7 
 
 Mr. W. Edwards's br. h. Prince Llewellyn, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 4lb 8 
 
 Mr. Bloss's b. f. by Mameluke, out of Polymnia, by Musician, 3 yrs. 
 
 old, 6st. 61b 9 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. h. Beiram, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 10lb. (broke down) .... 10 
 
 The betting was heavy and closed at 9 to 4 agst. 
 
THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1835. 47 
 
 Sylvan (taken), 4 to 1 agst. Glaucus, 9 to 2 agst. 
 Rockingham, 5 to 1 agst. St. Giles (taken freely), 10 to 
 1 agst. Castaway, and 12 to 1 agst. Beiram, (taken). 
 They started at a slow pace, Beiram, St. Giles, 
 Glaucus, Rioter, and Rockingham lying abreast till 
 about halfway down the distance, when St. Giles com- 
 menced making play, Beiram lying second, and Rioter 
 third ; at the T.Y.C. post Beiram went in front, and 
 at a much better pace took them round the clump ; on 
 coming in sio-ht St. Giles was running: with him, and 
 at the top of the hill they were joined by Rockingham, 
 who took the lead immediately after, Beiram breaking 
 down, the moment he began the descent ; Glaucus passed 
 St. Giles and Rioter about a quarter of a mile from 
 home, but could never get up to Rockingham, who 
 won in a canter by four lengths. Of the others it is 
 only necessary to state that they were severally tailed 
 off most disgracefully. It is a question whether 
 Rockingham's form was not good enough to beat 
 Glaucus had the weights been reversed, even had he 
 not been out the day before. Beiram was going re- 
 markably well when he broke down, and, but for this 
 mischance, would have been very handy — that his legs 
 failed him was not surprising, for he had been blistered 
 and fired till it would have been difficult to recognize 
 the corky gallant fellow that ran Priam to half a length. 
 St. Giles ran a wooden horse ; there had been a good 
 deal said about " how John Day had trained him to 
 death last year," and " how John Scott had improved 
 him," &c, and Mr. Kirby made no secret of his inten- 
 tion to take " 't coop" to York, but here again there 
 was a "slip,"- -and St. Giles, immediately after the 
 
48 13EIRAM. 
 
 race, was sold ; and in the month of September follow- 
 ing, sent " over the Herring-pond" to Alabama. 
 
 This race having closed the career of another of the 
 Cracks of his day, Beiram, whose name we have lately- 
 had so much occasion to introduce in the course of our 
 narrative, we have thought it would be interesting to 
 some, to see " the favourite" of his year, even although 
 he was not quite the " flyer" people thought him. 
 
 Beiram, a chesnut colt, was bred by the Marquis of 
 Exeter, in 1829. He was got by Sultan, out of Miss 
 Cantley, by Stamford (sister to Burleigh), out of a 
 Mercury mare, her dam by Herod, out of Young Hag, 
 by Skim. 
 
 The first performances of Beiram, were of such a 
 character as to induce a general belief that he was a 
 most undeniable clipper — but after figuring for some 
 time as first favourite for the Derby, and high in the 
 odds for the St. Leger, Goodwood Cup, and fifty other 
 stakes — he left his friends to " shell out" for their 
 fancies ; and wish that they had never touched the 
 " chesnut" which had so sorely burned their fingers. 
 
JBW'-" Will 
 
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49 
 
 GALATA. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, 1832. 
 
 — ♦ — 
 
 Here's "Galata," and as the name is rather " hard," 
 we will at once enlighten our readers according to 
 "Cocker's Rule of Three," by stating that as "St. 
 Giles" is to London so is Galata to Constantinople — 
 a low and dirty district of the city, " unde derivatur" 
 Galata, by Sultan, out of Advance, by Pioneer, dam 
 by Buzzard, out of Sister to Champion, by Pot-8-o's — 
 Huncamunca, by Highflyer — Cipher, by Squirrel. — 
 Bred by Lord Exeter in 1829. 
 
 Galata's first appearance was crowned with an easy 
 victory, being a "walk over" for a Sweepstakes of 
 200 sovs. each, h. ft. — D. M. — Four subs., in the 
 Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1832. 
 
 In the Newmarket First Spring Meeting, Galata met 
 Lord Chesterfield's Olga, Mr. Day's Salute, and Lord 
 Orford's filly, by Muley, out of Rosanne, to contest 
 the Thousand Guineas Stakes with her. She however 
 took her leave as soon as she was introduced to them ; 
 and after making a burlesque of a race, won in a 
 donkey-canter. Betting 2 to 1 on her. 
 
 The month but one before the Epsom races, 1832, 
 closed with Emiliana as first favourite for the Oaks, 
 Dryad the second, and Galata the third. Then 
 Whimsey rose into the first place, with Galata for 
 second, and finally, when on " the day," nineteen came 
 to the post ; Galata and Kate were each at 5 to 2 ; 
 
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50 THE OAKS— 1832. 
 
 Galata, because her running had been unexceptionably 
 good ; and Kate, because her running had been unex- 
 ceptionably bad — at least, there was no other apparent 
 reason. Nothing, however, had a chance with Galata, 
 who cut out all the work at a killing pace, and won in 
 a canter by two honest lengths. Lady Fly was second, 
 Eleanor three lengths behind her, and all the rest — 
 any where you like — and thus " the favourites" beat 
 "the field," for both Derby and Oaks, 1832, in the 
 same manner as we have seen " the field" smash "the 
 favourites" in 1831. "Turn and turn about" is fair 
 play. 
 
 At the ensuing Ascot Meeting, Galata, with 5 to 2 
 on her, made all the running for the Windsor Forest 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft — Nine subs., giving 
 Lord Lowther's Whimsey, one of the Oaks " tail," a 
 tie up in a very little time. 
 
 In the Newmarket First October Meeting, Galata 
 was beaten, for the first time, in the Tenth Renewal 
 of the Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each ; 
 for colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies, 8st. 31b.— A. F.— Fif- 
 teen subs. 
 
 Mr. Gully's ch. c Margrave, by Muley 1 
 
 Mr. S. Day's b. f. Salute 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. Galata 3 
 
 Sir M. Wood's ch. c. Count Robinson ; and Lord Worcester's ch. c. Copper 
 Captain ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 11 to 8 on Margrave, and t to 1 agst. Galata. 
 
 The race was good — Salute running Margrave home 
 to a neck, to the surprise of all, and Galata, to their 
 equal wonder, running very badly. Another proof, 
 if any more were wanting, of the " glorious uncer- 
 tainty of the Turf; but in the "Second October," 
 
GALATA — 1833. 51 
 
 Galata redeemed her character, by beating Salute in 
 a common canter for a Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each ; 
 for fillies, 8st. 71b.- D. M.— Four subs. 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. Galata, by Sultan 1 
 
 Mr. Gully's b. f. Salute , 2 
 
 2 to 1 on Galata. 
 
 And thus our "Turkey named" filly closed her season, 
 ]832. 
 
 In the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1833, Galata 
 recommenced the season in a winning key, for the Port 
 Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for colts and fillies not 
 named in the Claret; colts, 8st. 71b. ; fillies, 8st. 41b.; 
 the second horse to save his stake. — T. M. M. — Four- 
 teen subs. 
 
 Lord Exeter's Galata 1 
 
 Mr. W. Chifney's Erailiana 2 
 
 Col. Peel's Archibald 3 
 
 Lord Lowther's Messenger 4 
 
 Mr. Batson's Mixbury 5 
 
 Betting : even on Archibald, 7 to 2 agst. Galata, 7 to 2 agst. Emiliana. 
 
 Archibald's running in the October Meeting, 1832, 
 when opposed to Margrave and Beiram, had made 
 some people reckon him a clipper, and under this 
 delusion he was backed at even against the field, 
 although that field included the best and most frequent 
 winner of her year, Galata. Galata, however, opened 
 the eyes of " the poor blind," by giving her opponents 
 the coup de grace, in the best style imaginable, and 
 running in by herself at least fifty yards a-head, with 
 a terrible "tale of woe" behind her. 
 
 At the ensuing Ascot Meeting she met old Lucetta, 
 for the Gold Cup, value 200 sovs. a subscription of 
 20 sovs. each ; three yr. olds, 6st. 10lb. ; four, 8st. 
 21b.; five, 8st, 121b.; six and aged, 9st. 31b.; m. 
 allowed 31b. ; the owner of the second horse to receive 
 
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52 GALATA— 1834. 
 
 back his stake. — To start at the Cup post on the New 
 Mile and go once round, about two miles and a half. 
 — Eight subs. 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. Galata, by Sultan, 4 yrs old 1 
 
 Sir M. Wood's br. m. Lucetta, aged 2 
 
 The Betting was three to one on Galata, who sprung 
 off with a tremendous lead, and at a pace which soon 
 put a stopper on the old mare, and brought her in a 
 winner by ten lengths. 
 
 In the Newmarket Second October Meeting Galata 
 received forfeit from Crutch, for a Match of 200 sovs. 
 each, h. ft. — and thus closed the season 1883, as she 
 began it — with all her winning ways about her. 
 
 In the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1834, Galata 
 was overweighted and beaten, for the Oatlands Stakes 
 of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. — D. I. — Twelve subs. 
 
 Sir M. Wood's br. f. Vespa, by Muley, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 4lb 1 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's ch. h. Trustee, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 101b 2 
 
 Duke of Portland's b. c. by Lottery, out of Pledge, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 31b. 3 
 Lord Exeter's br. m. Galata, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 21b. ; Mr. S. Stonebewer's ch. f. 
 Chantilly, 4 yrs. old, 7st. lllb.; Mr. Walker's b. f. Anne, 4 yrs. old, 7st. lllb. ; 
 and Colonel Peel's b. f. Malibran, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 131b. ; also started, but were 
 not placed. 
 
 4 to 1 agst. Malibran, 9 to 2 agst. Trustee, 5 to 1 agst. Chantilly, 5 to 1 agst. 
 Galata, and 8 to 1 agst. Vespa. 
 
 Galata led off at a pace which could scarcely carry 
 her through with such a lump of weight on her back ; 
 accordingly after passing the turn of the lands she 
 died away, all the light weights taking up front places, 
 except Vespa, who laid behind them, watching Trustee, 
 then looking amazingly like winning ; on passing the 
 Duke's Stand, and much sooner than is his wont, 
 Chifney brought out his horse (Trustee), and seemed 
 to think that he was going to " do the trick," — he was, 
 
GALATA-1834. 53 
 
 therefore, not a little surprised to find Vespa at his 
 side almost as soon as he had left the other horses, and 
 still more mortified than surprised, to find that she was 
 beating him at even strides — and that all his efforts 
 could not prevent her winning by two honest lengths. 
 For two-thirds of the distance Vespa laid right in the 
 wake of Trustee, much to the annoyance of the " old 
 one," who had a mortal objection to anything running 
 behind him in the early part of a race ; Sir Mark, too, 
 was in a fidget, being heard to cry out to Chappie, 
 " D— n your nonsense, why don't you go on ?" — but he 
 was wise enough to " bide his time," — and when he 
 did go on, it was to such effect that all Sam's efforts 
 to bring up Trustee were vain. 
 
 At Ascot, Galata determined to " attempt" another 
 Cup, having been so successful with the last. But for 
 the nonce fate was against her, and Glaucus was 
 destined to convey from her hands, to the sideboard of 
 his noble owner, the Gold Cup, value 300 sovs. with 
 440 in specie. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Glaucus, by Partisan, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Hall's Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's Samarcand, by Blacklock, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Watt's Belshazzar, by Blacklock, 4 yrs. old 4 
 
 Lord Exeter's Galata, 5 yrs. old ; Mr. Hunter's Morotto, 3 yrs. old ; Mr. J. 
 Day's Diana, 6 yrs. old ; Mr. Greville's Chantilly, 4 yrs. old ; Mr. Etwall's 
 Revenge, 4 yrs. old, and Mr. Forth's Famine, 4 yrs. old ; also started, but were 
 not placed . 
 
 Betting : 5 to 2 agst. Glaucus, 9 to 2 agst. Morotto, 6 to 1 agst. Belshazzar, 13 
 to 2 agst. Diana, and 10 to 1 agst. any other. 
 
 Revenge sprung off at a splitting pace, Glaucus and 
 Chantilly following him, Samarcand lying in the rear, 
 terribly out of his ground, till the leading horses 
 reached the turn for the straight run in ; here he went 
 by several of them, and on completing the turn was 
 
54 GA LATA — 1834. 
 
 lying up with Glaucus, Revenge, and Chantilly ; Rock- 
 ingham at this point quitted the second rank and took 
 a position next Glaucus, who was now carrying on the 
 running; — Before they reached the distance, Revenge 
 Morotto and Chantilly were defeated, and Galata, 
 Diana, and Famine tailed off. Glaucus continued in 
 front to the finish, and won easy by more than a length. 
 Samarcand would probably have been second if he had 
 not been so far away from his horses at starting, 
 which was occasioned by a stone thrown up by one of 
 the horses in advance having struck Buckle in the eye. 
 It is not worth while to mention the places occupied 
 by those not placed, as most of them pulled up as soon 
 as they discovered the inutility of any further struggle. 
 
 Thus was this good mare's day gone by, and from 
 this time she came no more upon the turf, where she 
 had shone so brightly ; starting for eleven stakes, and 
 winning eight. The Oaks and Ascot Cup amongst 
 them. 
 
 Galata was a brown mare, with a star on the fore- 
 head, and a white mark on each hind leg ; her forte 
 was speed, and like her dam Advance, she could kill 
 half her horses in the first hundred yards — but she had 
 no good lasting " come again" qualities, and when 
 once collared — ahem. 
 
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55 
 
 MARGRAVE. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1832. 
 
 This winner of the Doncaster St. Leger 1832, was, as 
 his picture shows him, a great ugly horse, a very dark 
 chesnut, with loping ears, and a head big enough to 
 make his coffin to bury him in, but withal a lengthy 
 horse, and a good goer. 
 
 Margrave was bred by Mr. Nowell, at Underley, in 
 1829 ; and was bought by Mr. Gully and another 
 gentleman when two years old, Mr. Gully subsequently 
 becoming sole proprietor. Margrave's dam was by 
 Election, out of Fair Helen, by Hambletonian ; Helen 
 by Delpini — Rosalind by Phenomenon — Atalanta by 
 Matchem — Lass of the Mill by Oronoko, &c. 
 
 His first appearance was at Stockbridge 1831, where 
 he won a Stake of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., seven subs., 
 beating Eleanor, Revealer, and Nannette. Betting, 
 even on Eleanor, and 2 to 1 against Margrave. At 
 Winchester he walked over for the Two Year Old 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, four subs. In the Newmarket 
 Second October Meeting ran second for the Renewal 
 of the Clearwell Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for 
 two yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 51b. ; and fillies, 8st. 3lb. — 
 T. Y. C. —Forty subs. 
 
 Mr. Chifney's ch. f. Emiliana, by Emilius, dam by Whisker, out of 
 Castrella 1 
 
 Mr. Oilly's cb. c. Margrave 2 
 
 Lord Ranelagh's b. c. Doncaster, by Muley, out of Lucinda ; Lord Exeter's 
 ch. c. by Sultan, out .of Dulciuea ; Mr. Udny's b. f. by Sultan, out of Antiope ; 
 
56 MARGRAVE, A TWO-YEAR-OLD. 
 
 Mr. Cookes's b. f. Lucina, by Brutandorf, out of Lunaria's dam ; Lord Chester- 
 field's br. f. Landgravine ; Mr. Osbaldeston's b. c. Peter Pindar, by Middle-ton, 
 dam by Partisan, out of Jessy ; Duke of Rutland's br. c. by Truffle, dam by 
 Williamson's Ditto, grandamby Trumpator, out of Countess, bv Sir Peter ; Col. 
 Wilson's cb. c. by Emilius, out of Spinning Jennv ; Duke of Grafton's bl. c. 
 Ebony, by Truffle, out of Zinc ; Mr. Mills's br. c. by Bobadil, out of Black 
 Polly, sister to Schariah ; and Mr. Ridsdale's b. f. Fedora, by Figaro, out of 
 Charity ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 2 to 1 agst. Emiliana, 9 to 2 agst. Dulcinea, 5 to 1 agst. Margrave, and 5 to 1 
 agst. Landgravine. 
 
 The lot came off so closely packed together, that it 
 would be impossible to say which made the running ; 
 in the front rank were the two horses placed, Dulcinea, 
 Landgravine, Spinning Jenny, and the Truffle colt — 
 nor could any one have picked out the winner till 
 about fifty yards from the Judge's chair, where Mar- 
 grave and Chifney's filly had a decided lead, the other 
 four above-mentioned still being on their quarters ; 
 the struggle between the two was exceedingly interest- 
 ing, and terminated in favour of the filly by about half 
 a length. Margrave had a very bad start, but yet ran 
 his race so well, and so nearly, that he immediately 
 made himself a subject of heavy speculation, and 
 finished the season 1831 by winning the Criterion 
 Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two yr. olds. — From 
 the turn of the Lands in. — The owner of the second 
 horse to receive back his stake. Thirty-six subs. 
 
 Mr. Dilly's ch. c. Margrave, by Muley, 8st. 51b 1 
 
 Colonel Peel's b. c. Archibald, 8st. 51b 2 
 
 Duke of Rutland's c. by Truffle, dam by Williamson's Ditto, grandam by 
 Trumpator, 8st. 51b.; Mr. Greville's br. f. Landgravine, 8st. 31b.; Lord Chester- 
 field's b. f. Kittums, 8st. 31b. ; Lord Worcester's b. c. Count Ivon, by Bobadil, 
 dam, Fidalma, 8st. 31b. ; Lord Lowther's ch. f. by Partisan, out of Scratch, 
 8st. lib. ; Mr. Mills's b. f. Kate, by Lapdog, out of Effie Deans, 8st. lib. ; and 
 Mr. Udny's b. f. by Sultan, out of Antiope, 8st. lib. ; also started, but were not 
 placed. 
 2 to 1 agst. Margrave, 5 to 2 agst. Archibald, 3 to 1 agst. Kate, 7 to 1 agst. 
 Landgravine. 
 
 In 1832 Margrave started for the Derby (won by 
 
THE LUDLOW AFFAIR. 57 
 
 St. Giles),* and was not placed. His next entry was 
 that which chiefly made his fame, as a winner of the 
 Doncaster St. Leger. In the Newmarket Craven 
 Meeting it transpired that Mr. Gully had purchased 
 Margrave, formerly the joint property of himself and 
 his confederate, Mr. Ridsdale, to be " all his own," for 
 the sum of 2500 guineas, and some " contingencies," 
 although, at the time, it was pretty generally suspected 
 that the purchase had been made some time before, 
 although not publicly declared ; he was then third 
 favourite for the Derby, but having failed in his attempt 
 to carry off that prize, his friends were frightened for 
 his chance at Doncaster. In the month of July a new 
 favourite sprang up, in the person of Mr. Ridsdale's 
 Burgomaster, but as the day approached, the un- 
 expected result of the Great Produce Stakes at York 
 effected some important movements in the odds on the 
 St. Leger. Nitocris became first favourite, Retainer 
 next ; and Margrave, third upon the list, was backed 
 by fits and starts, no one appearing very zealous about 
 him, nor indeed about any of the " Derby nags," after 
 the performances of Beiram and St. Giles at Good- 
 wood, — Ludlow was still upheld by his party. 
 
 At length the day came, the " Ludlow" affair having 
 burst the shell a day or two previously, by Mr. Beards- 
 worth publicly denying that there was any truth in the 
 statement (generally believed as it was), that he had 
 sold his horse (Ludlow); but, at the same time, express- 
 ing his willingness to take five thousand guineas for 
 him. He also made two or three little bets, and 
 sported a bran-new red silk jacket for his jockey, in 
 
 * See Page 58. 
 
58 THE LUDLOW AFFAIR. 
 
 order to give a colour to his contradiction. There was 
 next a bit of a breeze between " the Squire" and Mr. 
 Gully; and then Mr. Bond declared "that he had 
 given 5,000 guineas for Ludlow." This gave rise to 
 row the second, which continued till a late hour. First, 
 Gully roundly charged the Squire with having pur- 
 chased the horse the day before — an accusation met by 
 the defendant with plenty of noise and bluster. At the 
 other end of the room Lord Uxbridge (one of the 
 Stewards) called upon Mr. Bond to declare for the 
 public satisfaction for what purpose he had become the 
 purchaser, or, in plain terms, whether he meant " to run 
 to win V and lastly, to put an end to the squabbling, 
 Lord Cleveland mounted the table, and called the wor- 
 thy belligerants to order, exonerating every body, and 
 declaring that if he really thought the case intended for 
 a throw over, such discreditable tricks would render it 
 quite impossible for any nobleman to give any future 
 support to the races ! and so the matter dropped ! 
 
 After much squabbling, now of no interest to any, 
 the following horses came to the Post. 
 
 Lord Sligo's cb. c. Daxon, by Langar, out of Cora. — A. Pavis 
 Sir R. Bulkeley's b. c. Birdcatcber, by St. Patrick. — Calloway 
 Mr. Houldswortb's b. c. David, by Catton. — S. Darling 
 Mr. Edmundson's ch. c. Ricbmond, by Jack Spigot. — R. Jobnson 
 Mr. Powlett's gr. f. by Figaro. — J. Holmes 
 Lord Cleveland's ch. c. Trustee, by Catton. — J. Day 
 Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Brother to Maria, by Whisker. — Scott 
 Lord Kelbume's b. c. Retainer, by Jerry. — G. Nelson 
 Mr. F. Richardson's b. c. Fang, by Langar. — Connolly 
 • Mr. S. Fox's br. c. Julius, by Jerry.— S. Templeman 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Byzantium, by Sultan. — Arnull 
 Mr. Skipsey's b. c. Physician, by Brutandorf. — H. Edwards 
 Mr. W. Scott's b. c. Carlton, by Catton. — Garbutt 
 Mr. Watt's b. f. Nitocris, by Wbisker.— T. Nicholson 
 Lord Langford's b. c. Roue, by Starch. — T. Lye 
 Mr. Beardsworth's br. c. Ludlow, by Filho da Puta. — Wright 
 Mr. Gully's ch. c. Margrave, by Muley. — J. Robinson. 
 
THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1832. 59 
 
 Roue led off at a pace precisely the reverse of the 
 merry rate at which the Derby horses travelled ; he was 
 attended by the Figaro filly, and Carlton, Bircatcher 
 being pretty forward, while all the cracks formed an ex- 
 clusive coterie of their own in the centre .Taking it as 
 leisurely as if going a mere gallop, they got to the Red 
 House. Roue died away at the turn, and Powlett's 
 filly immediately took his place at a better pace ; Bird- 
 catcher was now second, and in a cluster behind were 
 Physician, Julius, Margrave, Richmond, and Retainer. 
 At the rails Birdcatcher ran up to the mare, increased 
 the speed, and shook her off at the distance. All this 
 time, Robinson on Margrave had been imperceptibly 
 drawing upon them, and no sooner had the mare failed 
 than Birdcatchers rider found a fresh antagonist in 
 Margrave, who came up to him at the stand, and won 
 by nearly a length, the Figaro filly being third, Physi- 
 cian fourth, Richmond fifth, Retainer sixth, and the 
 rest nowhere. 
 
 On the following Thursday in the same Meeting the 
 Gascoigne Stakes were carried off by Margrave, who, 
 with four pounds extra weight, and Jem Robinson again 
 upon his back, floored Julius without difficulty. Bet- 
 ting, 5 to 1 on Margrave. 
 
 In the Newmarket First October Meeting, he won 
 the Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each, p. p. 
 fifteen subs. ; beating Salute, Galata (winner of the 
 Oaks, 1832), Count Robinson, and Copper Captain. 
 The betting was 2 to 1 agst. Galata, and 11 to 8 on 
 Margrave, who won his race by a neck only. 
 
 On the following day for the St. Leger Stakes of 
 25 sovs. each, seventeen subs., Archibald, Margrave, 
 
60 MARGRAVE SENT TO VIRGINIA. 
 
 Beiram, and Non-Compos, started ; and came in in the 
 order in which they are placed above. 
 
 The Betting was 6 to 5 on Margrave, 5 to 2 agst. 
 Beiram, 5 to 1 agst. Archibald, and 10 to 1 agst. Non- 
 Compos. The race was entirely confined to Archibald 
 and Margrave, and was won by Archibald through 
 freshness only. Margrave was stale, yet even with that 
 disadvantage, he would most probably have won, had 
 he not swerved on coming within the cords. 
 
 He finally ended the season 1832, by paying forfeit 
 in the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, to Camarine, in 
 a Match for 300 sovs. each, h. ft. 
 
 In 1833, Margrave started but once, namely in the 
 Newmarket Craven Meeting, for the Claret Stakes. 
 Trustee was the winner, Minster second, Beiram third, 
 and Margrave, who was evidently " amiss", last. From 
 this time he never "trained on" again, but having 
 received forfeit, in the Newmarket First Spring Meet- 
 ing, from Lord Conyngham's Bassetlaw (dead), in a 
 Match of 200 sovs. h. ft., he retired from the busy 
 activity of the Turf, into more private life, and appeared 
 in the list of Stallions for 1834, advertised at Bishop 
 Burton, near Beverley, in Yorkshire ; and was finally 
 sent out to Virginia, in the year 1835 ; having won 
 seven races, and lost five. 
 
61 
 
 THE RACING SEASON, 1832. 
 
 The Cracks of the Racing Season 1832, being now 
 before us, we will return for a moment to their pro- 
 ceedings, as well as to those of their cotemporaries, and 
 briefly pass them in review. 
 
 The general gloom that marked the opening of the 
 year could not fail of extending its influence to the 
 Turf; and accordingly we find that at every Racing 
 Meeting throughout the season there was a common 
 complaint of the falling oif in sport and company. 
 The prospect was certainly of brilliant promise, but 
 was soon neutralised by disease, commercial distress, 
 and political dissension, the effects of which were 
 apparent at the first commencement of the season. 
 The Spring Meetings turned out on the whole toler- 
 ably good. At Catterick, Emancipation supported 
 the high reputation he had acquired as a four year old, 
 by beating five decent horses for the Craven Stakes ; 
 but the two year old winners only misled their owners 
 and backers by a promise, which was not to be ful- 
 filled ; Remember, a good winner, proved herself a rank 
 jade in after races ; and All-max, after beating a large 
 
62 THE NEWMARKET CRAVEN, 1832. 
 
 field, was found to be sadly under-proof at Doncaster. 
 The Craven Meeting at Newmarket was remarkable 
 for the inferior quality of the horses which carried off 
 all the best stakes, and for the unexpected defeat of 
 others looked upon as safe. For instance, Priam was 
 beaten for the Craven stakes in a canter, by Chapman, 
 athird rater, Captain Arthur second — to either of whom 
 he could have given from a stone to a stone and a half. 
 The Riddlesworth was won by a good man with a bad 
 mare — the Duke of Richmond's Somnambule — the 
 noble Duke could as little have dreamt of winning with 
 such a beast, as did the Duke of Portland think of 
 pocketing the Column Stakes with Amphitrite — it 
 would be a prostitution of the word to call them races. 
 Kate and Messenger, beating bad horses, were at once 
 brought into the betting for Epsom ; but the knowing 
 ones laid it pretty thick on them, and had a nice nibble, 
 whilst Perion, Olga, and St. Giles, made their first 
 appearances this season, and came off with flying 
 colours. In the course of this meeting three or four 
 matches of some interest were run ; Zany beat the 
 three thousand guinea nag, Riddlesworth, to his heart's 
 content. Crutch came out in great force over the 
 T.Y.C.,and The Saddler in a match for 500, with 
 Protocol, surprised his party by winning/ Liver- 
 pool having carried off the Port Stakes (beating 
 amongst others the Black Daphne colt, purchased 
 by Mr. Chifney, to win the Derby of last year, 
 as a bargain at 1500 guineas !) was bought by Lord 
 Cleveland for 1500 guineas. This was another bargain. 
 In fact, a list of the prices given for Derby, Oaks, and 
 
PRICES OF FAVOURITES. 63 
 
 Leger Cracks of 1831, during eighteen months, may, 
 perhaps, be both curious and interesting. Riddles- 
 worth sold for 3000 guineas, after running second for 
 the Derby — Black Daphne for 1500 guineas — Trustee, 
 third for the Derby, for 2000 guineas — Non Compos 
 for 2000 guineas — Fang sold at two years old for 3300 
 guineas — Ludlow for 5000 guineas — Lady Fly for 
 1000 guineas — and Gratis for J 000 guineas — eight 
 horses, and nearly twenty thousand pounds in all ! ! ! 
 
 This meeting was also remarkable for the sale at 
 Newmarket, of His Majesty's horses in training, and 
 the withdrawal of Royalty from that turf which had 
 been called into existence under its fostering influence. 
 
 In the Newmarket "First Spring," a punishing 
 race for the 2000 guineas, between Archibald and 
 Posthumus, was won by the former ; Count Robin 
 son, Spencer, Mirabeau, and Rotterdam colt, proved 
 themselves utterly worthless ; Beiram gave Non Com- 
 pos such a drubbing that the Derby was at once pro- 
 nounced to be over ; and great, therefore, was the sur- 
 prise to see him play second to Mixbury for the New- 
 market Stakes ! The 1000 Guinea Stakes were won in 
 a hand canter by Galata, concluding Olga, Salute, 
 and Rosanne, for that and the Oaks. Priam won one 
 King's Plate, and Oxygen the other ; St. Giles was 
 declared to be qualified, and he at once took a promi- 
 nent place in the odds for the Derby : whilst for the 
 Oaks Galata was only second favourite, the first being 
 Whimsey, without anything whatever to justify it. In 
 short, the betting altogether at this time was com- 
 pletely at variance with public running. 
 
64 epsom, 1832. 
 
 The Second Spring Meeting was not calculated to 
 affect the great events of the year, but it brought out 
 a couple of two year olds who made some figure in the 
 course of the season. Weeper won a match in fine 
 racing-like style, and Young Rapid (a plant from the 
 Bildeston nursery) beat a good field of well-bred horses. 
 Posthumus won a plate, Lady Fly second. Zany 
 won a Handicap, and old Lucetta beat Oxygen and 
 the odds for a £50 Plate. 
 
 As the Newmarket Meetings have reference to the 
 Derby and Oaks, we may be excused for passing at 
 once to Epsom. The Craven Stakes on the Tuesday 
 were won by Rubini so easily that the Perionites 
 brightened up, and ventured a little more on their pet. 
 Archibald won the Shirley Stakes, notwithstanding he 
 was opposed to Sir G. Heathcote's clipper, Damascus, 
 who proved himself anything but true metal. Young 
 Rapid carried off the Woodcot Stakes cleverly, and 
 Lawnsleeves did the same with the Cup. The Derby 
 was remarkable for the immense pace ; Trustee was 
 sacrificed for St. Giles, and for the same reason Mar- 
 grave was not made use of ; St. Giles, therefore, had 
 nothing to fear but Perion, and of him he disposed 
 without much difficulty. The effect of the race, or 
 rather of the settling, was such as to put an end to the 
 coalition between Messrs. Gully and Ridsdale ; the 
 former was said to have won upwards of £40,000, 
 and his friend, who had permitted St. Giles to win 
 without making an effort with Margrave (allowable 
 with co-partners), thought himself entitled to a moiety 
 of the results ; but upon this, it is said, " canny York" 
 
ascot, 1832. G5 
 
 put a negative, and so the partnership was dissolved. 
 The Oaks was won in a canter by Galata, Lady Fly 
 second, Kate nowhere, although forced into the 
 market at 5 to 2. Archibald, dead as a stone, was 
 shamefully beaten by Roue ; and thus ended one of 
 the dullest meetings ever seen on Epsom Downs. 
 
 At Ascot things went off more brilliantly; the 
 company numerous and aristocratic ; the sport plen- 
 tiful, but lacking goodness. Rowton appeared in his 
 Leger form, and carried off the Oatlands with a great 
 weight on his back ; he afterwards ran a dead heat 
 for the Cup with Camarine, and was beaten in the 
 second, by the mare's superior stoutness. The first 
 heat was allowed to be the most finished specimen of 
 riding (between Sam Chifney and Jem Robinson) 
 that had been seen for many years. 
 
 This meeting received an additional splendour from 
 the presentation, by his Majesty, to the Jockey Club, 
 of the Hoof of Eclipse, set in gold, as a Challenge 
 Prize for the Ascot Meetings. It is of a beautifully 
 chaste and elegant design, with an appropriate 
 inscription. 
 
6G 
 
 THE ECLIPSE FOOT. 
 
 THIS PIECE OF PLATE, 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 HOOF OF ECLIPSE, 
 
 WAS PRESENTED BY 
 
 &tfi fHost (Gracious iKajcstg fflfflJilliam tlje dfowtfj 
 
 THE JOCKEY CLUB, 
 May, 1832. 
 
 The Entries for the Challenge were two ; and it 
 was won by the only horse that really deserved the 
 first hold of so magnificent a prize— old Priam. 
 
JULY MEETINGS, 1832. 67 
 
 Immortal foot — eternal toe — 
 
 Of hoofs the A and Z ! 
 Sole relic of our lost Eclipse, 
 
 The quickest of the dead. 
 
 Hail, hail ! — Yes, thou wert great Eclipse, 
 
 Thou wert, indeed, first-rate ; 
 Thou'dst even beat Apollo's steeds, 
 
 Tho' carrying such light weight. 
 
 Eclipse, all nags, compared with thee, 
 
 Excite contempt and laughter ; 
 There never was a horse, 1 do 
 
 Believe, so much run after. 
 
 Eclipse, the fleetest of thy race, 
 
 Thy name shall last like leather ; 
 Thy name shall still be heard when sun 
 
 And moon shall fall together 
 
 At Stockbridge we saw the first of Glaucus, who 
 won the same stakes in which Margrave made his 
 debut last season, but with less formidable opponents. 
 At Liverpool July Meeting, Birdcatcher was opposed 
 to a larger field of horses than at Chester, and beat 
 them with no less ease, notwithstanding he lost several 
 lengths by running out at the start. The betting men 
 did not however appear to think much of this perform- 
 ance, if the Great St. Leger betting be taken as indica- 
 tive of their opinions. The Trade Cup was won by 
 Consol, who had been bottled up nearly two years, and 
 came out with all the advantages of freshness and 
 light weight. 
 
 The Newmarket July Meeting was a very indifferent 
 affair; no company and bad sport. At York there 
 was "nothing stirring but stagnation," although the 
 sport was good enough to deserve better encourage- 
 
 f 2 
 
G8 GOODWOOD AND DONCASTER, 1832. 
 
 ment, bringing out, amongst others, Mr. Watt's Bel- 
 shazzar, who beat a large field, and subsequently 
 figured as a great favourite for the Leger, 1833. 
 
 Goodwood surpassed all the races of the season ; 
 the company was aristocratic and numerous, the racing 
 plentiful and good. After the Two-year Old Stakes, 
 which was carried off by Lord Chesterfield's Weeper 
 (a remarkably game mare), the Drawing Room Stakes 
 were won by Beiram, fresh, full of running, and able 
 at that moment to have beaten any three-year old in 
 the kingdom. Posthumus ran a bad second to 
 Beiram, and on the last day beat Dryad and Roebuck 
 in a canter; this, added to his own excellent running, 
 brought Beiram into the betting for the St. Leger, and 
 it is to be regretted that Lord Exeter should have 
 preferred sending Byzantium. The Gold Cup served 
 as a brilliant finale to Priam's racing career ; although 
 he won, his legs suffered so much from the severity 
 of the race that Lord Chesterfield wisely elected to 
 pay in his subsequent engagements. 
 
 Next comes " the Great Meeting of the North," — 
 Doncaster. On Monday the Champagne Stakes was 
 closely contested between Lord Cleveland's Muley colt 
 and Belshazzar, the former winning solely through the 
 incapacity of the rider of his opponent. On Tuesday 
 the St. Leger disappointed the expectations of the 
 north country people, all their favourites showing in 
 very bad form. Wednesday was a blank day. On 
 Thursday Margrave, with 4lb. extra, beat Julius in a 
 canter for the Gascoigne Stakes ; Gallopade beat a 
 field of good horses for the Cup ; and Wolverhampton 
 pulled a snug 1400 sovs. into Mr. Beardsworth's 
 
OCTOBER MEETINGS, 1832. 69 
 
 pocket ; and on the concluding day Birdcatcher and 
 Physician met for the Thirty Guineas Stakes ; the 
 latter being victorious through the splendid jockey- 
 ship of Harry Edwards ; and on the same day, Jem 
 Robinson, by a similar display, enabled Emiliana to 
 give a quietus to three or four mares of higher pre- 
 tensions than her own. 
 
 The Newmarket October Meetings closed the Racing 
 Season, 1832, and never did they excite so little atten- 
 tion, or furnish so moderate a quantity of sport. 
 Some of the races, however, were important. Mar- 
 grave, within ten days from Doncaster, started for the 
 Grand Duke Michael, against Salute, Beiram, and 
 another, and won it. Here he ought to have stopped ; 
 but no, there was a snug little four hundred in the 
 shape of a St. Leger to be added to it, and although 
 there was only one day's rest, the distance D. [., and 
 the horse stale, he was started for it. As a lesson to 
 his master not to force a willing horse, he was beaten ; 
 but it was very clear that freshness alone enabled 
 Archibald to win. The Great Two-year Old Stakes, 
 in the second meeting, were severally won by Lord 
 Orford's Clearwell and General Grosvenor's Glaucus, 
 with ease ; the two then ran a kind of tie in the last 
 meeting over the Criterion Course, and Glaucus won 
 in a canter, he having previously ran a good second 
 to Weeper for the Criterion Stakes, with extra weight 
 and bad riding. And thus ended the year of the Turf, 
 1832. 
 
 Having thus recorded the principal racing events of 
 the year 1832, little remains to be added. Trustee, 
 the opponent of St. Giles, who, as we have already 
 
70 HORSES SENT ABROAD. 
 
 seen, went over to the New World, subsequently fol- 
 lowed him thither. His stock have since run well. 
 Riddlesworth was sent to Germany ; and Priam, the 
 close of whose career we have noticed in this year, was 
 sent out to America, bought by the Messrs. Merritt of 
 Virginia, for 3,500 guineas. Rowton, also, subse- 
 quently left this country for Virginia, where he is now 
 the property of Colonel Hampton, of South Carolina. 
 Both Priam's stock and Rowton's being now (1840) 
 just in time to show our Brother Jonathan " such sights ! 
 oh Lordy"! 
 
 Having thus disposed of some of the " Cracks " 
 whose deeds have filled preceding pages, it is but fair 
 to note those " lights of other days," who passed at this 
 time from our view ; viz. Old Phantom, Roundwaist, 
 and Woful, who were sent out to Germany, with a host 
 of young, and old, and middle-aged things, respectively 
 divided amongst Baron Biel, the Baron Hertefeldt, and 
 Mr. Litchwaldt. 
 
 As there is "no bush without a rag" so is there no 
 " Racing year" without " a case" ; and, as we had, in 
 noting down the year's events for 1831, to give a pass- 
 ing record of the " Pilgrim case;" so in this, 1832, we 
 have to add to the Turf " deploranda" the equally noto- 
 rious " Ludlow affair," which we shall, with the word, 
 pass over, as a useless blot to our pages. 
 
 Why are these " accidents" like double teeth ? D'ye 
 give it up ? Lord bless you. — Why, because they never 
 come single to be sure. 
 
 Having had much occasion, in our treatise of this 
 year, to take the name of Mr. Gully frequently in vain; 
 we here beg leave to introduce to our readers his pro- 
 
DEATH OF OLD BUCKLE. 71 
 
 file, " as like as it can stare," as the saying goes — 'and, 
 as a duel is said to have taken place in this year, 
 between Mr. Osbaldeston and Mr. Gully, in conse- 
 quence of a dispute arising on some subject connected 
 with the Doncaster Races, and moreover as neither of 
 the parties was hurt, but still live to admire their 
 nature's effigy," although Mr. Gully's hat was said to 
 have been pierced by Mr. Osbaldestoris ball, we think 
 this sketch of " the honourable member for Pontefract," 
 a very good " second" to our portrait of " the Squire." 
 
 And now — to close our history of the year, comes "a 
 sad memory." The veteran Buckle, " the Jockey" of 
 his day, closed his career at Peterborough, in the month 
 of May. Honest, true, and able, " Frank Buckle" left 
 indeed a blank upon the Turf, which, since his death, 
 has never yet been filled. No man was more esteemed 
 in public for integrity, nor in private life for his warm 
 friendship, and frank, free, demeanour. In private 
 circles he was talkative and cheerful ; and owing to the 
 stirring scenes in which he had played so conspicuous 
 a part, his conversation formed an ample fund of infor- 
 mation and amusement. He chiefly excelled in anec- 
 dote ; the subjects of his remarks being either some 
 well-known public character, some excellent horse — 
 Violante or Medora — or some feat of his own consum- 
 mate judgment. 
 
 His chief competitor was the well-known Dennis 
 Fitzpatrick, and against him some of Buckle's best 
 riding was called forth. In the race between Hamble- 
 tonian and Diamond, for 3,000 guines, he is acknow- 
 ledged to have displayed the most consummate skill, 
 and to have won the race by manoeuvring between the 
 
72 OLD BUCKLE. 
 
 ditch and the turn of the lands, so as to have gained 
 considerably upon his antagonist ere they pushed up 
 the hill, where the running of the compact little horse 
 would have been an overmatch for him. And as a part 
 of the events of that momentous day, Buckle oftentimes 
 related the following anecdote. Sir Harry Vane 
 Tempest had betted heavily on Hambletonian's winning, 
 and in proportion to the heavy sums in his book, his 
 interest in the event had deepened, and his nerves 
 became proportionably unsteady. In the deepest 
 apprehension, and just as the horses arrived at the start- 
 ing-post, he approached his jockey with his last orders, 
 (which, by the bye, Buckle chose to disobey), and to 
 inquire yet once more his opinion as to the event of the 
 race. It was then that the cool and unruffled demean- 
 our of the man of nerve, confident in his own skill and 
 resources, re-assured the Baronet, who exclaimed, as 
 his own fevered hand grasped that of Buckle, — By 
 G — , but I would give the whole stake to be half as 
 calm as you." 
 
 As far as weight went, he could ride without trouble 
 7st. 10lb.; and frequently 7st. 81b., without even taking 
 a walk. His weight during the winter was 8st. 41b., 
 which increased towards the spring to 8st. 7lb. In his 
 earlier days he weighed as much at one time as 9st. 71b., 
 but of late years had settled down to about eight stone. 
 There was no falling off in him — his seat remained as 
 firm, his nerve as good, his ardour as keen to the last, as 
 at any period of his long, and trying career. His last 
 race was on Colonel Udney's Conservator, on the 5th 
 of November, 1831, which, by a singular coincidence, 
 was the very day on which he had, fifty years before, 
 
OLD BUCKLE. 
 
 73 
 
 commenced his public life, having entered Mr. Vernon's 
 stables on the 5th of November, 1781. But though 
 determined that that should be his last public appear- 
 ance on the Turf, little did Buckle think, when shaking 
 hands with a circle of old friends at the October meet- 
 ing, that parting was to be their last ; and sincere was the 
 feeling of regret to many a kind heart, when looking 
 round for him in the coming Spring, " his place knew 
 him no more." May he rest, as he rode, easily ! — may 
 he come true to the scale ! — and may the Turf which 
 he adorned while living, bloom lightly on his grave ! 
 
 @c<^&et- 
 
74 
 
 DANGEROUS. 
 
 WINNER OF THE EPSOM DERBY, 1833. 
 
 " Hie, hie, hie ! take care there — take care. — Here's 
 Dangerous ! Here's Dangerous !" The Dangerous 
 horse of 1833, who, with 25 to 1 agst. him, won the 
 Derby, ridden by Chappie in a first-rate style. 
 
 Dangerous is a rich chesnut horse, about fifteen 
 hands and a half or three quarters in height, and was 
 bred by Mr. Sadler in 1830. He is by Tramp, out of 
 Defiance, by Rubens, her dam, Little Folly, by High- 
 land Fling — Harriet by Volunteer — Alfred — Magnolia 
 by Marske. 
 
 Dangerous did not distinguish himself as a two- 
 year-old, but he eventually exemplified the truth of 
 the old saw, " that a bad beginning often makes a 
 good ending." 
 
 His first performance was at Ascot Heath, 1832, 
 where he ran second to Lord Exeter's Minima for the 
 First Year of a Renewal of a Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. 
 each, 30 ft., for two yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and 
 fillies, 8st. 41b.— T. Y. C— Eight subs. 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. by Sultan, oat of Aspasia 1 
 
 Mr. Sadler's cb. c. Dangerous, brother to Design 2 
 
 Mr. Wreford's gr. c. Wonford, by Grey Middleham, out of Snare ... S 
 Betting, 7 to 4 on the winner, and 5 to 2 agst. Dangerous. 
 
 At Stockbridge, June 28, he ran second to Glaucus, 
 beating br. f. by Muley, out of Lady Ern, and Lord 
 Wilton's br. c. by Waterloo, out of Gavotte ; and was 
 beaten by Trepidation, Uncle Toby, and others, in a 
 25 sovs. Sweepstakes, on the 5th of September, at 
 Warwick. 
 

THE DERBY FAVOURITES, 1833. 75 
 
 The season of 1832 closed with Revenge, Muley 
 Moloch, Forester, and Glaucus, at the head of the bet- 
 ting list. Revenge first, nobody knew why ; the Muley 
 colt because when amiss he had beaten Belshazzar, and 
 a field of five ; Forester, because he won the July 
 Stakes, beating Jason, and a large field cleverly ; and 
 Glaucus, on account of his having beaten Dangerous 
 so cleverly at Warwick. 
 
 The opening of the year 1833, brought Bravo and 
 Prince Llewellyn into the market ; then Glaucus took 
 the situation of first favourite, and Muley Moloch 
 went out of the market, and finally, upon "the Day," 
 the odds were only 3 to 1 agst. Glaucus, Forester 
 standing second to him at 8 to 1. For who in their 
 "seven senses" could expect Dangerous to defeat 
 Glaucus at Epsom, after the trimming Glaucus had 
 prescribed to Dangerous at Stockbridge. At length 
 the following horses came to the post : 
 
 Mr. Sadler's ch. c. Dangerous, by Tramp 1 
 
 Mr. J. Scott's br. c. Connoisseur, by Chateau Margaux 2 
 
 Mr. Rawlinson's b. c. Revenge, by Fungus 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Sir Robert, by Sultan, out of Emmeline ; Mr. Hunter's gr. 
 c. Forester, by Gustavus ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Despot, by Sultan ; Mr. 
 Ridsdale's b. c. Glaucus, by Partisan ; Mr. Chifney's br. c. Prince Llewellyn, 
 by Waxy Pope ; Mr. Greville's c. The Whale, brother to Grampus ; Mr. T. 
 Wood's ch. c. Titian, by Partisan ; Duke of Rutland's b. c. Shylock, out of 
 Moses's dam ; Lord Verulam's c. Little Cassino, by Sultan ; Sir G. Heathcote's 
 c. by Chateau Margaux ; Mr. Bristow's ch. c. Uncle Toby, by Cain; Mr. Cole- 
 man's b. c. Brother to Rough Robin ; Mr. Cooper's br. c. by Catton, out of 
 Twatty ; Mr. Cosby's br. c. The Bravo, by Reveller; Mr. Sowerby's ch. c. Cata- 
 lonian, by Skiff; Mr. Forth 's b. c. Brother to Error, by Emilius; Mr. Chifney's 
 b. f. by Emilius, out of Shoveler ; Mr. Goodwin's br. c. Pagan, by Proselyte ; 
 Duke of Grafton's br. c. Egyptus, by Centaur ; Lord Exeter's br. c. Cactus, by 
 Sultan; Mr. Payne's c. by Wrangler, out of Whiteboy's dam; and Lord 
 Jersey's Glenmore, by Partisan ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 3 to 1 agst. Glaucus, 8 to 1 agst. Little Cassino (taken), 8 to 1 agst. 
 Forester, 8 to 1 agst. The Whale, 10 to 1 agst. Sir Robert, 12 to 1 agst. Shoveler 
 (taken), 18 to 1 agst. Revenge, 25 to 1 agst. Twatty, 25 to 1 agst. Dangerous 
 (30 to 1 taken), 25 to 1 agst. Catalouian, 30 to 1 agst. Titian, 30 to 1 agst. Bravo, 
 40 to 1 agst. Prince Llewellyn, 40 to 1 agst. Shylock, 50 to 1 agst. Brother to 
 Error, 1000 to 10 agst. Uncle Toby, and 1000 to 10 agst. Connoisseur. 
 
76 THE DERBY, 1833. 
 
 The false starts were fewer than usual. At the first 
 one, the horses got as far as the call-back post — the 
 others were stopped nearer home. Forester got a 
 capital start both times, particularly the first one; 
 indeed, we understand Wright's orders were to keep 
 in front, while the rider of Catalonian was told to take 
 the lead and keep it, and thus the two ran a kind of 
 match at T. Y. C. speed to Tattenham Corner, where 
 Forester was fairly outrun ; he ran stoutly, but speed, 
 apparently, was not his forte. Glaucus, Llewellyn, Little 
 Cassino, Shylock, Pagan, Twatty, Shoveler, Uncle 
 Toby, Cactus, The Bravo, Egyptus, Glenmore, and 
 Whiteboy's dam, were beaten clean off before they got 
 round the turn, and came in " by instalments." Ca- 
 talonian was first landed — Brother to Error, Connois- 
 seur, Revenge, Forester, The Whale, Dangerous, 
 and Sir Robert, all well up with him ; about a quarter 
 of a mile from home Sir Robert, The Whale, and Bro- 
 ther to Error were hors de combat ; Connoisseur then 
 ran up to Catalonian, shook him off, and was instantly 
 joined by Dangerous, who, to all appearance, was as 
 full of running as if he had just started. At the 
 Grand Stand Chappie let him go, and he won by 
 a length in a canter. In the last fifty or sixty yards 
 Revenge passed Catalonian, and beat him for the third 
 place ; Sir Robert, Catalonian, Brother to Error, and 
 Forester were close together — in fact they all claimed to 
 be fifth. Amongst the others the scattering was awful, 
 and they looked more like the tail of a kite than any 
 thing else as they came dribbling along the course. 
 
 The settling was easier than had been anticipated. 
 The " sufferers" were the gentlemen, the betters 
 round, the winners. The value of the stakes was 
 
DANGEROUS SENT ABROAD. 
 
 77 
 
 £3,725 — a much greater sum than had ever yet been 
 received ; besides which, Sadler and his party netted, 
 partly against their will, a nice little sum in bets. 
 
 After this race, Dangerous went amiss, but the 
 secret being well kept, he was permitted to walk over 
 for 100 sovs. Sweepstakes, h. ft., six subs., at Stock- 
 bridge, on the 27th of July. He, however, was never 
 got fit to start again, and having been put to the stud in 
 the year 1 834, he was purchased by the French Govern- 
 ment, and sent abroad, at the end of the season, 1835. 
 
 Dangerous was undoubtedly a good horse, and 
 would have been much better, had he been hardy 
 enough to train on. He was a large, bony horse, 
 with powerful limbs, and very light in training. On 
 the day of the Derby, he was Jit, full of running, and 
 the best horse in the race for the day. But he was a 
 meteor who would most probably have subsequently led 
 his friends astray, and proved himself as"an investment" 
 
 
 AT ONCE DISAGRI.EABLE AND DANGEROUS. 
 
78 
 
 VBSPA. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS, AT EPSOM, 1853. 
 
 Vespa a very dark brown mare — almost a black, was 
 bred by her worthy owner, Sir Mark Wood, and is by 
 Muley, out of Miss Wasp — Miss Wasp was bred by 
 George the Fourth (when Prince of Wales), in 1807, 
 was got by Waxy, her dam Trumpetta, by Trumpator, 
 out of Peggy — sister to Postmaster, by Herod — Snap 
 — Gower Stallion — Childers. 
 
 Vespa's tale is soon told. In the Second October 
 meeting of 1832, she started for the Clearwell Stakes, 
 but was not placed, Lord Orford's Clearwell winning, 
 Nonsense and Cactus second and third ; twelve others 
 not placed. 
 
 In the First Spring Meeting of 1833, she ran third 
 for the 1,000 gs. stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs. 
 each, h. ft. for fillies, 8st. 41b. rising three yrs. old. — 
 D.M, — Twenty-eight subs. Tarantella being first, 
 and Falemia second — eight others not placed, among 
 the number the Duke of Grafton's Octave, sister to 
 Oxygen. 
 
 On the Oaks day (Friday, the 26th of May), 1833 
 — nothing would "go down" but Tarantella, although 
 there came to the Post, 
 
 Sir M. Wood's br. f. Vespa 1 
 
 Duke of Grafton's br. f. Octave, sister to Oxygen 2 
 
 Mr. Batson's ch. f. Revelry, by Reveller 3 
 
THE OAKS, 1832. 79 
 
 Mr. Barrow's f. by Whisker, out of Alecto ; Mr. Rawlinson's b. f. Funny, by 
 Fungus; Sir G. Heathcote's b. f. Carnation, by Blacklock; Duke of Richmond's 
 ro. f. Baleine, by Whalebone ; Lord Egremont's Sister to Gayhurst, by Whale- 
 bone ; Lord Chesterfield's f. Dirce, by Partisan ; Lord Chesterfield's Weeper, by 
 Woful ; Mr. Stonehewer's ch. f. Chantilly, by Gustavus ; Mr. Chifney's b. f. by 
 Emilius, out of Shoveler ; Mr. Gratwicke's Sister to Frederick ; General Gros- 
 venor's b. f. Falernia, by Chateau Margaux; Colonel Peel's Malibran, by Whisker; 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. Amima, by Sultan ; Mr. Cookes's Tarantella, by Tramp ; 
 Mr. Cosby's Diversity, by Muley ; and Mr. Grant's f. by Emilius, out of 
 Duckling. 
 
 The Betting being 2 to 1 agst. Tarantella (taken), 7 to 1 agst. Shoveler, 9 to 1 
 agst. Alecto (taken), 9 to 1 agst. Revelry (taken), 14 to 1 agst. Octave, 16 to 1 
 agst. Funny, 20 to 1 agst. Malibran, and 20 to 1 agst. Baleine. 
 
 The race was poor, and as slow as the Derby for 
 the same year was fast They all got away pretty 
 well, and Tarantella's enormous stride told as they 
 ran towards the hill, but that was a teazer for many of 
 them ; and the contest ultimately lay between Vespa, 
 ridden by Chappie ; and the Duke of Grafton's Octave, 
 sister to Oxygen (the winner of the Oaks of 1831), 
 ridden by John Day ; who made a beautiful race home 
 of it, so near at the finish, that the people on the hill 
 could not say which was the winner. So unexpected 
 was the result, that Sir Mark Wood could scarcely 
 believe it possible when he was told that his mare had 
 won. Chappie rode the winners of both Derby and 
 Oaks, and is the only Jockey that has won both since 
 Robinson rode Cedric and Cobweb. 
 
 In the Newmarket Second October Meeting, Vespa 
 was beaten by Marpessa, in a Match for 200 sovs. 
 each. — D.M. ; and in the Houghton Meeting, she ran 
 fourth for a Handicap Stakes of 50 sovs. each, Revelry 
 being first, Clarion second, and Messenger third ; four 
 others started, but were not placed. 
 
 In the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1834, Vespa 
 won the Oatlands Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. — D.I. 
 Twelve subs., beating Trustee, colt by Lottery, out 
 
80 VESPA SENT ABROAD. 
 
 of Pledge, and Galata (winner of the Oaks, 1831), 
 Chantilly, Anne, and Malibran, not placed. 
 
 In the Newmarket First Spring, Vespa won the 
 King's Plate of 100 gs. for mares ; four yr. olds, 
 8st. 41b. ; five, 9st. 41b. ; six, 9st. 101b, ; and aged, 
 10st— R.C. 
 
 Sir M. Wood's br. f. Vespa, by Muley, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. S. Stonehewer's ch. f. Chantilly, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Batson's ch. f. Revelry, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 7 to 4 agst. Vespa, 7 to 4 agst. Chantilly, and 5 to 2 agst. Revelry ; 
 
 and followed up her luck, in the Second Spring, by 
 walking over for the Jockey Club Plate of Fifty Pounds. 
 On Tuesday, in the July Meeting, she ran second 
 to Armadillo, for Fifty Pounds, for three yr. olds, 
 6st. 91b. ; four, 8st. ; five, 8st. Sib. ; six, 8st. 121b. ; 
 and aged, 9st.— D.I. 
 
 Duke of Rutland's b. c. Armadillo, by St. Patrick, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 SirM. Wood's br. f. Vespa, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Sowerby's ch. c. Catalonian, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Greville's b. c. Dacre, by Bizarre, out of Young Barrossa (carried 
 
 6st. 121b.), 3 yrs. old 4 
 
 Lord Berners's ch. f. by Oscar, out of Spotless, 4 yrs. old 5 
 
 Mr. W. Chifney's b. f. by Emilius, out of Shoveler, 4 yrs. old 6 
 
 Lord Egremont's b. f. Sister to Runnymede, 3 yrs. old 7 
 
 Betting, 5 to 4 on Vespa, and 3 to 1 agst. Armadillo. 
 
 She finally wound up her career upon the Turf, by 
 winning the King's Plate of 100 gs., at Chelmsford, 
 on the 22d of July, beating Mr. Mew's Infatuation, in 
 two heats ; after which she was put to the stud, and 
 in the month of October following, sold, and sent over 
 to Hungary. 
 

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81 
 
 ROCKINGHAM. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1833. ' 
 
 — ♦ — 
 
 Rockingham was bred in 1830, by Mr. Allen, 
 being got by Humphrey Clinker, out of Medora, by 
 Swordsman, her dam by Trumpator out of Pepper- 
 mint (sister to Prunella), by Highflyer — Promise by 
 Snap — Julia by Blank — Spectator's dam by Partner, 
 
 &c, &c. 
 
 Rockingham made his first appearance in 1832 at 
 
 Doncaster, where he was among the place-hunters for 
 the Two Year Old Stakes of 20 sovs. each, for colts, 8st. 
 51b. ; and fillies, 8st. 21b.— T.Y.C.— Thirty-one subs. 
 
 Mr. Watt's cb. c. Belshazzar, by Blacklock, out of Manuella, by Dick 
 Andrews 1 
 
 Mr. Petre's b. c. by Young Phantom, out of My Lady 2 
 
 Mr. Vansittart's b. c. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker ; Duke of Leeds's 
 br. c. by Lottery, out of Rhodacantha; Mr. S. L. Fox's b. c. Larkspur, by Lottery, 
 out of Dairymaid, by Woful ; Lord Kelburne's br. f. by Jerry, out of Georgiana ; 
 Mr. Pierse's b. c. by Lottery, out of Swiss's dam ; Mr. Attwood's b. c. by his 
 Grey Arabian, out of Lady Eliza ; Mr. J. Hall's b. f. Therise, by Brutandorf, dam 
 by Cerberus ; Sir E. Dodsworth's br. c. Jerry, out of Lady of the Vale's dam ; 
 Mr. T. O. Powlett's br. f. by Lottery, out of Miss Fanny ; Lord Sligo's b. c. 
 Flame, by Master Robert, out of Fang's dam ; also started, but were not placed. 
 Betting : 7 to 4 agst. Belshazzar, 3 to 1 agst. Sir E. Dodsworth's colt, 7 to 1 
 agst. the Duke of Leeds's colt, 7 to 1 agst. Larkspur, 7 to 1 agst. Mr. Petre's colt, 
 and 10 to 1 agst. Flame. 
 
 At the York Spring Meeting 1833, Rockingham 
 won the Shorts of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., one mile, six 
 subs., beating Mr. Orde's Dancing Master, in a 
 canter. And in the same meeting he paid forfeit for 
 the Constitution Stakes, for the Great Yorkshire Stakes, 
 and for the 30 sovs. Stakes. 
 
82 THE DONCA6TEK ST. LEGER, 1833. 
 
 "The event" of Rockingham's career was now 
 about to come off — for the St. Leger Stakes at Don- 
 caster, out of seventy-five nominations the following 
 twenty horses came to the post. 
 
 Mr. Watt's b. c. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, out of Medora, 
 by S wordsman , 1 
 
 Mr. Walker's br. c. Mussulman, by Muley 2 
 
 Lord Macdonald's b. c. Carnaby, by Brutandorf, out of Miss Fox, by Glow 
 worm ; Mr. Watt's ch. c. Belshazzar, by-Blacklock ; Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Glau- 
 cus, by Partisan; Colonel Craufurd's bl. c. The Mole, by Whalebone; Duke of 
 Cleveland's br. c. Muley Moloch, by Muley ; Mr. Rawlinson's b. c. Revenge, by 
 Fungus ; Mr. Osbaldeston's b. c. Tbe Tutor, by Lottery ; Mr. Orde's ch. c. The 
 Dancing Master, by Felton ; Lord Kelburne's b. f. Sister to Retainer ; Mr. S. 
 Fox's b. f. Tesane, by Whisker; Mr. Mostvn's b. c. Jack Faucet, by Jack Spigot; 
 Major Yarburgh's b. c. by Lottery, out of Laurel's dam ; Duke of Leeds's b. c. 
 Lot, by Lottery ; Mr. Gully's b. c. Deceiver (late Frankenstein), by Young 
 Phantom ; Mr. Walker's b. f. Anne, by Catton ; Mr. Chifney's br.c. Connoisseur, 
 by Chateau Margaux ; Mr. Ellis's b. c. by Figaro, out of Lady Fulford ; and Mr. 
 Hunter's gr. c. Forester, by Gustavus ; also started, but the judge placed only 
 two. 
 
 Betting, 3 to 1 agst. Muley Moloch, 4 to 1 agst. Bel- 
 shazzar, 6 to 1 agst. Mussulman, 6 to 1 agst. Revenge, 
 7 to 1 agst. Rockingham, 14 to 1 agst. The Mole, 18 to 
 1 agst. Jack Faucett, 20 to 1 agst. Anne, 25 to 1 agst. 
 Deceiver, 30 to 1 agst. Connoisseur, 40 to 1 agst. Danc- 
 ing Master, 40 to 1 agst. Lot, and 100 to 1 agst. Car- 
 naby. The horses got away on the second attempt at an 
 easy gallop, not because the ground was heavy, for it 
 was in beautiful order, but because out of the whole 
 lot there was not one jockey whose orders were com- 
 prehensive enough to accelerate the pace. The 
 Mole, Tesane, and Belshazzar were first off; Mussul- 
 man, Rockingham, Revenge, Connoisseur, and Laurel's 
 dam, the last ; the latter colt being several lengths 
 astern of the whole. By the time they reached 
 the gravel road, Belshazzar, whose office it was to lead 
 the van and sacrifice himself to the behoof of Rock- 
 
THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1833. 83 
 
 ingham, took up the running at somewhere about 
 half speed, with The Mole and Muley Moloch 
 waiting- upon him ; Glaucus, Tesane, Sister to 
 Retainer, Lot, Deceiver, and Forester, in attendance 
 upon them ; Mussulman, Revenge, Anne, Jack Faucet, 
 and The Tutor in the centre, and Rockingham taking 
 it easy in the rear. In this order they went to the 
 Red House, where Laurel's dam shut up ; Tesane, 
 Sister to Retainer, and Lady Fulford, exhibiting 
 unequivocal symptoms of distress at the same place. 
 Belshazzar kept his lead, without much improving the 
 pace to the distance ; where the following horses were 
 clustered at his heels, all looking well for the race : — 
 The Mole, Mulejr Moloch, Mussulman, Jack Faucet, 
 The Tutor, Glaucus, Carnaby, Forester, Anne, and 
 Rockingham, the latter having by this time crept up 
 from the rear ranks. Muley Muley now had a bit of 
 a run with Belshazzar, cut it pretty soon, and dropt 
 back into the crowd ; Mussulman tackled him with 
 better fortune, defeated him without difficulty, and 
 obtained the lead. It was now that Darling called 
 upon his horse, who, full of running, had only waited 
 till he found Belshazzar was no longer to be relied 
 upon ; he shot by Mussulman at the Grand Stand, 
 and without any thing like a race, won very easily by 
 nearly two lengths. Between the stand and the chair 
 a struggle amongst the others enabled us to place 
 Carnaby third, the three next places being divided 
 between The Tutor, Belshazzar, Glaucus, and The 
 Mole ; Muley Moloch, Revenge, Anne, Forester, Jack 
 Faucet, and Connoisseur, being close behind them in 
 a crowd. Lady Fulford, Laurel's dam, Tesane, and 
 
 f 2 
 
84 THE DONCASTER CUP, 1833. 
 
 Sister to Retainer, were at the fag end of the race, 
 but there was no tailing ; the distance was performed 
 in three minutes and thirty-eight seconds, nearly 
 twenty seconds more than usual. 
 
 At the same meeting, Rockingham carried off The 
 Cup, given by the Stewards, with 50 sovs. added by 
 the Corporation ; three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 31b. ; 
 five, 8st. 101b. ; six and aged, 9st. ; the winner of the 
 St. Leger to carry 31b. extra. — To start at the Red 
 House, and run once round to the Ending Post. — 
 About two miles and five furlongs. 
 
 Mr. Watt's b. c. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, 3 yrs. old. . . . 1 
 
 Mr. Rawlinson's b. c. Revenge, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Walker's br. h. Consol, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's br h. The Saddler, 5 yrs. old ; Mr. Chifney's br. c. Con- 
 noisseur, 3 yrs. old; Lord Kelburne's br. f. Sister to Retainer, 3 yrs. old; Mr. 
 Walker's b. f. Anne, 3 yrs. old,; and Mr. Mostyn's b. c. Jack Faucet, 3 yrs. old ; 
 also started, but were not placed. 
 Even betting on Rockingham, 5 to 2 agst. Consul, and 10 to 1 agst. Revenge. 
 
 Anne made the running to the turn, where she gave 
 up, taking pains, however, in the retreat to block up 
 the passage for Consol, and materially to injure his 
 chance for the Cup. Revenge, till then lying second, 
 took up the running, and continued to the Grand 
 Stand, where Rockingham ran by him and won in a 
 canter — the others beaten off along way. The " Gold 
 Cup" was a tasteless silver tureen, of little value. But 
 the result of this race, the excellent pace throughout, 
 and the extreme ease in which Rockingham defeated 
 his horses, served to convince the public that he was 
 something more than common. In the same meeting 
 Rockingham paid forfeit for the Scarborough Stakes. 
 
 At the Ascot Heath Meeting, 1834, Rockingham, 
 having been previously purchased by Mr. Wall for 
 
THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1834. 85 
 
 1000 guineas, and sold again to Mr. Theobald, ran 
 second to Glaucus for the Gold Cup, value o00 sovs., 
 by subscription of 20 sovs. each, with 200 sovs. added 
 from the Fund; three yr. olds, 6st. 101b. ; four, 8st. 
 21b.; five, 8st. 121b.; six and aged, 9st. 31b.; m. 
 allowed 3lb. ; the owner of the second horse received 
 50 sovs. out of the stakes. — To start at the Cup-post 
 on the New mile and go once round, about two miles 
 and a half. — Twenty-seven subs. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Glaucus, by Partisan, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. c. Rockingham, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ch. c. Samarcand, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Watt's ch. c. Belshazzar, 4 yrs. old 4 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. m. Galata, 5 yrs. old ; Mr. Hunter's gr. c. Morotto, 3 yrs. 
 old ; Mr. Greville's ch. f. Chantilly, 4 yrs. old ; Mr. Etwall's b. c. Revenge, 4 
 yrs. old; Mr. I. Day's b. m. Diana, 6 yrs. old ; and Mr. Grant's b. f. Famine, by 
 Humphrey Clinker, out of Fang's dam, 3 yrs. old ; also started, but were not 
 placed. 
 
 5 to 2 agst. Glaucus, 5 to 1 agst. Morotto, 5 to 1 agst. Belshazzar, 8 to 1 agst. 
 Diana, 8 to 1 agst. Samarcand, 10 to 1 agst. Revenge, and 12 to 1 agst. Rock- 
 ingham, who was beaten by a length. 
 
 At the following Hampton, Rockingham won a Plate 
 of 100 gs., given by His Majesty. — Heats, twice round 
 and a distance. 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. c. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, out of 
 
 Medora, 4 yrs. old, 9st. lib 1 1 
 
 Mr. Gardnor's b. b. Oinen, by Orville, aged, lOst. 2lb 2 dr 
 
 Mr. Payne's b. c. Skimmer, by Skiff, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 51b 3 dr 
 
 Mr. Greville's ch. f. Chantilly, 4 yrs old. 9st. lib 4 dr 
 
 Betting : 3 to 1 on Rockingham, who won in a canter. 
 
 At Goodwood Rockingham was beaten by Glencoe 
 for the Goodwood Cup ; * and he closed the season by 
 losing one King's Plate, and winning another, viz. at 
 Lewes. 
 
 Wednesday, August 13. — His Majesty's Plate of 
 100 gs., for three yr. olds, Sst. 2lb. ; four, 9st. 61b. ; 
 
 * See St. Giles, page 44. 
 
86 THE GOODWOOD KINGS PLATE, 1835. 
 
 five, lOst. ; six and aged, lOst. 31b. — Heats, the New 
 Course, about two miles and a half. 
 
 Mr. Grant's b. f. Famine, by Humphrey Clinker, 3 yrs. old 1 1 
 
 Mr. Theobald's br. c. Rockingham, 4 yrs. old 2 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. m. Datura, 5 yrs. old 4 3 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. m. Lady Fly, 5 yrs. old 3 dr 
 
 5 to 1 on Rockingham ; after the heat, 3 to 1 agst. him. 
 
 And at Canterbury, on the 28th of August, for His 
 Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. ; for three yr. olds, 8st. 2lb. ; 
 four, 9st. 61b.; five, lOst. ; six and aged, lOst. 31b. — 
 Two-mile heats. 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. c. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, 4 yrs. 
 
 old 1 1 
 
 Capt. Ricardo's b. h. Vestris, 6 yrs. old 2 dr 
 
 At Goodwood, 1S35, Rockingham made another 
 unsuccessful attempt upon the Cup, and on the fol- 
 lowing day an equally unfortunate one for the King's 
 Plate of 100 gs. ; three yr. olds, 7st. 41b.; four, 9st. 
 21b. ; five, 9st. 131b ; six and aged, lOst. 41b.— About 
 three miles and five furlongs. 
 
 Mr. Shackel's b. c. Lucifer, by Lottery, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. h. Rockingham, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 7 to 2 and 4 to 1 on Rockingham. 
 
 This was altogether the most extraordinary race ever 
 witnessed on this or any other course. Rockingham 
 set off at a very indifferent pace, and without the 
 slightest appearance of a race, had won at least a dozen 
 lengths at the distance post ; so hollow was it, indeed, 
 that Forth called out to the lad to stop his horse — 
 Robinson heard this, and seeing him so far behind, 
 began to ease Rockingham, insomuch, that at sixty 
 yards from home he was completely out of his stride ; 
 in the meantime Twitchet had kept Lucifer up to his 
 pace, so that at the Stand he was much nearer his 
 formidable antagonist, and, as he found that the horse 
 
THE ASCOT CUP, 1836. 87 
 
 had still a little go left in him, lie made a tremendous 
 rush, nailed Robinson a few yards from the post, and 
 won by two lengths, amidst roars of laughter from all 
 parts of the course ! Robinson acknowledges that he 
 was unconscious of his danger till he saw Lucifer's 
 shadow, and that then it was too late to get his horse 
 upon his legs again ! 
 
 At Brighton, the following week, Rockingham won 
 a Gold Cup, value 300 gs., given by His Majesty, 
 added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; three yr. 
 olds, 6st. 121b.; four, 8st. 31b.; five, 8st. 121b.; six 
 and aged, 9st. 31b. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. — Two 
 miles. — Ten subs. 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. b. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker, 5 yrs. old 1 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ch. c. Valentissimo, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Sir M. Wood's ch. h. Amesbury, 6 yrs. old 3 
 
 And at Lewes he again carried off the King's Plate of 
 100 gs., Lord Exeter's Datura, his only opponent, 
 having run on the wrong side of the post. 
 
 Rockingham next walked over for the King's Plate 
 of 100 gs., at Canterbury, which feat closed his 
 season, 1835. 
 
 At Ascot Meeting, 1836, great interest was felt in 
 the Cup Race, for which two Leger winners, Touch- 
 stone and Rockingham, and Lucifer the sly Goodwood 
 defeater of Rockingham, and Aurelius, appeared at the 
 post, Sheet Anchor having been previously withdrawn, 
 to the infinite mortification of many. Touchstone was 
 the favourite, at pretty nearly even betting, though 
 Rockingham's condition obtained him many friends at 
 the post. 5 to 1 were the odds agst. Aurelius, and 
 8 to 1 agst. Lucifer. All four went away leisurely, 
 and though there was a change of places, yet there 
 
88 THE GOODWOOD STAKES, 1836. 
 
 was not much to do until they got near the straight 
 run home, when John Day brought Touchstone forward, 
 defeating Lucifer offhand, and keeping behind Rock- 
 ingham to the betting stand, when, after running a 
 few strides together, Touchstone bid him adieu, and 
 ran in two lengths before him. The other two were 
 left a long way in the lurch. 
 
 At Goodwood, on the 28th of July, Rockingham 
 started for the Goodwood Stakes of 25 sovs. each, &c. 
 — Two miles and a distance. 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's Felix, 7st. 81b. and 51b. extra 1 
 
 Mr. Rush's Roadster, aged, 7st. 131b 2 
 
 The following also ran, making up the largest field for a handicap seen for many 
 years: Pussy, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 121b. ; Rockingham, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 121b. ; Rush, 
 5 yrs. old, 8st. 12lb. ; Knobstick, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 5lb. ; Whimsical, 5 yrs. old, 
 7st. 71b.; Tauntonian, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 31b.; Ruinous, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 131b.; 
 Tiber, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; Alired, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; Lady Anna, 3 yrs. old, 
 6st. 121b.; Sepoy, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 10lb. ; Arbaces, 3 yrs. old, 6st. ; Taglioni, 3 
 yrs. old, 6st. ; Oberon, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 121b.; Flush filly, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 31b. ; 
 and Fortuna filly, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 31b. 
 
 A good sprinkling of business was got through at 2 to 1 agst. Rockingham, 9 
 to 2 agst. Pussy (t.), 6 to 1 agst. Houldsworth's two, 8 to 1 agst. Rush (t), 14 to 
 1 agst. Lady Anna, 15 to 1 agst. Knobstick, 20 to 1 agst. Felix, and 20 to 1 agst. 
 Roadster. 
 
 Pussy took a rattling lead, with a knot of light weights 
 clustered at her heels, "the Pride of Stockwell" 
 waiting behind with Felix and two or three others ; 
 Pussy taking them round the clump at a merry pace, 
 and looking amazingly well up to the last turn, where 
 she shut up. The hindmost lot now came in front, 
 but there was no determined lead, until about two 
 distances from the winning-post, where Felix went up, 
 made the remainder of the play, and won in a very 
 neat style by a length, to the astonishment and delight 
 of the book-makers, very few of them having heard 
 his name mentioned in the odds. Knobstick, Rock- 
 ingham, Rush, and Alfred, were in pretty good places 
 
THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1836. 89 
 
 at the finish, nor were the others beaten off any dis- 
 tance. The winnings and losses were very considerable. 
 
 On the following day, for the Cup, value 300 sovs., 
 with 600 in specie, &c. Instead of four or five, as 
 most people had anticipated, the field was swollen into 
 ten; without, excepting in the unlooked-for addition 
 of Elis, in any degree adding to the interest of the 
 betting ; in fact, so certain was it, that 4 to 1 was 
 betted that either he or Hornsea won. Rockingham 
 would not have started, but for the rain, which the 
 worthy proprietor of the most capacious pair of leathern 
 unwhisperables within ten miles of the Metropolis, 
 conceived would give him a chance of adding another 
 Cup to the number already gracing the sideboard at 
 Stockwell. 
 
 After some very heavy betting at even on Hornsea, 
 and 2 to 1 agst. Elis (t.) and a few tin-pot wagers of 
 8 to 1 agst. Rockingham, and 17 to 1 agst. Alfred, the 
 following came to the post : 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 101b. ; Lord Lichfield's Elis, 3 yrs. 
 old, 7st. 91b. ; Lord Chesterfield's Bamfylde, 4 yrs. old, 8st. lib. ; Mr. Robertson's 
 Lucifer, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 10lb. ; Mr. Robertson's Rupert, aged, 7st. 51b. ; Duke of 
 Richmond's Sepoy, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 101b. ; Mr. Theobald's Rockingham, 6 yrs. old, 
 lOst. lib. ; Lord Suffield's Alfred, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 131b. ; Duke of Beaufort's 
 Esmeralda, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 6lb. ; and Major Hancock's Khylan, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 6lb. 
 
 Bamfylde was started to make play for Hornsea, and 
 this he did, at a capital pace, the three year olds lying 
 in his wake, saving only Elis, who hung behind, a trifle 
 in advance of Hornsea. This order of running was 
 maintained until within a quarter of a mile from home, 
 where, in obedience to orders, Bamfylde resigned his 
 place to Hornsea, Elis running second, and obviously 
 in difficulty ; the favourite's position was never 
 threatened, and he won in a canter by two lengths ; 
 Mr. Robertson's two were next to Bamfylde (who was 
 
90 FINALE OF ROCKINGHAM. 
 
 a good third), and behind them, Alfred, Sepoy, and 
 Rockingham, and finally, Esmeralda and Khylan, who 
 had parted company from the body of horses at the 
 two-year old post. 
 
 From Goodwood. Rockingham went as usual to 
 Brighton, where also, as usual, he won the Gold Cup, 
 value 100 sovs., given by his Majesty, added to a 
 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yr. olds, 
 6st. 121b.; four, 8st. 31b.; five, 8st. 121b.; six and 
 aged, 9st. 3lb. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. — Two miles. 
 — Four subs. 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. h. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker/6 yrs. old . 1 
 
 Lord Exeter's gr. c. Luck's all, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 3 to 1 on Rockingham ; 
 
 and thence again, as usual, he travelled on to Lewes, 
 where, not as usual, he was beaten for the Lewes Stakes 
 of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared, &c, 
 with 100 added ; the winner of the Goodwood, Draw- 
 ing-room, or Brighton Stakes, to carry 71b. ; or of any 
 two, 91b. extra ; the second horse for either 31b. extra ; 
 the owner of the second horse received back his stake ; 
 and the winner paid 10 sovs. to the Judge. — One 
 mile and a half. — Forty-four subs., twenty-four of whom 
 paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Lord Lichfield's ch. c. Elis, by Langar, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 31b 1 
 
 Lord Egremont's Hock, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 101b 8 
 
 Mr. Robertson's Olympic, 5 yrs. old, 8st. lib 3 
 
 Mr. Theobald's Rockingham, 6 yrs. old, 9st. lllb. ; Lord Exeter's Luck's-all, 
 4 yrs. old, 8st. ; Lord Tavistock's Oak-apple, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 6lb. ; Duke of Rich- 
 mond's Tiber, 4 yrs. old, 7st. lib. ; Mr. Champion's b. g. by Lottery, out of Trapes, 
 4 yrs. old, 7st.; and Mr. Fairlie's Aristocrat, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 12lb. ; also started, 
 but were not placed. 
 
 2 to 1 agst. Elis, 3 to 1 agst. Oak-apple, 5 to 1 agst. Rockingham, 5 to 1 agst. 
 Hock, and 10 to 1 agst. Olympic. 
 
 and so ended his turf exploits ; after which he appeared 
 in the list of Sires for the season, 1837— as to be seen 
 at Stockwell, where he has ever since remained. 
 
91 
 
 PLENIPOTENTIARY. 
 
 WINNER OF THE EPSOM DERBY, 1834. 
 
 Here stands "the Crack" of his day, as well as of 
 every other. — A horse such as we ne'er shall look 
 upon the like of again, the wonderful — the unequalled 
 — the ill-used " Plenipo." 
 
 Plenipotentiary, a rich chesnut colt, about fifteen 
 hands two inches and a half high, was bred by his 
 owner, Mr. Batson, in 1831, got by Emilius, out 
 of Harriet, by Pericles (son of Evander), her dam by 
 Selim, out of Pipylina, by Sir Peter — Rally, by 
 Trumpator. 
 
 Plenipotentiary did not make his appearance in 
 public until the Graven Meeting of 1834, when he 
 carried off the 50 sovs. Sweepstakes.' — R. M.- — Five 
 subs., beating another Emilius colt, a Sultan colt, and 
 a Tramp colt, with ease, on the same day that the 
 redoubtable Glencoe carried off the Tuesday's Riddles- 
 worth in a canter, making " mince meat" of Zulima, 
 the winner of the July Stakes in 1833, and two others. 
 
 These two cracks of the day, Plenipo. and Glencoe, 
 met on the following Thursday, being the only two 
 declared to start for a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, 
 h. ft.— It. M.— Nine subs. 
 
 Mr. Batson 's Plenipotentiary 1 
 
 Lord Jersey's Gencoe 2 
 
92 PLENIPO. AND GLENCOE. 
 
 This race monopolised the interest of the day, and 
 gave rise, as well to heavy speculation on its imme- 
 diate result, as to important changes in the Derby 
 odds. A fruitless negociation for a compromise was 
 followed by several heavy engagements at 5 to 4 on 
 Glencoe, at which price Lord Jersey's party laid out 
 large sums, under an ill-founded impression that it was 
 a " good thing." 
 
 Plenipo. being a large horse of ponderous muscle, 
 and, moreover, carrying as much flesh as a bullock, 
 was supposed to be fat. Under this impression, Ro- 
 binson's orders were to go off at score, and cut him 
 down by pace ; accordingly Glencoe made play at a 
 speed that has seldom been equalled even at New- 
 market ; he found, however, that the opponent so 
 lightly valued could not only go with him, but from 
 him, whenever he was called upon. This occurred 
 about half a mile from home, Glencoe being then as 
 completely destroyed by the pace as they had antici- 
 pated would be the case with Plenipo. who won by 
 four lengths. 
 
 But perhaps the best account of the race is given 
 in the words of Robinson, who rode Glencoe : "I 
 came the first half mile," said he, " according to orders, 
 as hard as I could lick, but when I looked round there 
 was the great bullock cantering close by my side." 
 Plenipo. was certainly not put up to his speed in this 
 race. 
 
 Speculation now seemed rife upon the Turf for the 
 approaching Derby. Large offers, it is asserted, were 
 made (to the amount of £10,000) to Mr. Batson, for 
 the purchase of his horse ; but Mr. Batson, with a 
 
THE DERBY — 1834. 93 
 
 feeling highly to be admired, declared that Plenipo. 
 was public property, and should not leave his stable 
 until after the Derby. In the mean time, the specu- 
 lators heaped their coin upon the thousand changes 
 incidental to the lapse of time, and on the chances of 
 the day, which at length came upon the 29th of May. 
 The following horses came to the post : 
 
 Mr. Batson's ch. c. Plenipotentiary, by Emilius, out of Harriet, by 
 Pericles 1 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Shilelagh, by St. Patrick, out of Emiliana's 
 data, by Whisker 2 
 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c. Glencoe, by Sultan 3 
 
 Mr. Yates's ch. c. Bentley, by Buzzard ; Mr. W. Edwards's b. c. Intriguer, 
 by Reveller ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Darius, by Reveller ; Mr. Watt's b. c. 
 Bubastes, by Blacklock ; Mr. Hunter's gr. c. Morotto, by Gustavus ; Duke of 
 Grafton's ch. c. Olympic, by Reveller ; Mr. Gully's gr. c. Viator, by Stumps ; 
 Mr. Sadler's b. c. Defensive, by Defence ; Mr. Gardnor's br. c. Comet, by Whale- 
 bone ; Duke of Rutland's br. c. by Bizarre, out of Young Barrossa, by Partisan : 
 Sir G. Heathcote's b. c. Nisus, by Velocipede; Lord Orford's br. c. Paris, by 
 Waterloo ; Mr. Greatrex's br. c. by Lottery, out of Trulla ; Mr. Cosby's b. c. 
 Stradbally, by Waterloo or Reveller; Mr. Mills's b. c. Brother to Kate; Sir M. 
 Wood's b. c. Flatterer, brother to Marpessa ; Lord Lowther's b, c. by Reveller, 
 out of Trictrac ; Mr. E. Peel's cb. c. Noodle, by Bedlamite ; and Duke of Cleve- 
 land's b. c. Guardian, brother to Trustee. 
 
 It had been, and will be, many years before a Derby 
 excites so much interest as the one about to be 
 described, and seldom had so many good horses con- 
 tended for it ; three of them, viz. Plenipotentiary, 
 Shilelagh, and Bubastes, had been backed by different 
 parties to an enormous extent, and it is not a little 
 remarkable that the principal backers of Bubastes — 
 an indifferent runner — stood the heaviest odds against 
 Plenipo., decidedly the best public horse in the race. 
 The latter was the pet not of the " fancy" but of the 
 gentlemen, whose confidence in him never showed any 
 symptoms of abatement till a few days before the race, 
 when many of them began to doubt — some from a 
 dread of the other two favourites, others from a notion 
 
94 THE DERBV— 1834. 
 
 that the horse carried too much flesh, and a few from 
 an ill-founded suspicion that he would not be suffered 
 to win — a suspicion, by the way, which had some 
 colour for it in the outrageous price offered for him. 
 Shilelagh's party was not less sanguine — the Chifneys 
 declared that he was 51b. better than Priam had ever 
 been, and upon the faith of it backed him heavily. Bu- 
 bastes, without any thing to warrant it, was an immense 
 favourite until Belshazzar's defeat, on the previous 
 Tuesday, forced upon his friends the unwilling belief 
 that his taking the Derby into the north was no longer 
 a thing of course. The betting, the weight of which 
 was confined to this trio, underwent repeated fluctua- 
 tions in the course of the twenty-four hours preceding 
 the race, the last current odds being 5 to 2 agst. 
 Plenipo., 11 to 4 agst. Shilelagh, 15 to 2 agst. Bu- 
 bastes, 10 to 1 agst. Glencoe, 20 to 1 agst. Comet, 20 
 to 1 agst. Bentley, 25 to 1 agst. Intriguer, 25 to 1 
 agst. Defensive, 50 to 1 agst. Darius, 50 to 1 agst. 
 Barrossa, and 50 to 1 agst. Viator. 
 
 Of course, no one is silly enough to imagine that 
 the Derby could be decided without false starts — it 
 would be the height of absurdity to expect such a thing; 
 in fact, they make an indispensible feature in the busi- 
 ness of the day's amusements, the jockies, the horses, 
 and the starters joining most courteously in a deter- 
 mination to prolong the amusements of the people and 
 keep the spectators in suspense as long as possible — 
 how many there were we did not take the trouble to 
 count, suffice it that there were enough to tire the 
 patience of Job himself. However, they did get off 
 at length ; Plenipo. had a capital start and was first 
 
THE DERBY — 1834. 95 
 
 away, Glencoe was scarcely less quick, but they made 
 different uses of the advantage : — Plenipo. was enabled 
 quietly to draw back till he had picked a good place, 
 while the other made sail with nearly all his canvas 
 out, Paris, Darius, Intriguer, Stradbally, and one or 
 two others waiting upon him. 
 
 " Old Sam" found it advisable to lie more forward 
 than we ever recollect to have seen him, this departure 
 from his tactics being; the result of certain nervous 
 apprehensions about Plenipo. Bubastes was in the 
 ruck, from which he was never able to get away. 
 With the horses thus placed, Glencoe led them along 
 at a merry pace till they made the rails at the com- 
 mencement of the turn, at which time Plenipo. was 
 lying about seventh or eighth, Conolly now decided 
 on getting nearer to the van, and, taking advantage of 
 an opening which presented itself at the moment, 
 pricked his horse with the spur, went through them 
 like an arrow, and came round the corner about fourth, 
 Glencoe, Darius, and Intriguer being in advance of 
 him : on getting over the roads, he had disposed of the 
 last two ; and at the distance he collared Glencoe, 
 ran with him till he had made him safe, and then 
 looked round for Shilelagh, the only competitor he 
 had any dread of — seeing that Sam was bringing up 
 his horse, he gave Plenipo his head, went right away 
 from Glencoe, and, without the shadow of a struggle, 
 won easily by two lengths at least ; Shilelagh was 
 second, Glencoe third (beaten half a length by the 
 second), Bentley fourth, Intriguer fifth, Darius sixth, 
 Morotto seventh, and Bubastes eigth. Guardian and 
 Brother to Marpessa were the two last ; Noodle, 
 
96 PLENIPO. AND THE ST. LEGEH, 1834. 
 
 Trulla, Comet, Olympic, Paris, Defensive, Trictrac, 
 &c. were all beaten off several lengths from the first 
 four. The pace was good throughout ; and the race 
 run honestly and truly from beginning to end. 
 
 At Ascot, on the 10th of June, for the St. James's 
 Palace Stakes, of 100 sovs., h. ft., eighteen subs. Ple- 
 nipotentiary was ready to open the negociations, but no 
 ambassador from the rival powers gave him the meet- 
 ing, and he took a gentle canter over the course, for 
 the pretty little sum of eight hundred and fifty pounds. 
 Glencoe having been permitted to withdraw his Stake. 
 
 Plenipo. was now backed at only two to one against 
 him, for the Doncaster St. Leger, for which the Duke 
 of Leeds's Valparaiso (Templeman), accompanied by 
 Tommy Nicholson, in the Harlequin jacket, on 
 Bubastes, showed first before the stand, which was then 
 literally crowded from roof to base ; and these were 
 speedily followed by Sir J. Boswell's General Chasse, 
 (a formidable looking chesnut, ridden by Bob 
 Johnson) ; Chifney on Shilelagh, horse and rider both 
 looking uncommonly brisk ; George Nelson, on War- 
 laby Baylock ; and the rest of the field, consisting of 
 Bran, ridden by Darling ; Lady le Gros, ridden by W. 
 Scott ; Loudon, under the tutelage of Marsden ; Mr. 
 H. E. Chisholm's filly, by Partisan ; Touchstone, by 
 Camel, ridden by Calloway, and Plenipo., who was the 
 last to show, or nearly so, ridden by Conolly. 
 
 After three false starts, they got away, when Bubastes 
 took the lead, and kept it until near the Red-house, 
 being sometimes three or four lengths a-head of the 
 field. By the Red-house, Tommy Nicholson, having 
 done his work, took a pull at Bubastes, and the horses 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1834. 97 
 
 all got together again, and from the stand it appeared 
 to be any " body's race" at the turn, but Plenipo. was 
 then either beaent, or all but so, and though still in the 
 cluster, he began to lag, and the further he went, the 
 further he was left behind, until this great crack was 
 absolutely last, or nearly so, Lord Westminster's Touch- 
 stone, ridden by Calloway, running in three or four 
 lengths a-head of the field ; Bran being second ; Gen- 
 eral Chasse, third ; Shilelagh, fourth ; Warlaby, Bu- 
 bastes, or Valparaiso, fifth. " The folks" were thunder- 
 struck ; some said the horse was far too fat ; others that 
 he had a bad start ; whilst not a few roundly asserted 
 that he had been dosed with water, or a drug. 
 
 Time however has now settled down the various con- 
 flicting interests and opinions, which then waged 
 violent war ; some blamed one, some another ; and 
 fiction was brought in to further fact. One thing how- 
 ever is now pretty generally acknowledged, that unfair 
 means made Plenipo. a safe horse for that day, and 
 ruined his constitution as a racer ever afterwards. The 
 facts which amply illustrate and sustain this opinion, 
 are few and shortly told. 
 
 Plenipo., was a very difficult horse to saddle, and still 
 more difficult to mount ; kicking, plunging, biting, and 
 exerting every means to prevent it. On the morning 
 of the Leger he lay like a log in his stall, and was 
 obliged to be kicked several times before he would rise 
 to be saddled. When saddled, and brought out, he 
 suffered Conolly to mount without resistance ; he trip- 
 ped three times between the stable and the start- 
 ing-post ; Conolly was obliged to spur him to get him 
 
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98 THE PLENIPO. AFFAIR. 
 
 to canter, and turning round to John Scott, said " My 
 horse is as dead as a stone." And finally, Bubastes, 
 who was last in the Derby, beat him easily. All this, 
 however, might still have been the result of illness, but 
 after all the hubbub and confusion had somewhat sub- 
 sided, the rise and progress of the treachery was just 
 about to be developed, when Death suddenly inter- 
 vened, and striking the proposed informer dumb, buried 
 the affair again, and for ever, in impenetrable mystery. 
 
 Plenipotentiary never trained on into his old form 
 again ; although he came out, in the Newmarket Craven 
 Meeting, 1835, and won the Craven Stakes, beating 
 Nonsense, Shilelagh, Glaucus, Castaway, Lord Berners's 
 filly, by Lamplighter, Prince Llewellyn, Flatterer, and 
 Sister to Cactus. 
 
 On the Wednesday in the same Meeting he won a 
 Subscription Plate of Fifty Pounds, beating Clearwell 
 and Rosalie ; and on the Friday he closed his career as 
 a racer, by receiving the forfeits for the Port Stakes of 
 100 sovs. each, h. ft., four subscribers. 
 
 The extraordinary beauty, size, and perfection of 
 racing points displayed by Plenipotentiary, were so 
 conspicuous as to obtain the admiration of all who saw 
 him. He was decidedly one of the most magnificent 
 colts ever seen on the Newmarket or any other course; 
 a good winded horse, with strong, easy, Priam-like 
 action, and an excellent temper ; whilst his speed 
 was never, in our opinion, fairly put to the test. 
 
 Some idea of the value put upon his extraordinary 
 powers by foreigners, may be suggested by the fact, 
 that Mr. Batson once refused an offer for him, made 
 by Captain Stockton (an American), of Five Thou- 
 
GLENCOE. 99 
 
 sand Pounds down, or One Thousand Pounds a year, 
 so long as he might live. 
 
 We cannot close this account of the wonder of his 
 day, without taking the opportunity of entering some- 
 what into the merits of his great rival, Glencoe, who, 
 with the exception of Plenipo., was certainly the best 
 horse of his day. 
 
 Glencoe was a horse of great power and symmetry, 
 and in colour a rich chesnut. He was bred by Lord 
 Jersey in 1831, and got by Sultan, out of Trampoline, 
 by Tramp, out of Web (the dam of Fillagree, Middle- 
 ton, Glenartney, &c.) by Waxy, Penelope, by Trum- 
 pator (the dam of Whalebone, Woful, Wire, Whis- 
 ker, &c.) 
 
 Glencoe made his first appearance in the Newmarket 
 Craven meeting, 1834, when he won the Tuesday's 
 Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft, for the 
 produce of mares covered in 1830. — Twelve subs., 
 beating Zulima and two others. 
 
 On the Thursday in the same meeting he was beaten 
 by Plenipotentiary in a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, 
 h. ft. — Nine subs. 
 
 In the First Spring meeting he carried off the 
 Desert Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. — Ten subs., 
 beating Ganges ; and the 2,000gs. Stakes, beating 
 Flatterer, second, Bentley, third, and four others not 
 placed. 
 
 He ran third for the Epsom Derby stakes, Plenipo- 
 tentiary being first, and Shilelagh second. 
 
 His next appearance was at Goodwood, where he 
 won the Gold Cup, beating Colwick, Famine, and 
 seven others not placed, Rockingham, St. Giles, and 
 
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100 
 
 GLENCOE. 
 
 The Saddler among the number. He likewise won, at 
 the same meeting, the Racing Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. 
 each, beating Louisa, Defensive, and Rebel. 
 
 His last performance in 1834 was at the Second 
 October Meeting, winning the Garden Stakes of 100 
 sovs. each. — Five subs., beating Glaucus and Colwick. 
 
 In 1835 he only started once, when he won the 
 Gold Cup at Ascot, beating Bran, Nonsense, Shilelagh, 
 Pussy, and four others. 
 
 At the Newmarket Second October Meeting, Lord 
 Jersey challenged for the Whip and named Glencoe, 
 but the challenge was not accepted ; and Glencoe 
 having been sold by his Lordship and put to the stud 
 in 1836, was subsequently sent to America, where he 
 has now become an established favourite. 
 
101 
 
 PUSSY. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS, AT EPSOM, 1834. 
 
 Pussy, a very dark brown mare, almost black, was the 
 property of Mr. Cosby, bred by Mr. Lechmere Charlton, 
 of Ludford-park, near Ludlow, and foaled in 1831. 
 She was got by Pollio (son of Orville), out of Valve, 
 by Bob Booty, out of Wire, sister to Whalebone, &c., 
 by Waxy, out of Penelope, &c., &c. 
 
 Pussy commenced her career upon the turf, by 
 receiving fifty pounds forfeit from Mr. Ricardo's Ellen, 
 at the Ascot meeting, 1833 — and in the same meeting, 
 she ran third for the Two-year-old Stakes, which was 
 won by Mr. Forth's Louisa ; Mr. Gardnor's Comet 
 second. 
 
 At the Goodwood meeting, from having been short 
 of work, and not in running condition, she was beaten 
 easily in a Match by Lord Uxbridge's Baleine. 
 
 In the Newmarket Houghton meeting, Pussy beat 
 General Grosvenor's Dick by a length, for a Sweep- 
 stakes of fifty sovs. each, h. ft. — Four subscribers ; and 
 in the same meeting for the Nursery Stakes, D.M. — 
 The following is the order in which the nine horses 
 that started came in : 
 
 General Walpole's f. by Merlin, dam by Phantom, grandam by Peri- 
 cles, out of Mary (foaled in 1817), 8st. 41b 1 
 
 Mr. Cosby's Pussy, 7st. 21b 2 
 
 Sir M. Wood's ch. c. Charivari, by Reveller, out of Aline, 8st. 12lb. 3 
 
102 THE OAKS— 1834. 
 
 Mr. Hunter's Morotto, by Gustavus, out of Marrowfat, 7st. 10lb. . . . 4 
 
 Lord C hesterfield's La Bayadere, 6st. 121b 5 
 
 Mr. Taylor's br. f. Myrina, 7st. lllb 6 
 
 General Grosvenor's three : — Bon Ton, 7st. 121b.; Cockatoo, 7st. 51b. ; and 
 Miss Gravity, 6st. 121b. ; came in together, and were the only three not placed : 
 
 a consummation which made that worthy supporter of 
 the turf, screw up his face, in a manner peculiar to 
 himself. 
 
 The Epsom Meeting, 1834, came round with Cotillon 
 as first favourite, Louisa and Mayday, second and 
 third, and Pussy with 20 to 1 against her ; the follow- 
 ing fillies came to the post, for the Second Year of a 
 Renewal of the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., 
 for three yrs. old fillies, 8st. 41b. ; all other conditions 
 as for the Derby.— Ninety-five subs. 
 
 Mr. Cosby's br. f. Pussy, by Pollio, out of Valve, by Bob Booty. ... 1 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. f. Louisa, by Longwaist, out of Miss Witch t 
 
 Mr. Richardson's b. f. by Phantom, out of Jenny Mills's dam 3 
 
 Sir S. Graham's b. f. Zulima, by Sultan ; Mr. Vansittart's br. f. by Lottery, dam 
 by Abjer, out of Slight ; Mr. Greville's b. f. Pickle, by Emilius; Mr. Sadler's 
 ch. f. Delightful, by Defence, out of Lady Stumps, by Tramp ; Mr. Walker's 
 b. f. Cotillon, by Partisan ; Lord Berners's ch. f. May Day, by Lamplighter ; 
 Mr. Grant's b. f. Fiddle Faddle, by Whalebone ; Lord Jersey's ch. f. Nell Gwynne, 
 by Sultan ; Mr. Osbaldeston's b. f. Sister to Benedict ; Mr. Forth's b. f. Sister to 
 Imbar ; Lord Stradbroke's br. f. Begum, by Partisan ; and Col. Peel's b. f. Rosa- 
 lie, by Whalebone ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting, 9 to 4 agst. Cotillon, 7 to 2 agst. Louisa, 6 to 1 agst. May Day, 9 to 1 
 agst. Pickle, 12 to 1 agst. Zulima (t.), 20 to 1 agst. Pussy (t.), 40 to 1 agst. 
 Delightful, 40 to 1 agst. Rosalie, 40 to 1 agst. Slight, and 40 to 1 agst. any other. 
 
 Much time was lost in starting ; the race was fixed 
 for half-past two, but on the horses getting to the post, 
 Cotillon, who has always been of a skittish tempera- 
 ment, determined to try her hand at jumping and rope- 
 dancing ; the exhibition gave great delight to the spec- 
 tators, and more especially, we should conceive, to Mr. 
 Walker and others, who had backed her to win the 
 Oaks, not to jump over the cords. The first act being 
 over, she was prevailed upon to turn her head where 
 
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THE OAKS— 1834. 103 
 
 her tail had been for at least half an hour, and this 
 accomplished, the race began. Nell Gwynne was 
 selected to cut out the work, which she did at a good 
 steady pace, with Fiddle Faddle, Rosalie, and Louisa, 
 in close attendance upon her, and Jenny Mills f. and 
 Delightful clustered at their heels. At the turn, Nell 
 Gwynne gave way, and Rosalie took up the running, 
 which she carried round the corner, where she fell off, 
 and Louisa took the command, May Day and Pickle 
 lying immediately behind her. A few lengths short 
 of the distance, May Day, who was then pulling hard, 
 and looking amazingly like a winner, broke her near 
 fore leg short in two, and fell, throwing her jockey 
 over her head, but without his receiving any material 
 injury, although the horses running in her wake had 
 some trouble in getting out of the way in time to 
 prevent further mischief. At this point Pickle 
 declined, and Louisa ran by herself, half-way up the 
 distance, where Pussy separated herself from the front 
 rank of the crowd, went up to Louisa, defeated her 
 without a struggle, and won easily by more than a 
 length. 
 
 May Day was killed immediately after the race ; 
 had she not fallen, we should have doubtless had a 
 different tale to tell. 
 
 At the following Ascot, Pussy won the Ascot Derby 
 of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., the winner of the Derby 71b. ; 
 of the Oaks 51b. extra. — Ten subs. 
 
 Mr. Cosby's Pussy (51b. extra) 1 
 
 Mr. Fortb's Louisa 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's c. out of Terapia's dam • 3 
 
 Mr. Payne's Ganges 4 
 
 The 51b. lent considerable interest to the race, and 
 
104 ascot— 1835. 
 
 some smart betting took place at 6 and 7 to 4 on Pussy, 
 and 2 to 1 agst. Louisa, but Pussy turned her tail upon 
 them, and came first to the winning post by a good 
 length. 
 
 At the Ascot meeting, 1835, Pussy walked over for 
 the Oatlands Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. and only 
 10 if declared, &c. — Two miles and a half. — Three 
 subs. ; Glencoe and Glaucus paying her ten shillings 
 in the pound on their forfeits. Her subsequent running 
 must have made her owner congratulate himself on his 
 judgment in taking it. 
 
 On the same day, she ran second for His Majesty's 
 Plate of 100 gs. ; three yr. olds, 7st. 21b.; four, 
 9st. 21b.; five, lOst. ; six and aged, lOst. 51b. — To 
 start at the New mile Post, and go once round and in. 
 
 Mr. Molony's b. c. Lucifer, by Lottery, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Cosby's br. f. Pussy, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Sir G Heathcote's Samarcand, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Marson's Olympic, 4 yrs. old 4 
 
 5 to 4 on Pussy, 3 to 1 agst. Lucifer, and 4 to 1 agst. Samarcand. 
 
 Lucifer winning in a canter by seven or eight lengths. 
 On the following Thursday, in the same meeting, 
 Pussy put in for the Gold Cup of 300 sovs. value, by 
 subscription of 20 sovs each, with 200 sovs. added from 
 the fund; three yr. olds, 6st. 101b. ; four, 8st. 21b.; 
 five, 8st. 121b. ; six and aged, 9st. 31b. ; m. allowed 
 31b. ; the owner of the second horse received 50 sovs. 
 out of the stakes. — To start at the Cup post on the 
 New mile, and go once round, about two miles and a 
 half. — Thirty-six subs. 
 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c. Glencoe, by Sultau, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Sir E. Baker's ch. c. Bran, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Col. Peel's cb. h. Nonsense, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Shilelagb, 4 yrs. old ; Mr. Cosby's br. f. Pussy, 
 
THE ASCOT CUP, 1835. 105 
 
 4 yrs. old ; Mr. Goring's ch. c. Bentley, 4 yra. old ; Mr. Forth's b. f. Famine, 4 
 yrs. old ; and Lord Jersey's b. f. by Merlin, dam by Pbantom, 4 yrs. old ; also 
 started, but were not placed. 
 
 Glencoe was the favourite at 6 to 5, Bran stood 
 with 9 to 2 agst. him, Shilelagh with 7 to 1 ; 8 to 1 
 agst. Bentley, who pulled up at the first turn ; 12 to 
 1 agst Famine, and 20 to 1 agst. Nonsense. After 
 the usual parade before the stands, they repaired to 
 the starting-post and set off. Sir Frederick John- 
 stone's filly by Merlin led the field at a merry pace 
 till within a mile of home, when Glencoe, with Jem 
 Robinson on his back, took it up and maintained it to 
 the end. Bran and John Day made an ineffectual 
 struggle, as they neared home, followed by Nonsense. 
 Glencoe beat Bran by a length, and, Bran ran in two 
 or three lengths a head of Nonsense. Famine was 
 fourth, Shilelagh fifth. Marpessa sixth, poor Pussy, who 
 made a very bad fight of it, seventh, and the Merlin filly 
 last, barring Bentley, who did not go round. Bran 
 and Pussy appeared to be drawn too fine. Glencoe 
 looked well and full of running. The pace was fair, 
 but the race only middling — the tail, considerable. 
 
 At Oxford on the 18th August, Pussy ran third 
 for the Oxfordshire Stakes of 25 so vs. each, 15 ft., 
 and only 5 if declared, &c. — Two miles. — Nineteen 
 subs, twelve of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Capt. Berkeley's Paris, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb 1 
 
 Mr. Etwall's Revenge, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 21b 2 
 
 Mr. Cosby's Pussy, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 71b 3 
 
 At Egham, on the 25th August, Pussy was unsuc- 
 cessful in her efforts for the Gold Cup, in specie, a 
 subscription of 10 sovs. each; three yr. olds, 7st. ; 
 four, 8st. 71b. ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st. 31b. ; 
 m. and g. allowed 3lb. ; the winner to be sold for 
 600 sovs. if demanded, &c. — Two miles. — Nine subs. 
 
106 pussy— 1835. 
 
 Mr. Shackel's b. o. Lucifer, by Lottery, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Capt. Berkeley's br. c. Paris, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Cosby's br. f. Pussy, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Lucifer. 
 
 but on the following Thursday, she met with better 
 luck for the Egham Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 35 
 added ; three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 41b. ; five, 
 8st. 101b. ; six and aged, 9st. lib.; m. and g. allowed 
 31b. ; winners once in 1835, to carry 31b. ; twice, 
 51b.; thrice, 71b. extra (matches and handicaps 
 excepted) ; horses that have started twice in 1835, 
 and not won, allowed 51b. — Heats, one mile and a 
 half. — Four subs. 
 
 Mr. W. Day's br. f. Pussy, by Pollio, 4 yrs. old 1 1 
 
 Mr. Martyn's Pincber, 4 yrs. old 2 2 
 
 In the Newmarket Second October Meeting, Pussy 
 was not placed for a Handicap Plate of 100 sovs. for 
 four, five, six year olds, and aged horses. — A. F. 
 
 Mr. Batson's Revelry, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 101b 1 
 
 Mr. Sowerby's Rioter, 4 yrs. 8st. 51b 2 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's Shilelagb, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 10lb 3 
 
 Mr. Fortb's Famine, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 101b. ; Mr. W. Day's Pussy, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 
 
 81b. ; Colonel Peel's Bubastes, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 51b. ; Mr. Crommelyn's Zitella, 4 
 
 yrs. old, 7st. 21b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting 3 to 1 agst. Famine, 3 to 1 agst. Revelry ; 
 7 to 2 agst. Rioter (t.,) and 7 to 1 agst. Bubastes. 
 Shilelagh took the lead at a good pace, followed by 
 Rioter and Bubastes, Revelry waiting in the rear. 
 At the Ab. M. bottom Shilelagh, Famine, Pussy, and 
 Zitella were defeated, nor did Bubastes last beyond 
 the cords ; the struggle between Revelry and Rioter 
 was of short duration, the mare winning easy by half 
 a length. 
 
 Pussy finished the season 1835 in the Newmarket 
 Houghton Meeting, by winning on the Tuesday a 
 
pussy— 1836. 107 
 
 Handicap Plate of 100 sovs. — D. I., beating Mr. 
 Sowerby's Rioter, 8st. lib., and the Duke of Cleve- 
 land's Shilelagh, 8st. lib. Pussy was never headed and 
 won in a canter by at least five lengths. 6 to 4 agst. 
 Shilelagh ; 2 to 1 agst. Rioter, and 3 to 1 agst. Pussy. 
 Shilelagh never shewed in front. And on the Thurs- 
 day a Subscription Handicap Plate of 50 sovs. — D. I. 
 
 Mr. W. Day's Pussy, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 81b 1 
 
 Mr. Hunter's f. by Tramp, out of Itidotto, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 7lb 2 
 
 Mr. Shackel's Lucifer, 3 yrs. old 7st. lllb 3 
 
 Mr. Kent's Baleine, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 12lb 4 
 
 Betting 6 to 4 agst. Pussy, 2 to 1 agst. Ridotto, 
 7 to 2 agst. Lucifer, and 6 to 1 agst. Baleine. Pussy 
 having it all to herself, and winning by a length, 
 without turning a hair. 
 
 On Monday in the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 
 Pussy commenced her season 1836, by running third 
 for the Craven Stakes. The following came to the 
 post: — Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs. old; Lord 
 Exeter's Lady Ann, 3 yrs. old ; Colonel Peel's Cast- 
 away, 4 yrs. old ; Mr. Bird's Redshank, 3 yrs. old ; 
 Mr. Wilson's ch. f. by Emilius, or Comus, out of Sil- 
 vertail, 3 yrs. old; Mr. Walker's Snowball, 3 yrs. old; 
 and Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus, 4 yrs. old. The 
 betting was flat at 1 1 to 8 agst. Coriolanus, 5 to 2 agst. 
 Pussy, 4 to 1 agst. Redshank, and 6 to 1 agst. Casta- 
 way. Pussy, Redshank, and Coriolanus lay in front 
 throughout, the mare leading at a rattling pace as far 
 as the bushes ; in the bottom she was beaten, and the 
 other two ran home together, Redshank winning by a 
 head, tight-held, and without showing any of those 
 symptoms of distress which were so conspicuous in his 
 opponent. Pussy was a respectable third, and ran a 
 
108 pussy— 1836. 
 
 good mare, considering the weight and the ground, the 
 flat being heavier than any other part of the course. 
 And in the ensuing First Spring Meeting she ran 
 second for The King's Plate of 100 gs., for mares ; four 
 yr. olds, carrying 8st. 41b. ; five, 9st. 4lb. ; six, 9st. 
 10lb. ; and aged, 10st— R. C. 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. m. Famine, by Humphrey Clinker, 5 yrs. old 1 
 
 Duke of Richmond's br. m. Pussy, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Sowerby's b. f. Bodice, 4 yrs. old , 3 
 
 5 to 4 on Pussy, and 6 to 4 agst. Famine. 
 
 At Epsom, the scene of her former triumph, she did 
 not sustain her glories in the Gold Cup Stakes of 10 
 sovs. each, with 20 added ; for three yr. olds, 6st. 41b. ; 
 four, 8st. ; five, 8st. 101b. ; six, 9st. ; and aged, 9st. 
 21b. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. ; the winner of a plate or 
 sweepstakes in 1835, to carry 3lb. ; of two, 51b. ; of 
 more, 7lb. extra ; the winner to be sold for 400, if 
 demanded, &c. — Two miles. — Thirteen subs, 
 
 Mr. Forth's ch. c. Knobstick, by Emilius, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Col. Peel's ch. c. Jacob Faithful, by Langar, out of Lady Easby, 3 
 
 yrs. old 2 
 
 Duke of Richmond's br. m. Pussy, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. W. Edward's ch. c. Sherry, 3 yrs. old ; Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Oberon, 
 3 yrs. old ; Duke of Richmond's b. c. Tiber, 4 yrs. old ; and Mr. Dawson's b. h. 
 Morpeth, 5 yrs. old ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 6 to 2 agst. Sherry, 3 to 1 ag6t. Jacob Faithful, 4 to 1 agst. Pussy, and 5 to 
 1 agst. Knobstick. 
 
 And at Reigate, on the 25th of May, Pussy was again 
 unsuccessful for the Gold Cup, value 150 gs., given 
 and won by D. Robertson, Esq. in 1835, and re-given 
 in 1836, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; 
 three yr. olds, 7st. 21b. ; four, 8st. 61b. ; five, 9st. 21b.; 
 six and aged, 9st. 61b. ; m. and g. allowed 3lb. ; the 
 winner of the Epsom Cup to carry 51b. extra ; the 
 winner to be sold for 500 sovs. if demanded, &c. ; the 
 
pussy— 1836. 109 
 
 winner paid 10 sovs. towards the improvements of the 
 Course. — Twelve subs. 
 
 Colonel Peel's ch. c. Jacob Faithful, by Langar, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Robertson's ch. g. Olympic, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Duke of Richmond's br. m. Pussy, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Sowerby's b. f. Bodice, 4 yrs. old 4 
 
 Mr. Balchin's br. m. Levity, 5 yrs. old 5 
 
 5 to 4 agst. Jacob Faithful, and 2 to 1 agst. Pussy. 
 
 On the 28th of July, Pussy made her first appear- 
 ance at Goodwood, under the auspices of the noble 
 master of the revels, in the Goodwood Stakes of 25 
 sovs. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, &c. ; the 
 owner of the second horse to receive 50 sovs. out of 
 the stakes. — Ninety-four subs., fifty-three of whom 
 paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Felix, by Sultan, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 8lb 1 
 
 Mr. Rush's b. g. Roadster, aged, 7st. 131b 2 
 
 Mr. Theobald's Rockingham, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 121b. ; Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. h. 
 Rush, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 121b. ; Mr. Forth's Knobstick, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 51b. ; Duke 
 of Richmond's br. m. Pussy, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 12lb. ; Lord Chesterfield's ch. g. 
 Whimsical (late Buccaneer), 5 yrs. old, 7st. 71b. ; Mr. Tobin's Tauntonian, 4 
 yrs. old, 7st. 31b. ; Mr. Kingston's br. c. Ruinous, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 131b. ; Duke 
 of Richmond's br. c. Tiber, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Alfred, 
 3 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; Mr. Phillimore's br. f. Lady Anna, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; 
 Duke of Richmond's Sepoy, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 10lb. ; Lord Lichfield's Arbaces, 3 
 yrs. old, 6st. ; Mr. Rush's br. f. Taglioni, 3 yrs. old, 6st. ; Mr. Finch's br. c. 
 Oberon, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 12lb. ; Mr. Houldsworth's b. f. by Emilius, out of Flush, 
 3 yrs. old, 5st. 31b. ; and Mr. Houldsworth's ch. f. by Vanish, out of Fortuna, 3 
 yrs. old, 5st. 3lb. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 5 to 2 agst. Rockingham, 5 to 1 agst. Pussy, 7 to 1 agst. Rush, 7 to 1 agst. 
 Flush, and 20 to 1 agst. Felix. 
 
 And having failed in this bold essay, she made 
 another, and equally unfortunate attempt, on the fol- 
 lowing day, for the Duke of Richmond's Plate of 1001. 
 (handicap), for all ages. — Last mile. 
 
 Lord Egremont's br. c. Hock, by Chateau Margaux, out of Emmelina, 
 
 3 yrs. old, 7st. 31b 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Bamfylde, by Tramp, out of Young Petuaria, 
 
 4 yrs. old, 8st. 121b 2 
 
 Sir F. Collier's Lieutenant, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 51b 3 
 
 Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs- old, 8st, 31b. ; Mr. Dawson's Fair Jane, 3 
 
110 pussy— 1836. 
 
 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. ; Mr. Robertson's Olympic, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 12lb- ; and Lord 
 Lichfield's Arbaces, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 101b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 5 to 2 on Hock. 
 
 She now went off to Brighton, where, on the 3rd of 
 August, she failed to carry off the Brighton Stakes of 
 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared, &c, with 
 200 added by the Town ; the second horse received 
 back his stake. — Two miles. — Fifty-five subs., twenty- 
 eight of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. J. Day's b. c. Venison, by Partisan, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 6lb 1 
 
 Sir M. Wood's cb. h. Auiesbury, aged, 8st 2 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Felix, 4 yrs. old, 8st. gib. ; Lord Exeter's gr. c. 
 Luck's-all, 4 yrs. old, 8st. ; Duke of Richmond's br. m. Pussy, 5 yrs. old, 8st. ; 
 Lord Egremont's br. c. Hock, 3 yrs. old, 7st. ; and Col. Peel's ch. c. Partner, 3 
 yrs. old, 6st. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 5 to 4 agst. Venison, 7 to 2 agst. Felix, 4 to 1 agst. Hock, 5 to 1 agst. Ames- 
 bury, and 7 to 1 agst. Partner. 
 
 And at Egham, on the 23rd of August, was beaten 
 for the Gold Cup, in specie, by subscription of 10 
 sovs. each ; three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 71b. ; 
 five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st. 31b. ; m. and g. allowed 
 31b. ; the winner to be sold for 600 sovs. if demanded, 
 &c. ; the owner of the second horse received back his 
 stake. — Two miles. — Twelve subs. 
 
 Mr. Robertson's b. c. Lucifer, by Lottery, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Capt. Williamson's Ainderby, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Capt. Berkeley, Paris, 5 yrs. old 4 
 
 Mr. Forth's Louisa, 5 yrs. old 5 
 
 2 to 1 agst. Paris, 3 to 1 agst. Lucifer, and 4 to 1 agst. Louisa. 
 
 And for the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 25 sovs. 
 each, 15 ft. and only 5 if declared, &c. ; the winner of 
 the Goodwood or Brighton Stakes to carry 71b. ; if 
 both, 10lb. extra. — Two miles and a distance. — Twenty- 
 seven subs., thirteen of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's ch. c. Hornsea, by Velocipede, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 131b. 1 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's Valentissimo, 4 yrs. old, 8st 2 
 
 Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 12lb 3 
 
 Capt. Berkeley's Paris, 5 yrs. old, 8st 4 
 
 4 to 1 on Hornsea. 
 
pussy— 1837. Ill 
 
 She however managed to scramble in a winner of the 
 Egham Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added, beating 
 Partner, Amesbury, and Autocrat, in two heats ; and 
 finally wound up the season at Rochester and Chat- 
 ham, by winning the Rockingham Stakes of 10 sovs. 
 each, with 50 added ; three yr. olds, 7st. 41b. ; four, 
 8st. 71b. ; five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st. 41b. ; m. and 
 g. allowed 31b. ; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs. 
 if demanded, &c. ; the owner of the second horse 
 received back his stake.— Heats, one mile and a half. 
 — Eight subs. 
 
 Duke of Richmond's br. m. Pussy, by Pollio, 5 yrs. old 1 1 
 
 Mr. Wickbam's b. h. Pincher, 5 yrs. old 2 2 
 
 On Monday, in the Newmarket First Spring Meet- 
 ing, 1837, Pussy was beaten by Alfred in a match for 
 200 sovs. each ; and on the following day she won the 
 King's Plate of 100 gs., beating Helga, her old rival 
 Louisa, and Eagle. Louisa the favourite, at 5 to 2. 
 And on the Thursday in the Second Spring, Pussy 
 finished her career upon the Turf by running second 
 to Calmuck, Mendizabal being third, for the Jockey 
 Club Plate of Fifty Pounds. She was then put to the 
 Stud, having fairly earned the character of an indus- 
 trious mare, though scarcely entitled to the name and 
 fame of a good or fortunate racer. 
 
112 
 
 TOUCHSTONE. 
 
 WINNER OF THE ST. LEGER STAKES AT DONCASTER, 1834. 
 
 Touchstone, a dark brown horse, about fifteen hands 
 and a half high, was bred by the Marquis of Westmin- 
 ster, and got by Camel, out of Banter, by Master 
 Henry, grandam Boadicea (sister to Bucephalus), by 
 Alexander, her dam, Brunette, by Amaranthus, out of 
 Mayfly, by Matchem. 
 
 Touchstone made his first appearance as a two year 
 old, in the spring of 1833, at Lichfield, where he per- 
 formed the arduous task of walking over for a 50 sovs. 
 Produce Sweepstakes, h. ft. — Three subs. 
 
 His next performance was in October of the same 
 year, at Holywell Hunt meeting, where he ran third for 
 the Champagne Stakes, Queen Bess first, The Tulip 
 second, and Noodle fourth. 
 
 On Wednesday, May 7th, 1834, he won the Dee 
 Stakes at Chester, beating his old friend, Queen Bess, 
 and four others, and on Friday in the same week he 
 carried off the Palatine Stakes, beating her again, and 
 two others, one of which was the property of his noble 
 owner. 
 
 On the 3rd of July, he was beaten by General Chasse, 
 in the Liverpool Aintree meeting, for the St. Leger 
 Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with 100 added, for three yr. 
 olds ; colts, 8st. 61b. ; and fillies, 8st. 3lb. — A mile and 
 three quarters. — Twenty-four subs. 
 
THE ST. LEGER 1834. 113 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. c. General Chass6, by Actaeon 1 
 
 Lord Westminster's b. c. Toucbstone , 2 
 
 Mr. T. 0. Powlett's br. c. by Figaro, or Lottery, out of Miss Fanny's 
 dam 3 
 
 Sir G. Pigot's ch. f. Miss Chester ; Mr. R. Alanson's b. c. Cashier ; Mr. 
 Watt's ch. c. Whitefoot, by Young Blacklock (late Navarino), out of Kitten, by 
 Waxy Pope ; Mr. Mostyn's b. f. Queen Bess ; Mr. Mostyn's b. f. Birdlime ; Mr. 
 R. Bower's b. c. Mr. Merryman ; Mr. Skipsey's bl. c. Inheritor; and Sir J. 
 Gerard's br. c. Billinge ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 5 to 2 agst. General Chasse, 7 to 2 agst. Billinge, 7 to 2 agst. Mr. Powlett's 
 colt, 6 to 1 agst. Touchstone, 8 to 1 agst. Inheritor, 10 to 1 agst. Queen Bess. 
 
 Plenipotentiary, from his style of running, and the 
 unequalled success of his races, was now the only horse 
 at all thought of for the St. Leger, and the defeat of 
 Touchstone, by General Chasse, at the Liverpool 
 meeting, had thrown cold water on the hopes of even 
 his best friends. Shilelagh, who ran second for the 
 Derby, stood next upon the list to Plenipo., but even 
 then with eight points difference between them, Bran, 
 Warlaby Bay lock, and Bubastes, were also liked well 
 by their respective parties, whilst Touchstone, on the 
 day, found but few friends at forty to one. 
 
 Only ten horses appeared at the post, viz : 
 
 The Marquis of Westminster's Touchstone 1 
 
 Lord Sligo's ch. c- Bran, by Humphrey Clinker, out of Velvet 2 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. c. General Chasse, by Actason 3 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Shilelagh, by St. Patrick . . , 4 
 
 Mr. Batson's ch. c. Plenipotentiary, by Emilius ; Mr. Watt's h. c. Bubastes, 
 by Blacklock ; Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Valparaiso, by Velocipede ; Mr. W. 
 Richardson's b. f. Lady de Gros, by Young Phantom, out of Jenny Mills's dam ; 
 Mr. Heseltine's b. c. Warlaby Baylock, by Blacklock ; Mr. Chisholme's b. f. by 
 Partisan, dam by Walton or Orville, out of Pipylina, by Sir Peter; and Mr. 
 Marson's bl. c Louden, by Chateau Margaux, out of Morgiana, by Muley ; also 
 started, but were not placed. 
 
 11 to 10 on Plenipotentiary, 3 to 1 agst. Shilelagh, 6 to 1 agst. Warlaby Bay- 
 lock, 10 to 1 agst. General Chasse, 25 to I agst. Lady de Gros, 30 to 1 agst. 
 Louden, and 40 to 1 agst. Touchstone. 
 
 Having already had occasion, in our foregoing 
 account of Plenipo., to detail the vicissitudes and 
 unexpected catastrophe of this race, it is sufficient for 
 our present purpose to repeat, that Touchstone, ridden 
 
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114 THE ST. LEGER, 1834. 
 
 by Calloway, ran in three good lengths a-head of the 
 field ; Bran being second ; General Chasse, his former 
 conqueror, third ; Shilelagh fourth ; Warlaby Bay- 
 lock, Bubastes, and Valparaiso in a cluster — and 
 Plenipo. last but one. 
 
 The astonishment of every body at this most unex- 
 pected result, may, as the novelists say, " be more 
 easily imagined than described ;" though, certainly, of 
 all the astonished ones, Calloway, the rider of Touch- 
 stone, was most so. When he found himself winning, 
 he seemed perfectly thunderstruck, and turned his 
 head right and left to see whether the others had not 
 been all swallowed up by an earthquake ; and we doubt 
 not that it was the greatest surprise he ever experi- 
 enced in his life. Never was such a race as that seen 
 or heard of, and it is difficult to say whether Plenipo. 's 
 ignominious defeat, or Touchstone's unexpected tri- 
 umph, created the most surprise. He was scarcely in 
 the betting at all, and odds to any amount might have 
 been had against him. The Touchstone party refusing 
 to back their nag on the ground of their being such a 
 horse as Plenipo. in the race. Moreover, Touchstone 
 was amiss, or had been so within a few days, at all 
 events, we know that he appeared dull and stareing 
 in the coat, the day before the race, and was looking 
 any thing but well, and the report of his having been 
 amiss receives additional strength from the fact of his 
 being immediately declared not to start for the Don- 
 caster Cup. 
 
 This race, however, proved Touchstone to be a very 
 superior horse to most of the other Cracks of his day, 
 if there be any truth in public running. Touchstone 
 
TOUCHSTONE- 1835. 115 
 
 coming in three lengths a-head for the Leger, after 
 having been amiss — if not amiss on the very day, 
 beating Bran, who beat Shilelagh, who ran second for 
 the Derby, and Shilelagh, it is said, could beat Muley 
 Moloch at even weights. 
 
 On the 30th of September following, Touchstone 
 won a nameless Welch stake, at Wrexham, 25 sovs. 
 each. — Three subs., beating Mr. Mostyn's Vittoria. 
 
 October 14th, he ran third for the Mostyn Stakes, 
 at Holywell Hunt — Intriguer first, Birdlime second, 
 and two .others not placed. And on the same day he 
 terminated the season, 1834, by walking over for the 
 Chieftain Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yr. olds. — 
 Five subs. 
 
 Touchstone commenced the season, 1835, by walk- 
 ing over at Chester, for the Stand Cup, value 100 
 sovs., the gift of the Stand Committee, added to a 
 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; three yr. olds, Gst. 101b. ; 
 four, 8st. 21b. ; five, 8st. 10lb. ; six and aged, 9st. ; 
 m. and g. allowed 21b. — Twice round and a distance. 
 — Six subs. 
 
 But he was amongst the nameless ruck at the Liver- 
 pool Craven Meeting, for the Tradesmen's Cup, value 
 100 sovs., with 100 sovs. in specie, added to a Handi- 
 cap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only 
 if declared, &c. ; the second horse to receive 50 sovs. 
 out of the stakes. — Two miles and a distance. — Thirty- 
 six subs., six of whom declared. 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. c. General Chasse, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 9lb 1 
 
 Mr. G. Cooke's br. c. Red Rover, 4 yrs. old, 7st. lllb 2 
 
 Mr. S. L. Fox's b. c. The Count, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 121b 3 
 
 Mr. Barrow's b. m. Catherina. 5 yrs. old, 8st. 131b. ; Marquis of Westmin- 
 ster's br. c. Toucbstone, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 10lb. ; Lord Stanley's gr. h. Speculator, 
 aged, 8st. 41b. ; Hon. K. M. L. Mostyn's b- f. Birdlime, 4 yrs. old, 8st- 31b.; Mr. 
 
 H 2 
 
116 TOUCHSTONE 1835. 
 
 R. Lucas's gr. h. Rust, by Master Robert, out of Vermilion, 5 vrs. old, 8st. ; 
 Mr. R. Turner's br. f. Miss Golborne, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 21b. ; and Mr. J. Robinson's 
 b. g. Aratus, 4 yrs. old, 7st. lib. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 7 to 4 agst. Chasse, 5 to 2 agst. Touchstone, and 4 to 1 agst. Birdlime. 
 
 For the remainder of the season, 1835, Touchstone 
 was very busy, running with continued good success, 
 winning at Doncaster the Gold Candelabrum, value 
 300 sovs., given by the Stewards, with 50 added (in 
 specie) by the Corporation ; three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 
 8st. 31b. ; five, 8st. 101b. ; six and aged, 9st. ; the 
 winner of the St. Leger, 1835, to have carried 31b. 
 extra. — To start at the Red-house and run once round 
 to the Ending-post, about two miles and five furlongs. 
 
 Lord Westminster's br. c. Touchstone, by Camel, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. W. Richardson's ch. c. Hornsea, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. c. General Chasse, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Shilelagh, 4 yrs. old ; and Sir J. Boswell's b. f. 
 Bella, 4 yrs. old ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 6 to 5 on General Chasse, 2 to 1 agst. Hornsea, and 3 to 1 agst. Touchstone. 
 
 beating his old rival, General Chasse ; winning at 
 Heaton Park a Piece of Gold Plate, presented by 
 Count Matuschevitz, added to a Sweepstakes of 30 
 sovs. each, 20 ft. — One mile and a half. — Sixteen 
 subs. 
 
 Lord Westminster's br. c. Touchstone, by Camel, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Barrow's b. m. Catherina, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 Lord Wilton's b. m. Languish, H yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. J. H. Peel's br. c. Trim, 3 yrs. old 4 
 
 4 to 1 on Touchstone, and 10 to 1 agst. any other ; 
 
 and walking over the next day, for a Gold Cup, value 
 100 sovs., given by Mr. King of the Bush Inn, added 
 to a subscription of 10 sovs. each ; three yr. olds, 9st. 
 31b. ; four, lOst. 51b. ; five, list.; six and aged, list. 
 71b. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. ; a winner of a Cup or 
 King's Plate in 1835, and a previous winner of Mr. 
 King's Cup, to carry 31b. extra ; maiden horses allowed 
 
TOUCHSTONE — 1836. 117 
 
 5lb. — St. Leger Course. — Sixteen subs. ; being beaten 
 at Holywell Hunt for the Mostyn Stakes of 10 sovs. 
 each. — Four subs. — One mile and a half — by Mr. 
 Mostyn's Usury — Languish and Birdlime not placed ; 
 — and walking over, on the following day, for the Peng- 
 wern Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft. — Four subs. ; and 
 a Post Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. — Three 
 subs. 
 
 Touchstone commenced the Season, 1836, well, by 
 winning, at Ascot Heath, the Gold Cup of 300 sovs. 
 value, by subscription of 20 sovs. each, with 200 added 
 from the fund ; three yr. olds, 6st. 10lb. ; four, 8st. 
 21b. ; five, 8st. 121b. ; six and aged, 9st. 31b. ; m. 
 allowed 31b. — To start at the Cup-post on the New 
 mile, and go once round, about two miles and a half. 
 — Twelve subs. 
 
 Lord Westminster's br. h. Touchstone, by Camel, 5 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Theobald's b. h. Rockingham, 6 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Robertson's br. c. Lucifer, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. c. Aurelius, 4 yrs. old 4 
 
 6 to 5 agst. Touchstone, 6 to 4 agst. Rockingham, 5 to 1 agst. Aurelius, and 8 
 to 1 agst. Lucifer. 
 
 At Doncaster, he kept the game alive by winning 
 the Gold Cup, or Piece of Plate, value 300 gs., given 
 by the Stewards, and 50 added by the Corporation ; 
 three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 3lb. ; five, 8st. 101b. ; 
 six and aged, 9st. — To start at the Red-house, and 
 run once round to the Ending-post, about two miles 
 and five furlongs. 
 
 Lord Westminster's bt. h. Touchstone, by Camel, 5 yrs. old 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's br. c. Carew, 3 yrs. old » . . . . 2 
 
 Mr. J. Day's b. c. Venison, 3 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Orde's b. f. Bee's-wing, 3 yrs. old 4 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. h. General Chasse, 5 yrs. old 5 
 
 Mr. W. Richardson's b. g. Flying Billy, aged 6 
 
 6 and 7 to 4 on Touchstone, 9 to 2 agst. Bee's-wing, 9 to 2 agst. Venison, and 
 7 to 1 agst. General Chasse. 
 
118 TOUCHSTONE 1836. 
 
 Here he met his old opponent General Chasse once 
 again. Carew led the way at moderate speed for three 
 parts of a mile, and then resigned to Venison, who 
 improved the pace, and kept the lead to the Red 
 House, where he " shut up." Touchstone now had it 
 all to himself, and won just as he pleased : three or 
 four lengths astern was Carew, Sam. Day, with a 
 prudent recollection of the Town Plate, having eased 
 his nag at the distance ; Bee's-wing's position was even 
 worse, and as for the poor General, it is hard to say 
 how soon he was beaten. Robinson was whipping and 
 spurring before he had gone a mile of the ground : he 
 had been run long enough to spoil both his temper and 
 his action. Scott rode the winner, who wound up the 
 season, victoriously, by walking over at Heaton Park, 
 the scene of so many of his former triumphs, for a 
 Gold Cup, value 100 sovs. given by Mr. King, of the 
 Bush Inn, added to a Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 
 10 ft. ; three yr. olds, 9st. 21b. ; four, lOst. 71b. ; five, 
 1 1st. ; six and aged, 1 1st. 51b. ; m. and g. allowed 31b.; 
 a winner of a Cup, Cup Stakes, or King's Plate in 
 
 1836, previous to the day of starting, to carry 3lb. ; 
 of two or more, 51b. extra ; a winner of the Stand 
 Cup at Liverpool July Meeting to carry 61b. ; of the 
 Doncaster Cup, 10lb. extra; the winner of the St. 
 Leger to carry 7lb. ; and the second horse 3lb. extra ; 
 no horse to carry more than one extra weight ; maiden 
 horses allowed 71b. ; and horses not having won in 
 1836 allowed 51b; only one allowance. — St. Leger 
 Course. — Ten subs. 
 
 Touchstone had now nearly run out his day; in June 
 
 1837, he made his last appearance in public at 
 
LORD WESTMINSTER AND TOUCHSTONE. 119 
 
 Ascot Heath, where he carried off the Gold Cup, 
 beating Slane, Royal George, and Alumnus ; — and at 
 the end of the year his name was entered in the Stud 
 List. 
 
 Touchstone was undoubtedly a good, and, what was 
 at least of equal value, an honest horse. His perform- 
 ances as a two year old were very unpromising, but he 
 trained on, and finally closed a brilliant career, in such 
 a manner, as to entitle him to take place in the first 
 rank of the Cracks of the Day. 
 
 He now stands at Moor Park ; and so highly is he 
 prized by his noble owner, that, on one occasion, 
 having been solicited to sell him, that he might be 
 sent to Germany ; he wrote the following laconic 
 answer — 
 
 " A German Principality should not buy 
 Touchstone." 
 
120 
 
 THE BACING SEASON, 1834. 
 
 So much is necessarily given of the performances of 
 all the best nags of the day in our detail of the various 
 races in which our " Cracks" have been engaged, that 
 little now remains to be discussed, or treated of, ex- 
 cepting such brief summary as may complete the 
 leading races of the year. 
 
 The Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1834, was dis- 
 tinguished by the first display of Plenipo. and Glencoe, 
 two of the most superior horses that England has ever 
 possessed, and one of them, to our humble thinking, 
 the best, not even excepting the great Cracks of 
 the olden Time, or the mile in a minute performances 
 of Childers or Eclipse, who would have stood but little 
 chance of such great fame as they achieved, had fate 
 placed them beside the mighty Plenipo. 
 
 In the Newmarket First Spring, Glencoe beat 
 Bentley, the Derby Pet of the year, for the Two 
 Thousand Guinea Stakes, and so disposed at once 
 of his chance for the great race. The same Meeting 
 brought out May-day, a mare of much promise, 
 untimely cut off, in her hapless finish on the Oaks 
 Day. 
 
 At the Liverpool Spring Meeting, General Chasse 
 won the Liverpool St. Leger. The General was a 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1834. 121 
 
 steady, honest, and hard-working nag, but somewhat 
 slovenly in his races, his victories being always, as it 
 were, kicked out of him. 
 
 The York Spring Meeting, brought out Bran, by 
 many degrees the best three year old at the Meeting, 
 as an easy winner of the York Leger, — and Worlaby 
 Baylock, and Valparaiso, respective winners of the 
 York Derby, "the Shorts," and "the Wentworths," 
 and they all three came forthwith into the market for 
 the Doncaster St. Leger. 
 
 The two great South country events have already 
 been disposed of in detail. The Derby was won by 
 Plenipo. — the favourite, by two lengths, and in a 
 canter ;• — and the Oaks, by Pussy, a mare scarcely 
 ever named, or thought of, and actually not mentioned 
 in the betting, in the week before the race, which, 
 by the way, was as bad an one as any, — anywhere 
 during the season, perhaps the worst Oaks upon 
 record. Indeed, the three year old fillies of this 
 year generally showed badly. 
 
 At Ascot Heath, the Gold Cup, and the Eclipse 
 Foot, were both won by Glaucus, in fact, his noble 
 owner, Lord Chesterfield, seemed in luck this week, 
 winning six times in the four days. 
 
 The July Meeting at Newmarket, brought Kate 
 Kearney into consideration for the Oaks, 1835, as 
 winner of the July Stakes ; but the breath of popular 
 favour dispersed again, on the Wednesday, when she 
 ran third for the Chesterfield Stakes. 
 
 The Goodwood Cup, for which, during the six 
 weeks preceding the race, favourites sprang up like 
 mushrooms, was carried of! by Glencoe, hard held, 
 
122 THE RACING SEASON, 1834. 
 
 and in a canter, — and the York August Meeting 
 established Bran a favourite for the Leger, after 
 winning the Thirty Sovs. Sweepstakes in a canter. 
 
 The Doncaster St. Leger came and went in a 
 manner, which we have already told, and which we 
 care not to repeat : — some modern followers of Jemmy 
 Dawson yet remain unhung. 
 
 The First October at Newmarket, brought out a 
 lot of seven Oaks mares for one Stake, " the Hopeful." 
 It was a very good run race, won in a superior man- 
 ner by Lord Chesterfield's Eva; Kate Kearney and 
 Waresti being among the beaten ; and the Second 
 October, brought in Mr. Greville's Preserve, another 
 Oaks favourite, a winner of the " Clearwell," beating 
 Hester and nine others, good, bad, and indifferent. 
 And in the Houghton Meeting, the " Criterion" 
 placed Preserve and Hester in the same relative 
 positions as for the Clearwell, establishing the truth 
 of their running in that race, at least as far as con- 
 cerned their individual merits. This Meeting, in 
 every sense the best of the year, brought the racing 
 season 1834 to a brilliant close, with every prospect 
 of a glorious morrow. 
 
123 
 
 MUNDIG. 
 
 WINNER OF THE EPSOM DERBY, 1835. 
 
 Here stands Miindig, the only one in our list of 
 " Cracks" whose fame, founded upon private infor- 
 mation, was proved to be no jack-o'-lantern, and whose 
 first appearance in public was hailed as winner of the 
 Derby. 
 
 Miindig was got by Catton, out of Emma, by 
 Whisker, grandam Gibside Fairy, by Hermes, out of 
 Vicissitude, by Pipator — Beatrice, by Sir Peter, and 
 was bred by his owner, John Bowes, Esq., M.P. of 
 Streatlam-castle in the county of Durham. He is a 
 rich chesnut, with a white star and a white hind-leg, 
 coming half-way up to the hock, full-limbed, but 
 coarsish-looking, with remarkably fine action, espe- 
 cially when well got into his stride. 
 
 Mundig came into the betting for the Derby, so as 
 to be of any consideration, only about a month before 
 the day. In the beginning of the month of April he 
 had stood at 30 to 1 against him ; but on the 27th of 
 that month he fell to 50, a change which is to be 
 accounted for, by the fact that a boy connected with 
 the stable having been suspected (and rightly) of 
 giving information, was purposely deceived into the 
 supposition that the horse was gone home to the North; 
 
124 THE EPSOM DERBY, 1835. 
 
 a piece of news which he conveyed without fail to his 
 employers, who having, on this information laid out 
 large sums against the horse, were somewhat sur- 
 prised to find him rising in the odds, until from 50 to 1, 
 he stood upon the day with only 6 to 1 against him- - 
 Lord Jersey's Ibraham being first favourite at 7 to 4, 
 and Lord Orford's Ascot next upon the list at 3 to 1. 
 It may be worthy of note, that in this race two Ibra- 
 hims were started, both by Sultan, one out of Pera, 
 and the other out of Sister to Cobweb ; but this dif- 
 ference in pedigree was not a sufficient distinction to 
 prevent much confusion arising from the adoption of 
 the same name by two individuals in the same year. 
 
 On Thursday, the 4th of June, 1835, for the Derby 
 Stakes, the following fourteen horses, out of one hun- 
 dred and twenty-eight entries, came to the post : 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Miindig, by Catton, out of Emma. — Scott 
 
 Lord Orford's b. c. Ascot, by Reveller, out of Angelica. — Nat 
 
 Lord Jersey's br. c. Ibrabim, by Sultan, out of Sister to Cobweb. — Robinson 
 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c. Silenus, by Reveller, out of Trampoline. — C Edwards 
 
 Duke of Richmond's c. by Camel, out of Leopoldine. — Boyce 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's c. by Memnon, out of Pucelle. — Chifney 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. Coriolanus, by Emilius, out of Linda. — Conolly 
 
 Mr. Pettit's Ibrahim, by Sultan, out of Pera. — Wright 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ch. c. Valentissimo, by Velocipede, out of Jane. — Buckle 
 
 Mr. J. Robinson's b. c. Stockport, by Langar, out of Olympia. — Darling 
 
 Mr. J. Peel's br. c. Trim, by Edmund, out of Mary. — Chappie 
 
 Lord Warwick's b. c. Pelops, by Middleton, out of Niobe. — Calloway 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's gr. c. Luck's-all, by Tramp, out of Flora.— G. Edwards 
 
 Duke of Rutland's c. by Catton, out of Darioletta. — Wbeatley. 
 
 The betting ring on the hill had been pretty quiet, 
 compared at least to what we have seen it on some 
 former occasions, and the following may be stated as 
 the closing odds at the breaking up of it : — 
 
 7 to 4 agst. Ibrahim, 3 to 1 agst. Ascot, 6 to 1 agst. Miindig, 10 to 1 agst. 
 Coriolanus, 11 to 1 agst. Leopoldine, 18 to 1 agst. Pucelle, 50 to 1 agst. Trim, 50 
 to 1 agst. Valentissimo, and 100 to 1 agst. Pelops- 
 
THE EPSOM DERBY, 1835. 125 
 
 The horses got away, after three false starts, when 
 " Silenus" and " Luck's-all," who were started for the 
 purpose of making running, one for Ibrahim, the other 
 for Coriolanus, set off at a great pace. After the 
 leaders, came Valentissimo, Ascot, Mundig, and 
 Coriolanus, and then the tail. At Tattenham-corner 
 they all got together, and in the straight running 
 Robinson brought Ibrahim in front, but on reaching 
 the road, Mundig and Ascot shot forward, Mundig on 
 the higher ground, Ascot on the lower, and at the 
 distance, Silenus, who was still in front with a numerous 
 cortege, fell back. At the stand only Ascot and 
 Ibrahim, Mundig and Pelops, appeared to contest the 
 race, each pair running a match as it were ! — Ibrahim 
 was beaten before the stand, and Pelops as they 
 cleared it. The race then lay between Ascot and 
 Mundig, who made a desperate neck and neck 
 struggle for it, Mundig winning, by a neck ; so close, 
 that on the stand it was impossible to say which had 
 it, and in the next stride after passing the judge's 
 chair Ascot's head was first. Indeed, Miindio* won 
 his race right upon the post. Pelops, the much 
 despised Pelops, with 100 to 1 against him, was third, 
 though the judge only placed two. It was one of the 
 closest and best contested Derbys ever run, and the 
 horses came home more sociably than we ever remem- 
 ber to have seen them. There was literally nothing 
 of a tail, Ibrahim was fourth, Valentissimo fifth, and 
 Trim sixth. 
 
 Miindig's second appearance in public, for the St. 
 Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, was not equally fortunate, 
 being defeated easily by that first rate " Crack" of her 
 
126 mundig— 1836. 
 
 day the Queen of Trumps, and not placed by the 
 judge. But on the following day, he took the lead, 
 and kept it throughout, for the Foal Stakes of 100 
 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds; colts, 8st, 71b. ; 
 and fillies, 8st. 4lb, — Mile and a half. — Ten subs. 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Mundig, by Catton 1 
 
 Mr. J. H. Peel's b. c. Trim 2 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Newton 3 
 
 Mr. W. Turner's ch. c. Equator 4 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Mundig ; 
 
 winning easily by two or three lengths. 
 
 In the Liverpool July meeting, 1836, Mundig was 
 without a place for the Tradesmen's Cup, or Piece of 
 Plate, value 200 sovs., with 100 sovs. in specie, added 
 to a Handicap Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft,, and only 
 5 if declared, &c. ; the winner to pay 30 sovs. to the 
 Judge ; and the second horse to receive 50 sovs out 
 of the stakes. — Two miles, — Sixty-subs., twenty-two 
 of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's b. m. Birdlime, by Comus, 5 yrs. old, 8st. lllb 1 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. h. General Chasse, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 4lb 2 
 
 Lord Kelbume's b. m. Miss Whip, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 7lb. ; Mr. Bowes's ch. c. 
 Mundig, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. ; Lord Derby's ch. f. Verbena, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb, ; 
 General Sharpe's ch. m. Myrrha, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 31b. ; Duke of Leeds's b. c. 
 Longinus, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 81b.; Lord Westminster's br. c. Oswald, 4 yrs. old, 
 7st. 8lb. ; Mr. J. Robinson's br. c. Stockport, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 81b. ; Lord Kelburne's 
 b. c. by Jerry, out of Purity, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 71b. ; Mr. Foulis's br. c. De Roos, 
 4 yrs. old, 7st. 71b. ; Mr. Allen's b. f. Promise, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 91b.; and Mr. J. 
 Robinson's ch. c. Whaley, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 51b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 \ 6 to 4 agst. General Chasse, 7 to 2 agst. Oswald, 5 to 1 agst. Verbena, and 1 1 
 to 1 agst. Birdlime. 
 
 And two days afterwards, he was again beaten by 
 General Chasse, for the Stand Cup, value 100 sovs., 
 added to a subscription of 10 sovs. each; three yr. 
 olds, Gst. 101b. ; four, 8st. 21b. ; five, 8st. 10lb. ; six 
 and aged, 9st, ; m. and g. allowed 31b. ; the winner 
 of the Doncaster St. Leger or Cup, to carry 41b. extra; 
 
mundig — 1836. 127 
 
 the second horse for St. Leger, 2lb- extra ; the winner 
 of any Cup in 1836, to carry 3lb. extra; of two Cups 
 in 1836, 51b. extra; of one Cup, and the Doncaster 
 St. Leger and Cup in 1835, 51b. extra ; the winner of 
 the Trade Cup at the present Meeting, to carry 51b. 
 extra ; no horse to carry more than 71b. extra ; the 
 second horse to receive 20 sovs. out of the stakes. — 
 Two miles. — Twelve subs. 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's ch. h. General Chasse, by Actaeon, 5 yrs. old .... 1 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Miindig, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's b. m. Bella, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 5 to 2 on General Chasse. 
 
 In the York August meeting, Mundig won His 
 Majesty's Purse of lOOgs.; three yr. olds, 7s. 91b. ; 
 four, 8st. 1 21b. ; five, 9st. 41b. ; six, 9st. 71b.; and 
 aged, 9st. 9lb. — Two miles. 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Mundig, by Catton, 4 yrs. old ' 1 
 
 Mr. Powlett's br. c. Wentworth, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Major Yarburgh's b. g. St. Lawrence, 3 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. J. Scott's b. m. Lydia Languish, 5 yrs. old 4 
 
 Mr. Stable's gr. c. Hawk's-eye, 3 yrs. old 5 
 
 Lord Wilton's cb. c. Aurelius, 3 yrs. old 6 
 
 Mr. Bell's ch. c. Righton, 3 yrs. old 7 
 
 7 to 4 agst. Wentworth, 2 to 1 agst. M iindig, and 7 to 2 agst. St. Lawrence. 
 
 At Doncaster, on the 19th of September, Mundig 
 ran second to Venison, for the King's Plate of 100 gs.; 
 three yr. olds, 7st. 91b.; four, 9st.; five, 9st. 91b.; 
 six and aged, lOst. — Four miles. 
 
 Mr. J. Day's b. o, Veuison, by Partisan, 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Mundig, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Powlett's br. c. Wentworth, 3 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. h. Whitefoot, 5 yrs. old 4 
 
 5 to 4 agst. Mundig, and 5 to 4 agst. Venison. 
 
 Miindig made all the play until within the distance 
 in the second round, when Venison ran by him with 
 ease, and won in a canter by three or four lengths. 
 
 This same little Venison was a first-rate nag, 
 
128 VENISON. 
 
 for although his luck did not bring him in as a winner of 
 either of the three great prizes of his year, he trained 
 on so as to prove himself not only a good and honest 
 horse, but withall a most profitable one to his owner. 
 After having run third for the Derby, he travelled to 
 Cheltenham, and won the Gloucestershire Stakes and 
 Cup ; thence he went to Southampton, where he 
 walked over for the Cup — then to Goodwood, where 
 he won the King's Plate — then to Brighton, where he 
 carried off the Brighton Stakes — then to Lewes, where 
 he walked over for the King's Plate — then on to 
 Warwick, where he won a £50 Plate, and His Ma- 
 jesty's Guineas, after a hard race with Taishteer — then 
 to Lichfield, where he added another £50 Plate, and 
 another Bag of Royal Guineas to his stock; and 
 lastly he came to Dcncaster, to carry off the King's 
 Plate from Miindig; making eleven races run and 
 won between Epsom and Doncaster, having travelled 
 all the way on foot. 
 
 At Heaton Park, on the 30th of September, Miin- 
 dig was again unfortunate, for a Gold Cup, value 
 200 sovs., given by the Town of Manchester, added 
 to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., 
 and 5 only if declared, &c. : a winner of the Gold 
 Cup given by Mr. King, to carry 7lb. ; and of any 
 other previous Stakes at this Meeting, 3lb. extra. — 
 St. Leger Course. — Twenty-seven subs., ten of whom 
 paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. T. Dawson's b. c. Locomotive, 3 yrs. old, lOst. 51b. 1 
 
 Mr. Barrow's b. m. Catherina, 6 yrs. old, 12st 2 
 
 Mr. Thompson's ch. g. Confederate, aged, list. 10lb 3 
 
 Mr. Wheeldon's br. h. Giovanni, aged, 12st. 31b 4 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Miindig, 4 yrs. old, list. 151b 5 
 
 Mr. Richardson's b. m. Lady de Gros, 5 yrs. old, list, 12lb. ; Mr. Johnson's 
 
MUNDIG. 
 
 129 
 
 ch. c. Jupiter, 4 yrs. old, list. 10lb. ; Mr. Houldsworth's ch. o. Turban, 4 yrs. 
 old, list. 41b.; Mr. Foster's b. c. Longinus, 4 yrs. old, 10st..l2lb. ; and Lord 
 Westminster's ch. c. Hampton, 3 yrs. old, 9st. 10lb. ; also started, but were not 
 placed. 
 
 5 to 2 agst. Hampton, 4 to 1 agst. Locomotive, 4 to 1 agst. Catharina, 6 to 1 
 agst. Giovanni, 8 to 1 agst. Lady de Gros, and 10 to 1 agst. Longinus. 
 
 But at Nottingham on the 14th of October, he had 
 better luck with His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. — Two 
 mile heats. 
 
 Mr. Bowes's cb. c. Miindig, by Catton, 4 yrs. old, 9st. 4lb.. ..... 1 1" 
 
 Gen. Yates's ch. c. Sylvan, 4 yrs. old, 9st. 4lb 2 2 
 
 Mr. Unwin's br. g. Goldbeater, 5 yrs. old, 9st. lllb 3 3 
 
 with which exploit he closed his career upon the 
 Turf; leaving behind him the character of a fairish 
 horse, whose running was in no wise to be de- 
 pended on. 
 
130 
 
 QUEEN OF TRUMPS. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, AND THE DONCASTER 
 ST. LEGER, 1835. 
 
 The Queen of Trumps, a fine, spanking, dark brown 
 mare, with a white star, and three white legs, was 
 bred in 1832 by her owner, the Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn, 
 M.P. She was got by Velocipede, out of Princess 
 Royal, by Castrel, out of Queen of Diamonds, her 
 dam by Sir Peter, out of Lucy, by Florizel — Frenzy 
 (Phenomenon's dam), by Eclipse; her dam by En- 
 gineer, Lass of the Mill, by Traveller — Miss Make- 
 less, &c. 
 
 The Queen of Trumps' first appearance was at the 
 Holywell Hunt Meeting in 1834, when she won the 
 Champagne Stakes, beating Sir T. Stanley's Peter 
 Simple, Sir R. Bulkeley's Borghese, and Mr. Price's 
 The Juggler, in a canter ; a performance which 
 gained her many friends in the North and "West, 
 although it had but little influence in her favour 
 with "the Knobs" at " the Corner." 
 
 In 1835, her first race was for the Oaks, which had 
 been alraedy booked as a tit bit to be "preserved" 
 for Mr. Greville's pocket; but on the day, when all 
 the fillies were parading in the Warren, many a 
 five-pound man shifted his fancy bet from the 
 favourite to the Queen — vowing " Preserve to be all 
 
THE OAKS, 1835. 131 
 
 gammon, and the Queen of Trumps the mare." In 
 fact, to any judge, or even to one fond of horses, 
 the superiority of the form, shape, and action, of 
 " the Queen," were so apparent, as to admit but little 
 doubt, excepting to the prejudiced, of Preserve being 
 left in a pickle ; and of " the Queen" being a real 
 trump. 
 
 To make a long story short, the following started, 
 and to avoid repetition we have placed them as they 
 came in : — 
 
 Hon. E. Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede, out of 
 
 Princess Royal Lye 1 
 
 Mr. Greville's ch. f. Preserve, hv Emilius, out of Mustard. — Nat. ... 2 
 
 Lord Orford's b. f. Bodice, by Langar, out of Stays. — Conollly 3 
 
 Lord Wilton's ch. f. Barbara Bell, by Cattou, out of Barbara. 
 
 — G. Edwards 4 
 
 Mr. Greatrex's f. by Camel, out of Martha. — Robinson 5 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Eva, by Sultan, out of Eliza Leeds. — Scott 6 
 
 Mr. Goodwin's br. f. Titania, by Camel, out of Galatea. — Wright .... 7 
 Mr. C. Wilson's b. f. by Chateau Margaux, dam by Cervantes. 
 
 — Rogers B 
 
 Mr. Wreford's b. f. Waresti, by Sultan — Liverpool's dam — J.Day .. 9 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ro. f. Quadroon, by Camel — Loretto. — Buckle ... .10 
 The betting at the breaking up of the ring- was 7 to 4 on Preserve, 7 to 1 agst. 
 Queen of Trumps, 10 to 1 agst. Eva, 14 or 15 to 1 agst. Bodice, 15 to 1 agst 
 Mr. Wilson's filly, and 20 to 1 agst. Waresti. 
 
 After one false start they got away, at a fairish 
 pace, strong enough however to tell upon some of the 
 puny ones, for on mounting the hill there were symp- 
 toms of distress, and the tailing commenced. Eva made 
 a bit of a struggle at the corner, but soon gave in ; when, 
 all the rest having received their "quantum sun .," 
 Preserve and Queen of Trumps tackled to and came 
 tearing down the distance together, when the latter 
 bade adieu to the former, shot forward, and cantered 
 in at her ease ! It was a very hollow thing indeed, 
 and the winner could have run away from her com- 
 panions any where and every where. There was a 
 
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132 THE ST. LEGER, 1835. 
 
 considerable space between the second and third, and 
 the rest came dribbling in at intervals, so as to allow 
 the judge to place the field. Our Yorkshire friend, 
 leetk Tommy Lye, as the Newmarket lads call him, 
 rode the winner steadily and well, without disclosing 
 more of her powers than the poverty of her antagonists 
 compelled him to do. 
 
 On the 17th of July, she won the Knowsley Dinner 
 Stakes at Liverpool, beating easily Mr. Houldsworth's 
 Hectic, Mr. Turner's Equator, and Lord West- 
 minster's b. c. by Conductor, out of Bertha ; and in 
 September, she stood upon the day first favourite, at 
 6 to 4 against her, for the Doncaster St. Leger, which 
 produced the following result ; 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede, out of Princess 
 Royal, by Castrel T. Lye 1 
 
 Mr. W. Richardson's ch. c. Hornsea, by Velocipede, out of Jenny 
 Mills's dam. — W. Scott 2 
 
 Mr. Golden's br. c. by Lottery, out of Morgiana, by Muley. — J. Marson 3 
 Mr. Greville's ch.f. Preserve, by Emilius — Mustard, by Merlin. — Nat 4 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Miindig, by Catton, out of Emma (P. Connelly) ; Mr. T. 
 
 Johnson's ch. c. Jupiter, by Langar, out of Proserpine, by Rhadamanthus (J. 
 
 Holmes) ; Mr. Powlett's b. c. by Langar, out of Giovanni's dam, by Don Juan 
 
 (J. Day) ; Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. Turban, by Sultan, out of Tiara (S. Darling); 
 
 Mr. J. H. Peel's b. c. Trim, by Edmund, out of Mary, by Friday (Chappie) ; Lord 
 
 Orford's b. c. Ascot by Reveller, out of Angelica, by Rubens (J. Robinson); 
 
 and Mr. Heseltine's ch. f. Mamsel Otz, sister to Bubastes, by Blacklock (T, 
 
 Nicholson) ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 The month immediately preceding the race, had 
 changed the aspects of some of the " Cracks," and 
 some material fluctuations occurred in the betting : — 
 Hornsea, Miindig, Coriolanus, Ainderby, Glaucus, 
 &c, were tried together, and Hornsea won in a 
 canter, while the winner of the Derby was beaten 
 easily by Coriolanus ; moreover, as Glaucus had been 
 out with Preserve at Goodwood, and Preserve was 
 known to be better than Ascot, the powers of almost 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1835. 133 
 
 every horse in the race were thus got at, with the 
 exception of those of the Queen of Trumps, and of 
 her nothing was known beyond the certain well ascer- 
 tained fact that she won the Oaks in a canter ! Horn- 
 sea, therefore came into force, and Mundig went back, 
 Ascot coughed, Jupiter jumped up, Preserve main- 
 tained her ground, and the Queen became first 
 favourite, the odds at starting were : — 
 
 6 to 4 agst. the Queen, 2 to 1 agst. Hornsea, 8 to 1 agst. Preserve, 10 to 1 agst. 
 Jupiter, 12 to 1 agst. Ascot, 30 to 1 agst. Brother to Hope (t.), 40 to 1 agst. any 
 other. Mundig not mentioned. 
 
 There was no false start ; Jupiter was first off, and 
 led till near the gravel road, where the horses had 
 settled into their places, and Powlett's colt took the 
 lead at a good pace ; in the front rank were Jupiter, 
 Mamsel Otz, Turban, Preserve, and Ascot, the Queen 
 lying immediately behind them, with Trim and Brother 
 to Hope, and, lastly, Hornsea and Mundig; the black 
 cap and jacket being throughout sadly conspicuous 
 (at the wrong end), to the discomfiture of those who 
 had risked their money on the strength of the Derby- 
 running ; the pace mended at the hill, and poor Mamsel 
 Otz was feign to give up the ghost ; at the Red-house 
 Jupiter was also beaten, and Trim failed in an attempt 
 to reach the leading horses (immediately afterwards 
 he lost his footing and dropt on his head, half-re- 
 covered himself, then fell on his haunches, and finally 
 regained his feet, without injury to himself or jockey). 
 Hornsea and Queen of Trumps were now with the 
 foremost horses, Powlett's colt retaining his lead till 
 about a quarter of a mile from home, where he fell 
 astern. Hornsea immediately took up the work, 
 Brother to Hope and Preserve lying up, with the 
 
134 THE QUEEN OF TRUMPS, 1835. 
 
 Queen of Trumps at their heels, full of running ; at 
 the distance-post she shot by Brother to Hope and 
 Preserve, challenged the Pigburn pet, cut him down 
 in two or three strides, and without the semblance of 
 an effort won by a Yorkshire length, which by the 
 liberal scale adopted in this race, would have been 
 just two at Newmarket. The tailing was considerable, 
 the more so perhaps as the pace rather exceeded the 
 average of preceding Legers ; the mare having com- 
 pleted the mile and three quarters in three minutes 
 and twenty-two seconds. 
 
 The race on the Friday in the same week, for the 
 Scarborough Stakes, was one of those chances which 
 occur now and then to keep the fielders from despair, 
 and prevent racing becoming quite a certainty. The 
 Queen was over-trumped, or, rather, she was not the 
 Queen of Trumps ! Her race on Tuesday, however 
 easily accomplished, told wofully upon her legs, 
 which were very infirm ; when she came out it was 
 obvious that her action was short, and that Lye was 
 very tender upon her, even in riding her to the post ; 
 this was lost upon her party, who, besides, forgot that 
 she carried 71b. extra, and that Ainderby had run a 
 smartish horse upon two or three occasions : — 8 and 
 10 to 1 was offered freely, only two or three of the 
 old ones having pluck enough to take it. The running 
 was made at a good pace by The General, the mare 
 and Ainderby lying well up till near the rails, where 
 they headed him ; at the distance they were close 
 together, the mare looking like a winner, till within 
 two or three lengths of the stand ; here a large bull- 
 dog (two or three people would have stood a thousand 
 
THE QUEEN OF TRUMPS 1835. 135 
 
 a-piece to have had such a dog in the St. Leger) flew 
 at her, and Lye, alarmed lest he should be thrown, 
 pulled her, and the mare instantly changed her leg, 
 and whatever may be said to the contrary, lost at least 
 half a length by having her stride broken ; at the 
 stand she had recovered her position, and ran, but not 
 very kindly, a neck and neck race to the chair, 
 Ainderby ultimately winning by sheer dint of punish- 
 ment, by half a head ! The Queen second, and The 
 General last. 
 
 On the same day, for a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 
 for three yrs. old fillies, with 20 added by the Cor- 
 poration ; 8st. 41b. each. — St. Leger Course. — Five 
 subs. The Queen of Trumps walked over, and divided 
 the stake with Mr. Allen's Madame Pelerine, by Veloci- 
 pede. And she finally closed her victorious season of 
 1835, by walking over at Holywell Hunt Meeting for a 
 Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three 
 yr. olds. — Two miles. — Eight subs. ; and the Chieftain 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds ; 
 colts, 8st. 51b.; and fillies, 8st. 31b.— The Mostyn 
 mile. — Three subs. 
 
 At Chester, The Queen of Trumps commenced the 
 season 1836, by winning the Stand Cup, value 100 
 sovs. the gift of the Stand Committee, added to a 
 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; three yr. olds, 6st. 
 101b. ; four, 8st. 21b. ; five, 8st. 101b. ; six and aged, 
 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 2lb. — Twice round and a 
 distance. — Five subs. 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede, 4 yrs. old ... . 1 
 Mr. Cooke's br. h. Red Rover, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 And walking over the course on the following day for 
 
136 CLOSE OF THE QUEEN OF TRUMPS' CAREER. 
 
 the Marquis of Westminster's Plate, value 100 sovs. 
 in specie, added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each ; 
 h. ft. ; three yr. olds, a feather; four, 8st. ; five, 9st. ; 
 six and aged, 9st. 41b. — Thrice round the course. — ■ 
 Seven subs. 
 
 At Newton, on the 9th of June, the Queen of Trumps 
 won the Borough Cup, value 100 sovs. added to a 
 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; three yr. olds, 6st. 
 31b.; four, 8st. 21b.; five, 8st. 10lb. ; six and aged, 
 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. ; the winner of a Cup or 
 Piece of Plate value 100 sovs. to carry 31b. ; of two, 
 5lb. ; and of three, 71b. extra ; the winner of the Don- 
 caster St. Leger in 1835, to carry 41b. extra, and 
 second 21b. extra ; no horse to carry more than 71b. 
 extra; maidens allowed 31b. — Two miles. — Nine subs. 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede, 4 yrs. old.. .. 1 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's b. b. Vestment, 5 yrs. old 2 
 
 6 to 1 on Queen of Trumps; 
 
 and at Holywell Hunt, on the 19th October, she 
 pocketed a Post Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. 
 for four yr. olds; colts, 8st. 71b.; and fillies, 8st. 
 51b. — Two miles. — Four subs. 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede 1 
 
 Lord Westminster's Oswald *> 2 
 
 as a finish to the season 1836 ; and thus ended her 
 racing career as successfully as it had been begun. 
 
 The Queen of Trumps was, on the whole, certainly, 
 the most extraordinary mare these our days have seen. 
 She is the only one who ever carried off both Oaks 
 and Leger, — and had she been entered in the Derby, 
 it seems no great risk to assert, that she would have 
 won that also ; at least, if the St. Leger running, with 
 
THE RACING SEASON 1835. 137 
 
 Miindig " nowhere" may be taken as a true test of 
 the relative powers of the two great winners. Her only 
 fault was that she had a somewhat tender constitution, 
 which obliged her always to carry somewhat more flesh 
 than would exactly please a critical eye, and which 
 eventually prevented her from training on so well as 
 might have been expected ; but taking her " for all in 
 all," she is the only mare in our string of "Cracks" 
 whom we should think worthy to be placed by the side 
 of Plenipo. — and this we think the greatest praise. 
 
 The racing season, 1835, was one of the most bril- 
 liant, and, taken altogether, one of the most satis- 
 factory that had occurred for some years ; and a 
 cursory review of some of the principal races will be 
 found interesting, not only as regards the past, but 
 also to see what effect they had upon the following 
 year ; for it is curious enough to follow on from time 
 to time the speculations of the day, and see how some 
 have been fulfilled, and others failed. 
 
 To begin then at the beginning, — The manner in 
 which Plenipo. tailed off some of the best horses of the 
 present day at the Newmarket Craven, including Glau- 
 cus, shows that there must have been some mistake as 
 to the Leger ; but whether he ought to have carried 
 away that prize, or only have been in a more forward 
 place, seems to be a matter on which the opinions of 
 north and south country sportsmen a good deal vary. 
 Ibrahim's and Ascot's performances at this meeting, 
 although both running with indifferent horses, brought 
 them both into the market at short odds ; and Pre- 
 serve's winning the 1000 gs. Stakes, at the same 
 meeting, coupled with her successful performances 
 
138 THE RACING SEASON 1835. 
 
 as a two year old, made her first favourite for the 
 Oaks, on the 25th of May. 
 
 The Tradesmen's Cup at Chester, was the first of 
 those " good things" for which that excellent sup- 
 porter of the Turf, Mr. Mostyn, was "let in." Bird- 
 lime was the winner, beating, amongst others, Red 
 Rover and Ratcatcher, giving the former 61b. and the 
 latter lib., and thowing away her year. Another of 
 Mr. Mostyn's mares, Usury, by Banker, beat Verbena, 
 who had run well in her two year old form. This 
 augured well for the Queen of Trumps. At the Liver- 
 pool Craven Meeting a good deal of interest was 
 excited in the race for the Tradesmen's Cup, in which 
 General Chasse met, and defeated, his former con- 
 queror, Touchstone ; but the result of the Doncaster 
 Cup seemed to show, that the latter could not have 
 been up to the mark. One of those extraordinary 
 occurrences, which are usually termed "mistakes," 
 took place in the race for the Stand Cup, where the 
 horses went in a trot to near the distance, when 
 Catharina started at score, and beat the victorious 
 Chasse in a way his worthy master little calculated 
 upon. 
 
 The Epsom Derby, like most of the other " good 
 things" of this year, found its way into the North. 
 Mr. Bowes had been on the Turf for two or three 
 years, without having obtained any greater encourage- 
 ment in the lottery of Turf prizes, than winning a £50 
 Maiden Plate. It would have been strange indeed, 
 if the produce of such mares as Gibside Fairy, Emma, 
 &c, did not do something better than this ; and 
 accordingly his perseverance was rewarded by the 
 
THE RACING SEASON 1835. 139 
 
 very pretty pickings which fell to him this season. 
 The Queen of Trumps won the Oaks in such splendid 
 style, that, if that had been the only race she had ever 
 run, it would have placed her amongst the best horses on 
 the Turf; but coupled with her subsequent perform- 
 ances, it may safely be asserted, that they have never 
 been surpassed ; it may be questioned if they have 
 ever been equalled. Much interest was excited for 
 the Ascot Cup, in which Plenipo., over whose career 
 there always appeared to hang as much mystery as 
 misfortune, was to meet his old comrades, Glencoe 
 and Shilelagh ; but he was drawn in a very unsatis- 
 factory way — Glencoe won easily. Ascot was here 
 beaten by Ibrahim ; but as it was a particularly near 
 thing, and only for a mile, it can hardly be classed 
 amongst the "mistakes" of the year. If it had not 
 been for an unavoidable accident, Preserve would 
 doubtless have been the winner of the Goodwood 
 Stakes, in which she beat Dacre and Louisa, giving 
 away her year to them, all but 2lbs. which, considering 
 the distance, proved her a trump, although not the 
 Queen of Trumps. Rockingham reversed the result 
 of the last year's race for the Goodwood Cup, and beat 
 Glaucus, who won it the previous year ; but from the 
 latter carrying 7 lb. extra, and having run a very severe 
 race the day before, his defeat was not to be won- 
 dered at. 
 
 The greatest " mistake" of the year occurred in the 
 race for the King's Hundred, where Rockingham 
 was passed by Lucifer, whilst the former was 
 pulled up into a trot. The Liverpool Cup, which, 
 after Goodwood, is the most valuable of any in the 
 
140 THE RACING SEASON 1835. 
 
 kingdom, being worth £985, was one of the last of 
 those splendid prizes which General Chasse won for 
 his truly sporting master. It was, however, not won 
 in a manner to justify the sanguine expectations of his 
 party for the Doncaster Cup. Major Yarburgh's St. 
 Lawrence, a fine slapping colt, by St. Nicholas (who 
 has got some very promising stock), and Lord Wilton's 
 Bequest filly, both won their races at the York 
 August Meeting in a way to make them favourites 
 for their engagements in the great stakes of the 
 year 1836. The latter, by winning cleverly the Claret 
 Stakes at Heaton Park, beating Whaley and five 
 others, rose still higher into favour, and became first 
 favourite for the Oaks. At the Burton on Trent, and 
 Warwick meetings, The Mummy defeated good fields, 
 in a very masterly manner, a performance which made 
 him first favourite for the Derby 1836. The Cham- 
 pagne Stakes were carried off by the fortunate owner 
 of Bee's-wing ; who has such luck on the Tnrf as has 
 hardly ever been equalled, except in the instance of 
 his much respected predecessor and neighbour, Mr. 
 Riddell. — Mr. Orde made a good bargain when he 
 bought the dam of Bee's-wing at Mr. Riddell's sale 
 for 22gs., she having already produced him Tomboy, 
 Dancing-master, Lilly of the Valley, &c. 
 
 The first favourite, for the first time since Memnon's 
 year, won the Doncaster Leger, and did what has only 
 been done twice before (by Champion and Eleanor 
 two succeeding years, 1800 and 1801), namely, win 
 two of the three great stakes of the year. The way 
 in which Velocipede's stock run this year, proved him 
 to be either the best or luckiest stallion that had been 
 
THE RACING SEASON 1835. 141 
 
 known on the turf for years. Seldom had there been 
 three such nags as Hornsea, The Queen, and Ainderby 
 (all his stock) at a Doncaster meeting before. 
 
 Locomotive won the two-year-old stakes so cleverly, 
 beating, amongst others, Lord Wilton's Bequest filly, 
 as to be a good deal fancied for the next Leger. The 
 result of the race for the Doncaster Cup showed that 
 the Leger of 1834 was not altogether incorrect, 
 Touchstone, The General, and Shilelagh keeping their 
 former places with the utmost accuracy. The pace, 
 the distance, the horses he met, and the severe race he 
 had run for the Leger, all tended to prove great 
 superiority in Hornsea. Up to the last day every 
 thing had gone off to admiration at Doncaster, but on 
 this day a trifling "accident" occurred, not particularly 
 pleasant to those knowing ones who had bet their 
 10 to 1 on The Queen, who was looking like a winner 
 near the stand, where a bull dog flew at her, and 
 Ainderby just contrived to pass her by less than half 
 a length. 
 
 Touchstone met with a defeat at the Holywell 
 meeting, Mr. Mostyn having (even for him) the 
 extraordinary luck to beat him with Usury. The 
 mare won by less than a head, and Lord Westminster's 
 party gave it out that Touchstone was not right. The 
 Queen walked over for two races, and Mr. Mostyn 
 thus made a very agreeable finale to his racing cam- 
 paign of the season, winning and walking over five 
 times. Marmalade, a sister to Preserve, won her race 
 at the Newmarket Second October meeting very 
 cleverly, beating some promising young ones, which, 
 connected with the very successful running of Preserve 
 
142 
 
 THE RACING SEASON — 1835. 
 
 last year, brought her into great favour for the Oaks. 
 Mr. Greville was so elated by his success as to start 
 her the same day for the Clearwell, when she was 
 beaten by Elis, brother to Stockport, but only by a 
 length. She was again defeated on the Friday, as also 
 was Elis, by a colt of the Duke of Grafton's called 
 -Alumnus. — Elis, however, amply regained his "lost 
 honours" at the Houghton meeting, by winning the 
 Criterion in very gallant style, which closed the 
 principal events of the racing season 1835. 
 
143 
 
 BAY MIDDLETON. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1836. 
 
 Here stands Bay Middleton, as his name bespeaks, a 
 rich bay horse, about sixteen hands and an inch and a 
 half. He was bred by his noble owner, Lord Jersey, 
 in 1833. Got by Lord Exeter's Sultan, out of Cobweb, 
 by Phantom, out of Filagree, by Soothsayer — Web by 
 Waxy- — Penelope by Trumpator — Prunella by High- 
 flyer. 
 
 It has rarely occurred that the field for the Derby 
 has at the commencement of the year been composed 
 of horses so nearly balanced, as at the opening of the 
 Racing Season 1836, which can only be accounted for 
 by the fact that both favourites and field were of a 
 remarkably poor character ; or, in other words that the 
 southern two year olds of 1835 — 36, were a very bad 
 lot, whilst the Northern two year olds shewed qualities 
 in every respect superior. 
 
 Under these circumstances, and moreover, as the 
 favourites for the Oaks were of precisely the same 
 moderate description, it is not a matter of surprise that 
 gentlemen were shy in backing their horses — they 
 waited for the Craven meeting, but this meeting, 
 although it produced the winner of the Derby, and he 
 too, a Southern, did not much enlighten their eyes in 
 other respects, but left them still in darkness. 
 
 On the Tuesday in the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 
 
144 BAY MIDDLETON 1836. 
 
 for the Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, &c. — 
 Ab. M. — Twenty-two subs. The following came to the 
 Post. 
 
 Lord Jersey's Brother to Nell Gwynne, 8st. 71b 1 
 
 Mr. Walker's ch. f. Emineh, 8st. 21b 2 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's ch. f. Destiny, 8st. lib 3 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's c. by Zinganee, out of Babel , 8st. 21b 4 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's c. by Tramp, out of Lunacy, 8st. 41b 5 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's Ermine, 8st. 71b 6 
 
 The betting was confined to Brother to Nell Gwynne 
 and Babel ; both fancied strongly, the first at 1 1 to 8 
 on him, and the other at 5 to 2, and 3 to 1 agst. him, 
 while 20 to 1 was offered agst. Emineh ! After three or 
 four false starts, Destiny sprung off with the lead, 
 Emineh lying well up with her, — the favourite in the 
 rear, pulling double, fit to run over them; at the 
 bushes he shot by them like an arrow, and won in the 
 commonest of canters by nearly two lengths, — the last 
 four, literally, " no where," as the newspapers have it. 
 
 Until this event Bay Middleton had the credit of 
 being a bad-tempered horse, but after this race the 
 Newmarket knowing ones, by some wonderful train of 
 reasoning, arrived at the conclusion that the winner 
 was not a bad-tempered horse, but merely high- 
 couraged! — that he was a fine, slashing, muscular, 
 clean-limbed, light-bodied, racing-like nag, and very 
 much like Priam in his figure and action ; in fact, that 
 he was the very nag for the Derby course ; so he at 
 once took up his position as first favourite for the 
 Derby (what a wonderful clarifier of muddy noddles 
 this success does seem) ; and finished the meeting by 
 walking over for the Bruton Street Stakes of 100 sovs. 
 each, h. ft., four subs. 
 
 On the Monday in the Newmarket First Spring 
 
BAY MIDDLETON. 
 
 145 
 
 Meeting, the betting was confined to the 2,000 gs. 
 Stakes, 500 even was betted on Lord Jersey's nag 
 against the field, 2000 to 200 against Calmuck, and 
 large sums against Elis at 7 to 4 ; a trial with Spume 
 having ended so favourably, that the party determined 
 on starting, and taking the chance of a bet of 1200 to 
 800 p. p. laid on him against Brother to Nell Gwynne 
 some months since : 6 to 1 offered against Muezzin, 
 12 to 1 against Whaley, and 20 to 1 against Camarine's 
 dam ; these prices being maintained to the breaking 
 up of the ring in the evening. On the day the excite- 
 ment was superior to anything seen at Newmarket since 
 Cadland ran for the same stake. The crowd on the 
 Heath was without precedent since the day of Filho 
 and Sir Joshua, and the odds betted, not in tens and 
 ponies, but in hundreds ; the books, in short, were 
 dreadfully heavy, and, in two or three cases, the balances 
 large enough to shake some who had been in hopes of 
 surviving till the Derby was over. 
 
 At last the eventful moment came, which, in the 
 opinion of many, decided the Derby without appeal : 
 and the following horses saddled for the start. 
 
 Lord Jersey's b. c. Bay Middleton, by Sultan, out of Cobweb 1 
 
 Lord Lichfield's ch. c. Elis 2 
 
 Lord Berners's ch. c. by Lamplighter, out of Camarine's dam 3 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. c. Calmuck 4 
 
 Mr. J. Robinson's ch. c. Whaley 5 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Muezzin 6 
 
 After nearly a quarter of an hours delay, they got 
 away in good order, Elis springing off with the lead, 
 seconded by the Lamplighter colt, and closely waited on 
 by the others, the pace being so severe that by the time 
 they reached the end of the two year old course it was 
 " bellows to mend" with Muezzin (the first to shut up), 
 
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146 BAY MIDDLETON 
 
 Calmuck, and Whaley ; the other three rattled away 
 to the bushes, where the second place was occupied by 
 Lord Jersey's horse, the Lamplighter colt having shot 
 his bolt. Elis now had a lead of about a length, 
 but before they got to the bottom, this advantage was 
 reduced one half, and in charging the hill they were 
 fairly abreast. John Day was first at work, for he 
 discovered that the Sultan colt had the foot of him. 
 Robinson, a stride or two further, also found the spur 
 necessary to keep his horse in place, and so they ran 
 home, one ramming the spurs into his horse's side 
 without daring to apply the whip, — the other using 
 both unmercifully. The turn of the scale was in 
 favour of Lord Jersey, his horse winning by a neck 
 just on the post, which neck, no doubt, would have 
 been half a length had they run a dozen yards more. 
 Two faster or gamer horses have seldom been opposed 
 to each other, nor would it be easy to name two of any 
 age with pretensions so nicely balanced. Of the others 
 it is only necessary to say, that they were beaten off 
 an immense distance by the extraordinary severity of 
 the pace, and that no weight could have brought them 
 near the favourite. Lord Jersey gave Robinson two 
 hundred guineas for his ride, and bearing in mind a 
 former winner of the Derby, christened his nag "Bay 
 Middleton." 
 
 Speculation was not so rife upon the Derby this 
 year as formerly, owing to the cause already stated ; 
 but still the Derby day came round like all the rest, 
 and the folllowing nags showed at the post : 
 
 Lord Jersey's b. c. Bay Middleton. — Robinson 
 Lord Wilton's ch. c. Gladiator. — Scott 
 
THE DERBY — 1836. 147 
 
 Mr. J. Day's b. c. Venison. — J. Day 
 
 Colonel Peel's b. c. Slane. — Pavis 
 
 Mr. Cbifney's b. c. The Athenian.— F. Butler 
 
 Duke of Richmond's br. c. Sepoy. — Boyce 
 
 Colonel Peel's b. c. Mr. Wags. — Nat 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Alfred. — S. Rogers 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Ebberston. — Wheatley 
 
 Mr. Batson's b. c. Taishteer — Wakefield 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Muezzin. — Conolly 
 
 Sir L. Glyn's ch. c. Recruit. — S. Day, jun. 
 
 Mr. J. Robinson's ch. c. Whaley. — Darling 
 
 Lord Lichfield's br. c. by Velocipede, out of Delphine. — Cartwright 
 
 Mr. Allen's b. c. Master of the Rolls. — Lye 
 
 Mr. E. Peel's br. c. Morison. — Macdonald 
 
 Captain Gardnor's c. Idiot. — Chappie 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ch. c. Willesden. — Buckle 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Hatfield. — Wright 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Weighton. — E. Edwards 
 
 Lord Egremont's c. by Chateau Margaux, out of Emmelina. — G. Edwards. 
 
 At the breaking up of the ring, the odds were 7 to 4 agst. Bay Middleton, 7 to 
 2 agst. Venison, 8 to 1 agst. Col. Peel's two, 10 to 1 agst. Sepoy, 12 to 1 agst. 
 Gladiator, 25 to 1 agst. The Athenian, the same agst. Alfred, 30 to 1 agst. the 
 Emmelina colt, the same agst. Muezzin, and 50 to 1 agst. Recruit. The once 
 much vaunted Ebberston was altogether friendless. 
 
 There was a sad drawback to the race in conse- 
 quence of the restiveness of The Athenian, whom 
 neither whip nor spur could induce to go away. He 
 went right and left, and every way but the right, 
 and Butler had a weary time of it. At last they 
 started without him, but many of the jockies, Scott, 
 Buckle, Conolly, and others, missing the horse, con- 
 cluded it would be a false start, and pulled their horses 
 accordingly, which, though early in the race, still 
 operated prejudicially. Recruit lead at a gallant pace, 
 making play for Venison, followed by Bay Middleton, 
 and carried on the running to the top of the hill, 
 where he declined, and Slane, Venison, and the 
 Emmelina colt, with Gladiator, appeared in front, in 
 company with Bay Middleton, who, however, had the 
 race in hand as cleverly as possible, though Venison 
 
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148 BAY MIDDLETON — 1836. 
 
 kept the lead to the distance, when Bay Middleton 
 and Gladiator extinguished him, the former imme- 
 diately after bidding adieu to Gladiator, and running 
 in first by a couple of lengths. Venison was a bad 
 third, Slane a poor fourth, Alfred a worse fifth, and 
 the rest came dribbling in at their leisure — any where. 
 
 Bay Middleton having thus fulfilled the most san- 
 guine expectations of his friends, went to Ascot Heath, 
 where he gave Muezzin another sound drubbing for 
 the Buckhurst Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. 
 
 In the Newmarket First October Meeting for the 
 Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each, p. p. 
 A. F., twenty-one horses were frightened out of the 
 field by Bay Middleton and El is ; the betting was 
 not so heavy as when they formerly met, many of 
 Elis's old friends having a reasonable dread of the 
 Derby winner, in addition to a belief that their 
 favourite was not improved by having been knocked 
 about the country ; the odds, therefore, rose as the 
 time approached, and, at the close, were 3 to 1 on 
 Bay Middleton, who came to the post in the most 
 perfect condition. After all, it was a false run race, 
 the pace being poor, and each on the lurching order 
 till they passed the bushes, where Bay Middleton 
 went up ; at the top of the hill he was leading, and, 
 in going down it, his wonderful stride enabled him to 
 show his tail to his gallant opponent. " Honest John" 
 tried what whipping would do, but it was " no go," 
 and the winner of the Leger was beaten in pace, stride, 
 and stoutness, by the winner of the Derby. The 
 judge gave it by a length. Robinson jockied the 
 winner. 
 
BAY MI DDL ETON — 1836. 
 
 149 
 
 The Newmarket Houghton Meeting finished the 
 eason, 1836, at least as far as regarded Bay Mid- 
 dleton, by his beating Muezzin again in a match for 
 300 sovs. each. Muezzin received thirteen pounds, 
 but no weight would ever have brought these two 
 together. 
 
 Lord Jersey now sold Bay Middleton to Lord 
 George Bentinck, for 4000 guineas, he buying him 
 chiefly upon the strength of his running with Elis, and 
 in the hope that his leg, already looking suspicious, 
 would still stand training. In this expectation, how- 
 ever, he was disappointed, although John Day nursed 
 it, and bandaged it, and tried every means in his 
 power to bring him round, but all in vain. He never 
 came right again, and finally appeared in the List of 
 Stallions for 1838. 
 
150 
 
 CYPRIAN. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, 1836. 
 
 Cyprian (the property of Mr. J. Scott), a bay filly, 
 foaled in 1833, was got by Partisan, out of Frailty, by 
 Filho da Puta (winner of the St. Leger, 1815) — 
 Agatha, by Orville — Star— Young Marske — Emma, by 
 Telemachus — A-la-Grecque, by Regulus — Airworthy — 
 Bolton Starling — Dairy Maid, by Bloody Buttocks — 
 Bay Brocklesby, by Partner — Brocklesby, by Grey- 
 hound — Brocklesby Betty, by the Curwen Bay Barb, 
 out of the Hobby Mare, by Lister's Turk. 
 
 Cyprian made her debut in 1835, by running third 
 for a Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each at Northallerton, 
 Mr. Smith's filly by Jerry, out of Florentia, being 
 first, and Mr. Bell's filly, by Langar, second. 
 
 At the Malton Meeting, April 14, 1836, Cyprian 
 won a Sweepstakes for fillies, 20 sovs. each, 8st. 31b., 
 one mile, beating very cleverly Mr. Claridge's Aveline, 
 by Jerry. — 6 to 4 on the winner. All this made 
 Cyprian the decided favourite for the Oaks, for which 
 out of ninety-eight subscriptions, the following twelve 
 fillies came to the post. 
 
 Mr. J. Scott's Cyprian. — W. Scott 
 Mr. Houldsworth's Destiny. — J. Day 
 Mr. Walker's Emineh. — Robinson 
 Mr. Dawson's Fair Jane. — T. Lye 
 
THE OAKS — 1836. 151 
 
 Mr. Armitage's Vesper. — Cartwrigbt 
 
 Lord Exeter's Toga. — Conolly 
 
 Lord Wilton's Grenada. — G. Edwards 
 
 Mr. Allen's Promise. — Pavis 
 
 Mr. Greatrex's ch. f. by The Colonel, out of Shortwaist. — Wheatley 
 
 Mr. Greville's Marmalade. — Rogers 
 
 Captain Martin's Minna. — S. Mann 
 
 Duke of Beaufort's Esmeralda. — Wright 
 Cyprian was the favourite, at 2 to 1 ; Fair Jane stood at 7 to 2 ; Emineh and 
 Vesper 8 to 1 each ; 10 to 1 agst. Destiny ; 12 to 1 agst. Promise ; 14 to 1 agst. 
 Toga ; and 20 to 1 agst. Shortwaist. 
 
 The race — as the Oaks generally is — was sporting 
 and true — every inch of the ground being contested. 
 They started well together, all in a cluster in fact, 
 Minna being the first to give way, which she did at the 
 top of the hill, Vesper and Mr. Greatrex's filly being 
 the next to follow her example. About a distance and 
 a half from home the following five appeared engaged 
 in a grand struggle : — Cyprian, Fair Jane, Promise, 
 Marmalade, and Destiny, which they maintained to the 
 grand stand, when Cyprian and Destiny, springing 
 forward simultaneously, made a beautiful rush in, Scott 
 landing his mare — not without punishment — by half a 
 length. Marmalade and Promise were two or three 
 lengths behind, and a fine flourishing tail came sweep- 
 ing down the course after them. The value of the 
 stakes was £2,750. 
 
 Cyprian's next appearance was at Newcastle, where 
 she won the Northumberland Plate of 100 sovs. added 
 to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., 
 and only 5 if declared, &c. ; the owner of the second 
 horse received back his stake. — Two miles. — Twenty- 
 three subs., four of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. Bowes's b. f. Cyprian, by Partizan, 3 yrs. old, 6st 1 
 
 Mr. Jaques's ch. f. Burletta, 4 yrs. old, 8st 2 
 
 Mr. Orde's ch. g. The Dancing Master, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. ; and Mr. Meik- 
 lam's br. c. Corryvrechan, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 71b., also started, but were not placed. 
 
152 cypkian— 1837. 
 
 In 1837, at the York Spring Meeting, Cyprian was 
 beaten for the Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 
 added ; three yr. olds, 6st. 41b. ; four, 8st. 41b. ; five, 
 8st. 121b.; six and aged, 9st. 21b.; m. and g. allowed 
 3lb. — One mile and a quarter. — Four subs. 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Wedge, by Picton, 4 yrs. old I 
 
 Mr. Bell's Zebetta, 4 yrs. old 8 
 
 Mr. Singleton's Cyprian, 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 2 to 1 on Wedge. 
 
 This closed her career upon the Turf, and she was 
 then put to the stud, by her owner, Mr. John Scott, 
 whose property she still remains, leaving behind her 
 the character of a good and honest mare, whose success 
 was hardly equal to her merits. 
 
153 
 
 ELIS. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1836. 
 
 El is, a light chesnut colt, with a white face, white 
 hind legs, and a peculiar formation of the head, was 
 bred by Mr. Hood of Stockport, and got by Langar 
 out of Olympia, by Sir Oliver; — her dam, Scotilla 
 by Anvil — Scota — Eclipse — Herod, &c. 
 
 Unlike the generality of our " Cracks," Elis had a 
 long list of Performances to be enumerated, prior to 
 the one which chiefly made his fame, as one of the 
 three great winners of his year. 
 
 On the 9th of July 1835, Elis won the Chesterfield 
 Stakes, at the Newmarket July Meeting, beating, by 
 more than a length, Mr. Chifney's Brother to Glaucus 
 (The Athenian), who carried 91b. extra, as winner of 
 the July Stakes. Corunna, Tom Beazely, colt by 
 Velocipede out of Dahlia, Alfred, Sister to Zulima, 
 St. Luke, Kitty of Coleraine, Ethiopian, The Professor, 
 El Pastor, and Mena, also started but were not 
 placed. Four to 1 agst. the winner, 2 to 1 agst. The 
 Athenian. 
 
 On July 30th. he won the Molecomb Stakes at 
 Goodwood, carrying 8st. 10lb. ; for 50 sovs. each, 
 h. ft. — T. Y. C. — Nineteen subs., beating the Duke of 
 Richmond's Havildar, and Mr. Gardnor's Skirmisher, 
 
154 ELIS A TWO-YEAR OLD. 
 
 8st. 51b. each. 6 to 4 on Elis, 7 to 4 agst. 
 Skirmisher. 
 
 At the Newmarket Second October Meeting, Elis 
 won the Clearwell Stakes, 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. — 
 T. Y. C. — Thirty-five subs., beating Mr. Greville's 
 Marmalade by a length. Saltator, Arbaces, Alfred, 
 Sister to Green Mantle, Slane, Ermine, St. Luke, 
 Redshank, and Rattle, also started bat were not 
 placed. 3 to 1 agst. Elis, 10 to 1 agst. Marmalade. 
 And two days afterwards, he ran second to the Duke 
 of Grafton's Alumnus, by Saracen, for the Prendergast 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft.— T. Y. C.— Thirty- 
 three subs., Mr. Greville's Marmalade third, Col. 
 Peel's Zenana fourth, and Mr. Isaac Day's Velocipede 
 filly fifth. 5 to 4 on Elis, 4 to 1 agst. Alumnus. 
 
 In the Houghton Meeting, Elis, at 8st. 10lb., won 
 the Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. — Forty- 
 six subs., beating Col. Peel's Slane and Mr. Wags, 
 8st. 31b. each, Galliard, Vandenhoff, colt by Albany, 
 out of Gale Middleton's dam, 8st. 31b. each, and The 
 Athenian, 8st. 101b. ; and on Thursday in the same 
 Meeting, Elis walked over for a Sweepstakes of 50 
 sovs. each, h. ft. Ab. Mile. — Twenty-subs. — Making a 
 total of £3,465. winnings as a two year old. 
 
 On the 19th April 1836, in the Newmarket First 
 Spring Meeting, Elis ran second to Lord Jersey's 
 Bay Middleton for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes 
 of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. for three year olds. R. M. 
 — Twenty-eight subs. ; Lord Berners's colt by Lamp- 
 lighter out of Camarine's dam third, Calmuck fourth, 
 Whaley fifth, Muezzin six. 6 to 4 on Bay Middleton, 
 5 to 2 agst. Elis, 8 to 1 agst. Muezzin. 
 
EL IS A THREE-YEAR OLD. 155 
 
 On the 27th of July, Elis won the Drawing Room 
 Stakes of 25sovs. each, at Goodwood, easily, by three 
 lengths — with a bonus of 10 sovs. each; colts, 8st. 
 71b., fillies, 8st. 21b.; beating Magician, Esmeralda, 
 and Sepoy. Toga, Havildar, Helga, and The Drum- 
 mer also started, but were not placed. 2 to 1 on Elis. 
 
 On July 29, he ran second to Hornsea for the Good- 
 wood Cup ; Bamfylde, by Tramp, third ; Rocking- 
 ham and six others not placed. 5 to 4 on Hornsea, 
 7 to 4 agst. Elis, and 6 to 1 agst. Rockingham. And 
 on the same day, carrying 8st. 13lb., he won the 
 Racing Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for three year olds, 
 Last Mile of the Drawing Room Stakes Course, six 
 subs., beating The Drummer, 8st. 71b., and Taglioni, 
 8st. 41b. Ten to 1 on Elis. 
 
 From Goodwood, Elis went to Lewes, where, with 
 8st. 31b., and John Day upon his back, he won the 
 Lewes Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if 
 declared, with 100 added, one mile and a half. — 
 Forty-four subs., twenty-four of whom paid only 5 
 sovs. each), beating Hock by Chateau Margaux, 3 
 yrs., old, 6st. 101b., and Olympic, by Reveller, 5 yrs. 
 old, 8st. lib. Mr. Theobald's Rockingham, 6 yrs., 
 old, 9st. 1 lib. ; and five others, also started, but were 
 not placed. 
 
 The Doncaster St. Leger now approached, the 
 race which was to make Elis's chief fame. Up to 
 three weeks before the time, the most profound 
 mystery was observed as to whether Elis would go 
 Northward, or not, insomuch that no one would take 
 the odds (12 to 1) excepting as a lottery ticket, 
 which turned up " prize" to some, and " blank" 
 
156 THE CARAVAN. 
 
 or worse, to others. People, however, began to press 
 the noble owner of Elis, to declare whether the horse 
 was " to go" — or not. —So that he, at last, and so late, 
 that it seemed impossible for the horse to travel there, 
 and win the Leger too, declared that if " some people" 
 were so anxious to see the horse at Doncaster, he 
 should go there, — but on one condition only — namely, 
 that the odds to one thousand pounds should be laid 
 against him at 1 2 to 1 . A very busy member of the 
 Betting Ring, who stood his money chiefly on the 
 horse's going, immediately set to work to collect "sub- 
 scriptions" from those whose interests were allied to 
 his own ; and in about half an hour, the money was 
 subscribed, and the horse declared to go in a carriage 
 and four. A little catastrophe remains behind. The 
 list of subscribers was given in, but many proved more 
 ready with their names than with their cash, and to 
 this hour (we believe) a good part of the "Elis subscrip- 
 tion" remains unpaid. 
 
 Mr. Territt was the first person who used a caravan 
 for the conveyance of race-horses. This was in 1816, 
 when his horse Sovereign was thus transported from 
 Red Marley, in Worcestershire, to Newmarket, where 
 he was engaged in the Two Thousand Guinea Stakes. 
 Mr. Territt had previously been accustomed to send 
 fat bullocks to Smithfield annual show in a caravan ; 
 and Doe, who was then his trainer, suggested that 
 by placing it on springs it might be advantageously 
 used to convey the horse to the place of meeting. 
 The caravan for the conveyance of the bullocks was 
 fixed on the axle-trees without springs ; but on Doe's 
 recommendation the bottom was removed, and a new 
 
THE CAIiAVAN. 157 
 
 one substituted with springs underneath. The inside 
 was also padded to prevent the horse from being- 
 bruised by an accidental jolt. The caravan thus 
 fitted up was drawn by three strong heavy horses, two 
 at wheel, and one in front, after the manner of what 
 is called " a unicorn team ;" and it travelled at the 
 rate of forty miles a day, about twice the distance 
 usually performed by a race horse when on a journey. 
 
 The revival of the caravan system in 1836, was 
 also owing to Doe, at whose suggestion his present 
 master, the Earl of Lichfield, had one built to convey 
 Elis to Doncaster. The caravan of Elis had accom- 
 modation for a companion ; and was in every respect 
 like a narrow two-stalled stable on wheels, excepting 
 that it was without racks. The caravan is usually 
 drawn by four horses, and is provided with a seat in 
 front for two persons. 
 
 This mode of transporting horses from one place to 
 another, though attended with considerable expense, 
 seems to answer its purpose, by enabling the owner 
 of a good horse, not only to save the wear and tear of 
 the animal's legs, incident to travelling on hard and 
 hot roads, but also from the rapidity with which the 
 caravan travels, to send him to many places which 
 would otherwise, from the shortness of the time 
 allowed, be totally out of his reach. The caravan has 
 travelled ninety -five miles in eleven hours and thirty - 
 five minutes, thus conveying a horse to his destination 
 in less than a fourth of the time which would have 
 been required had he walked. As an instance of the 
 value of this ambulatory horse-box, the following may 
 be mentioned : — At the Second October Meeting, at 
 
158 THE ST. LEGER — 1836. 
 
 Newmarket, last year, Grey Momus not being exactly 
 fit to start for the Prendergast Stakes, an express 
 was despatched on the Tuesday to Stockbridge for 
 D'Egville ; on the Thursday afternoon he entered 
 Newmarket in his caravan ; and on the next day he 
 started, "fresh as a leek," as Edwards said, and 
 won his race, thus paying his expenses and leaving 
 " a little over." — But to return to Elis and the St. 
 Leger, for which the following horses appeared at the 
 post at the time fixed : — 
 
 Lord Lichfield's ch. c. Elis, brother to Stockport. — J. Day 
 
 Mr. W. Scott's b. c. Scroggins, brother to St. Giles. — W. Scott 
 
 Mr. Orde's b. f. Bee's-wing, by Dr. Syntax. — R. Johnson 
 
 Lord Westminster's b. c. Snyders, by Teniers. — Chappie 
 
 Mr. Skipsey's br. c. The Bard, brother to the Saddler. — Heseltine 
 
 Mr. S. Fox's b. c. The Carpenter, by Lottery. — S. Templeman 
 
 Colonel Westenra's br. c. Wedge, by Picton. — P. Conolly 
 
 Mr. T. Dawson's b. c. Locomotive, by Waverlev. — J. Holmes 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's b. c. Ebberston, by Velocipede. — S. Rogers 
 
 Mr. Bird's b. c. Redshank, by Sandbeck. — Nat 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's br. c. Trapball, by Battledore. — J. Robinson 
 
 Mr. Allanson's ch. f. Vulture, by Langar. — S. Darling 
 
 Lord Eglinton's bl. c. The Black Diamond, by Jerry G. Nelson 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's br. c. by Tramp or Comus. — F. Edwards. 
 
 It has been observed with great truth, that although 
 numerically inferior to some bye-gone Legers, the one 
 about to be described has rarely been equalled in 
 actual importance. It boasted a brilliant field of first- 
 rate public horses, and was speculated on to an enor- 
 mous amount in all parts of the country. Moreover, 
 it derived additional interest from the uncertainty 
 which so long prevailed with respect to Elis, the novel 
 mode adopted of sending him, and the manner in 
 which he was brought into the market. In the two or 
 three weeks immediately preceding the day, repeated 
 fluctuations took place in the betting. 
 
 At the start the odds were 6 to 4 agst. Scroggins (t.), 7 to 2 agst. Elis (t.) ( 
 
THE ST, LKGER — 1836. 159 
 
 8 to 1 agst. Trapball (t.), 10 to 1 agst. Redshank, 12 to 1 agst. Wedge, 15 to 1 
 agst. Bee's-wing (t.), 20 to 1 agst. black Diamond, 25 to 1 agst. Vulture, and 
 25 to 1 agst. Snyders. 
 
 After two or three failures, the horses went away 
 in good order, Carew taking up the work as soon as 
 the jockies had selected their places ; lying forward 
 with Black Diamond and Wedge, next them Red- 
 shank and Bee's-wing, the favourites, with Trapball 
 bringing up the rear till a few yards before they 
 reached the Red-house. Here John Day made a bit 
 of a rush, obtained a lead of nearly a length, and, 
 whatever may be said to the contrary, the race was 
 over then. It is true that Scroggins and Bee's-wing 
 came out at the same time, but it was only to run a 
 neck and neck race for second — the Judge gave it to 
 Scroggins, and the public to Bee's-wing, but both 
 agreed that Elis won very easy by a couple of lengths ; 
 Snyders and The Bard were next to them, and the 
 others in a crowd behind, excepting a ragged lot of 
 four, viz. — Carew, Black Diamond, Vulture, and 
 Trapball. The conduct of the Judge, in not placing 
 Bee's-wing, was very strongly animadverted upon in 
 some quarters. 
 
 On the Tuesday in the Newmarket First October 
 Meeting, Elis was beaten by Bay Middleton for the 
 Grand Duke Michael Stakes, in a race which we 
 have already described (p. 148), and on the Thursday 
 in the Houghton Meeting he ended the season 183f), 
 in a very interesting Handicap of 200 sovs. each, 
 A. F., carrying 8st. 7lb. and John Day ; against Col. 
 Peel's Mr. Wags, 7st. 131b. and Pavis; and Lord 
 Exeter's Muezzin, 7st. 91b. and Conolly. At the first 
 as little as 5 to 4 was taken between Elis and the 
 
]60 elis— 1837. 
 
 field, the former being the favourite — it then rose to 
 7 to 4 on him, and lastly to 5 to 2 which was taken 
 freely. Mr. Wags took the lead, but did not go 
 anything like a pace till he reached the new ground ; 
 he continued with a good lead to the hill, Elis all the 
 while pulling as if he meant to come out at the 
 cords and win by two or three lengths ; in rising the 
 hill, however, he found that it was not so great a cer- 
 tainty as he had expected, — John called upon him 
 and he went up to Wags, — kept at his head to the 
 end, and was lucky enough to make it a dead heat, 
 but had stronger running been made, nothing could 
 have saved him from defeat. Muezzin was beaten 
 three parts of a length. The stakes were divided, 
 not a little to the mortification of the betters of the 
 odds. 
 
 Elis made his first appearance for the season, 1837, 
 in the Newmarket Craven Meeting, in a match for 
 300 sovs. D. M. with Slane. Elis, 8st. 71b., and Slane, 
 8st., the half stone, however, went for nothing. Elis 
 won in the commonest canter by three lengths, and 
 proved, first, that his race with Wags in the 
 October, must have been a mistake; and secondly, 
 that Lord George Bentinck was not out of his judg- 
 ment in giving 4000 gs. for Bay Middleton, which he 
 had done on the strength of his having so often beaten 
 Elis. This, however, was our hero's last appearance 
 on the Turf, as soon afterwards he went irrecoverably 
 lame, and finally appeared in the List of Stallions for 
 1838. 
 
161 
 
 THE RACING SEASON, 1836. 
 
 In reviewing the Racing Season 1836 — it is a pleasure 
 to observe the progressive increase of sport for which 
 the last two years have been remarkable. The Calen- 
 dar this year contained considerable addition to the 
 sport, and the names of several noblemen and gentle- 
 men new to the Turf, gave promise of a good continu- 
 ance. The Stakes were also, this year, even in point 
 of amount, greatly beyond all precedent. 
 
 Passing over the provincial meetings as of but slight 
 interest beyond the moment, we arrive at the New- 
 market Craven, where Redshank won the Trial (the 
 Craven) race cleverly, and took an outside place in 
 the odds for the Leger in consequence. 
 
 The Riddlesworth, although not a betting race, was 
 rendered highly interesting by the appearance of the 
 crack Derby favourite, who won so easily, that despite 
 " honest John's" opinion as to his form for " the hill," 
 the result was looked upon, barring accidents, as a 
 certainty by the Jersey party. Muezzin was fortunate 
 enough to meet two worse wretches than himself for 
 
 L 
 
162 THE RACING SEASON, 1836. 
 
 the Tuesday's Riddlesworth, but his real qualifications 
 were so palpable, that he retrograded in the Derby odds 
 immediately after winning, Mr. Ridsdale having tried 
 Ebberston to be something out of the common, and 
 standing in with the Squire, made a good beginning by 
 getting on at 40, 30, 25, and 20 to 1 for the Derby 
 previous to the Column race, the result of which placed 
 Ebberston at 8 to 1, and second favourite for the great 
 Epsom race. 
 
 The First Spring Meeting was in every respect a 
 brilliant affair. The 2,000 guineas was speculated 
 upon to an immense extent ; both horses being sup- 
 ported with something like old fashioned spirit. Bay 
 Middleton won by barely a neck, and rose a point for 
 the Derby, and, to prove the good judgment of the 
 Newmarket knowing ones, they made Elis first fa- 
 vourite for the Doncaster St. Leger. The Portland 
 Handicap brought out Sheet Anchor in improved form 
 by his defeating Hornsea, Birdlime, &c, in a canter. 
 There were many, and good judges too, who thought 
 this race " a mistake/' 
 
 The 1,000 guineas stakes went into the pocket of 
 that good and quiet sportsman, Mr. Houldsworth, 
 without affording (as the race usually does) any crite- 
 rion for the Oaks betting. 
 
 The Newmarket Stakes were won by a head by 
 Muezzin beating Taishteer and three others. The 
 winner and second horse were so near together at the 
 finish, that the spectators cried out "a dead heat!" 
 Immediately after this race 20 to 1 against the two was 
 offered for the Derby. 
 
THE RACING SEASON, J 836. 163 
 
 The weather in the Epsom week, to the great delight 
 of the Londoners, was beautifully fine. Recruit's win- 
 ning the Craven against a decent field of all-aged 
 horses, brought John Day's lot strong into the market, 
 and as the day advanced, Venison, who had tailed off 
 his companions in a trial in a superior style, gradually 
 got up in the odds, until no one could be found to lay 
 5 to 1 against him. That the Derby was won as easily 
 as ever that race was won before, no one will deny ; 
 and that the start, as regards Gladiator, Slane, and one 
 or two others, was anything but satisfactory, is equally 
 clear to the disinterested. 
 
 Every body, however, was glad that Lord Jersey won, 
 for he is unquestionably one of our finest specimens of 
 a noble British sportsman combined with a high-bred 
 gentleman. Nimrod in his Crack Riders of England 
 says, he was not only "one of the hardest, boldest, and 
 most judicious, but perhaps the most elegant rider to 
 hounds the world ever saw. In his best days — those 
 of Mr. Meynell — (when Lord Villiers) he was not to be 
 beaten either by hounds or by man ; on the contrary, 
 there are tales on record touching his Lordship, that 
 lead one to believe he was one of the few of those times 
 who were too fast for the hounds even over Leicester- 
 shire. I allude," says Nimrod, " to his having been 
 now and then heard to exclaim in a run, ' Curse these 
 hounds, what a bore they are ; they can't get from 
 under one's horse's feet.' But all the Villiers's were 
 dashing fellows—-' prodigal of their persons,' writes 
 Clarendon." 
 
 With the exception of occasionally running a horse 
 
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164 THE RACING SEASON, 1836. 
 
 for a hunters stake, we believe his Lordship did not 
 make his appearance on the turf until the year 1807. 
 Since that year he has been a steady and constant 
 patron of it, and without virtue being altogether its 
 own reward, for we find he has come in for his share of 
 the "good things," having had, among many other 
 winners of less note, Cannon-ball, Master Henry, 
 Richard, Sporus, Cobweb, winner of the Oaks in 1 824 
 — Middleton, winner of the Derby in J 825 (and since 
 purchased by the Emperor of Russia), Mameluke, win- 
 ner of the Derby in 1827, followed by Glenartney, 
 Donegani, Riddlesworth, Glencoe, and Ibrahim. 
 
 The Oaks was remarkable for the badness of the 
 field, and the singular circumstance of the winner 
 having run at Malton on the 14th of April, a distance 
 from Epsom of 225 miles. That Destiny would have 
 won, had she been in proper trim, was, at the time, the 
 general opinion ; but the mares of this year were a bad 
 lot ; and the figure Destiny cut at Doncaster and else- 
 where, proved her anything but a flyer. 
 
 Ascot was scarcely so good as might have been ex- 
 pected, Mr. Gardnor's Peter Lely colt won the two- 
 year-old Stakes in a style that led his friends to augur 
 well of his Derby qualities. The " make up" consisted 
 chiefly of sorry three year olds, who ran in and out, 
 without showing any really good sport. Sheet An- 
 chor, a great favourite for the Cup, was, on the 
 Sunday previous to the race, found wanting in a 
 gallop with an inferior horse; and Robinson, who 
 rode him, could scarcely raise a gallop : such is the 
 uncertainty of the Turf. So Touchstone carried off 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1836. 
 
 165 
 
 THE ASCOT CUP, 1836. 
 
 A group copied from the antique ; — a system of 
 Cup modelling which has since become very popular. 
 
 The Manchester, Stockbridge, Newton, Newcastle, 
 Bath, and Cheltenham Meetings, went off with their 
 usual eclat. At Stockbridge, Defender showed the 
 public his powers. At Newton, the old General 
 again carried away the Cup. At Newcastle, Bee's- 
 wing ran quite away from her old companion, Black 
 Diamond, and took a prominent place in the Leger 
 betting. 
 
 The running of Elis at Goodwood, would have 
 made him a great favourite for the Leger, had there 
 been any certainty of his going. As it was, the 
 
166 THE RACING SEASON, 1836. 
 
 meeting passed off with general satisfaction, but 
 without working any particular wonders in the sport 
 ing world. At Lewes, Elis won so easily, beating 
 horses of all ages, and giving immense weight to 
 nearly all in the race, that his party found they could 
 not get on a sufficient "pot," for the St. Leger ; and 
 in consequence the singular method was hit upon 
 to declare Elis should not go to Doncaster unless 
 £12,000 to £1,000 was laid against his winning. 
 There was so much said at the time, and so many old 
 experienced turf-men differed as to the policy of 
 forcing (as they called it) a horse upon the public, 
 that it would be superfluous now to enter further 
 into the case, save and except to say, what at the 
 time was very evident, namely, that everybody con- 
 curred in declaring it to be a bad precedent. The 
 Leger was as fair run a race as ever was contested ; 
 and the easy manner in which Elis disposed of the 
 lot, confirmed Lord Jersey's opinion of his colt, Bay 
 Middleton : " That it is a long time since a better 
 three year old appeared on the turf." There was a 
 great deal of bickering respecting the judge not 
 placing Bee's-wing. 
 
 We now approach the close of the season, and, 
 as the three Newmarket October Meetings finish 
 the legitimate racing of the year ; we may class 
 them together with few remarks. Bay Middleton 
 came out in finer trim, if possible, than at Epsom or 
 Ascot, and his races with Elis and Muezzin proved, 
 if any further proofs were necessary, that at any 
 weight or for any distance, he was greatly superior to 
 anything of his day. Of the two year olds that ran, 
 
THE HACING SEASON, 1836. 
 
 167 
 
 Wintonian was, perhaps, a shade the best. Of the 
 many other races at these Meetings, we shall offer 
 no observation, save on the Criterion, which was won 
 by Chapeau d'Espagne, over a snow swept course; and 
 the INursery, won by Cassandra, beating a large field 
 of bad horses, at very long odds, and receiving 
 weight from nearly every thing in the race ; a very 
 creditable performance for the end of a crack Season ! 
 
168 
 
 PHOSPHORUS. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1837. 
 
 Phosphorus, the property of Lord Berners, was got 
 by Lamplighter, out of a Rubens mare, foaled in 1819, 
 and bred by his lordship, (then Colonel Wilson ;) her 
 dam, Tippitywitchet, by Waxy, out of Hare, by 
 Sweetbriar — Justice — Chymist — South. 
 
 Phosphorus made his first appearance at the New- 
 market First Spring Meeting, 1837, for the New- 
 market Stakes, 50 sovs. each, for three yr. olds, 
 where he ran a bad second to Rat-trap. At the New- 
 market Second Spring, he won a plate, value 50 sovs. 
 — Rowley mile; beating Lord Suffield's Anvil, and 
 others. At starting the odds were 5 to 2 against 
 Phosphorus, who, though he was in physic at the time, 
 won easily by a couple of lengths ; — ridden by John 
 Day. These performances were not of a character to 
 induce much speculation on Phosphorus as a Derby 
 horse, nor yet to gain him many friends ; moreover, it 
 was perfectly well known that Phosphorus was an 
 infirm horse, if not, at the moment, absolutely lame. 
 The eccentric character of his owner was another bar 
 to his advancement in the betting, and he therefore 
 remained a dark horse to the day. 
 
 At twelve o'clock, on the day before the race, Phos- 
 
THE DERBY, 1837. 169 
 
 phorus was, as the saying goes, " as lame as a cat;" 
 and the odds against him, "all Lombard-street to a 
 China orange-pip." And in the evening Lord Ber- 
 ners's trainer came for orders, not knowing what to 
 do, the horse was so lame ; but all that he could get 
 out of the old Lord was, " Run — I always run" — so 
 run he did. 
 
 At length came Thursday, the 25th of May, and we 
 may safely assert, that a more extraordinary, a more 
 interesting, and a better contested Derby, had not been 
 seen for many years. And, after all, to make the race 
 still more remarkable, it was won by a lame horse, 
 against whom his " dearest friends," after backing 
 him heavily at 10, 15, and 20 to 1, laid any odds that 
 were asked " to get their money off," so safe was he ! 
 As the time approached, the odds fluctuated, the final 
 prices being 6 to 4 agst. Rat-trap, 7 to 2 agst. Caravan, 
 5 to 1 agst. Mango, 11 to 2 agst. Hibiscus, 17 to 1 
 agst. Wisdom, 25 to 1 agst. Benedict, 25 to 1 agst. 
 Dardanelles, 40 to 1 agst. Phosphorus, and the same 
 agst. Mahometan. Wintonian was declared not to 
 run, and for a long time it was doubtful whether 
 Phosphorus would be brought out, in consequence of 
 his being so lame. At twenty minutes before three 
 o'clock, the following appeared at the post : 
 
 Duke of Rutland's br. c. Rat-trap. — J. Robinson 
 Lord Suffield's br. c. Caravan. — A. Pavis 
 Lord Exeter's br. c. Hibiscus. — P. Conolly 
 Mr. Greville's br. c. Mango. — N. Flatman 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Mickle Fell.— W. Scott 
 Mr. Wreford's b. c. Wisdom. — J. Day 
 Lord Berners's b. c. Phosphorus. — G. Edwards 
 Captain Gardnor's b. c. Benedict. — Chappie 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's b. c. Mahometan. — H. Edwards 
 Lord Chesterfield's c. Critic. — S. Chifney 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's gr. c. The Pocket Hercules. — S. Rogers 
 
170 PHOSPHORUS. 
 
 Mr. Theobald's ch. c. Sir Frederick. — Macdonald 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Dardanelles. — S. Darling 
 
 Mr. Cookes's b. c. Norgrove.— C. Edwards 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Troilus. — G. Nelson 
 
 Mr. Jackson's b. c. Pegasus. — Bartley 
 
 Mr. PhiUimore's c. by Catton, out of Spavina. — Buckle. 
 
 After a couple of false starts the horses got off in 
 compact order, Pocket Hercules cutting out the work 
 at the top of his speed, followed by a ruck of horses, 
 with Caravan, Phosphorus, and Wisdom in the front 
 rank ; they kept their positions at a terrible pace till 
 very near the corner, where the grey had beaten him- 
 self and a good many others, for the tail was already 
 a very long one. Caravan and Phosphorus now went 
 a-head, but still kept with the body of horses, among 
 which Dardanelles, Mango, and Hibiscus were the 
 most forward. Caravan carried the running to the 
 cross road, where he and Phosphorus singled them- 
 selves clearly out, and it became now a single-handed 
 affair between those two. The contest was magnifi- 
 cent — neither getting a pull on his opponent till right 
 on the Chair, where George Edwards, by downright 
 manual labour, drove his horse half a length in front 
 and won — we certainly never saw a more beautiful 
 display of horsemanship. Between Caravan and the 
 next horse there must have been at least six lengths ; 
 which really was third we do not pretend to say, but 
 the honour is variously bestowed on Hibiscus, Darda- 
 nelles, and Mahometan. Mango was about sixth, and 
 close to him were Rat-trap, Wisdom, and Benedict ; 
 the tailing amongst the others was most distinct — 
 Critic, Sir Frederick, and Norgrove whipping in the 
 stragglers. The pace was amazingly fast from the 
 beginning. 
 
PHOSPHORUS. 
 
 171 
 
 Phosphorus, " the hero of the day," never came 
 again, and Lord Berners dying soon afterwards, his 
 horses were put up for sale in the Newmarket First 
 Spring Meeting, 1838, when Phosphorus was bought 
 in for 910 guineas, but subsequently sold by private 
 contract to the Duke of Brunswick for 1000 guineas. 
 
 He was immediately sent over to Brunswick, and 
 pnt into training for the races there, but his lameness 
 was too deeply seated to be easily cured, added to 
 which, the sea voyage upset him, and after running 
 several times unsuccessfully, he was finally withdrawn 
 from the Turf, and put to the Stud in Brunswick, where 
 he still remains. 
 
172 
 
 MISS LETTY. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, 1837. 
 
 Mrss Letty, a bay filly, was bred by her owner, the 
 Hon. Thomas Orde Powlett, of Bolton-castle, near 
 Middleham, Yorkshire. She was got by Priam ; her 
 dam, Miss Fanny's dam, by Orville ; grandam by 
 Buzzard ; great grandam, Hornpipe, by Trumpator ; 
 great great grandam, Luna, Cardinal Puff's dam, by 
 King Herod ; great great great grandam, Proserpine, 
 own sister to Eclipse, by Marske — Regulus — Son of 
 Snake — Lord D'Arcy's old Montague — Hautboy- 
 Brimmer, &c. 
 
 Miss Letty, who did not receive this name until 
 after she won the Oaks, made her first appearance at 
 the York Spring Meeting, 1836, where she started for 
 a two-yr. old Stakes, but was beaten by the Duke of 
 Cleveland's Henriade, and Mr. Bell's Golden Drop. 
 At Doncaster, on 20th September, in the same year, 
 she won the Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., 
 for two yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 51b. ; and fillies, 8st. 3lb. 
 — Red-House in. — Ten subs. 
 
 Mr. Powlett's b. f. by Priam, out of Miss Fanny's dam 1 
 
 Duke of Leeds's br. c. Wrestler, by Waverley, dam by Reveller .... 2 
 Mr. W. Turner's ch. f. by Recovery, out of Primrose 3 
 
 and on the Thursday in the same Meeting, she was 
 beaten for the Two-Year Olds Stakes of 20 sovs. 
 
MISS LETTY, 1837. 173 
 
 each ; colts, 8st. 51b. ; fillies, 8st. 21b.— T. Y. C.— 
 Thirty-four subs. 
 
 Lord Westminster's br. c. Cardinal Puff, by Pantaloon, out of Puff. . 1 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Voltaire, out of Matilda 2 
 
 Mr. Skipsey's br. c. Slashing Harry 3 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's b. f. by Emilius, out of Maria ; Mr. Powlett's b. f. by 
 Priam, out of Miss Fanny's dam ; Mr. S. King's b. o. Vernal, by Actaeon, out of 
 Melrose's dam ; Sir R. Bulkeley's cb. c. Bangalore; and Mr. Vansittart's br. c. 
 by Catton, out of Darioletta ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 5 to 4 agst. Slashing Harry, 3 to 1 agst. the Matilda colt, 4 to 1 
 agst. the winner, and 7 to 1 agst. Bangalore. 
 
 Miss Letty's first appearance in 1837, was at the 
 Catterick Bridge Meeting, for the Claret Stakes of 
 10 sovs. each, with 40 added, for three yr. olds ; 
 colts, 8st. 31b.; fillies, 7st. 13lb. Two miles. — Ten 
 subs, 
 
 Capt. Fairlie's ch. c. Abraham Newland 1 
 
 Lord Kelburne's ch. c. by Albany, dam by St. Patrick 2 
 
 Col. Cradock's b. c. by Voltaire, out of Comedy .. 3 
 
 Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. f. by Priam, out of Miss Fanny 4 
 
 The Maid of Avenal, Theresa, and Clints, not placed. 
 The Priam Filly, the favourite. 
 
 Lord Kelburne's Albany colt, a neat little nag and 
 a good goer (not unlike St. Patrick in appearance), 
 with G. Nelson on his back, made the running through- 
 out at a capital pace. Our filly pulling hard and lying 
 forward, and Mr. Attwood's Arabian, Clints, also going 
 well. At the distance, and when apparently not 
 without a chance, Clints fell (Arabians ought not to 
 fail in races like these), and the Priam filly appeared 
 to be winning; but when the tug of war came, it was 
 between Abraham Newland, Lord Kelburne's colt, and 
 the Comedy colt ; and a tremendous struggle ensued, 
 Abraham Newland only winning by about a head. 
 
 At this time Velure, Vacuna, and Egeria were first, 
 second, and third favourites for the Oaks, at the 
 
174 MISS LETTY, 1837. 
 
 respective prices of 4, 6, and 9, to 1. — then Volup- 
 tuary, and Chapeau d'Espagne came into the betting, 
 and " evaporated," and the odds finally stood upon 
 the day at, 2 to 1 agst. Chapeau d'Espagne, 5 to 2 
 agst. Vacuna, 4 to 1 agst. Egeria, 7 to 1 agst. the 
 winner, 10 to 1 agst. Voluptuary, and 18 to 1 agst. 
 the Garcia filly, and of ninety-two nominations the 
 following thirteen 
 
 Hon. T. Orde Powlett's b. f. by Priam, out of Miss Fanny's dam, by 
 Orville.— 1 
 
 Mr. John Day's b. f. Cbepeau d'Espagne, by Dr. Syntax 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. Velure by Picton . . 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. f. Comate, by Reveller ; Mr. S. L. Fox's b. f. Theresa, by 
 Langar ; Mr. Batson's ch. f. Voluptuary, by Reveller ; Colonel Peel's cli. f. by 
 Bedlamite, out of Garcia ; Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Vacuna, by Tramp, out of 
 St. Giles's dam; Mr. Thornhill's b. f. Egeria, by Emilius ; Sir G. Heathcote's br. 
 f. La Meprisee, by Velocipede, out of Zenobia ; Mr. Osbaldeston's b. f. Ebberston 
 Lass, sister to Ebberston, by Velocipede; Lord Verulam'sb. f. Duvernay, by 
 Emilius ; and Lord Lichfield's b. f. Cassandra, by Priam ; also started, but were 
 not placed. 
 
 Chapeau having orders to make play, did so at a 
 fair pace, with a ruck at her heels, composed of Vo- 
 luptuary, Garcia, Powlett's filly, Velure, Theresa, and 
 Comate, all of them keeping in position till they got 
 into the straight running, where it was evident that 
 Miss Letty had the race in hand — she was pulling 
 double and fit to run over everything in her way ; with 
 some difficulty Holmes restrained her till about three 
 hundred yards from the post, when given her her 
 head, she shot by Chapeau, and the race was over in 
 an instant. Velure and Comate were third and fourth, 
 Theresa fifth, and Voluptuary sixth. Egeria and 
 Vacuna were beaten off a long way ; as were Duver- 
 nay, Cassandra, La Meprisee, Garcia, and Ebberston 
 Lass ; Duvernay, Cassandra, Egeria, and La Meprisee 
 being the first to "cut" it. The pace was excellent. 
 
MISS LETTY, 1837. 175 
 
 Miss Letty was now looked upon as " somebody," 
 and at the York August Meeting we find her winning 
 a Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft. for three yr. 
 olds ; colts, 8st. 51b., and fillies, 8st. 2lb. — One mile 
 and a quarter. — Six subs. 
 
 Mr. T. O. Powlett's b. f. Miss Letty, by Priam, out of Miss Fanny's 
 
 dam 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Capulet 2 
 
 7 to 4 on Miss Letty. 
 
 But on the Friday in the Doncaster Meeting, she 
 surprised her friends and gave a windfall to the 
 fielders by losing the Filly Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 
 with 20 added by the Corporation, for three yr. olds, 
 8st. 4lb. each. — St. Leger course. — Seven subs. 
 
 Mr. Blacklock's bl. f. Yarico, by Waverley 1 
 
 Mr. Powlett's b. f. Miss Letty 2 
 
 As a matter of course, the winner of the Oaks was 
 the favourite, and as the other mare had shown 
 temper in most of her previous races, the odds rose to 
 5 and 6 to 1, and twice as much in running — but 
 there is nothing safe till it is over. Miss Letty made 
 the play to the stand, where she was taken aback on 
 finding Yarico at her side instead of her heels, and 
 still more surprised at finding her a couple of lengths 
 a-head at the winning post ! another of the glorious 
 uncertainties ! 
 
 At Lincoln, in the following week, Miss Letty 
 redeemed her character by winning Her Majesty's 
 Purse of 100 gs. for mares; three yr. olds, Pst, 21b ; 
 four, 9st. 41b.; five, 9st. 1 lib. ; six and aged, lOst. — 
 Two-mile heats. 
 
 Mr. Powlett's b. f. Miss Letty, by Priam, 3 yrs. old 1 1 
 
 Mr. Bell's b. f. Miss Eliza, 3 yrs. old 2 2 
 
 After which she was withdrawn from the Turf and 
 put to the Stud. 
 
176 
 
 MANGO. 
 
 WINNER OF THE ST. LEGER STAKES AT DONC ASTER, 1837. 
 
 Mango, bred by Mr. Thornhill, and afterwards the 
 property of C. C. Greville, Esq., is what some persons 
 call a brown horse, though, to speak more properly, 
 his colour is a very dark bay. He is fifteen hands 
 three inches and a half high, and of a form which 
 indicates great strength. His legs are strong and 
 well-shaped; he is remarkably round in the ribs; 
 and, from the great developement of his muscles, his 
 general appearance at three, was that of a five-year 
 old. He was got by Emilius, out of Mustard, by 
 Merlin; grandam, Morel, sister to Truffle, by Sor- 
 cerer ; great grandam, Hornby-Lass, by Buzzard — 
 Puzzle, by Matchem — Princess, by King Herod — 
 Julia, by Blank— Spectator's dam by Partner— Bonny 
 Lass, by Bay Bolton— the Darley Arabian— Taffolet 
 Barb— Place's White Turk — Native Barb Mare. 
 
 Mango was very unequal in his performances, and, 
 though a frequent winner, his career was not one of 
 uninterrupted success ; having more than once been 
 beaten by horses of no very high character. In fact, 
 though an honest running horse, he was lazy ; and 
 required considerable exertion on the part of his 
 jockey to make him put forth his speed. 
 
 Mango's first appearance on the Turf, was on the 
 
mango— 1836. 177 
 
 18th of October in the Newmarket Second October 
 Meeting 1836, for the Clearwell Stakes. The fol- 
 lowing came to the post, and, strange to say, were 
 started without a failure : — 
 
 Mr. Sowerby's Ruby, by Reveller, out of Turquoise ; Lord Exeter's Corban, 
 brother to Beiram ; Lord Exeter's c. Champion, by Red Gauntlet, out of Patron's 
 dam ; Mr. John Day\ f. Chapeau d'Espagne ; Mr. Cooper's c. by Bobadil, out 
 of Lady's Slipper ; Colonel Peel's f. by Bedlamite, out of Garcia ; Mr. Greville's 
 br. c. Mango, brother to Preserve ; Mr. Fortb's ch. f. by Bedlamite, out of 
 Hatfield's dam; and Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Venilia. 
 
 Corban took the lead at a slashing pace, Chapeau 
 d'Espagne running almost abreast of him, and Mango, 
 Lady's Slipper, Garcia, and Venilia at their heels, all 
 clustered together, and all looking well ; Ruby, Cham- 
 pion, and old Forth's filly did not live with them any 
 distance, and may be dismissed at once as having 
 nothing to do with the race. The first division 
 maintained its order of running nearly the whole of the 
 ground, nothing decisive showing itself till close to the 
 ropes, where Corban, Venilia, and Lady's Slipper, were 
 in trouble ; Mango looked well here, but it was only for 
 a moment, as Chapeau d'Espagne and Garcia singled 
 themselves out, and ran a match home, Garcia having 
 clearly the worst of the race till the last stride, when 
 Pavis made a tremendous effort, and won his race by a 
 head. Mango ran the first two to a length, and was 
 followed closely by Corban, Lady's Slipper, and Venilia, 
 the latter being sixth. After the race Mango was not 
 quoted at more than 25 to 1 for the Derby. 
 
 The Clearwell Stakes had the year before (1835) 
 produced a winner of the Leger (Elis), but few 
 thought that this race had brought out another. 
 
 Mango's next race was on the 25th May, for the 
 
 M 
 
178 mango— 1836. 
 
 Derby — won by Phosphorus. Mango came in about 
 sixth, having near to him Rat-trap, Wisdom, and 
 Benedict. We have already described this race in 
 detail (page 170) and need therefore only here remark 
 that the odds were 5 to 1 against Mango, who was 
 third favourite. 
 
 At Ascot Heath on Tuesday the 6th of June, for 
 the Ascot Derby, Mango, Mr. J. Day's Chapeau 
 d'Espagne, Lord Chesterfield's Edgar, and Lord 
 Exeter's Adrian, started, the market prices being 11 
 to 10 on Chapeau, and 6 to 4 agst. Mango. Adrian 
 made what running he could for the first mile, when 
 Mango took it up, mended the pace, kept the mare at 
 his heels, and won by a length. And again, on the 
 same day, the race for a pair of splendid tankards, 
 representing, in frosted silver, horse and chariot racing, 
 value 200 gs., the gift of His Majesty, was run over 
 the Swinley Course by Mango and Velure, the former 
 carrying his Derby weight, and giving the mare 71b. 
 — and, more than that, giving her a 71b., beating. 
 Betting : 5 to 2 on Mango ; who, however, was not 
 yet satisfied with his week's work, and accordingly on 
 the Thursday in the same Meeting, a Sweepstakes of 
 100 sovs, each, old mile, produced a splendid race 
 between the two Derby colts, Mango and Rat-trap, 
 both great favourites for that race, and fancied by the 
 same parties for this. After some very spirited bet- 
 ting, Mango left off the favourite, at 11 to 8. Rat- 
 trap, having a turn of speed, made a waiting race of 
 it, till within a few lengths of the chair, where Robin- 
 son went up, but so wide of his opponent, that most 
 people imagined he had swerved, which was not the 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1837. 179 
 
 case. All Robinson's jockeyship, and it was wonder- 
 ful, could not succeed, Mango winning a terrific race 
 by a head : but getting such a jobbing as will serve 
 him for a perpetual memento of Ascot. 
 
 At Stockbridge on Friday the 30th of June, Mango, 
 having his winning ways still about him, showed Mr. 
 Wreford's Wisdom the colour of his heels for a Sweep- 
 stakes of 100 so vs. each. h. ft., for foals of 1834 ; 
 colts, 8st. 71b. ; fillies, 8st. 4lb. ; untried stallions or 
 mares allowed 3lb. ; if both, 5lb. — One mile and a 
 half. — Thirteen subs. 
 
 Mr. Greville's br. c. Mango, by Emilius, 8st. 7lb 1 
 
 Mr. Wreford's b. c. Wisdom, 8st. 71b 2 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Mango. 
 
 It might naturally have been expected that these 
 performances would have made Mango a greater 
 favourite for the Doncaster St. Leger than the odds 
 of 7 to 1 show him to have been ; but some people 
 thought him still in his Derby form ; others fancied 
 him fat and lazy ; others again declared that he was 
 lame ; whilst not a few ascribed his Ascot victory to 
 Rat-trap's swerving, although, in fact, he won by fair 
 honest running and hard work. However, on the day, 
 Epirus was the favourite at 2 to 1 against him, and 
 the betting about the others, 9 to 2 agst. Mahometan, 
 5 to 1 agst. Puff, 7 to 1 agst. Mango, 14 to 1 agst. 
 The Doctor, 14 to 1 agst. Slashing Harry, 17 to 1 
 agst. Troilus, 22 to 1 agst. Abraham Newland, and 
 30 to 1 agst. Egeria. The following horses started. 
 
 Mr. Greville's Mango, by Emilius. — S. Day 
 Mr. S. Fox's The Doctor, by Dr. Syntax. — Templeman 
 Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland, by Malek. — Lye 
 Duke of Cleveland's Henriade, by Voltaire. — J. Day 
 
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180 THE ST. LEGER, 1837. 
 
 Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, by Pantaloon. — G. Edwards 
 
 Mr. Bowes's Epirus, by Langar. — Scott 
 
 Mr. T. Walters's The Prime Warden, by Cadland. — H. Edwards 
 
 Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry, by Voltaire. — Heseltine 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's Egeria, by Emilius. — Conolly 
 
 Lord Exeter's Dardanelles, by Sultan. — Nelson 
 
 Lord Exeter's Troilus, by Priam. — Darling 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan, by Muley. — Robinson 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's Blakey Topping, by Clinker. — Chappie. 
 
 The first attempt to get away was '" no go" — the 
 second was one of the finest ever seen — but they 
 always manage this difficult job better at Doncaster 
 than at any other place. In a short time, however, 
 an accident effectually disposed of the first favourite, 
 and was well nigh disposing of the crack north-country 
 jock, " for good and for aye." Scott, it appears, had 
 taken his place near the leading horses, close (too 
 close at any time) to a ditch which borders the course. 
 From the gravel road over the hill — something made 
 the horse hang nearer to it than Scott could have 
 intended, so near, in short, that the bank gave way 
 under his fore feet, and he fell into the ditch ; Scott, 
 in the animal's struggles to get out, being thrown on 
 to the course. The Prime Warden came up at the 
 moment, and, narrowly escaping a fall himself, struck 
 Scott on the collar bone, which was literally smashed ; 
 as a necessary consequence both horses had done with 
 the race from this point. Scott was taken home and 
 found to have received a coumpound fracture of the 
 collar bone. To return, however, to the race ; Blakey 
 Topping, as the representative of Mahometan, and 
 Dardanelles, as plenipo. for that high-bred Trojan, 
 Troilus, opened the proceedings at a slow pace, Blakey 
 being the first to begin. Dardanelles, however, 
 thought a little more speed desirable ; mended it 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1837. 181 
 
 considerably at the foot of the hill ; and took the 
 lead ; a knot behind them, consisting of The Doctor, 
 Mango, Epirus (till his fall), and Cardinal Puff; the 
 others lying up in a ruck, and so closely packed that 
 a moderate sized Macintosh would have made them 
 all water-proof. Nothing occurred worthy of notice 
 till they neared the white rails, where Egeria, and 
 the Prime Warden were left in the rear. At the 
 distance, the front rank was composed of Cardinal 
 Puff, who had a slight lead, Dardanelles, The Doctor 
 (lookinglike a winner), Abraham Newland, and Troilus. 
 Here a greyhound ran under Dardanelles and broke 
 his stride, luckily without any accident ; but Henriade 
 following immediately behind, was thrown, cut his 
 knees, bruised his back, and nearly unseated "honest 
 John." The Doctor, Abraham Newland, and Puff 
 went on with the running till close to the stand, 
 Mango lurching; at their heels. Here the Cardinal 
 had expended all his " puff," and the other two 
 opening, young Sam Day slipt in betwixt them, gave 
 his nag one rattling cut with the whip, had them 
 " all right" in three strides, and landed him a clever 
 winner by a length. A good race for second, between 
 The Doctor and Abraham Newland, was awarded to 
 the latter. Dardanelles was a respectable fourth, and 
 was followed pretty close by the Cardinal, Troilus, 
 and Slashing Harry. The others were not up. 
 
 In the First October Meeting, at Newmarket, 1837, 
 on Wednesday, 4th October, Mango, as the winner of 
 the Great St. Leger, was naturally expected to win 
 its minor namesake at Newmarket. The betting at 
 starting was 1 1 to 8 on him, 7 to 2 agst. Rat-trap, 4 
 
182 mango— 1837. 
 
 to 1 agst. Dardanelles, and 8 to 1 agst. Troilus. The 
 running was made at a great pace by Troilus, Mango 
 waiting on him, till half-way up the Criterion Course, 
 where Rat-trap and Dardanelles were at Mango's 
 side ; at the Duke's stand they dropped off, and here 
 Troilus appeared to have made Mango "as safe as if 
 he had been boiled." Mango, however, although slow 
 and remarkably lazy, took a vast deal more beating than 
 any other horse of his age — he was stout and honest 
 in an extraordinary degree ; and in this interesting race 
 showed how superior those qualities are to the vaunted 
 speed for which nine out of ten of our racers are cele- 
 brated. Sufferino; Troilus to maintain his lead till 
 past the Duke's stand, he made his push, caught him 
 in about half-a-dozen strides ; and by the aid of a little 
 tickling on the near side, won by half a length, rather 
 to the surprise of his jock, John Day, who thought 
 that he was beaten at the turn of the lands, and who 
 confessed that nothing but hard work, and the horse's 
 indomitable courage, enabled him to pull through. 
 
 In the Second October Meeting an unexpected 
 result came off in the Garden Stakes of 100 sovs. each, 
 p. p.— T. M. M. 
 
 Lord Exeter's Velure, 3 yrs. old, 6sl. 71b 1 
 
 Mr. Greville's Mango, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 71b 2 
 
 Colonel Peel's Castaway, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb 3 
 
 After Mango's victories over his St. Leger oppo- 
 nents, it could never have been expected that he would 
 have been defeated, and shamefully so, by a mare of 
 such moderate pretensions as Velure. At all events, 
 so little was it looked for here, that 2 to 1 was laid on 
 him to a large amount; whilst 4 to 1 agst. Velure, 
 and the same against Castaway, went a-begging. 
 
mango— 1838. 183 
 
 The same day, for a Match, 300 sovs. h. ft.— T.Y.C., 
 Mango, 8st. 91b., received from Mr. Greatrex's c. by 
 The Colonel, out of Citron, 8st., with which he wound 
 up a most successful season. 
 
 For a commencement of the season, 1838, Mr. Os- 
 baldeston's Mahometan, 8st. 71b., paid 100 sovs. ft. 
 to Mango, 8st, 2lb. ; the Squire having been bold 
 enough to give 51b., but not so imprudent as to run ; 
 and on the Thursday, in the same week, he won the 
 Claret Stakes, a sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft, 
 for four yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies. 8st. 21b. 
 — D, I. — Four subs. 
 
 Mr. Greville's br. c. Mango, by Emilius 1 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. c. Hibiscus 2 
 
 The odds were 3 to 1 on Mango, and might have 
 been 50, for Hibiscus, his sole competitor, had made 
 up his mind not to win, leaving John Day to make 
 what running he pleased, and to win by three lengths. 
 
 On Tuesday, in the Newmarket First Spring Meet- 
 ing, a Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, 100 ft., for four 
 yr. olds; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies, 8st. 21b.— B. C — 
 Ten subs., was contested at a strong pace by Mango, 
 Lord Exeter's Adrian, and Lord Chesterfield's Edgar; 
 the latter leading till within a quarter of a mile of the 
 finish, where it was " bellows to mend." Adrian, who 
 had been running in difficulty for at least a mile, im- 
 mediately took it up, and the next moment was chal- 
 lenged by Mango. A very strange, dodging, but well- 
 disputed race now took place, Adrian ready to swerve 
 from distress and Mango from temper ; Adrian's 
 stoutness kept him going to the cords, where he died 
 away, and Mango — rebelling against his jock., and 
 
184 mango— 1838. 
 
 looking every way but the right, up to the last mo- 
 ment — ran in a slovenly winner by two lengths. The 
 betting was 13 to 8 on Mango, and 2 to 1 agst. Adrian. 
 Mango finished the week by paying 100 sovs. ft. to 
 Lord Exeter's Velure. 
 
 In the Newmarket First October Meeting, Mango 
 was beaten by Arsenic in a Match, 200 sovs. — T. Y. C, 
 Mango, 8st. 51b. ; Arsenic, 8st. 71b. Mango was not 
 fit, as any body might have known, if they had looked 
 at his legs, or watched the betting ; but the " public" 
 would have him, and his party were enabled to get 
 their money off. The betting opened at 6 and 7 to 4 
 on him, but as the takers seemed eager, the odds 
 changed sides, and then it was " surmised" that there 
 was " something wrong," and so there was, for Mango 
 could scarcely raise a gallop, and the mare won as she 
 liked; and Mango, still " out of sorts," finished the 
 season and his career upon the Turf, by paying half 
 forfeit to Caravan, in a Match for 500, half forfeit, 
 which was to have been run in the Newmarket Second 
 October Meeting ; and was then put into the Stud. 
 
185 
 
 THE RACING SEASON, 1837. 
 
 The gloomy state of the weather in the early part of 
 the year 1837, acted as a great check to many who 
 are in the habit of frequenting the Newmarket 
 meetings, and scarcely ever was seen a duller affair 
 than the Craven meeting. The Trial Stakes afforded 
 no insight into futurity, as is frequently the case, and 
 Hock was far, very far, from intoxicating his friends 
 and admirers in his after races. The Riddlesworth, 
 like those of former years, was thought to be a cer- 
 tainty to Lord Jersey. But though his Lordship won 
 it, yet the result seemed to prove that old Edwards 
 had held the field (bad as it was) too lightly ; and by 
 not sufficiently preparing Achmet, it required all 
 Robinson's fine riding to make him a winner by little 
 more than a head, " too near to be pleasant." Ach- 
 met's running afterwards on the Thursday, for a 
 Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, showed him in much 
 better light, and the ease with which he disposed of 
 Quicksilver (thought at the time to be pretty good) 
 increased amazingly the confidence of his supporters. 
 There were evidently great doubts in Lord Exeter's 
 stable as to which was their Derby nag, and after all 
 they stood their money upon the wrong horse, as the 
 running has since told them. Troilus was at one 
 time thought to be the best, and his running must 
 
186 THE RACING SEASON, 1837. 
 
 unquestionably have convinced Lord Exeter of the 
 fact of his being so; yet the three — Hibiscus, Troilus 
 and Dardanelles — were too near together to afford 
 much hopes ; for it is very rare that three first-rate 
 horses of the same age eat the same owner's corn in the 
 same year. 
 
 The mares were a sorry lot, and although the 
 running of Chapeau d'Espagne proved her at New- 
 market to be the queen, yet it is surprising how any 
 one could be found so simple as to take so low as 2 
 to 1 about such a scratching thing as she was, for such 
 a race as the Oaks, where strength is as needful a 
 quality as speed. 
 
 The running of Achmet for the 2,000 gs. stakes, 
 and his improvement, not only in appearance, but 
 also in his manner of galloping, induced some of the 
 very best judges to select him as their " principal," 
 to stand their greatest stake upon, and his disappear- 
 ance on the eventful day caused many a long face on 
 the Epsom downs. 
 
 The Chester Meeting afforded the usual quantum 
 of sport, but omitting the Trade Cup (won by General 
 Chasse at a high weight), the races upon the whole 
 were confined to second-rate horses only. 
 
 The Second Spring Newmarket Meeting afforded 
 a solitary interesting race — the Rowley Mile Plate. 
 In 1826 this race was won by Lord Egremont's Lapdog, 
 who afterwards won the Derby at about Phosphorus's 
 odds; and in 1828 the Duke of Grafton's Turquoise 
 won it and the Oaks, also at very long odds, being 
 the only two winners of this and either of the great 
 Epsom races during ten years. To keep up its 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1837. 187 
 
 character, however, Phosphorus carried this plate and 
 the Derby off; although for the former he was 
 declared short of work and in physic ; and for the 
 latter, stated to be lame — this makes good the old 
 turf adage " 'tis dangerous to be safe." 
 
 The Derby of 1837 had, alas for the backers of 
 horses ! many untoward events, so many good favourites 
 being sent to the right about. Amongst the principal 
 ones Jereed, Achmet, Benedict, Defender, and Win- 
 tonian were backed at 9 to 1 and less ; then come 
 Flare-up, Cartoon, Delusion, Sambo, and Lord Staf- 
 ford in the second class, all backed for good round 
 sums at 20 to 1 and even less. It only remains to be 
 stated, that with the exception of Benedict (who would 
 have been as well in his box at Ascot Heath), not one 
 of them even started for the stakes. 
 
 Phosphorus was well known by his noble owner 
 and his trainer to be, what is called, a wear-and-tear 
 horse, yet wanting a turn of speed for the short flat 
 courses at Newmarket. At Epsom he was quite at 
 home, and had he continued as well as his friends could 
 have wished, he would have figured at somewhere 
 about 8 to 1 against him ; indeed, his performances 
 entitled him to this position in the odds, if we take 
 the supposed chance of Rat-trap at 6 to 4 — his price 
 at starting. Notwithstanding a limping sort of going 
 on the morning of the race, the trainer of Phosphorus 
 never imagined his chance completely out ; and honest 
 John (who had the option of riding him or Wisdom) 
 looked " unutterable things" when informed that Phos- 
 phorus had won. 
 
 Of the Oaks it will be sufficient to observe, that a 
 
188 THE RACING SEASOX, 1837. 
 
 more wretched lot of three year old fillies never showed 
 in the Warren ; yet the race, with probably the excep- 
 tion of Egeria (who would not run in a crowd, much 
 to Mr. Thornhill's loss this season), was carried off by 
 the best of the "kit." 
 
 Ascot Heath Races were now in a state of improve- 
 ment, and the sport upon the whole this season was 
 good, without calling for any particular remark. 
 Mango won his two races cleverly, and Touchstone 
 closed his career as a racer by winning, in glorious 
 style, the Gold Cup against Slane, whose running 
 during the year proved him to be a very good racer, 
 and his defeat certainly added another feather to old 
 Touchstone's cap, who trotted in! 
 
 The Newton Meeting brought the Prime Warden 
 into some notice amongst his select friends, by winning 
 his two races in an easy manner. 
 
 At Newcastle, Slashing Harry and Abraham New- 
 land kept their numerous friends in countenance by 
 winning cleverly ; while the partisans of Henriade and 
 the Albany colt exhibited strong symptoms of uneasi- 
 ness, from which, however, they partially recovered 
 before the eventful Tuesday in the Doncaster week. 
 Bee's-wing won the Cup in a canter, and his Grace 
 of Leeds carried off, much to the joy of a numerous 
 and respectable company, the Tyro Stakes with that 
 promising filly, Barbarina, against rather a largish 
 field. 
 
 At Bath, Cheltenham, and Winchester, the New- 
 market horse Slane, met but slow followers for toler- 
 ably rich Stakes, and, as a matter of course, won as 
 he pleased. Volunteer made his debut at the Bibury 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1837. 189 
 
 Club Meeting, by winning in a canter, and imme- 
 diately followed up his good fortune by winning easily 
 the Two- Year Old Stakes at Stockbridge and Win- 
 chester. 
 
 The Goodwood races were decidedly the " lion" of 
 the year ; in short every thing appears to be combined 
 at this delightful place to make sport, and please the 
 visitors. The noble duke, aided by one of the most 
 influential members of the Jockey Club, made a splen- 
 did "bill of fare," and by judicious management one 
 day was equal to another in point of interesting and 
 speculative races. The new proviso of allowances, if 
 not placed, did not, however, seem to have the desired 
 effect, and caused some dissatisfaction in more quarters 
 than one. Colonel Peel acted in a very fair and open 
 manner by declaring that Slane only started for the 
 Cup to get the allowance. That Slane would have 
 been very near winning the Cup, if he had been suffi- 
 ciently prepared, was the opinion of many good judges; 
 — he won the Shield in a canter. Grey Momus won 
 his races in good style, and was backed at 12 to 1 for 
 the Derby, 1838. 
 
 A duller Doncaster week than the one of 1837, has 
 seldom been seen, whether the number of horses or their 
 inferiority in point of quality be the question. Mango's 
 running, both in public and private, had been quite as 
 good as anything in the North ; and Mr. Greville, than 
 whom no gentleman on the turf can draw a better line, 
 was pretty well convinced he should be there or tiiere- 
 abouts, and in consequence backed his horse freely and 
 won a good stake, as did also his noble confederate. It 
 is impossible to say how Epirus's chance might have 
 
190 C. C. GKEVILLE, ESQ. 
 
 terminated but for the unfortunate accident. Every 
 body however was pleased that Mr. Greville had won, 
 being a gentleman generally esteemed and liked ; and, 
 moreover, a thorough -bred sportsman, and a high 
 goer. 
 
 Mr. Greville's first appearance on the turf, as the 
 owner of race-horses, was, we believe, in 1821 ; and so 
 highly was his judgment in turf matters esteemed, even 
 in what might be considered his trial years— -Lehre- 
 jahre, as the Germans say — that in 1822, His Royal 
 Highness the Duke of York committed the manage- 
 ment of his stud to his care on the retirement of Mr. 
 Warwick Lake ; and from 1828 to the time of his 
 lordship's decease, we believe that the late Earl of 
 Egremont's stud was chiefly under his direction. 
 Since the time of his debut till the present year, 
 scarcely any gentleman's name occurs more fre- 
 quently in the Racing Calendar, and there is no one 
 whose career on the turf has been more uniform ; he 
 is not to be found in one year with a long string of 
 horses, and in the next with only a single nag — playing 
 alternately "rocket and stick;" but in every year 
 occurs as the owner of a lot, respectable in point of 
 numbers at least, if not particularly distinguished as 
 winners. In this respect, however, Mr. Greville has 
 not much cause to complain. He has gained a tolera- 
 bly fair proportion of prizes ; and the racy Mango won 
 him the St. Leger in this year (1837), both at Don- 
 caster and Newmarket ? 
 
 The superiority of Bee's-wing over the crack Leger 
 horses of the year, went a great way towards proving 
 the assertion, made in the Spring, that the three-year- 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1837. 191 
 
 olds as a lot were very moderate. The two-year olds 
 were unusually promising, and Don John showed him- 
 self as the first of his year. 
 
 At Heaton Park the same liberality as usual prevailed ; 
 the running however was not so good, nor were the 
 Stakes so valuable. Don John was again in force, and 
 won in a manner calculated to raise very sanguine 
 expectations on the part of his noble owner. Most of 
 the all-aged races were without the slightest interest 
 beyond the moment. 
 
 The Newmarket October Meetings were rendered 
 highly interesting by the great speculations entered 
 into, particularly on the two-year-old races. Mango's 
 running proved, what his spirited owner always told 
 his friends, "that although Mango might want a turn 
 of speed, yet he could manage a distance with any of 
 his age." Of the youngsters out during the three 
 meetings, none left off more deserving of patronage 
 than D'Egville ; but Ion, Paganini, and Grey Momus 
 were not without friends, and their running certainly 
 afforded their admirers considerable hopes. 
 
 A strange fatality attended the favourites for the 
 great betting races this season. In the Spring, Achmet, 
 Jereed, Wintonian, Defender, and Benedict went lame 
 or amiss, not a little to the loss and mortification of 
 their backers. Phosphorus next went lame — yet he 
 won the Derby. After this we missed Bay Middleton, 
 Elis, Touchstone, and Venison, each and all having gone 
 irrecoverably lame. For the St. Leger, Melbourne and 
 Emprise were added to the casualty list, and Epirus 
 fell into a ditch. Such a continuation of misfortunes 
 could not butoperate prejudicially on racing generally. 
 
192 THE RACING SEASON, 1837. 
 
 But taking as a criterion the pages of the Racing 
 Calendar, racing appeared to be on the increase ; and 
 the numerous Stakes closed this year, showed a striking 
 improvement in the value and character of the different 
 speculative races. 
 
 There were two events, connected with this Season, 
 which it would scarcely be well to pass over altogether 
 in silence. The first was the lamentable suicide of 
 Mr. Berkeley Craven, who conceiving himself to be 
 ruined by the unexpected result of the Derby, shot 
 himself, on the same evening, although, it is asserted, 
 that had he but awaited the event of the Oaks, he 
 would have been a trifling loser. Under the false 
 impression, however, of disgrace, in not being able to 
 meet his creditors upon the settling day, he committed 
 the rash act here recorded. 
 
 The other event to which we have alluded, was the 
 extraordinary luck which enabled " Vates," a writer of 
 bad English, done into doggrel rhyme, to place the 
 first and second horses for the Derby as they actually 
 came in, in a phophetic rhapsody, published the week 
 before. To call this the effect of judgment, would be 
 far too absurd a doctrine to be carried out in truth ; 
 but that it was a most extraordinary fact, as strange 
 as true, is certain. " Vates" is now looked up to as 
 the King of the " Prophets," although he has a host 
 of followers, who, like himself, throw in for the 
 chances, but not as yet with like success. We fear 
 these soothsayers, were they obliged to back their own 
 opinions, would soon find out that they had very little 
 connexion with the " profits," when making acquain- 
 tance with our friends Bland, Crockford, and the rest, 
 on a settling day at the Corner. 
 
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193 
 
 AMATO. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 183R. 
 
 Amato, is the property of, and was bred by, Sir 
 Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., at Durdans, near Epsom. 
 Amato's colour is a dark bay ; and he is a finely shaped 
 animal, fifteen hands and a half high, with somewhat 
 slender legs, and light neck. He has an excellent 
 constitution, and his pedigree is unexceptionable, both 
 for speed and stoutness : he was got by Velocipede, out 
 of Jane Shore, by Woful ; her dam Bella Donna, by 
 Seymour, out of Gramarie, by Sorcerer, dam by Sir 
 Peter, out of Deceit, by Tandem ; her dam Perdita, by 
 Herod, out of Fair Forester, by Sloe ; her dam by 
 Forester, grand-dam by Partner — Croft's Bay Barb — 
 Makeless — Brimmer — Son of Dodsworth — Burton 
 Barb Mare. 
 
 The Derby was Amato's first public race ; and as 
 he was not trained in a " fancy" stable, he never rose 
 into public estimation in the betting ; in February and 
 March his price was 100 to 1 ; but some account of 
 his merits having reached the Corner, he rose in April 
 to about 40 to 1. At this time, Ion, D'Egville, Grey 
 Momus, Cobham, Young Rowton, Phoenix, and Bullion, 
 were the several pet nags, Amato being overlooked, 
 and neglected, as an untried horse ; although it seems 
 surprising to us, knowing, as we do, how many hundred 
 eyes there are attached to every horse's tail, that the 
 
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194 amato— 1838. 
 
 trial which took place a day or two previous to the 
 meeting, was not more generally known ; Amato, 
 receiving only 14lb. from a good aged trial horse, and 
 giving 101b. to the Tawney Owl, his own age, beat 
 them in an Eclipse-like style. Yet, with all these 
 advantages staring the betting gentlemen in the face, 
 Amato was still neglected ; and on the Sunday before 
 the race, an old gentleman, one, by the bye, who has 
 been considered a sound judge in racing concerns, was 
 heard to say, " I like Amato' s appearance much ; I 
 think him a nice goer ; and if he belonged to any other 
 person than Sir Gilbert, I should back him for a pony ; 
 but," added he, " Sir Gilbert Heathcote won't win a 
 Derby in a hundred years :'' — so much from prejudice. 
 At last, however, the day arrived which was to open 
 the eyes of the blind, and " close the peepers" of the 
 " knowing ones," and a little after two o'clock the fol- 
 lowing powerful lot appeared at the starting post: — 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's Amato, by Velocipede, out of Jane Shore 
 
 Colonel Peel's Ion, by Cain, out of Margaret 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's gr. c. Grey Momus, br Coraus, rlam by Cervantes 
 
 Mr. H. Combe's ch. c. Cobham, by the Colonel, out of Frederica 
 
 Lord Jersey's c. Phoenix, by Buzzard, out of Cobweb 
 
 Mr. Payne's ch. c. Young Rowton, by Rowton, out of Emiliana 
 
 Capt. Berkeley's Bullion, by Emilius, out of Goldwire 
 
 Mr. E. T. Tarleton's br. c. Blaise, by Lamplighter, out of Polymnia 
 
 Mr. Biggs's br. c. A'olunteer, by Tranby, or The Colonel, out of Galatea 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's ch. c. Bretby, by Priam, out of Cyprian's dam 
 
 Lord Westminster's b. c. Albemarle, by Y. Phantom, out of Hornsea's dam 
 
 Mr. E. Peel's ch. c. The Early Bird, by Bedlamite, dam by Catton 
 
 Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Chemist, by Zinganee, out of Oxygen 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. c. Conservator, by the Colonel, out of The Margravine 
 
 Mr. T. IL Stirling's c. by Aaron, dam by Y. Election, out of Miss Manager 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's ch. c. D'Egville, by The Colonel, out of Varennes 
 
 Mr. Worrall's br. c. Dormouse, brother to Mus, by Bizarre 
 
 Mr. Buckley's ch. c. Tom, by Muley, out of Prima Donna 
 
 Mr. Edwards's Drum Major, by The Colonel, out of Sister to Cactus 
 
 Gen. Grosvenor's ch. c. Daedalus, by Buzzard, out of Icaria 
 
 Mr. Bond's br. c. by Reveller, out of Scurry 
 
 Mr. Pettit's b. c. by St. Patrick, out of Surprise 
 
 Sir J. Boswell's b. c. Constantino, by Beagle, out of Hambletonia. 
 
THE DERBY, 1838. 195 
 
 Before the betting commenced Lord G. Bentinck 
 declared to win with Grey Momus; this announcement, 
 without driving D'Egville back, had the immediate 
 effect of making the grey first favourite ; there were 
 other fluctuations, but as our object is not to be unne- 
 cessarily lengthy, we shall confine ourselves to the odds 
 when the ring finally broke up : — 9 to 4 agst. Grey 
 Momus, 7 to 2 agst. Cobham, 7 to 1 agst. Phoenix, 15 
 to 2 agst. D'Egville, 14 to 1 agst. Young Rowton, 15 
 to I agst. Ion (t.), 25 to 1 agst. The Early Bird, 33 to 
 1 agst. Amato, 40 to 1 agst. Conservator, and 40 to I 
 agst. any other. As it would not be the Derby without 
 false starts, several occurred before the actual one took 
 place, and a bungling affair it was after all. Bretby, 
 Amato, and Grey Momus sprung off at a slashing pace, 
 each seeming to be bent on taking the lead ; the honour 
 was at length acceded to Bretby, who, acting as an 
 avant courier to Albemarle and Cobham, cut along 
 merrily, till the whole lot (excepting two, to be men- 
 tioned hereafter), had completed the hill. The grey 
 here took the lead from Bretby ; Ion, Amato, and two 
 or three others lying very handy ; nothing worthy of 
 notice occurred in going round the turn, except that 
 Ion and Albemarle, who had lost start, were in the front. 
 On getting into the straight running the race may be 
 said to have terminated, for Amato rushed between the 
 Grey and Ion, kept Ion at his heels from the Grand 
 Stand to the Chair, and won easy by a length ; Ion 
 second, the Grey a bad third, Albemarle at his side, 
 and nothing else near. At the head of the next lot 
 were, Tom, Conservator, Dormouse, and Blaise ; at 
 the fag-end, the " flying Cobham," — but how he came 
 
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196 THE DEBRY, 1838. 
 
 to be there we do not pretend to say, more especially 
 as the Scotts declared that they tried him again on 
 Friday, with Albemarle, and that he won by fifty or 
 sixty yards. 
 
 One thing is certain, viz. that Cobham was not Cob- 
 ham on the Derby day. We have said that two horses 
 were left behind, they were Young Rowton and the 
 Surprise colt. It is a matter of perfect indifference 
 whether the latter started or not, for, turned loose, he 
 would have been perfectly harmless ; but the case is 
 otherwise with Young Rowton, he had been backed 
 heavily, and the public had good grounds of complaint 
 either against the starter or the jockey. The losses on 
 the race were very small, and, being divided amongst 
 the book-makers at large, were not felt in the settling, 
 which passed off amazingly well. The principal win- 
 ners were, Messrs. S. Smith, Myers, Barnes, and 
 Stubbs ; and it is also stated that Lord Chesterfield 
 won five thousand pounds, the sum lost by Lord G. 
 Bentinck. Sir Gilbert Heathcote contented himself 
 with the stakes. The winner was ridden by that de- 
 serving jockey, James Chappie ; and we may safely 
 assert, that amongst the one hundred and thirty odd 
 nominations, the prize could not have been gained by 
 a more popular or straightforward gentleman than Sir 
 Gilbert Heathcote ; and the many hearty congratu- 
 lations offered to him, and the shouts of joy that burst 
 from the immense multitude upon his being declared 
 the winner, must have been truly gratifying to the 
 worthy Baronet's feelings. 
 
 This was Amato's first, last, and only race. Being a 
 tender horse, he never trained again, but left the Turf 
 for ever with the name of a day. 
 
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 INDUSTRY. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, 1838. 
 
 Industry, a brown filly, was the property of, and 
 bred by, the Earl of Chesterfield. She was got by 
 Priam, out of Arachne, by Filho-da-Puta, out of 
 Treasure ; her dam by Hyacinthus, out of Flora, by 
 King Fergus — Atalanta, by Matchem — Lass of the 
 Mill, by Oronoko— Old Traveller—Miss Makeless, 
 by Young Greyhound — Old Partner —Woodcock — 
 Croft's Bay Barb — Makeless — Brimmer — Dicky Pier- 
 son — Burton Barb Mare. 
 
 Industry made her debut on the Thursday, April 
 19, 1838, at the Newmarket Craven Meeting, where 
 she ran third for the Berkeley Square Stakes of 100 
 sovs. each, h. ft., for three year olds. Six horses 
 started for it, viz : 
 
 The Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Chymist, by Zinganee, out of Oxygen ; Lord 
 Suffield's f. Callisto, by Camel, out of Ursula ; Lord Chesterfield's f. Industry ; 
 the Duke of Beaufort's ch. c. Inuendo, by The Colonel out of Scandal ; Lord 
 Lichfield's c. Tableau, by Emancipation, out of Sister to Portrait; and the Duke 
 of Richmond's c. by Sultan, out of Goldpin. 
 
 Callisto was backed with much energy at 7 to 4 
 agst. the field, and nothing else was thought of. The 
 team started together and kept so, with Callisto 
 leading at her best (a bad) pace to the ropes, where 
 Chymist, Industry, and Inuendo made a simultaneous 
 rush. Chymist left them in half a dozen strides and 
 won easily by a length, but the struggle for second 
 
198 THE OAKS, 1838. 
 
 was so close that there could not have been half a 
 length between Callisto, to whom the honour was 
 awarded, and Inuendo, Industry dividing the two. 
 
 Industry's next appearance was at Epsom, for the 
 Oaks, which this year was made rather remarkable by 
 the illness of nearly all the original favourites, viz. : 
 Ninny, Vespertilio, Barcarolle, Glenara, and Larnaca ; 
 coughs and inflammatory sore throats had rendered 
 them unfit to run, and thus a very pretty stake was 
 left for competition to a large field of bad mares. 
 As soon as the announcement was made that the first 
 three of the above five would not run, Callisto became 
 an immense favourite ; Industry came next, then 
 Sister to Marvel, then Unique, and lastly Mecca, — 
 the latest quotations being 5 to 2 agst. Callisto, 13 to 
 2 agst. Industry (t.), 7 to 1 agst. Mecca, 8 to 1 agst. 
 Unique, 12 to 1 agst. Brown Duchess, 12 to 1 agst. 
 Sister to Marvel, 13 to 1 agst. Camelia, 25 to 1 agst. 
 Wave, and 25 to 1 agst. Romania. In the prelimi- 
 nary gallops Unique cut so wretched a figure that any 
 one would have betted 30 to 1 against her. The 
 following started : — 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's f. Industry, by Priam, out of Arachne 
 
 Lord Suffield's f. Callisto, by Camel, out of Ursula 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's br. f. The Brown Duchess, by Camel, out of Archduchess 
 
 Mr. Theobald's br. f. Camelia, by Camel, out of Datura's dam 
 
 Duke of Grafton's br. f. Unique, by Reveller, out of Turquoise 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's br. f. Paraquay, by Sir Hercules, out of Paradigm 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. f. The Soldier's Consort, by The Colonel, out of Frederica 
 
 Mr. Greville's br. f. Morella, Sister to Mango 
 
 Mr. Forth's b. f. by Muley, out of Lacerta (Marvel's dam) 
 
 Lord Exeter's f. Romania, by Sultan, out of Ramona 
 
 Lord Exeter's f. Mecca, by Sultan, out of Miss Cantley 
 
 Col. Peel's bl. f. Wave, by Defence, out of Versatility 
 
 Mr. Bond's ch. f. Sister to Glaucus, by Partisan, out of Nanine 
 
 Mr. Tilbrook's b. f. Sister to Venison, by Partisan, out of Fawn 
 
 Mr. Bond's b. f. by Partisan, out of Coquette 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's f. Caroline Elvina, by Tramp, out of Babel. 
 
THE OAKS, 1838. 199 
 
 Caroline Elvina — started expressly to make play 
 for Industry — went away in front, followed by Callisto 
 and Romania, Industry and Sister to Marvel lying in 
 the ruck, and the latter evidently having a most un- 
 comfortable time of it. Callisto took up the running 
 at the Tattenham corner, and at the distance was 
 challenged by Sister to Marvel, Forth having with 
 some difficulty extricated himself from the crowd. 
 The race was close for several strides, but so much 
 had been taken out of the old man and his mare by 
 repeated collision with others in the race, that neither 
 could keep it up, and half a distance from home 
 Callisto got rid of them. Industry now went up to 
 her on the upper side, Mecca at the same moment 
 making a rush at the lower — for an instant only was 
 the race doubtful. Industry then got her head in 
 front, struggled on, was clear of her a few yards from 
 home, and won cleverly by a length, Callisto beating 
 Mecca by a neck. Sister to Marvel was fourth ; the 
 others beaten off. Scott rode the winner. By way 
 of a wind up, there was a breeze after the race, 
 between Scott and Pavis ; the latter, who rode Cal- 
 listo, accusing Scott of jostling him. This raised a 
 rumpus accordingly, but their " savage breasts" were 
 eventually " cooled off" — leaving the quarrel, like the 
 side of Southwark bridge, all railing and no battlement. 
 
 At Ascot Heath on Wednesday, June the 13th., a 
 Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, for fillies, was won in 
 a trot by Industry, beating Mr. Batson's Vespertilio, 
 and Lord Exeter's Velveteen. Betting : 3 to I on the 
 winner. 
 
 At Goodwood on Tuesday July the 31st, Industry 
 
200 INDUSTRY— 1839. 
 
 beat Lord Exeter's Romania in a match for 500 sovs. 
 each at equal weights, by nearly a dozen lengths ; 7 
 to 2 on Industry. Lord Exeter ran with almost the 
 certainty of defeat — but it is his lordship's system 
 (and a noble one it is) always to run if his horse be 
 fit. 
 
 Finally, on the Thursday in the same Meeting, 
 Industry (carrying 9lb. extra for winning the Oaks) 
 ran last for the Racing Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for 
 three yr. olds; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies, 8st. 41b.; 
 Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus (carrying 61b. extra), 
 winning by two lengths, Lord Exeter's Romania 
 second, and the Duke of Beaufort's Inuendo third. 
 Betting : 3 to 1 on Grey Momus. 
 
 On Tuesday May the 28th., 1839, Industry was 
 beaten for the Ascot Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., 
 and only 5 if declared, &c, with 100 added; the 
 owner of the second horse reed. 50 sovs. out of the 
 Stakes. — Two miles and a half. — Forty-five subs., 
 twenty-four of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. Forth's cb. f. by Merchant, out of Turquoise, 3 yrs. old 
 (a feather) 1 
 
 Mr. Dolphin's ch. h. The Skater, 6 yrs. old, 7st. 51b. . 2 
 
 Mr. Dixon's b. c. Hyllus, 5 yrs. old, 5st. 10lb. (carried 6st. lib., but 
 not declared) 3 
 
 Mr. Coleman's b. b. Calmuck, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 131b. ; Lord Chesterfield's br. f. 
 Industry, 4 yrs. old, 8st. ; Lord Jersey's br. f. Joannina, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 6lb. ; 
 Mr. Shelley's b. c. Bay Hampton, 4 yrs. old, ?st. 41b. ; Mr. Garrard's b. h. Corn- 
 borough, 5 yrs. old, 6st. 131b. ; Fulwar Craven's br. f. I-wish-you-may get-it, 4 
 yrs. old, 6st. 131b. ; Mr. Falconer's b. f. Slender, 4 yrs. old, 6st. lllb. ; Lord 
 Albemarle's ch. c. Bull-calf, 4 yrs. old, 6st. ; and Duke of Richmond's ch. f. 
 Confusionee, by Emilius, out of Young Maniac, 3 yrs old, 5st. ; also started, but 
 were not placed. 
 
 7 to 2 agst. Industry, 9 to 2 agst. Joannina, 6 to 1 agst. Bull-calf, 10 to 1 
 agst. The Skater, 10 to 1 agst. I-wish-you-may get-it, 12 to 1 agst. Calmuck, 12 
 to 1 agst. the winner, and 100 to 8 agst. Slender. 
 
 And on Friday in the same Meeting, she was 
 equally unsuccessful for the Wokingham Stakes of 5 
 
INDUSTRY— 1839. 201 
 
 sovs. each, for three yr. olds and upwards (handicap). — 
 The last three quarters of the New mile. — Seventeen 
 subs. 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. c. Alemdar, by Sultan, 4 yrs. old, 8st. lllb 1 
 
 Capt. Williamson's br. f. The Drama, 3 yrs. old, 7st. lllb 2 
 
 Capt. Gardnor's b. c. by Rowton, out of Bustle, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 131b. 3 
 Lord Chesterfield's Industry, 4* yrs. old, 9st. ; Fulwar Craven's I-wish-vou- 
 niay-get-it, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 61b. ; Mr. W. M. Stanley's cb. h. Willesden, 6 yrs. 
 old, 8st. 61b. ; Col. Wyndbam's b. m. Madeira, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 61b. ; Lord Albe- 
 marle's br. c. Tros, 3 yrs. old, 8st. 21b. ; Duke of Richmond's ch. f. Confusionee, 
 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b.; Lord Chesterfield's b. c. by Starch, or Mulatto, out of 
 Carew's dam, 3 yrs. old, 6st. lllb. ; and Lord Lichfield's ch. f. Sister to Hector, 
 
 3 yrs. old, 6st. 41b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 3 to 1 agst. Industry, 9 to 2 agst. Alemdar, 5 to 1 agst. The Drama, 10 to 1 
 agst. Tros, 10 to 1 agst. Madeira, 10 to 1 agst. I-wish-you-may-get-it, and 12 to 
 1 agst. Sister to Hector. 
 
 The race was won all the way by Alemdar, who 
 came in two lengths in advance of the others. 
 
 On Wednesday the 7th. of August, at the Pottery 
 Meeting, Industry came in a winner of a Handicap 
 Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 15 ft., and 5 only if 
 declared, &c, with 100 added by W. T. Copeland, 
 Esq., M.P., for all ages. — Twice round, about two 
 miles. — Sixty-five subs., thirty-four of whom paid 
 only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Industry, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 2lb 1 
 
 Lord Eglinton's b. f. Bellona, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 91b. 2 
 
 Mr. F. R. Price's cb. f. Zillah, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 131b 3 
 
 Percy, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 61b. ; Goldhurst, 5 yrs. old., 7st. 61b. ; and St. Leonard, 
 
 4 yrs. old, 7st. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 At Wolverhampton on Monday the 12th. of August, 
 Industrv was again a winner of the Trial Stakes of 10 
 sovs. each, with 20 added; three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 
 8st. 21b.; five, 8st. 10lb.; six and aged, 9st. ; m. and 
 g. allowed 3lb. — Once round and a distance, about a 
 mile and a quarter. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Industry, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. E. Peel's gr. c. Saul, 4 yrs. old 
 
 Lord Stanley's br. c. Charlatan, 3 yrs. old 3 
 
 Betting : 5 to 4 on Industry, and 4 to 1 agst. Saul. 
 
202 INDUSTRY. 
 
 But on the 20th at Burton-upon-Trent, she was 
 beaten (having twice nearly fallen down) in the race 
 for the Bretby Cup, or Piece of Plate value 100 sovs. 
 given by the Earl of Chesterfield, added to a Sweep- 
 stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and only 5 if declared, 
 &c. ; the owner of the second horse received back 
 his stake. — Once round and a distance. — Sixteen 
 subs., five of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. Ogden's br. c. Harpurhey, by Voltaire, 4 yrs. old, 7st 1 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Industry, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 101b 2 
 
 Mr. Blake's b. h. Normanby, 6 yrs. old, 8st 3 
 
 Mr. McDonough's The Friar, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 12lb 4 
 
 On the following day she had better luck in the Cup 
 Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added from the fund ; 
 three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 31b. ; five, 8st. 121b. ; 
 six and aged, 9st. 31b. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. — 
 Twice round and a distance.— -Four subs. 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Industry, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Ogden's br. c. Harpurhey, 4 yrs. old 2 
 
 6 to 4 on Industry. 
 
 On Monday, the 17th September, at Doncaster, 
 Industry cantered in two lengths behind the Duke of 
 Cleveland's Kremlin for a Handicap of 10 sovs. each 
 with 20 added by the Corporation. 
 
 And at Nottingham on Thursday the 10th October, 
 she closed the season, and with it her career upon the 
 turf by making an unsuccessful attempt for a Plate of 
 £50 given by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the 
 county. 
 
 Mr. Massey's b. g. Tubalcain, 3 yrs. old, 7st 21b 1 1 
 
 Mr. Walters's b. h. King Cole, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 71b 3 2 
 
 Lord Normanby's b. m. Gipsy, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 4lb 4 3 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Industry, 4 yrs. old, 8sU 8lb 2 dr 
 
203 
 
 DON JOHN. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1838. 
 
 Don John, a bay horse, fifteen hands three inches 
 high, was bred by Mr. Garforth, in 1835, and sold, 
 when a foal, to Mr. Ridsdale for 100 guineas. He 
 was purchased by Lord Chesterfield, his present 
 owner, for 140 guineas, at the sale of Mr. Ridsdale's 
 stud. He is got by Tramp, or Waverley, out of a 
 Comus mare, bred by Mr. Garforth in 1820 or 1821 ; 
 her dam, Marciana, by Stamford, out of Marcia, by 
 Coriander — Faith, by Pacolet — Atalanta, by Matchem 
 — Lass-of-the-Mill, by Oronoko — Old Traveller (sister 
 to Clark's Lass-of-the-Mill) — Miss Makeless, by 
 Young Greyhound — Old Partner — Woodcock — Croft's 
 Bay Barb — Makeless — Brimmer — Dicky Pierson — 
 Burton Barb Mare. 
 
 In 1837, Don John made his debut upon the Turf 
 by winning the Two Year Old Stakes at York Spring 
 Meeting, May 31, beating Alzira, f. by Actaeon, out 
 of Purity, Wee Willie, Ayres, and Vertumnus. 
 
 On Monday, September 18, at Doncaster, Don 
 John won the Champagne Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. 
 ft., for two-yr.-olds. — Twenty-four subs., beating Bar- 
 barina, The Fairy Queen, c. by Velocipede, out of 
 Miss Fanny, Charley Boy, and f. by Velocipede, out 
 of Apollonia ; and at Heaton Park, on Friday, Sep- 
 
204 THE ST. LEGER FAVOURITES, 1838. 
 
 tember 29, Don John won the Claret Stakes of 20 
 sovs. each, with 50 added, for two-yr.-olds. — Eleven 
 subs., again beating the Fairy Queen. 
 
 On Thursday, the 19th of April, 1838, at the New- 
 market Craven Meeting, Don John commenced the 
 season by walking over for a Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. 
 each, h. ft., for three-yr.-olds. — Four subs. 
 
 Ion, Don John, Grey Momus, Cobham, Appleton 
 Lad, Llanercost, Albemarle, and Alzira were now the 
 favourites for the St. Leger, each having his respective 
 " party." 
 
 The running of Ion, as a two-year-old, was tolerably 
 good, and from that age to three years old, no horse, 
 perhaps, ever trained on in a more promising manner. 
 At Newmarket, in the spring, his trials with speedy 
 horses proved so satisfactory, that it induced his gallant 
 owner and party to stand a largish stake upon him for 
 the Derby ; for which race, it will be remembered, he 
 ran a good second. Now, putting Amato out of that 
 race, we have Ion a gallant winner, by four or five 
 lengths, after an indifferent start, beating a long tail 
 of three year olds, the top of which consisted of Grey 
 Momus, Albemarle, Dormouse, and D'Egville ; and 
 the running of the Derby horses, with scarcely an 
 exception, had been singularly correct. Don John 
 figured to great advantage as a two year old, winning 
 all his engagements easily, and beating some decent 
 runners, some of which ran well this season (1838), 
 amongst them Alzira, Wee Willie, and Charlie Boy. 
 Appleton Lad, the next to Don John in public estima- 
 tion of the Scott's stable, was a racing-like horse, and 
 a strong and good galloper, but wanting in speed. 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1838. 205 
 
 Llanercost was a fine looking horse, said to be " as 
 honest as the day is long," and with a good turn of 
 speed. Cobham, thought to have been " out of form," 
 at Epsom, had still many friends, having, since the 
 Derby, been transferred from the Scotts to Joe Rogers. 
 Grey Momus was a rare nag, with a thorough good 
 lasting constitution, having started six times at the 
 tender age of two years, winning three times, and 
 running well up in the others. This season he had 
 commenced well at Newmarket, by winning the 2000 
 guineas, and a match against Bamboo ; the result of 
 which placed him at the top of the list in the Derby 
 betting. For this race he ran, as he always had done, 
 a good and game animal, yet deficient in a very requi- 
 site material for a race of that description, viz. speed. 
 The "gallant Grey's" two races at Goodwood, while 
 it proved the correctness of the Derby running, did 
 not make him a shade better in his admirers' estima- 
 tion for the St. Leger; but the Ascot Cup proved the 
 superiority of the three year olds over the four year 
 olds of this year, the Grey beating the cracks of the 
 North and the South, Epirus and Caravan. 
 
 Such were the principal competitors for the Don- 
 caster St. Leger, 1838, which eventually produced 
 the following great field of seven — namely — 
 
 Lord Chesterfield's Don John. — Scott 
 
 Colonel Peel's Ion. — Pavis 
 
 Mr. Combe's Cobham. — Robinson 
 
 Mr. Parkins's Llanercost. — H. Edwards 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin.— Conolly 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's Alzira. — J. Day 
 
 Mr. Fairlie's The Hydra Chappie. 
 
 The last betting was 7 to 4 agst. Don John, 9 to 4 agst. Ion, 4 to 1 a"-st. 
 Llanercost, 10 to 1 agst. Saintfoin (takers), 14 to 1 agst. Cobham, 25 to 1 a°-st. 
 Alzira (t), and 35 to 1 agst. The Hydra. 
 
206 THE ST. LEGE It, 1838. 
 
 . The race, as far as it concerned the winner, may 
 be described in a very few lines. — Don John, after 
 the first dozen strides, took a lead of three lengths, 
 made all the running at a killing pace, defeated his 
 horses in handsome style before they reached the Red- 
 house, was never caught, and won by five or six 
 lengths ! The only variety in the race was supplied 
 by those who were playing the subordinate parts 
 behind him. Ion and Alzira alternated the honour of 
 being second till they dropt the hill, where Alzira 
 went past the Newmarketer, and kept his berth to 
 the Red-house, where, finding how useless it was to 
 attempt to reach the Don, he quietly fell astern. Ion 
 immediately after essayed his strength, and got near 
 enough to take the measure of the Don's tail. Having 
 done this, and at the same time ascertained that it 
 would be inexpedient to pursue the inquiry, he dropt 
 off, contenting himself with securing the " cool hun- 
 dred" for being second. Cobham had the best of 
 Llanercost, and fairly defeated him at the distance, but 
 broke down with both his fore-legs, and was with diffi- 
 culty saved from falling ; this enabled Llanercost 
 to run in third, about half-a-dozen lengths behind Ion. 
 The Hydra was as far astern of him, Alzira and Saint- 
 foin cantering in lovingly together at a most respect- 
 ful distance from The Hydra. Never was a St. Leger 
 won so easy or so gallantly before. Lord Chesterfield, 
 and the gentlemen connected with his stable, netted a 
 large sum ; as also did two or three betters round ; but 
 the speculation, generally, was so limited in extent, 
 that the total of winnings was moderate, and the 
 settling harmless. 
 
don john, 1838. 207 
 
 On the following Thursday, the race for " The 
 Moog," as the Yorkshire people term the Cup, was 
 rendered intensely interesting by the appearance in it 
 of Don John and Bee's-wino;. The Doctor and Mel - 
 bourne were the other two ; and Harkaway, if Mr. 
 Ferguson had studied his own reputation, would have 
 made a fifth, but he did not, so there's an end of that 
 matter. The last betting on it was 2 to 1 on Don 
 John, 3 to 1 agst. Bee's-wing, 10 to 1 agst. The Doc- 
 tor, and 20 to 1 agst. Melbourne ; these prices, it will 
 be found, tallied precisely with the places assigned to 
 the horses by the judge. Bee's-wing made all the 
 running at a terrific pace, Don John waiting behind 
 till within one hundred and fifty yards of the chair, 
 when he shot by her, and won just as easily as he did 
 in the St. Leger. The Doctor gave way at the dis- 
 tance, and Melbourne was concluded before he reached 
 the Red-house. 
 
 On the same day, Don John walked over for the 
 Gascoigne Stakes of 100 sovs. each, 30 ft for three yr. 
 olds ; colts, 8st. 7lb. ; and fillies, 8st. 21b. ; the winner 
 of the St. Leger Stakes to carry 41b. extra. — St. Leger 
 Course. — Five subs. ; and he finally ended the season 
 1838, by walking over at Heaton Park, for the St. 
 Leger Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 100 added 
 by the club, for three yr. olds. — St. Leger Course. — 
 Fifteen subs. 
 
 The History of Don John furnishes the first instance 
 upon record of any person winning the Oaks and Leger 
 of the same year with different horses. And on no 
 one could this distinguished piece of luck have fallen 
 more deservedly than on the kindly good-natured 
 
208 THE EAUL OF CHESTERFIELD. 
 
 nobleman whose likeness graces our page, and who is 
 a thorough-bred one of a right good sort. 
 
 His Lordship's first appearance on the Turf was about 
 1826, when he made his debut by winning the Witherley 
 Stakes, at the Anson-hunt Meeting, on the Lichfield 
 Course, with a cock-tail called Raven, ridden by Mr. 
 White ; since when, we find the following good, bad, 
 and indifferent nags figuring off under his colours— red 
 jacket with blue sleeves — Jerry, Teasdale, Heathen, 
 Negro, Zinganee (winner of the Cup at Ascot, in 1829,) 
 Carthusian, Splendour, Sarcenet, Rufus, Massaroni, 
 Titania, Olga, Squirrel, Kittums,Non Compos, Weeper, 
 Dirce, Whiskey, Uncle Bob, Blanche of Devon, Elvas- 
 ton, Brother to Nessus, Golden Egg, Felix, Amphitrite, 
 Theban, Fanny Grey, Tourist, La Bayadere, and 
 amongst many more, the immortal Priam, winner of 
 the Riddlesworth, the Column Stakes, the Derby, the 
 ] 00 sovs. Sweepstakes, at Ascot, the walker over for 
 thf Gascoigne, and receiver of no end of forfeits, in 
 
 1 830 ; the winner of the Port, the vanquisher of Lu- 
 cetta, the winner of the Goodwood Cup, the receiver 
 of another filled with guineas, at Heaton Park, and 
 vanquisher of Augustus, after giving him 161b., in 
 
 1831 ; the winner of the Kings Plate, in the First 
 Spring Meeting, of the Eclipse Foot, at Ascot, and 
 the Cup at Goodwood, in 1832; a horse, in fact, 
 the possession of which is sufficient to confer immor- 
 tality on any man that ever lived. 
 
 On the Friday, in the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 
 1839, for the Port Stakes, it was currently reported, 
 and believed, that Don John was amiss. The event 
 proved the truth of the assertion. Although 5 to 2, 
 
DON JOHN, 1837. 
 
 209 
 
 and 3 to 1 were betted upon him ; " the murder was 
 out" in the first half-mile, and Grey Momus, after 
 making his own running, won in a canter by two 
 leng-ths. Alemdar also started but was " nowhere." 
 
 On the Tuesday in the Newmarket First Spring 
 Meeting, for the 300 sovs. Stakes, 100 ft,, for four yr. 
 olds. — B. C. — Ten subs. The following started : — 
 Lord Chesterfield's Don John, Lord Exeter's Alemdar, 
 Mr. Greville's Morella, and Lord Chesterfield's Caroline 
 Elvina. Don John came to the post with a shocking 
 pair of legs, and ran with plates before, and shoes 
 behind. The odds at starting were even, and 6 to 
 5 agst. him, 3 to 1 agst. Morella, and 4 to 1 agst. 
 Alemdar. Don John challenged Alemdar about 200 
 yards from the Chair, and won a splendid race by a 
 neck ; but it was his last effort. In spite of every 
 care and attention, his legs were never got right again, 
 and he finally appeared in the list of stallions for 1838. 
 
210 
 
 THE RACING SEASON, 1838. 
 
 The Racing Season, 1838, opened with dull prospects, 
 but the intense coldness of the winter, and the extreme 
 backwardness of the spring, easily accounted for so 
 many young horses being amiss ; or, what is quite as 
 bad, was the cause of so many being " hammered off 
 their legs" in preparing them for their different engage- 
 ments at the Newmarket Craven Meeting. So much 
 difficulty, indeed, did some of the trainers experience 
 to bring their horses to the post in anything like 
 running form, that much additional 'preparation was 
 resorted to, and, as was the case with Phcenix, several 
 gave way under their severe discipline. 
 
 The Riddlesworth went, as a matter of course, into 
 the pocket of Lord Jersey, his colt by Buzzard, out of 
 Cobweb, proving an easy winner, held, or ridden, by 
 James Robinson ; and Phcenix, although he won as 
 his jockey liked, was found to have " touched upon 
 an old sore ;" therefore to give him time to get round 
 for the Derby, his noble owner resigned all contention 
 • for the other rich stakes usually swept away by his 
 lordship. The scratching of Phoenix gave an interest 
 to the Derby betting. One class (his previous backers) 
 insisting that he was the most superior race-horse that 
 ever " looked through a bridle ;" that he was too good 
 to be " hacked about, 1 ' and that Lord Jersey "knew 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1838. 211 
 
 what he was about," and would win the Derby by a 
 hundred yards ! The other party (the knowing ones) 
 laughed in their sleeves at these preposterous obser- 
 vations, and stood a little more against Phoenix, well 
 knowing that it is his lordship's custom always to run 
 for such stakes as the 2000 Guineas, if his horse is in 
 anything like form. Mr. Batson, the lucky Mr. 
 Batson, won two valuable stakes with his wretched 
 filly Vespertilio ; and the Duke of Portland, to the 
 joy of all frequenters of Newmarket, broke out very 
 strong with a son of Taurus, and Thebes, winning the 
 Column, and, in the following meeting, the Newmarket 
 Stakes, two of the most fancy races. The four year 
 olds turned out very badly ; Rat-trap, whose running 
 was always so uncertain, cut down the elite of north 
 and south in the Port Stakes. During this meeting 
 Ion's partisans became exceedingly numerous, the 
 running of his companion, Paganini, and the trials in 
 Cooper's stable, inspiring the gallant Colonel and 
 his party with increased confidence. 
 
 The Newmarket First Spring Meeting is a meeting 
 of paramount interest always to the speculative turfite. 
 The 2000 Guineas stake, the little Newmarket Derby, 
 was this year amazingly animating by its bringing out 
 Grey Momus, Bamboo, Alemdar, and Bond's Scurry 
 colt, all backed heavily to win the Derby, and Saint- 
 foin a good favourite for the St. Leger. Bamboo had 
 been " monstrously well tried ;" and his noble and 
 spirited owner, not content with having backed him to 
 win nearly 50,000 in the Derby, also supported him 
 freely for the 2000 Guineas stake ; in short, money 
 made Bamboo an egregrious favourite, but his " party"' 
 
 o2 
 
212 THE RACING SEASON, 1838. 
 
 soon found they had been bamboozled out of their 
 senses. 
 
 The York Spring Meeting showed a little improve- 
 ment in the "bill of fare," still leaving much room 
 for amendment in the management and general routine 
 of racing there. TheTwo-yr.-old Stakes were carried 
 off, as usual, by the Scotts. The Duke of Cleveland's 
 Alzira won the St. Leger, beating two promising colts 
 and an unpromising filly cleverly, and in consequence, 
 began to be looked up to as a Doncaster St. Leger 
 favourite. That good sportsman, Mr. Orde, won the 
 York Derby with Charley Boy, after a splendid race ; 
 and the crack north country favourite of last year, 
 Melbourne, won his race in a canter. By the lamented 
 death of the Duke of Leeds, York races lost a patron 
 of the first class, and, indeed, the vacuum caused 
 by the noble Duke's death in the North will not be 
 easily filled up. 
 
 The grand emporium of the year in the racing 
 world, was the Epsom Races. Passing over the 
 Tuesday as a day of no consequence, we come at 
 once to the Derby. Few events could exceed the 
 excitement in the ring on the eventful morning. To 
 some the declaration of Lord George Bentinck's that 
 he meant " to win with Grey Momus if he could" had 
 an effect something like being struck with lightning. 
 Hundreds had wrapped up their fates in D'Egville, 
 and until the declaration was publicly made, felt 
 persuaded that he was the horse. The admirers of 
 Phoenix stuck to him to the last, despite the opinions 
 of some good judges, as to his condition, and the state 
 of the course. Cobham maintained his place in the 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1838. 2J3 
 
 odds until the Grey was " declared to win," and then 
 he receded scarcely a point. Ion rose in the estima- 
 tion of the public immediately upon his making his 
 appearance, and several engagements were entered 
 into at odds as low as 10 to 1, the ring having broken 
 up leaving him at 13 to 1. The race was run to suit 
 Grey Momus (and, as it chanced, Amato), in fact 
 " honest John" knew his only chance was to take 
 the lead and keep it if possible. We think that it 
 was the quickest thing ever run over the Derby course, 
 and this verified John Day's observation to a brother 
 jock, in the Warren: " You will see the Derby run 
 for in less time than ever you did if I am beaten." 
 The hill and the pace choked off the weedy -speedy ones 
 instanter, and it was only the stout and honest runners 
 that persevered to the end. It was a singularly true 
 run race, as subsequent running sufficiently proved. 
 Ion ran honestly and well, and Colonel Peel may 
 justly complain of fortune sending into the world two 
 such horses as Amato and Don John in the same year as 
 opponents to him. Amato soon after this race went 
 amiss. The Oaks was a miserable turn out, and the 
 only gratification experienced on the occasion was, that 
 in a scramble, as the race certainly was, Lord Chester- 
 field was declared the winner. Barcarolle, Vespertilio, 
 Ninny, and Larnaca, the principal public performers, 
 went amiss two or three days before the race — to the 
 joy of the few book-makers. 
 
 Ascot Heath races have undergone much improve- 
 ment of late years, and succeeded in regaining that 
 character, which, under all circumstances, they 
 are so eminently qualified for. Like Newmarket, no 
 
214 THE RACING SEASON, 1838. 
 
 heats are now allowed to be run at Ascot, and the 
 noble Earl, under whose controul the races have so 
 much improved, spares neither trouble nor expense to 
 gratify the visiters. The Oatlands Stakes went into 
 Lord Exeter's pocket, as did also a splendid Gold 
 Vase, the gift of her Majesty. Velure won the former 
 and Mecca the latter. Westonian won the Two-yr.- 
 old Stakes of £50 each, beating Camellino, Alan, and 
 Tyrius easily, Mr. Wreford generally appropriates 
 this stake to his own use. Phoenix won a race, and 
 lost one, and Industry followed up her luck by 
 winning a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, thirteen 
 subscribers, beating Vespertilio and Velveteen. Lord 
 Jersey, to show that he can win at all ages, brought 
 out his Derby colt Ilderim, and won cleverly against 
 Camellino, Alan, and two others of inferior note. 
 The tight little Grey carried away the Cup from 
 Epirus and Caravan, after making what running he 
 pleased, Valentissimo won the Queen's plate, and 
 Larnaca a stake of 150 sovs. Sir Gilbert no doubt 
 thought of the old adage, " it never rains but it 
 pours," for such a run of fortune is very unusual in 
 the worthy Baronet's racing establishment. 
 
 The Goodwood races, although they undoubtedly 
 held the first place amongst what is termed the " pro- 
 vincial meetings," were certainly not on so brilliant 
 a scale as last season. Two or three just reasons 
 might be given to prove the why and the wherefore, 
 not the least being the bad judgment displayed in 
 fixing the weights for the Goodwood Stakes. Then 
 again the " agitators" were " at their dirty work 
 again, to the detriment of the betting on the Stakes, 
 
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 little as it originally was ; and Harkaway, after having 
 been backed, and the betting regulated by the sup- 
 position that he would run, was, at the last moment, 
 declared not to start. Then again the mystery that 
 was attached to Loutherbourg (and which, although 
 now settled in Mr. Theobald's favour, then gave rise 
 to unpleasant conjectures), threw a gloom over the 
 minds of gentlemen of honourable and straitforward 
 conduct. The Two-Year Old races, won by Wapiti, 
 were by far the most satisfactory events of the week ; 
 for the Cup, notwithstanding the numerous provisoes 
 (which would almost enable a donkey to contest the 
 race with a Priam, and shuts out all the best horses of 
 the day), was a hollow thing — Harkaway being in- 
 tended to win by his party. Grey Momus won his 
 two engagements in his old fashioned style, by taking 
 the lead and keeping it, and gained some friends for 
 the St. Leger in consequence. 
 
 At Doncaster, Don John's trials had been little short 
 of wonderful the week before running, but there was 
 no such thing as getting a pony on at " anything like 
 a saving price." Many remained true to Ion, well- 
 knowing him to be the best three-yr-old at INewmarket. 
 The St. Leger race requires no detail — Don John won 
 from the first hundred yards, and Ion's superiority 
 over the others was as soon observable. The Cup 
 race was one of interest, rendered more so than it 
 would probably have been, by the systematic chica- 
 nery of the Irish party, who again burnt their fingers 
 — Don John won easily. There was not a two-year- old 
 out during the meeting of any promise, a somewhat 
 singular circumstance. Heaton Park followed im- 
 
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 THE RACING SEASON, 1838. 
 
 mediately after Doncaster, and went off, as usual, to 
 the satisfaction of alk 
 
 The October Newmarket Meetings, tread so closely 
 upon each other, that we can ake them at a sweep. 
 Grey Momus won his two valuable races in good 
 style, but got defeated in his match for 5001. with 
 Caravan, probably owing to the heavy state of the 
 ground, and his not being quite up to the mark. The 
 fillies outran the colts in all the g.eat two-yr.-old 
 stakes, Cara being the most brilliant performer. Reel 
 won three races in a gallant manner, thus giving 
 " honest John" a double chance for the Oaks with her 
 and Wapiti. In conclusion, the Stakes in all parts, 
 particularly the meetings of Goodwood, Ascot, Liver- 
 pool, and Newcastle, closed with very numerous 
 entries for the coming year ; giving hopes of a plenti- 
 ful feast to all lovers of good sporting fare. 
 
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217 
 
 BLOOMSBURY. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1839. 
 
 Bloomsbury, a bay colt, bred in 1836, by Mr. 
 Cattle, of Sherriff Hutton, near York, was got by 
 Mulatto, out of Arcot Lass, by Ardrossan, dam by 
 Cramlington — Floyerkin, by Stride, &c. &c. 
 
 Bloomsbury's first race was the one which bruited 
 his fame abroad, and made it a familiar word, even to 
 the very lawyers. As a two-year-old he never started, 
 but made his first appearance upon the Epsom Turf in 
 1839, for the Derby Stakes, in company with the fol- 
 lowing lot: — 
 
 Mr. W. Ridsdale's c. Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, out of St. Giles's 
 
 dam. — Templeman 1 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, by Defence, out of Lady 
 
 Stumps. — Trenn 2 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's ch. c. Euclid, by Emilius, out of Maria.— P. Conelly - 
 Lord Westminster's br. c. Sleight-of-hand, by Pantaloon, out of 
 
 Decoy. — W. Scott , - 
 
 Lord Jersey's Ca*sar, brother to Achmet. — J. Robinson — 
 
 Mr. S. Herbert's b. c. Clarion, by Sultan, out of Clara.— J. Day, jun - 
 Lord Lichfield's bl. c. The Corsair, by Sir Hercules, out of Gulnare. — 
 
 Wakefield - 
 
 Mr. G. Clark's br. c. Dragsman (late Uncas), brother to Lady Jane, 
 
 by St. Nicholas. — H. Edwards - 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ch. c. Valaincourt, by Velocipede, out of Paradigma 
 
 — J. Chappie - 
 
 Captain Williamson's br. c. Melbourne, by Emilius, out of Misrule. — 
 
 N. Flatman - 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. c iEther, by St. Patrick, out of Pastille.— J. Day - 
 Lord Jersey's ch. c. Bderim, by Emilius, or Ishmael, out of Filagree. 
 
 E. Edwards - 
 
 Lord Albemarle's ch. c. Domino, brother to Masquerade, by Mameluke, 
 out of Miss Tree. — Cotton - 
 
218 THE DERBY, 1839. 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Bosphorus, by Reveller, out of Marmora. — S. 
 
 Darling - 
 
 Mr. Sadler's b. c. Dart, by Defence, out of Cinderella. — W. Sadler. . - 
 Mr. Bowes's The King ofKel ton, by Priam, out ofMundig's dam — C. 
 
 Edwards _ 
 
 Duke of Grafton's b. c. Montreal, by Langar, out of Legend. — W. 
 
 Wheatley - 
 
 Mr. Worrell's b. c. Peon, by Lapdog, out of Messenger's dam. — S. 
 
 Rogers -. 
 
 Mr. B. Eddison's br. or b. c. Rory O'More, by Langar, dam by 
 
 Whisker, out of Matilda. — J. Holmes - 
 
 Mr. J. Dixon's b. c. Hyllus, brother to The Hydra, by Sir Hercules. — 
 
 S. Day - 
 
 Col. Peel's br. c. The Dey of Algiers, by Priam, out of Tamworth'a 
 
 dam. — A. Pavis - 
 
 But few words are necessary to describe a race 
 which afterwards gave rise to so much diction and con- 
 tradiction. Euclid, Bloomsbury, and Deception, had 
 the whole thing to themselves, from beginning to end. 
 Euclid, some people thought, might have won — Decep- 
 tion, other people thought, ought to have won — and 
 Bloomsbury, to the astonishment of all people, did 
 win ; the odds being no less than 25 to 1 agst. him. 
 
 5 to 1 agst. Sleight-of-Hand, 6 to 1 agst. Euclid, 7 to 1 agst. Caesar, 8 to 1 agst. 
 Clarion, 12 to 1 agst. Deception, 16 to 1 agst. Corsair, 20 to 1 agst. Dragsman, 
 21 to 1 agst. Dart, 25 to 1 agst. Montreal, 25 to 1 agst. Bloomsbury, 30 to 1 agst. 
 Valaincourt, 30 to 1 agst. Melbourne, 50 to 1 agst. ^Ether, and 50 to 1 agst- 
 Ilderim. 
 
 On the Friday after the Race, a formal objection was 
 made to Bloomsbury's pedigree, by Mr. Fulwar Craven, 
 the owner of Deception ; the objection being, that the 
 Calendar and the Stud-book differed as to his pedigree, 
 — the Calendar making him " by Mulatto," but the Stud 
 Book by " Tramp or Mulatto." The Stewards, accord- 
 ingly, withheld the Stakes until the Tuesday morning 
 following, when Messrs. Weatherby received the fol- 
 lowing letter from them : — 
 
 " Epsom, May 21, 1839. 
 " To Messrs. Weatherby, 
 " We, the Stewards of Epsom Races, considering that although, by Rule 58, 
 when the qualification of any horse is objected to, after the race, the onus of proof 
 
THE BLOOMSBURY QUESTION. 219 
 
 lies upon the party objecting, yet that we are not thereby precluded from receiving 
 proof of such qualification from the owner of the horse objected to, if he shall see 
 fit to tender it, have this day, at the request of Mr. Ridsdale, examined the 
 evidence tendered by him in support of the qualification of his horse Bloomsbury, 
 and are of opinion that the entry in the Calendar is correct, that Bloomsbury was 
 qualified to start for the Derby, and that his owner is entitled to the stakes. 
 
 " Signed GILBERT HEATHCOTE 
 J. DE TEISSIER." 
 
 Mr. Craven was not yet satisfied, but gave notice to 
 the Stakeholder not to pay over the Stakes to Mr. 
 Ridsdale, being determined to bring the point at issue 
 forward in a court of law. 
 
 Now all this was most decidedly wrong — Stewards 
 of races are either competent judges, or they are not 
 so — If they are competent, no lawyer can pretend to 
 correct their judgment ; if they are not so — they should 
 not be appointed. As it was, a most complete confu- 
 sion was the consequence. Parties with Bloomsbury 's 
 name on the wrong side of their books, at once refused 
 to pay, screening themselves behind the notice given to 
 the stakeholder, whilst some even went so far as to 
 refuse to settle at all, even as regarded other horses in 
 the race. In short, there never was upon the Turf so 
 complex a business as the " Bloomsbury question," and 
 it is much to be hoped that the Jockey Club, by some 
 more rigid enactment, will provide against the possi- 
 bility of a recurrence of such a " case." 
 
 To dispose at once of the question, it is as well to 
 state, that after running at Ascot, " under protest," 
 the case came on the 22d of August, at Liverpool, 
 before a special jury, and a well-feed corps of learned 
 Serjeants, counsel, and the like, when a verdict was 
 returned in accordance with the decision of the Epsom 
 stewards, and thus this troublous matter was finally 
 
220 
 
 BLOOMSBUKY, 1839. 
 
 put to rest, after having made a "regular row" amongst 
 
 "THE DONS AT THE CORNER." 
 
 Another Derby came within the reach of Blooms- 
 bury, at Ascot, where he won the Ascot Derby Stakes 
 of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 
 61b., and fillies, 8st. 31b. ; the winner of the Derby or 
 Oaks to carry 51b. extra. — Swinley post in. — Seventeen 
 subs. 
 
 Mr. W. Ridsdale's b. c. Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, (51b. extra) 1 
 
 Lord Lichfield's bl. c. The Corsair 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. f. Macremma 3 
 
 The betting was 5 to 1 on Bloomsbury, who, however, 
 had some difficulty with John Day, who made a 
 " touch and go" affair of it on The Corsair. But on 
 the Thursday, he found an easier victory for a Sweep- 
 stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds ; colts, 
 8st. 51b., and fillies, 8st. 2lb. ; untried stallions or 
 mares allowed 31b. — Swinley course. — Eight subs. 
 
 Mr. W. Ridsdale's b. c. Bloomsbury 1 
 
 Lord Lichfield's ch. f. Sister to Hector 2 
 
BLOOMSBURY, 1840. 
 
 221 
 
 Sister to Hector running merely on the chance of 
 Bloomsbury being declared disqualified. 
 
 At Doncaster, Bloomsbury started for the St. Leger 
 (won by Charles the Twelfth), but was not placed ; and 
 on the Thursday, being again out of luck, he ended 
 his racing season 1839, by running third for the 
 Three-yr. old Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., colts, 8st. 
 71b. ; fillies, 8st. 3lb. — Leger Course. — Fifteen subs. 
 
 Mr. Bowes's b. c. Epidaurus, by Langar, out of Olympia 1 
 
 Lord Lichfield's bl. c. The Corsair, by Sir Hercules, out of Gulnare. 2 
 Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, out of Arcot Lass .... 3 
 Betting : 7 to 4 and 2 to 1 on Bloomsbury, 8 to 1 agst. Epidaurus, and 6 to 1 
 agst. The Corsair. 
 
 The Corsair took the lead with Epidaurus second, 
 and the favourite last ! At the Red House Bloomsbury 
 gave up the ghost of a chance. Epidaurus closed with 
 The Corsair, left him at pleasure — and won without a 
 struggle. 
 
 Bloomsbury 's next appearance on the Turf was for 
 
 THE ASCOT CUP, 1340. 
 
222 THE ASCOT CUP, 1840. 
 
 which was won by 
 
 Mr. R. Pettit's St. Francis, by St. Patrick, 5 yrs. old.— Chifney 1 
 
 Duke of Grafton's Montreal, by Langar, 4 yrs. old — J. Day 2 
 
 Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, 4 yrs. old. — Templeman 3 
 Mr. W. S. Stanley's Flambeau, by Taurus, 4 yrs. old. — Robinson . . 4 
 
 Mr. Thornbill's Euclid, by Emilius, 4 yrs. old. — Conolly - 
 
 Mr. Isaac Day's Caravan, by Camel, 6 yrs. old. — J. Day, jun - 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's Valentissimo, by Velocipede, aged. — Chappie. ... - 
 Betting: 5 to 2 agst. St. Francis (taken), 7 to 2 agst. Bloomsbury, 6 to 1 agst. 
 Montreal (taken), 6 to 1 agst. Euclid, 8 to 1 agst. Caravan, 9 to 1 agst. Flam- 
 beau, and 12 to 1 agst. Valentissivno. 
 
 At starting Bloomsbury, overpowering his jock, ran 
 away with the lead at a great pace, Montreal second, 
 Euclid third, Valentissimo fourth, Caravan and 
 Flambeau fifth and sixth, and St. Francis last, two or 
 three lengths separating the last three from the others, 
 between whom there was respectively a space of at 
 least a length and half. After running half a mile, 
 Euclid fell back. Flambeau, Caravan, and Valentis- 
 simo took his place, Bloomsbury still two or three 
 lengths in advance, and making much stronger 
 running than was consonant either with Templeman's 
 orders or his inclination. No further change took 
 place till they were near the last turn, when St. 
 Francis passed Caravan, Flambeau, and Euclid, and 
 took his station close to Valentissimo ; they ran thus 
 to the distance, when St. Francis shot by his horses 
 and took the lead. Bloomsbury lived in the second 
 place to the grand stand, and then dropt behind 
 Montreal ; and in this way they finished, St. Francis 
 winning very cleverly by half a length, and Montreal 
 beating Bloomsbury by about a length ; Flambeau 
 two or three lengths behind, — Valentissimo fifth, 
 Caravan sixth, and Euclid last — all beaten off. Some 
 of Bloomsbury 's friends insist that but for running 
 
THE CESAREWITCH, 1840. 223 
 
 away he would have won. We doubt this ; he would 
 certainly have made a better finish, but St. Francis is 
 a lazy horse, and could have won much easier. 
 At the Liverpool July Meeting, Bloomsbury, with 
 the odds at 7 to 2 in his favour, won the Croxteth 
 Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 30 added; three 
 yr. olds, 6st. 81b. ; four, 8st. 21b. ; five, 8st. 91b. ; 
 six and aged, 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 3lb. — A mile 
 and a quarter. — Five subs. 
 
 Mr. W. Ridsdale's b. c. Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, 4 yrs. old 1 
 
 Col. Anson's bl. f. by Lamplighter, out of Spinning JeDny, 3 yrs. old. 2 
 
 Lord Eglinton's br. g. St. Andrew, 5 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Robinson's b. c. Snoozer, 3 yrs. old 4 
 
 His last race was in the Newmarket Second October 
 Meeting, for the Cesarewitch Stakes, a free handicap 
 sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., with 300 added, 
 the gift of his imperial Highness the Grand Duke 
 Cesarewitch ; the second horse to receive 50 sovs. ou* 
 of the stakes ; the winner of any handicap race between 
 the day of publishing the weights and the day of 
 running, both days inclusive, to carry 51b. ; of two, 
 81b. extra, — Cesarewitch Stakes Course, about two 
 miles and a quarter, — Thirty-three subs. 
 
 Mr. S. Herbert's Clarion, by Sultan, 4 yrs. old, 8st. (carried 8st. 41b.) 1 
 
 Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, 4 yrs. old, 9st 2 
 
 Lord Lichfield's The Corsair, by Sir Hercules, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 51b. ; Mr. 
 Collins's Isaac, by Figaro, aged, 8st. 51b. ; Lord Eglinton's Bellona, by Beagle, 
 5 yrs. old, 7st. 101b. ; Mr. Copeland's King Cole, by Memnon, aged, 7st. 10lb. ; 
 Lord Jersey's Joannina, by Priam, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 5lb. ; Air. Goodman's Colchi- 
 cum, by Physician, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 51b. (carried 7st. 8lb.) ; Capt. Williamson's 
 Alervan, by Shakspeare, 6 yrs. old, 7st. 4lb. ; Air. St. Paul's Calypso, by Liver- 
 pool, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b. ; Mr. Treen's Fitzroy, by Belshazzar, 3 yrs. old, 7st. ; 
 Lord Exeter's Bosphorus, by Reveller, 4 yrs. old, 7st. ; Mr. Booth's Isabella, by 
 Aledora, 5 yrs. old, 7st. ; Col. Peel's I-am-not-aware, by Tranby, 5 yrs. old, 
 6st. 71b. ; Air. Goodman's Alungo Parke, by Belzoni, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 4lb. ; Lord 
 Albemarle's Janus, by Jerry, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 41b. ; Duke of Bedford's Perdita, by 
 Augustus, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 101b. ; Mr. Eddison's The Ruler, by Belshazzar, 3 yrs. 
 old, 5st. 71b. (carried 5st. 121b.) ; and Lord Exeter's Silistria, by Reveller, 3 yrs. 
 old, 5st. 71b. (carried 5st. 121b). : also started, but were not placed. 
 
224 THE CESAREWITCH, 1840. 
 
 Betting: 9 to 4 agst. The Ruler, 10 to 1 agst. Bloomsbury, 10 to 1 agst. 
 Fitzroy, 13 to 1 agst. I-am-not-aware, 13 to 1 agst. Janus, 16 to 1 agst. Mervan, 
 17 to 1 agst. The Corsair, 20 to 1 agst. Joannina , 20 to 1 agst. Calypso, and 100 
 to 2 agst. Clarion (50 to 1 laid once). 
 
 Perdita took the lead, followed by The Ruler and 
 I-am-not-aware, with The Corsair, Janus, King Cole, 
 Bosphorus, and two or three others behind ; next to 
 them a ruck of three or four, and lastly, Bloomsbury, 
 Clarion, Isaac, Mervan, and Fitzroy — the first two 
 and Fitzroy having waiting orders, and the other two 
 waiting against their will ; the pace was much too 
 good for them. At the ditch Perdita resigned, and 
 the running was taken up by I-am-not-aware, followed 
 by The Ruler, Bosphorus, Janus, and The Corsair, and 
 behind them Fitzroy, Calypso, King Cole, Joannina, 
 &c, Clarion and Bloomsbury in the rear ; near the 
 new ground The Corsair succombed, Fitzroy about 
 the same time improving his position. The Ruler 
 kept with his horses to the bushes, and then declined, 
 leaving I-am-not-aware and Bosphorus in front, with 
 Janus, Fitzroy, and Calypso behind. In descending 
 the hill Bloomsbury drew upon them, and on reaching 
 the cords was running next the inner ropes at the side 
 of Bosphorus, I-am-not-aware still holding the lead ; 
 Janus, Fitzroy, Calypso — in fact, every thing else in 
 the race, was beaten in the dip, except Clarion, 
 who was behind I-am-not-aware on the upper side ; 
 Isaac, it is true, was fifth, but laid very wide, and had 
 no earthly chance of getting up. About fifty yards 
 from the post Chifney made his rush, and those who 
 know how terrific that rush is, will not be surprised 
 that Bloomsbury, with nine stone, at the end of a long 
 and severe race, should flinch under it ; he hung upon 
 
THE CESAREWITCH, 1840. 225 
 
 Bosphorus, then a beaten horse, and drove him against 
 I-am-not-aware, Stagg's whip falling on Sam Mann's 
 arm ; he dropt behind, and Bloomsbury immediately 
 bore towards I-am-not-aware, Chifney having great 
 difficulty to keep him off; at this critical moment 
 Robinson made a desperate rush, and in spite of 
 Chifney 's splendid jockeyship, snatched the prize out 
 of his grasp by a neck. No third was placed, but 
 I-am-not-aware's head was at Clarion's girths, and 
 Bosphorus at Bloomsbury 's haunches next the ropes ; 
 Isaac was fifth. Behind him were Calypso, Fitzroy, 
 and Janus ; to this lot succeeded King Cole, Joannina, 
 and Bellona; to them Isabella, Silistria, The Corsair, 
 Mungo Parke, and Colchicum ; and finally, The 
 Ruler, Perdita, and Mervan — the last horse in the 
 race being Mervan. 
 
 With this race concluded the present season of a 
 horse whose history can find no parallel. He was a 
 most fortunate horse, — though almost unfortunate to 
 his owners and backers. He won the Derby, — and a 
 lawsuit. He caused the non-settlement of a settle- 
 ment. He embroiled lords and commoners, — enriched 
 poor men, — impoverished wealth, — and made "all 
 the world" stare, — when their eyes were opened. 
 
 Many and merry were the stories which were 
 created on the occasion of Bloomsbury 's unexpected 
 triumph on the Derby Day. None is more rich than 
 that, told as a fact, (?) of a celebrated sporting butcher, 
 who, in passing over Westminster Bridge, on his way 
 to the races, rather belated, was detained by an 
 obstinate crowd of dog and donkey-carts, which would 
 not move on, in spite of all his " Hies !" and " Hoes !" 
 
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226 
 
 THE VATES OF VESTMINSTER BRIDGE 
 
 — At last, provoked beyond endurance, he drove right 
 at the obnoxious parties, and vowing that he would 
 indict them, drove rapidly past ; his eye, straining at the 
 name-board of the cart, on which the word "Blooms- 
 bury" alone was decypherable. This magic word, 
 the legend then goes on to say, settled down deep 
 into his ruffled breast, ever and anon rising again, and 
 crossing his imagination as he sped along the road. 
 Upon the Downs, " the word" was with him still, — 
 and " Dorling's correct card" presented it empha- 
 tically to his haunted eyes. At last, beridden by his 
 recollection, and worried by the word, he took the fatal 
 ,eap, the odds against "Bloomsbury," and the loud 
 xcclamations of the assembled thousands soon after- 
 wards proclaimed our hero the winner of Twelve 
 Thousand Pounds — and verified the wizard word of 
 
 THE " VATES" OF VESTMINSTER BRIDGE 1 
 
227 
 
 DECEPTION. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, 1839. 
 
 Deception, a fine, lengthy bay filly, was bred in 
 1836, by Mr. Isaac Sadler; got by Defence, out of 
 Lady Stumps, by Tramp, her dam by Cervantes, out 
 of Fanny, by Sir Peter. 
 
 Deception's first appearance was in the Bath Spring 
 Meeting, 1838, where she was beaten by Westonian, 
 for the Weston Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, with 
 20 added; for two yr. olds; colts, 8st. 71b.; and 
 fillies, 8st. 41b. ; the produce of untried mares or 
 horses allowed 41b. — The straight half mile. — Nine 
 subs. 
 
 Mr. Wreford's b. c. by Camel, out of Margellina, 8st. 71b 1 
 
 Capt. Williamson's br.f. by The Colonel, out of Tyro, by Neptune, 8st. 2 
 Mr. S. Herbert's b. c. by Sultan, out of Benefit, by Oiseau, 8st. 7lb. ; and Mr. 
 Sadler's b. f. by Defence, out of Lady Stumps, 8st- 4lb.; also started, but were not 
 placed. 
 
 At the same place (Bath), on Wednesday the 27th 
 June, she won the Kelston Park Stakes of 30 sovs. 
 each, 15 ft. with 20 added, for two yr. olds ; colts, 
 8st. 71b. ; and fillies, 8st. 41b. ; a winner once to carry 
 31b. ; twice, 51b. extra ; the produce of untried horses 
 or mares, allowed 4lb, — The straight half-mile. — 
 Seven subs. 
 
 Mr. Sadler's b. f. Deception, by Defence, out of Lady Stumps 1 
 
 Mr. S. Herbert's b. c. by Sultan, out of Clara, by Filho da Puta, (al- 
 lowed 41b.) 2 
 
 Betting : 6 to i on the winner. 
 
 p 2 
 
228 DECEPTION, 1838. 
 
 At Goodwood on Tuesday the 3 1st July, for the 
 Lavant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, half a mile, for two 
 year olds, the following started, 
 
 Mr. Wreford's Wapiti, Sister to Wintonian (21bs. over weight) ; Mr. Saddler's 
 Deception, Sister to Delightful ; Duke of Richmond's Vale of Belvoir; Lord 
 Chesterfield's c. by Priam, out of Weeper ; Lord Exeter's c. by Reveller, out of 
 Advance ; Lord Suffield's f. Alms, by Langar, out of Charity ; Mr. Roe's br. f. by 
 The Colonel, out of Tyro ; Duke of Richmond's Reel ; and Lord Lichfield's 
 Sister to Hector. 
 
 Retting : t, to 1 agst. Weeper (t.), 5 to 2 agst, Wapiti (t.), 4 to 1 agst the 
 Duke of Richmond's two, and 7 to 1 agst. Advance. 
 
 The race, which was delayed an immense time by 
 false starts, was confined to Wapiti, Deception, and 
 Vale of Belvoir, and was won by Wapiti by half 
 a length, Vale of Belvoir making a most excellent 
 third, and Reel a decent fourth — the whole four 
 trained at Stockbridge ; Deception, it should be added, 
 by the owner. 
 
 On the following Thursday, for the Molecomb 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for two yr. olds. — T. 
 Y. C. — Wapiti, carrying 71b. extra for the Lavant, was 
 opposed by Deception (5lbs. extra for her race at Bath), 
 Duke of Richmond's The Currier, and Vale of Bel- 
 voir, the Weeper colt, and Capt. Berkeley's Falsetto. 
 Betting 6 to 5 on Wapiti, 3 to 1 agst. Vale of Bel- 
 voir, and 7 to 2 agst. Deception. The race was 
 gallantly contested from end to end by Deception 
 and Wapiti, the latter securing her victory in the 
 last stride by a neck ; the others were defeated 
 almost as soon as they started. 
 
 These performances raised Deception in the odds 
 for the Derby, which she lost, as already described, 
 (at page 217) running second to Bloomsbury, and 
 placed her on the day at the head of the poll for a 
 
THE OAKS, 1839. 229 
 
 renewal of the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft, 
 for which the following came to the post. 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, by Defence, out of Lady Stumps. 
 
 —J. Day 1 
 
 Sir G. Heathcote's ch. f. Caroline, by Velocipede, out of Nannette. — 
 
 Buckle 2 
 
 Mr. C. Wilson's b. f. Louisa, by Mulatto, out of Yorksbire Lass. — 
 
 Rogers S 
 
 Mr. Bowes's Mickleton Maid, by Velocipede, out of Maid of Lune. — 
 
 W. Scott - 
 
 Mr. Bell's b. f. The Shadow, by The Saddler, out of Slashing Harry's 
 
 dam. — Heseltine - 
 
 Lord Stradbroke's f. Hesione, by Priam, out of Memina. — Nat .... - 
 Sir G. Heathcote's b. f. La Bellezza, by Emilius, out of Samarcand's 
 
 dam. — Chappie - 
 
 Mr. Forth's br. f. by Hokee Pokee, out of Echo, by Emilius. — Crouch - 
 Duke of Richmond's b. f. Reel, by Camel, out of La Danseuse. — W. 
 
 Day - 
 
 Col. Craufurd's b. f. Dolphin, by Priam, out of Mermaid. — Lye .... - 
 
 Lord Lichfield's ch. f. Sister to Hector. — Wakefield — 
 
 Mr. Rush's Sister to Pickwick, by Camel. — Robinson — 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's br. f. Alexandrina, by The Saddler, out of Ebber- 
 
 ston's dam. — H. Edwards — 
 
 The betting ended at 13 to 8 on Deception, 9 to I 
 agst. Sir G. Heathcote's two, 10 to 1 agst. Dolphin, 
 10 to 1 agst. Hesione, 11 to 1 agst. The Shadow, 20 
 to 1 agst. Mickleton Maid, and 25 to 1 agst. Reel. 
 But the odds, as the event proved, were in fact any- 
 thing and everything to nothing on Deception, who 
 won in a common canter ; John Day having nothing 
 to do but to sit still and pull his hardest. 
 
 At the Bath Meeting Deception won a Produce 
 Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, 23 subs., beating her 
 former conqueror Westonian, and Science. 
 
 At the Liverpool July Meeting, the Croxteth Stakes 
 of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 30 added ; three yr. 
 olds, 6st. 81b. ; four, 8st. 21b. ; five, 8st. 91b. ; six 
 and aged, 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. — Once round. 
 — Nine subs., ended in her defeat by 
 
230 DECEPTION, 1839. 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's bl. h. The Doctor, by Doctor Syntax, 5 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, 3 yrs. old (carried 4lb. over 
 
 weight) 2 
 
 Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Apothecary, 3 yrs. old (carried 21b. over weight) 3 
 
 Col. Synge's b. c. Troy, 3 jts. old 4 
 
 Mr. Mostyn's b. f. Wonder, 4 yrs. old 5 
 
 Betting: 21 to 20 on Deception, and 10 to 12 agst. 
 The Doctor, who made all the running, and won a 
 fine race by a neck. 
 
 On Tuesday in the Goodwood Meeting, the Drawing 
 Room Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with a bonus by an 
 independent subscription of 10 sovs. each, for three 
 yr. olds; colts, 8st. 71b., and fillies, 8st. 21b.; the 
 winner of the Derby or Oaks to carry 81b. extra ; the 
 second for either, 41b. extra. — D.S.C. ; the second to 
 receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes, and the winner to 
 pay 25 sovs. to the Judge. — Twenty-four subs, to the 
 Stakes, and twenty-five to the bonus, were won by 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's Deception, 8lb. extra 1 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's b. f. Merganser 2 
 
 Lord Exeter's Bosphorus 3 
 
 Colonel Anson's b. c. Nickleby 4 
 
 Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Glenlivat 5 
 
 Duke of Richmond's b. f. Reel 6 
 
 Betting : 7 to 4 on Deception ; 4 to 1 agst. Merganser ; 6 to 1 agst. Nickleby ; 
 and 7 to 1 agst. Bosphorus. 
 
 Won by four lengths. And on the Thursday she ran 
 third for the Goodwood Cup, value 300 sovs., the rest 
 in specie, by subscription of 20 sovs. each, with 100 
 added by the Racing Fund. Cup Course ; three yr. 
 olds, 7st. 4lb. ; four, 9st. lib. ; five, 9st. 91b. ; six 
 and aged, 9st. 12lb. ; mares allowed 41b., and geld- 
 ings, 7lb. ; the second horse to receive 1001. out of the 
 Stakes. — Forty-six subs. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 41b 1 
 
 Mr. Dixon's b. c. Hyllus, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 101b 2 
 
THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1839. 231 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's Deception, 3 yrs. old, 7st. Sib 3 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's bl. h. The Doctor, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 21b 4 
 
 Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Epirus, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 4lb 5 
 
 Duke of Ricbmond's b. h. Beggarman, 4 yrs. old, 8st. lib 6 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Bosphorus, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 101b 7 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. c. Alemdar, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 51b 8 
 
 Lord Westminster's br. b. Richard Roe, 4 yrs. old, 8st. lib 9 
 
 Betting : Even on Harkaway ; 2 to 1 agst. Deception ; 8 to 1 agst. The Doctor ; 
 14 to 1 ao-st. Hyllus ; 20 to 1 agst. Alemdar ; and 50 to 1 agst. Richard Roe. 
 
 At Salisbury, on Wednesday the 14th. August, De- 
 ception carried off the Wiltshire Stakes of 25 sovs. 
 each, 15 ft., and 5 only if declared, &c, to which 50 
 sovs. would have been added by the County Members 
 for the Southern Division of Wilts, if three horses had 
 started ; the owner of the second horse received back 
 his Stake. — Two miles. — Twenty-subs., fourteen of 
 whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, by Defence, 3 yrs. old, 8st. . . . 1 
 Mr. Sadler's b. c. Dart, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b 2 
 
 But was beaten on the same day by Caravan, for 
 Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. ; three yr. olds, 8st. 
 121b. ; four, 9st. 61b.; five, lOst. ; six and aged, lOst. 
 31b.— Three miles. 
 
 Mr. Isaac Day's br. h. Caravan, by Camel, 5 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 Mr. Sadler's b. f. Deceit, 3 yrs. old 3 
 
 In running, Deception and Deceit bolted ; the latter 
 pulled up ; but Deception turned round, went on, and 
 made good running to the end, although without avail. 
 On the following day, however, she won the Cup 
 Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; for all ages.— Cup Course, 
 about two miles. — Six subs. 
 
 Mr. Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 131b., (carried 
 
 7st. lib.) 1 
 
 Mr. S. Herbert's b. c. Clarion, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 2lb 2 
 
232 
 
 DECEPTION. 
 
 and finally wound up the Season 1839, by walking 
 over at Weymouth, for Her Majesty's Plate of 100 
 Guineas. 
 
 Deception's only appearance in the year 1840, was 
 for the Tradesmen's Cup at the Liverpool July Meet- 
 ing, for which she was not placed, Sleight-of-Hand 
 winning. 
 
 Deception is a peculiarly light and elegantly formed 
 mare, with a symmetrical shape, a good form in 
 action, like a deer. 
 
* 
 
233 
 
 CHARLES XII. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 1839. 
 
 Charles the Twelfth, a very fine and racing-like 
 brown colt, was bred in 1836, by Major Yarburgh, of 
 Haslington-hall, near York, and was got by Voltaire 
 (by Blacklock), out of a Prime Minister mare, bred in 
 1818, by Mr. Yarburgh, her dam by Orville, out of 
 Miss Grimstone, by Weazel — Ancaster — Damascus 
 Arabian — Sampson — Oroonoko — Sister to Mirza, &c. 
 Charles the Twelfth made his debut upon the Turf as 
 a three year old, at the Liverpool July Meeting, where he 
 won the Tradesmen's Cup, or Piece of Plate, value 200 
 sovs., with 100 given from the Racing Fund, added to 
 a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and 
 5 only if declared, &c. ; the owner of the second horse 
 received 50 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner 
 paid 30 sovs. to the Judge. — Two miles. — Seventy 
 subs., forty-seven of whom paid only 5 sovs. each. 
 
 Major Yarburgh's b. c. Charles XII. 3 yrs. old, 6st. 61b 1 
 
 Lord Egliuton's br. h. St. Bennett, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 51b 2 
 
 Epirus, 5 yrs, old, 8st. 131b. ; Heron, 6 yrs. old, 8st. lllb. ; Slashing Harry, 5 
 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. ; Cowboy, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. ; Llanercost, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 61b. ; 
 King Cole, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 61b.; Compensation, 4 yrs. old, 8st.; Gilbert Gurney, 
 4 yrs. old. 7st. 71b. ; Van Buren, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 61b. ; Rachel, 5 yrs. old, 
 7st. 61b. ; Percy, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 21b. ; Harpurhey, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 121b ; Cruis. 
 keen, 5 yrs. old, 6st. 61b. ; and Hopeful, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 61b. (carried 6st. 81b.), 
 also started, but not placed. 
 
 This performance, in which he beat some of the best 
 horses of the day, immediately placed Charles the Twelfth 
 
234 THE ST. LEGEK, 1839. 
 
 at the head of the betting for the St. Leger, which 
 brought the following horses to the post. 
 
 Major Yarburgh's b. c. Charles XII. by Voltaire, out of Laurel's dam. 
 
 — W. Scott 1 
 
 Mr. Thornhill's ch. c. Euclid, by Emilius, out of Maria, by Whisker 
 
 P. Conolly 2 
 
 Colonel Cradock's b. c. The Prorost, by The Saddler, out of Rebecca. 
 
 — S. Templeman _ 
 
 Mr. Jacques's b. c. Malvolio, by Liverpool, out of Comedy T. Lye . - 
 
 Colonel Crauford's b. f. Dolphin, by Priam, out of Mermaid. — J. 
 
 Holmes - 
 
 Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Bloomsbury, by Mulatto, out of Arcot Lass. — 
 
 S. Rogers _ 
 
 Mr. Clark's br. c. Dragsman, by St. Nicholas, out of Olive-leaf. 
 
 — Macdonald - 
 
 Mr. Dixon's b. c. Hyllus, brother to The Hydra, by Sir Hercules, out 
 
 of Zebra. — S. Day - 
 
 Mr. Wormald's gr. c. Bolus, by Physician, dam by Comus. — 
 
 Heseltine - 
 
 Lord Westminster's ch. c. The Lord Mayor, by Pantaloon, out of 
 
 Honeymoon, by Filho. — G. Nelson - 
 
 Lord Lichfield's bl. c. The Corsair, by Sir Hercules, out of Gulnare, 
 
 by Smolensko. — John Day - 
 
 Mr. Allen's br. c. Fitz-Ambo, by The Saddler or Tramp, out of 
 
 Nerissa, by Woful. — Marson - 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's br. c. Easingwold, by Mulatto, out of Eve, by Lottery. 
 
 — Cartwright , - 
 
 Lord Kelburne's b. c. by Jerry, out of Purity, by Octavian. — G. 
 
 Calloway * - 
 
 The betting at starting, we should say was, 6 to 4 on Charles the XII.; 6 to 1 
 a<"st. Bloomsbury ; 9 to 1 agst. Malvolio ; 12 to 1 agst. Euclid ; Provost, Easing- 
 wold, The Corsair, and The Mayor, at odds, varying between 30 and 40 to 1. 
 
 The horses got away in excellent order. Euclid was 
 first off, and went with a lot of five or six for about a 
 hundred and fifty yards, by which time they had 
 settled into their places. Charles the Twelfth now 
 emerged from the crowd, and took up the work at a 
 first rate pace, with Bloomsbury, Bolus, Euclid (about 
 fourth), The Dolphin, The Provost, and Malvolio, in 
 close attendance, and a ruck of four well-up ; the rear 
 was brought up by Easingwold, Dragsman, and the 
 Purity colt; the latter, quite unfit for running, "went 
 up the hill," and then literally "came back again." The 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1839. 235 
 
 front, composed as we have stated, continued unbroken 
 until Bloomsbury removed all doubts as to his fitness to 
 run, by dropping behind Malvolio and The Provost, 
 taking his galloping companion, Bolus, with him. Euclid 
 now settled into the second place, The Dolphin lying 
 up with him, and Malvolio and The Provost behind her. 
 On making the turn into the straight run in, about 
 two distances from home, The Dolphin discovered that 
 she was out of her element, and declined, Malvolio 
 taking her place ; Euclid at the same time beginning 
 to draw upon the crack ; at the distance, a final change 
 took place, and the race was reduced to a match. 
 After being once or twice driven against the rails by 
 Charles, Euclid, having in appearance much the best 
 of the race, now went to his head, and, from this point 
 to the Chair, the spectators were gratified with one of 
 the most interesting and exciting contests ever seen 
 over the St. Leger Course ; it was head and head — 
 stride for stride, to the end ; and the judge, unable to 
 say which had won, pronounced the first dead heat ever 
 run for the St. Leger. Both horses were much dis- 
 tressed. The time of running was three minutes and 
 twenty-five seconds. 
 
 For the deciding heat, the betting opened at 6 and 
 7 to 4 on Charles, but the hedging money was sent in 
 so liberally that the odds shifted to the other side, 
 and, after reaching 6 to 4, closed at 5 to 4 on Euclid. 
 This race was run very differently from the last. Both 
 were under waiting orders, so that after walking a few 
 yards, Euclid had to canter ; in fact, for the first three 
 quarters of a mile he had to " wait in front ;" he then 
 made strong running, Scott playing the game of 
 
236 CHARLES XII. AND EUCLID. 
 
 "follow my leader" very steadily to the distance, 
 where he went up. A struggle, scarcely less inter- 
 esting than the last, now commenced and continued 
 to the Stand, where, for the first time, Charles obtained 
 a slight advantage — his head was in front ; a few 
 lengths further his neck ; and so it would have been 
 to the finish, had not Scott, in putting him straight 
 for the Chair, enabled his antagonist to get a few 
 inches nearer — and thus it ended ; Charles winning 
 by a head. 
 
 Thus terminated one of the most interesting races 
 ever seen in England, and the first dead heat ever ran 
 for the St. Leger ; leaving public opinion as divided 
 as ever as to the relative merits of the nags. 
 
 On the following Thursday, Charles the Twelfth 
 carried away the Cup, value 400 guineas, given by 
 the stewards, with 50 sovs. (in specie) added by the 
 Corporation ; three yr. olds, 7st. ; four, 8st. 31b. ; 
 five, 8st. 10lb. ; six and aged, 9st. ; the winner of the 
 St. Leger to carry 31b. extra. — To start at the Red- 
 house, and run once round to the Ending-post. — About 
 two miles and five furlongs. 
 
 Major Yarburgh's b. c. Charles XII, by Voltaire, out of Laurel's dam, 
 3 yrs. old 1 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's br. c. Llanercost, by Liverpool, out of Otis, 4 yrs. old. 2 
 
 Mr. Orde's b. m. Bee's-wing, by Dr. Syntax, dam by Ardrossan, 6 
 yrs. old 3 
 
 Mr. Denham's b. c. Compensation, by Emancipation, 4 yrs. old .... 4 
 
 In the Stand, before starting, the mare's friends 
 were confident, and took at one time 6 to 4, the field and 
 Charles being at even. At the close, 6 to 5 and 5 to 
 4 was laid on one, 10 to 6 agst. Bee's-wing (taken), 7 
 to 1 agst. Llanercost, and 20 to 1 agst. Compensation. 
 Bee's-wing, soon after the start, made very severe 
 
CHARLES XII. 1840. 237 
 
 play, relying on strength and freshness, having an 
 effect upon a young one, who had run two severe heats 
 of a mile and three quarters through a bog but a day 
 or so before. Charles was second up to the heavy 
 ground, when Llanercost headed him. Soon after 
 passing the bend below the Red-house, the three 
 closed and raced together to the distance, where Bee's- 
 wing gave up. Llanercost looked the winner, but 
 the young Swede, with courage and energy of the first 
 order, struggled on and caught victory by the head 
 just on the post. Bee's-wing was beaten five or six 
 lengths at least — and Compensation had a charming 
 view of the race the whole way round. 
 
 Charles the Twelfth's first appearance for the 
 season, 1840, was in the Liverpool July Meeting, 
 where he was beaten for the Tradesmen's Cup, or 
 Piece of Plate, value 200 sovs., with 100 sovs. given 
 from the fund, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 
 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and 5 if declared, &c. ; the 
 winner of the Lord of the Manor Cup, or Borough 
 Cup at Newton, or the Northumberland Plate or Cup 
 at Newcastle, to carry 51b. extra; the winner paid 30 
 sovs. to the Judge ; and the owner of the second horse 
 received 50 sovs out of the stakes. 
 
 Lord Westminster's Sleight-of-Hand, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 4lb 1 
 
 The Duke of Cleveland's Sampson, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 8lb 2 
 
 Major Yarburgh's Charles XII, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 13lb 3 
 
 Mr. Allen's b. m. Orelia, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 101b 4 
 
 Lord Eglintoun's br. h. St. Benedetta, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 91b 5 
 
 Lord Milltown's ch. m. Cruiskeen, 6 yrs. old, 7st. 81b 6 
 
 The Doctor, 6 yrs. old, 9st. lib. ; Retriever, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 51b. ; Deception, 
 
 4 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb. ; Modesty, 6 yrs. old, 7st. 121b. ; Bolus, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 7lb. ; 
 
 George, 5 yrs. old, 7st. 71b. ; Mickleton Maid, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 6lb. ; Grey Milton, 
 
 3 yrs. old, 6st. 7lb. ; Broadwath, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 4lb. ; and Wirrestrew, 4 yrs. old, 
 
 6st. 31b. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 6 to 4 agst. Broadwath, 4 to 1 agst. Sleight-of-hand, 10 to 1 agst. Cruiskeen, 12 
 
 to 1 agst. Deception, 14 to 1 agst. Orelia, 15 to 1 agst. Bolus, 16 to 1 agst. Charles 
 
 the Twelfth, and 16 to 1 agst. Modesty. 
 
238 
 
 THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1840. 
 
 On the following day he won the Grosvenor Stakes 
 of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 50 added, for three yr. 
 olds, 7st. 41b. ; and four, 8st. 101b. ; f. and g. allowed 
 31b. ; four yr. olds, being maiden at the time of nomi- 
 nation, allowed 31b. ; the winner of the St. Leger to 
 have carried 31b. extra. — A mile and three quar- 
 ters. — Eighteen subs. 
 
 Mr. Johnstone's br. c. Charles the Twelfth, by Voltaire, 4 yrs. old . . 1 
 
 Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, 3 yrs. old 2 
 
 4 to 1 on Charles the Twelfth. 
 
 Goodwood brought Charles the Twelfth forward for 
 
 THE GOODWOOD CUP, 1840, 
 
CHARLES XII. 1840. 239 
 
 value 300 sovs., the rest in specie, by subscription of 
 20 sovs. each, with 100 added by the Racing Fund ; 
 three yr. olds, 7st. 41b. ; four, 9st. lib. ; five, 9st. 91b. ; 
 six and aged, 9st. 121b.; mares allowed 41b.; geld- 
 ings, 71b. ; the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out 
 of the stakes. — Cup Course. — Forty-four subs. 
 
 Duke of Orleans's Beggarman, by Zinganee, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 51b 1 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's br. h. Llanercost, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 12lb 2 
 
 Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 10lb 3 
 
 Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 121b.; Mr. Johnstone's Charles 
 XII., 4 yrs. old, 8st. 121b. ; Mr. Forth's b. c. by Muley, out of Solace, 3 yrs. old, 
 6st. 10lb. ; Mr. Greatrex ns. Pocahontas, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 61b. ; Lord G. Bentinck's 
 Grey Milton, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 51b. ; Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 
 8lb. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 At Doncaster, Charles the Twelfth ran third for the 
 Cup, value 350 gs., given by the Stewards, with 50 
 sovs. added by the Corporation ; three yr. olds, 7st. ; 
 four, 8st. 31b. ; five, 8st. 10lb. ; six and aged, 9st. ; 
 the winner of the St. Leger to have carried 31b. extra. 
 — About two miles and five furlongs. 
 
 Mr. Orde's b. m. Bee's-wing, aged 1 
 
 Colonel Cradock's br. c. The Provost, 4 yrs. old „ 2 
 
 Mr. Johnstone's br. c. Charles XII. , 4 yrs. old 3 
 
 Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, 3 yrs. old 4 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Sampson, 4 yrs. old 5 
 
 Mr. Thompson's ch. f. Vermilion, 3 yrs. old 6 
 
 6 to 5 agst. Maroon, 3 to 1 agst. Charles XII., 9 to 2 agst. The Provost, 7 to 1 
 agst. Sampson, and 8 to 1 agst. Bee's-wing. 
 
 A good race between the first two. 
 
 On Thursday, the 16th September, Charles the 
 Twelfth was again at the wrong end for the Steward's 
 Cup, value 200 sovs., the surplus in specie, by sub- 
 scription of 20 sovs. each, with 100 added. — Two 
 miles and a half. — Fifteen subs. 
 
 Colonel Cradock's b. c. Gallipot, by Physician, 3 yrs. old, 7st 1 
 
 Mr. W. H. Hornby's br. c. Champagne, 3 yrs. old, 7st 2 
 
 Mr. Ferguson's ch. h. Harkaway, 6 yrs. old, 8st. lllb 3 
 
 Mr. Johnstone's br. c. Charles XII., 4 yrs. old, 8st. 121b 4 
 
240 
 
 CHARLES XIT. 1840. 
 
 7 to 4 agst. Harkaway, 2,to 1 agst. Charles XII., 3 to 1 agst. Gallipot, and 8 
 to 1 agst. Champagne. 
 
 His last appearance was at Dumfries, for the Gold 
 Cup, value lOOsovs., by subscription of 10 sovs. each, 
 for all ages. — Two miles. — Ten subs. 
 
 Mr. Ramsay's Llanercost, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 121b 1 
 
 Mr. A. Johnstone's Charles XII., 4 yrs. old, 8st. 51b 2 
 
 And thus for the present ended Charles the Twelfth's 
 exploits. 
 
241 
 
 THE RACING SEASON, 1839. 
 
 The Racing Season 1839, produced rather more than 
 the usual average of running, but the horses, with 
 perhaps a few exceptions, were " below par" in point 
 of merit. The inferiority of the two year old colts 
 which appeared in public during the year was very 
 striking, nothing save Launcelot, and the Brother to 
 Euclid in the North, and Wardan, and Defendant in 
 the South, having shown anything like running. On 
 the other hand, the fillies, more especially that " crack," 
 Crucifix, made their debut in a highly promising 
 manner, and retained their laurels " untainted by 
 defeat," to the end of the year. Lalla Rookh's 
 exploits were entirely amongst the provincials, but 
 she won six engagements, in some giving weight, 
 and running long distances, without letting the public 
 know the extent of her speed and stoutness. Most 
 of the " professors" turned matters to a good account 
 during the season ; but the balances, save in two 
 or three instances, were by no means heavy — the 
 difficulty in getting the "circle," as some term it, in a 
 large book, being every year more manifest : — betting 
 
242 THE RACING SEASON, 1839. 
 
 " round," in fact, becoming now the order of the 
 day with almost all parties. 
 
 In the Newmarket Craven Meeting—the old quaint 
 saying that ' ' mistakes will occur in the best regulated 
 establishments," was most strikingly exemplified ; 
 for nothing but Conolly's riding strictly to " order" 
 lost Mr. Thornhill the Riddlesworth. The fact was, 
 that Lord Jersey was considered " safe to win," and 
 Pettit, to 6ave Euclid for another handsome engage- 
 ment on the same day, gave instructions to Conolly 
 not to persevere if he considered his chance out. Now 
 it is well known that many horses require a good deal 
 of rousing to make them finish well, and Euclid not 
 answering the first call made upon him, when near 
 home, induced Conolly to decline the struggle. It is 
 in many instances a great drawback to a jockey to be 
 tied down closely to " order." The subsequent run- 
 ning of Euclid led the Jersey party into great errors 
 and difficulties, from which they never had a chance 
 to extricate themselves ; they were hurried on into a 
 belief that Caesar was a second Bay Middleton, with- 
 out waiting to weigh the merits of those miserable 
 creatures, Tros and Derrynane, whom he certainly 
 defeated by some half-a-dozen lengths, without being 
 called upon. Ilderim won the Tuesday's Riddles- 
 worth, and receded some fifteen or twenty points in 
 the betting ; he won by four lengths, with consum- 
 mate ease, but the poverty of the field and the lofti- 
 ness of his action — not at all after the approved 
 " Derby fashion," left him nearly friendless. Grey 
 Momus won the Port Stakes in the commonest canter, 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1839. 243 
 
 i 
 
 from Don John and Alemdar; the Don was as "dead 
 as a 6tone," and ought not to have started. Flambeau 
 won a race and lost one during the week, and Caravan 
 took the Oatlands to Isaac Day, at Northleach. 
 
 The Newmarket First Spring Meeting upset many 
 of the Derby books. The Two-Thousand Guineas 
 Stakes was a poser to the fancy men, who betted 7 
 and 8 to 1 on Caesar against The Corsair and iEther ! 
 Notwithstanding the numerous reasons assigned for 
 Caesar's defeat, time proved that this was as true run 
 a race as ever was contested over any of the New- 
 market courses. Nothing is more easy than for an 
 infatuated turfite to persuade himself that a race 
 is a " mistake," when run home to a head, and his 
 favourite defeated. It was so with the Jersey party: 
 " Robinson drew it too fine ;" — " the horse changed 
 his leg, at the critical moment when called upon ;" 
 " Robinson was watching iEther, and did not 6ee the 
 black horse until too late ;" — were amongst the many 
 apologies for Caesar's defeat ; — Lots bore up in favour 
 of the " mistake," and the consequence was, Caesar 
 became a better favourite than The Corsair, and on 
 the day of running he was a better favourite by a 
 hundred per cent., than the black horse — but more of 
 that anon. — The patched up condition of Don John 
 was just sufficient to enable Lord Chesterfield to pick 
 up the pretty little sum of 18001. (winner's stake 
 included) from Alemdar and Morella ; but his legs 
 gay way after the race. Harry Edwards's riding was 
 beautiful ; he just did the trick by a head. The 
 1000 gs., won by Cara, and the Newmarket Stakes, 
 
 q 2 
 
244 THK RACING SEASON, 1839. 
 
 by Montreal, had very little effect on the Derby or 
 Oaks bettings. If the Clarendon Stakes had been 
 run for, Wm. Ridsdale was an ill-used man in the 
 affair: it would have altered the aspect of things 
 wonderfully in the Derby market. N'importe : Rids- 
 dale has had a glorious revenge. Of the Second 
 Spring Meeting it will be enough to say, that Courier 
 won the Rowley Mile Plate, and was almost imme- 
 diately afterwards declared not to go for the Derby. 
 
 At the York Spring Meeting the Commodore, with 
 long odds in his favour, won the York Derby, and 
 Euclid ran honestly and well ; but the other favourites, 
 viz. Sleight-of-hand, Caesar, The Corsair, Dragsman, 
 and Valaincourt, came in like " leather platers,' 7 
 waiting for the heat. Several bets were depending 
 between The Corsair and Csesar respecting "places;" 
 but they were so far in the background, that it is 
 scarcely safe to award the palm to either. Of the 
 Oaks, not an observation need be made ; the 
 judges were content to bet 7 to 4 on Deception, 
 against the field — and she, as they anticipated, won in 
 a common canter. All Scott's horses were a little 
 " off," this Season. 
 
 Ascot Heath shone forth with its wonted splendour. 
 The running was such, that for the time being, it 
 afforded the greatest gratification to the holiday people, 
 and also gave the speculators ample scope to exercise 
 their powers, without extending into future events. 
 Her Majesty honoured the course with her presence 
 on Tuesday and Thursday, and, in consequence, the 
 fashionables were exceedingly numerous. Caravan won 
 
THE HACING SEASON, 1839 
 
 245 
 
 THE CUP 
 
 from St. Francis, Ion, and The Dey of Algiers. Jeffy 
 won the Two-years old Stakes, after a false race — 
 in which Defendant came in first. Great praise is due 
 to Lord Erroll, for having restored Ascot Races to their 
 former brilliancy. 
 
 The Newmarket July Meeting introduced Crucifix 
 to the racing public, and she fully sustained the cha- 
 racter John Day entertained of her. The July and 
 Chesterfield Stakes (for the latter race she carried 91b. 
 extra) were swept away in capital style. The betting 
 
246 THE RACING 8EA60N, 1839. 
 
 was somewhat crippled by the uncertainty of this 
 superior two year old showing : but the Duke of 
 Grafton, and the Marquis of Exeter, having horses fit, 
 are very difficult noblemen to enter into a compromise 
 with ; and the consequence was, Lord George was 
 obliged to bring her out, or lose two valuable stakes. 
 At Liverpool, Deception went to get an allowance 
 of five pounds for the Goodwood Cup, and was defeated 
 by a neck by The Doctor, entirely through bad 
 riding on the part of the boy who rode her. The 
 Tradesmen's Cup and the Leger told us the strength 
 of the Scott's stable: Charles XII., at 6st. 61b. ,w on 
 the first easily; and Hetman Platoff took away the 
 latter without using his best efforts. Charles im- 
 mediately rose to 5 to 1, and Hetman Platoff found 
 friends at 16 to 1 for the Great Northern Race. Llan- 
 ercost's running at this Meeting proved him a good 
 and game horse. 
 
 The "grand affair" of 1839 was unquestionably the 
 Goodwood Meeting ; the arrangements were in every 
 respect highly judicious — more need not be said. 
 Unfortunately, the two first days were dreadfully wet, 
 the course, as a natural consequence, exceedingly heavy, 
 the company, however, despite the weather, was suf- 
 ficiently numerous to prove that the admirers of racing 
 care little or nothing for the elements, provided the 
 list reads well ; on the two last days the weather was 
 delightfully fine, and the fashionables, as well as the 
 general company, numerous. The two Two year old 
 Stakes were won easily by Crucifix, carrying extra 
 weights in both instances. Barnacles won the Good- 
 wood Stakes, thanks to light weight, good condition, 
 
THEGOODWOOD CUP, 3849. 
 
 247 
 
 and the heavy state of the ground ; Deception can- 
 tered away with the Drawing Room Stakes, giving 
 8lb. to very fair horses: and Harkaway, in splendid 
 form, won the 
 
 GOODWOOD CUP, 1839. 
 
248 
 
 HARKAWAY. 
 
 in the merest canter, beating most of the best horses 
 of his year: amongst them, Deception, the Doctor, 
 and Epirus. # 
 
 At the present moment, whilst the appearance of this 
 " terror of all Ireland," and the various circumstances 
 connected with his career, are still fresh in the minds 
 of our readers, a short account of his performances up 
 to the end of this season (1839), may not be deemed 
 uninteresting. 
 
 Harkaway, is the property of, and was bred by, 
 Mr. Ferguson. He was got by Economist, dam by 
 Nabocklish, out of Miss Tooley ; by Teddy-the- 
 Grinder, out of Miss Jane; by Sir Peter, out of 
 Paulina ; by Matchem, out of Captive ; grandam, 
 Calliope, by Slouch, out of the dam of Atalanta. It 
 is stated as a fact, that his proprietor has frequently 
 ridden him as a two year old into market at Kildare. 
 His performances are as follows : — 
 
 
 
 CURRAGH. 
 
 
 1836. 
 
 September. 
 
 Two-yrs. old*, Anglesey Stakes, 
 
 beaten 
 
 
 October. 
 
 Paget Stakes, 
 
 beaten 
 
 
 November. 
 
 The Constantino Stakes, 
 
 won 
 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Sweepstakes, 
 
 beaten 
 
 1837. 
 
 April. 
 
 Madrid Stakes, 
 
 beaten 
 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Second class of Madrids, 
 
 won 
 
 
 June. 
 
 Kirwans, 
 
 won 
 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Northumberland Handicap, 
 
 won 
 
 
 Ditto 
 
 King's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 
 September. 
 
 The Wellington's, 
 
 won 
 
 . * This Harkaway was certainly one of the most extraordinary " cracks," 
 whose feats it has been our task to chronicle. Setting aside the tales about his 
 being ridden as a hack about the farm, to fetch the letters, and to do anything and 
 everything ; this one thing is certain, that if this horse had been but fairly dealt 
 by, he would have figured here as one of the foremost, if not the first of all the 
 cracks of our day. But all bis powers were abused, not used. His wonderful 
 merits became a ready tool in the hands of men who ought to have been hooted 
 from every course in England, and all the fame and name of Harkaway were 
 sacrificed to the disgusting practices of an unprincipled "party." 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1839. 
 
 249 
 
 1837. 
 
 1838. 
 
 1839. 
 
 1838. 
 
 1839. 
 
 September. 
 
 King's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 October. 
 
 The Kirwans, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Challenge of the Kirwans, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Queen's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Royal Whip, 
 
 won 
 
 April. 
 
 Rossmore Free Handicap, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Wellington's 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Queen's Piute, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Challenge of Wellington's 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Queen's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 June. 
 Ditto 
 
 Queen's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 Queen's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Kirwans, 
 
 beaten 
 
 April. 
 
 Queen's Plate 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 beaten 
 
 July. 
 
 Liverpool, Tradesmen's Cup, 
 
 beaten 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Queen's Plate, 
 
 beaten 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Goodwood Gold Cup, 
 
 won 
 
 August. 
 
 Wolrerhampton Cleveland Cup, 
 
 won 
 
 September. 
 
 Doncaster, Her Majesty's Plate, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Heaton Park, H. P. Stakes, 
 
 beaten (fell) 
 
 October. 
 
 Chesterfield, Sweepstakes, 
 
 walked over 
 
 May. 
 
 Chester, Tradesmen's Cup, 
 
 beaten 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Chester, Stand Cup, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 t Chester, Marq. of Westminster's 
 I Plate, 
 
 | beaten 
 
 July. 
 
 Cheltenham, Tradesmen's Cup, 
 
 won 
 
 August. 
 
 Goodwood Cup, 
 
 won 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Wolverhampton, Cleveland Cup, 
 
 beaten. 
 
 making a total of thirty-eight races run; — thirteen lost, 
 and twenty-five won. 
 
 All these successes, made the Americans, ever on the 
 alert, cast a jealous eye upon Harkaway, and Messrs. 
 Tattersall having been commissioned to send him to 
 the New World, at a price, wrote to ask Mr. Ferguson 
 what sum was asked for him, and whether he was in 
 work; to which application he returned for answer, 
 "The price of Harkaway is six thousand guineas, 
 
 AND I HUNT HIM TWICE AND THRICE A-WEEK !" So 
 
 much for Harkaway ! — But to return to the Racing 
 Season. 
 
 The Doncaster Meetings are palpably degenerating, 
 
250 THE RACING SEASON, 1839, 
 
 and unless some stir is made, they will soon be at their 
 " last kick." The interest is now solely confined to the 
 St. Leger race ; and to show the bearing up of one 
 party, and the quietude of the others, 7 to 4 and 2 to I 
 was freely betted on Charles XII against the jield. 
 That Euclid would have beaten him in the first race, if 
 the ground had been sounder, is the opinion of many 
 good judges; and this supposition is tolerably well 
 borne out, by the eagerness with which the Scott's 
 party sought to hedge their money after the dead 
 heat. The second heat was differently run, and Euclid 
 lost by a neck. Of the two year olds that ran during 
 the week, Launcelot, Brother to Euclid, Fitzroy, and 
 Lord Kelburne's Derby colt, were the best; but they 
 were very close together. There was a mystery 
 respecting Bloomsbury, the horse, from some cause 
 or another, not being fit to gallop. Charles XII. 
 won the cup ; Llanercost, second. Bee's-wing " cut 
 her own throat," by making the most destructive run- 
 ning ever seen. 
 
 The Newmarket October Meetings evinced such 
 sameness, that we may speak of them collectively. 
 Crucifix won all the crack two year old stakes — in 
 the Criterion giving 91b. : for this, Gibraltar ran her 
 a " dead heat ;" but it is notorious that both were 
 a little sore at the time. Wardan, in the same stable, 
 won all his races easily, and settled down as first 
 favourite for the Derby. The Cesarewitch Stakes 
 were won by Cruiskeen^ve years old, 6st. 61b., beating 
 all sorts of weights and qualifications ; and Llanercost 
 took the Cambridge Stakes to Scotland, beating a 
 good field. The matches, principally confined to the 
 
THE RACING SEASON, 1839. 
 
 251 
 
 Houghton Meeting, were well contested, and made a 
 good wind-up to one of the most agreeable seasons 
 ever witnessed ; and which had been further distin- 
 guished by the variety of an outsider carrying off the 
 Derby (with "a row" to boot) the first favourite 
 winning the Oaks, — and a 
 
 DEAD HEAT BETWEEN CHARLES XII. AND EUCLID FOR THE ST. LEGER. 
 
252 
 
 LITTLE WONDER. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES, AT EPSOM, 1840. 
 
 Here is another pony, and another cheap purchase, 
 winner of the Derby. 
 
 Little Wonder, bred in 1837, by Mr. Nowell, of 
 Underley, was got by Muley, out of Lacerta, by 
 Zodiac, her dam Jerboa, by Gohanna, out of Camilla, 
 by Trentham — Coquette, by the Compton Barb, &c. 
 &c. He was purchased by his present owner, Mr. 
 Robertson, at the annual sale of the Underley year- 
 lings, in 1838, for the magnificent sum of Sixty-five 
 Guineas ! 
 
 Little Wonder's first appearance was in the New- 
 market Second October Meeting, 1839, for the Tues- 
 day Two-Year-Old Plate.— T. Y. C, which produced 
 the following result : 
 
 Mr. Wreford's b. c. Wardan, by Glencoe, out of Margellina 1 
 
 Mr. Bowes's Richmond, by Memnon, jun., out of Henrietta 2 
 
 Lord Lynedoch's Jeffy, by Jerry, out of Mandane 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's Stamboul, by Reveller, out of Galata ; Colonel Peel's b. c. St. 
 
 Swithen, by Velocipede, or St. Nicholas, out of Fille de Joie ; Mr. Robertson's b. 
 
 c. Little Wonder, by Muley ;\Mr. Bland's jun. Miss Betsey, by Plenipotentiary, 
 
 out of Emiliana's dam ; Mr. Edwards's Assassin, by Taurus, out of Sneaker ; Mr. 
 
 Walker's Gloxinia, by Glencoe, out of Pauline ; Mr. Combe's c. by Actaon, 
 
 out of Evens ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Wardan, and 5 to 2 agst. Jeffy. 
 
 Few people who saw that race, " guessed" that the 
 winner of the Derby was among the " want places." 
 

LITTLE WONDER. 253 
 
 In the following Houghton Meeting he was again 
 unsuccessful for the Nursery Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 
 for two yr. olds. — Eight subs. — D. M. 
 
 Mr. W. Edwards's Assassin, by Taurus, 6st. 10lb 1 
 
 Mr. Robertson's Little Wonder, 7st. 41b 2 
 
 Colonel Anson's Nicholas, 7st. 12lb. ; Mr. Rayner's Ten-Pound-Note, 7st. 7lb.; 
 Mr. Byng's Garryowen, 7st. 4lb. ; Colonel Peel's ro. c. by Augustus, out of Con- 
 stantia, 7st. 21b. ; Lord Exeter's Raymond, 6st. 101b. ; Mr. Pettit's Miss Romer, 
 6st. 8lb. ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting: 2 to 1 agst. Garryowen, 7 to 2 agst. Assassin, 4 to 1 agst. Little 
 Wonder (takeo). 
 
 On Wednesday, the 3rd of June, for the Derby 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yr. olds ; 
 colts, 8st. 71b, ; and fillies, 8st. 21b. ; the owner of the 
 second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes: 
 and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the expense 
 of additional police officers. — Last mile and a half. — 
 One hundred and forty-four subs. The following 
 horses came to the post. 
 
 Mr. Robertson's b. c. Little Wonder, by Muley, out of Lacerta 1 
 
 Lord Westminster's Launcelot, brother to Touchstone 2 
 
 Mr. Etwall's b. c. by Mulatto, out of Melody ; Lord Albemarle's b. c. Assassin, 
 by Taurus, out of Sneaker; Duke of Cleveland's b. c Theon,by Emilius, out of 
 Maria; Lord Kelburne's ch. fc. Pathfinder, by Retainer, out of Emilia; Mr. 
 Houldsworth's c. Confederate, by Velocipede, out of Miss Maltby ; Sir G. Heath- 
 cote's b. c. Sophocles, by Laurel, out of Bertha ; Lord Exeter's c. Scutari, out of 
 Velvet ; Captain Gadnor's ch. c. Monops, by Actason, out of Wings ; Sir G. 
 Heathcote's b. c. Bokhara, by Samarcand, out of Zenobia ; Colonel G. Wyndham's 
 b. c. by Nonsense, out of Gift ; Lord Jersey's Muley Isbmael, by Ishmael, out of 
 Filagree; Lord Exeter's c. Amurath,by Sultan, out of Marinella ; Duke of Cleve- 
 land's ch. c. by Emilius, outof Farce ; Mr. Forth's c.by Muley, out of Solace; Lord 
 Orford's ch. c. by Clearwell, out of Angelica ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting at starting : 9 to 4 agst. Launcelot, 4 to 1 agst. Assassin, 4 to 1 agst. 
 Melody, 6 to 1 agst. Theon, 20 to 1 agst. Pathfinder, 20 to 1 agst. Scutari, 20 to 1 
 agst. Forth's two, Little Wonder and Solace colt, 20 to 1 agst. Bokhara, 30 to 1 agst. 
 Confederate, 30 to 1 agst. Solace colt, 40 to 1 agst. Gift colt, 40 to 1 agst. Angelica 
 colt, 50 to 1 agst. Little Wonder, 1000 to 15 agst. Muley Ishmael. 
 
 About a quarter past three, after one false start and 
 two or three minor failures, the lot went away at an 
 excellent pace, the Angelica colt leading, followed by 
 the Melody colt, Launcelot, and Bokhara, with Con- 
 
254 THE DERBY, 1840. 
 
 federate, Assassin, Little Wonder, and Scutari next, 
 the others well laid up. This order was observed for 
 about half a mile, when the Melody colt took up the 
 running, Launcelot lying second, Assassin third, An- 
 gelica, Confederate, and Little Wonder being the next 
 lot ; in going round the turn Little Wonder passed 
 Assassin, and took his place at Launcelot's quarters ; 
 the Angelica colt was beaten off here ; in fact, the 
 three leading horses were all that were left in the race, 
 neither Assassin nor Confererate having the slightest 
 chance of winning. The Melody colt maintained his 
 lead to the distance, and there it was all up with him ; 
 Little Wonder then challenged the " crack," headed 
 him in a few yards, was half a length before him ere 
 he reached the Stand, and passed the post a clever 
 winner by a length ; Melody third ; Confederate, who 
 passed Assassin at the distance, fourth ; Assassin, 
 fifth ; and Amu rath, sixth ; of the others it is only 
 necessary to say that the tailing began before they 
 reached the turn, and that Theon, the Gift colt, 
 and Sophocles, were the last three ; Theon, we believe, 
 actually last. Value of the stakes, £3,775. Immedi- 
 ately after the race Mr. E.Anson entered the weighing- 
 stand, and delivered to Macdonald an elegant riding- 
 whip, as a testimonial from Prince Albert of his admi- 
 ration of his jockey-ship. 
 
 At Ascot, Little Wonder, although the favourite, was 
 beaten for the Ascot Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and 
 5 only if declared, &c. with 100 added ; the owner of 
 the second horse received 50 sovs. out of the stakes. 
 Two miles and a half. — Forty-five subs., twenty-four of 
 whom paid 5 sovs. each. 
 
LITTLE WONDER. 
 
 255 
 
 Capt. Williamson's ch. f. Darkness, by Olencoe, S yra. old, 5st. 41b. . • 1 
 
 Mr. Robertson's b. c. Little Wonder, 3 yrs. old, 7st i 
 
 Mr. Herbert's b. g. Arctic, aged, 8st. 131b 3 
 
 Quo Minus, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 131b.; Jenny Jones, 4 yrs. old 8st. 41b. ; Anne 
 Boleyn, 5 yrs. old, 7st. lib. ; and Hellespont, 3 yrs. old, 5st. 71b. ; also started, 
 but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Little Wonder, 5 to 1 agst Quo Minus, 7 to 1 agst. Dark- 
 ness, and 10 to 1 agst Jenny Jones. 
 
 This, with the exception of paying forfeit for the 
 Paisley St. Leger, ended Little Wonder's performances 
 up to the time of our present publication. In colour, 
 he is a peculiarly brilliant bay. He stands 14 hands 
 3.2 inches high ; and when in the stable, stands over 
 very little ground. It was, with most people, not a 
 " Little Wonder," how he managed to win the Derby, 
 but the truth is, that whilst Launcelot and Melody were 
 fighting for the bone, our little Lurcher crept in quietl 
 and carried it off. 
 
250 
 
 LAUNCELOT. 
 
 WINNER OF THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 1840. 
 
 Having already mentioned Launcelot as running 
 second to Little Wonder for the Derby, we proceed at 
 once to give an " inkling" of his history. 
 
 Launcelot was bred by the Marquis of Westminster, 
 and is own brother to Touchstone, being got by Camel, 
 out of Banter, by Master Henry ; her dam, Boadicea, 
 by Alexander, out of Brunette, by Amaranthus — 
 Mayfly, by Matchem, &c. &c. 
 
 Launcelot's first success upon the turf was no test of 
 his powers, being a walk over for the Hornby Stakes 
 at the York August Meeting, 1839. From thence he 
 went to Doncaster, where he won the Champagne 
 Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for two yr. olds ; colts, 
 8st. 51b. ; fillies, 8st. 31b. ; the winner to give six dozen 
 of Champagne to the Racing Club ; Red-house in. — 
 Twenty-one subs. — By a neck ; beating Lord Kelburne's 
 ch. c. by Retainer, out of Emilia; Mr. Osbaldeston's 
 ch. f. by Belshazzar, dam (foaled in 1831), by Whale- 
 bone, grandam by Frolic, out of Camels dam, and Mr. 
 Jaques's b. f. Interlude ; Duke of Cleveland's br. c. 
 Brother to Euclid ; Lord Eglinton's b. c. Doctor Caius ; 
 Mr. Blakelock's ch. f. by Curtius, out of Fancy; and 
 Mr. Orde's b f. Queen Bee, by Liverpool, out of Bee's- 
 wing'sdam not placed. 5 to 4 agst. Launcelot, 4 to 1 agst. 
 
LAUNCELOT, 1840. 257 
 
 Queen Bee, 5 to 1 agst. Brother to Euclid, and 7 to 1 
 agst. Interlude. 
 
 On the following day, Launcelot walked over for a 
 Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. — Four subs., 
 and on the next day again, was beaten by Theon, for 
 the Two- Year Old Stakes of 20 sovs. each ; for colts, 
 8st.51b. ; fillies, 8st. 21b.— T.Y.C.— Twenty-five subs. 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Brother to Euclid, by Emilius, out of Maria 1 
 
 Lord Westminster's br.c. Launcelot, brother to Touchstone, by Camel 2 
 
 Mr. Howard's ch. c. Fitzroy, by Belshazzar, out of Ellen, by Starch. . 3 
 
 Mr. Parkin's br. c. Naworth, by Liverpool, dam by Emilius, out of Surprise ; 
 
 Duke of Cleveland's cb. c. by Langar, out of Emigrant's dam ; Mr. Bell's b. f 
 
 by Gainsborough, out of Golden-drop's dam ; Lord Kelburne's ch. f. by Retainer 
 
 out of Emilia, by Abjer ; Mr. St. Paul's b. f. Calypso, by Liverpool, out of 
 
 Galewood's dam ; Mr. Bowes's br. c. Blaok Beck, by Mulatto, out of Emma ; 
 
 Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. f. by Belshazzar, dam by Whalebone, out of Frolic ; also 
 
 started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 5 to 2 agst. Launcelot, 7 to 2 agst. the Langar colt, 5 to 1 agst 
 Naworth, 6 to 1 agst. Fitzroy, 7 to 1 agst. Black Beck, 8 to 1 agst. Retainer colt, 
 and^O to 1 agst. Brother to Euclid. 
 
 After three false starts, the horses got off tolerably 
 w ell,with the exception of Calypso. The race was 
 truly run — and the finish was in earnest between 
 Brother to Euclid, Launcelot, and Fitzroy. A neck 
 separated the winner from the second, and a neck 
 interfered between the second and the third. The 
 Retainer colt was fourth, Naworth fifth, and Bell's filly 
 sixth — all well up. 
 
 Launcelot's next race was for the Derby 1840, where 
 as we have already related (at page 253), he ran second 
 to Little Wonder. — At Liverpool July Meeting, he 
 walked over for one Produce Stake, and paid forfeit for 
 another; and at the York August Meeting, he again 
 walked over for a Produce Stake. 
 
 The betting world was at this time divided in opinion 
 between the respective claims of Crucifix and Launce 
 
 R 
 
258 THE ST. LEGER, 1840. 
 
 lot, to the station of first favourite for the approaching 
 St. Leger; but no sooner was it declared that Crucifix 
 would not go, than Launcelot at once took possession 
 of the first place in the odds. 
 
 On the evening before the race, Lord Wilton, on 
 behalf of the Marquis of Westminster, declared his 
 intention of winning the race with Launcelot, and on 
 the day the following horses came to the post. 
 
 Lord Westminster's br.c . Launcelot, brother to Touchstone, by Camel 1 
 Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto 2 
 
 Gen. Yates's b. c. Gibraltar, by Muley ; Mr. Mostyn's br. c. Trustee, by Sir 
 Gray, or Birdcatcher, out of Georgiana, by Welbeck ; Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. f. 
 The Mountain Sylph, by Belshazzar ; Mr. Meiklam's b. c. Broadwath, by Liver- 
 pool ; Colonel Synge's b. c. Polydorus, by Priam ; Mr. St. Paul's b. f. Calypso, by 
 Liverpool ; Lord Eglinton's b. c. Dr. Caius, by Physician ; Lord Eglinton's br. 
 c. The Young-Un, by Satan ; and Mr. Critchley's bl. c. Dunstan, by St. Nicholas ; 
 also started, but were not placed. 
 
 7 to 4 agst. Launcelot, 5 to 2 agst. Gibraltar, 4 to 1 agst. Maroon, 7 to 1 
 agst. Calypso, 16 to 1 agst. Trustee, and 30 to 1 agst. Broadwath. 
 
 The lot came away well together, Maroon quickly 
 coming to the front, and without making great running, 
 keeping the lead over the first road, and up the hill. 
 When they came in sight again at the fall of the hill, 
 Launcelot, hard held, was leading, with Maroon a couple 
 of lengths behind him, Calypso third, Mountain Sylph, 
 and Gibraltar, next to her ; and all the others in a 
 cluster, with the exception of Polydorus, who was 
 already out of the race. In this way they made the 
 Red House turn, where Gibraltar took the third place. 
 From the turn home, the race was entirely between the 
 second and third. As they crossed the second road, 
 Nat brought up Gibraltar, and challenged Maroon, 
 who, still full of running, immediately closed up to 
 Launcelot's quarter. It now became a strange race. 
 Launcelot had broken down, and the difficulty with 
 
THE ST. LEGER, 1840. 
 
 259 
 
 Scott was to land Launcelot a winner, and still keep 
 Maroon second, for the benefit of the cool hundred. 
 Launcelots game carried them well through, and 
 Gibraltar was beaten for the second place by a neck. 
 It was a very slow run, the best time making it above 
 three minutes and forty seeonds. Our own opinion 
 is, that if Launcelot had been out of the race, Gibraltar 
 would have " entered an appearance" amongst the 
 Cracks of the Day. 
 
 r 2 
 
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 CRUCIFIX. 
 
 WINNER OF THE OAKS AT EPSOM, 1840. 
 
 In the Spring of 1837, at the Sale of Lord Chester- 
 field's Stud, at Tattersall's, one lot comprised an old 
 mare, twenty-one years of age, and a lanky ugly 
 looking foal at her foot. This couple excited the 
 laughter rather than the competition of the bystanders, 
 insomuch, that they were knocked down to Lord George 
 Bentinck, for the sum of fifty-four guineas, and even 
 he buying them at the earnest solicitation of a pretty 
 good judge in these matters, as a spec — that old mare 
 and foal were Crucifix and her dam. 
 
 Her pedigree was worth all the money, being got by 
 Priam, out of Octaviana,by Octavian, dam by Shuttle 
 out of Zara, by Delpini — Flora, by King Fergus, &c. 
 
 How the " Spec" answered we proceed to shew : — 
 Crucifix made her first appearance in public in the 
 Newmarket July Meeting, 1839, for the July Stakes; 
 from the beginning no one had anticipated a field of 
 more than seven or eight, and the pre-eminent dulness 
 of the betting proved how little the "selected" were 
 in favour ; neither the first nor second in the race was 
 in the odds until Thursday the 27th, when Crucifix 
 stole into the market, and at 9 to 2, and 5 to 1, secured 
 
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 a trifle for those who had been fortunate enough to 
 " get the office." On the Monday after, she rose to 5 
 to 2 ; but on the following Thursday, her noble owner 
 declared that it was uncertain whether she would run ; 
 this, without affecting the odds, frightened her backers, 
 and put an end, for a time, to all business on the race. 
 
 Matters continued in this state until the morning of 
 the race, every body expecting, as a matter of course, 
 that a positive declaration would be made ; it was made, 
 but very tardily, for the noble lord, who arrived at one, 
 delayed it till two o'clock, one hour only before the 
 races, until which time nothing was backed but Cur- 
 rency, at 3 to 1 . The closing odds were, 2 to 1 on 
 Crucifix, 9 to 2 agst. Currency, 5 to 1 agst. Stamboul, 
 7 to 1 agst. Palais Royal, 9 to 1 agst. Margaret, and 10 
 to 1 agst. any other. The following started: — 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, by Priam, out of 
 Octaviana (dam of Crusader, &c.) ; Duke of Grafton's 
 ch. f. Currency, by St. Patrick, out of Oxygen ; Mr. 
 Knight's c. by Buzzard, out of Margaret ; Lord Exe- 
 ter's f. by Sultan, out of Palais Royal ; Lord Exeter's 
 Stamboul ; Lord Albemarle's Cambyses, by Camel, out 
 of Antiope ; and Lord Orford's c. by Clearwell, out of 
 Petulance. Of these, only three had any active part 
 in the race, the others having knocked under to the 
 pace long before they reached the plantations. The 
 front, throughout, was composed of Currency, the 
 Margaret colt, and Crucifix, the former leading, and 
 the favourite waiting : so they ran to the " plantings," 
 as the trainers call it, where young John Day, after 
 vainly attempting to restrain his mare (Crucifix), was 
 obliged to go in front, and win by two lengths — it required 
 
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 desperate pulling to prevent her winning by six. 
 Currency was second, the Margaret colt third, and 
 Palais Royal filly fourth, all placed : Stamboul was last. 
 After the race, Crucifix was backed for the Oaks at 7 
 to 1, to three or four hundred pounds. 
 
 On the Thursday, in the same meeting, people were 
 anxious to see if Crucifix would play off "the July" 
 trick for the Chesterfield Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. 
 for two year olds ; colts, 8st. 7lb. ; fillies, 8st. 4lb. — 
 The last half of B.M.— The winner of the July Stakes 
 to carry 91b., and the second horse 41b. extra. — Twenty- 
 five subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix (91b. extra) 1 
 
 Lord Albemarle's ch. f. Iris, by Cain , 2 
 
 Mr. Knight's br. c. by Buzzard, out of Margaret, by WraDgler .... 3 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. Hellespont, by Reveller, out of Marmora; Lord Exeter's 
 b. c. Stamboul ; Lord Albemarle's ch. c. The Orphan, by Actason, out of Clans- 
 man's dam ; Capt. Williamson's ch. f. Darkness ; Mr. Greville's ch. f. Trojana, 
 by Priam, out of Whimsey ; and Mr. Watt's b. f. by Belshazzar, out of Fanchon, 
 sister to Lapdog, also started but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 6 to 4 on Crucifix, 3 to 1 agst. Sister to Cara, 9 to 1 agst. Darkness, 
 12 to 1 agst. Iris, and 15 to 1 agst. any other. 
 
 After an amazing number of false starts, all got 
 away except Merle, who ran against the post, and was 
 left behind ; notwithstanding the flag was up, they 
 went right through, and made a good race of it, Iris 
 winning by half a length ; Crucifix was second ; 
 having by her immense stride made up for a very bad 
 start. This, unfortunately for that justly popular 
 nobleman, Lord Albemarle, was pronounced to be 
 " no race," and all, except Merle, who was sent away, 
 ran it over again after several more false starts. The 
 odds now were 2 to 1 agst. Crucifix, and 5 to 2 agst. 
 Iris. The running in this heat was made by Crucifix, 
 as far as the hill, where Iris took it up, and enabled 
 
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 John Day to ease his mare (Crucifix), in the 
 race up it ; on reaching level ground he resumed his 
 lead, and won in a canter, by two lengths ; Iris 
 second, and Margaret colt, third. 
 
 This race began to make people suspect that Lord 
 George at last had found a flyer; — an opinion which 
 received additional strength at Goodwood, when with 
 odds betted in her favour, she cantered off with the 
 Lavant Stakes of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft., for two-yr-olds ; 
 colts, 8st. 71b., and fillies, 8st. 3lb. ; the winner of 
 the July or Chesterfield Stakes, or either of the Two 
 Year Olds Stakes at Ascot, 51b. extra. — Half-a-mile. 
 — Fifteen subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, 8st. 81b 1 
 
 Lord Lichfield's Firefly, sister to Phosphorus, 8st. 31b 2 
 
 Lord Albemarle's ch. c. Exit, by Vanish, 8st. 71b S 
 
 And the Molecombe Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., 
 for two yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; and fillies, 8st. 41b. ; 
 a winner before starting (matches and handicaps 
 excepted), 51b. extra ; the winner of the Lavant 71b. 
 extra ; no horse to carry more than 71b. extra. — 
 T. Y. C. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix, 71b. extra 1 
 
 Lord Lichfield's Defendant f "2 
 
 Lord Albemarle's f. Iris, 51b. extra 3 
 
 From Goodwood, Crucifix returned to Newmarket, 
 to pick up a few windfalls in the October Meetings. 
 The first to fall into her hands was the Hopeful Stakes 
 of 40 sovs. each, h. ft., for two year olds; colts, 8st. 
 71b,, and fillies, 8st. 51b. ; the winner of the July or 
 Ch sterfield Stakes, to carry 6lb., if both, 91b. extra; 
 the winner of any other Sweepstakes or Plate to carry 
 31b. extra; those got by Arabians, or out cf Arabian 
 
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 mares, allowed 51b. ; the owner of the second horse to 
 receive 50 sovs. out of the Stakes. — Last half mile of 
 Ab. M .— Twenty-nine subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, by Priam, out of Carmelite's dam 
 (91b. extra) 1 
 
 Lord Lynedoch's b. c Jeffy,by Jerry, out of Mandane (31b. extra) . . 2 
 Lord G. Bentinck'a ch. c. Capote by Velocipede, out of Mantilla. . . . 3 
 Lord Exeter's c. Raymond, by Mulatto, out of Agnes ; Lord Exeter's br. c. 
 
 Hellespont, by Reveller, out of Marmora; Lord Lichfield's Firefly, sister to 
 
 Phosphorus ; Mr. Greville's ch. c. Perseus, by Emilius, out of Victoire ; Mr. 
 
 Raynor's br. f. Ten-pound-note, by Augustus, or Taurus, dam by Centaur (3b. 
 
 extra) ; Col. Peel's b. f. by The Colonel, out of Mary Anne (Vivian's dam) ; Mr. 
 
 Watt's b. f. a Sister to Cara, by Belshazzar ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting: 5 to 2 (after four or five starts, 2 to 1 
 taken) on Crucifix ; 7 to 1 agst. JefFy and Perseus ; 
 and 8 to 1 agst. Ten-pound-note. Lord G. Bentinck 
 declared to win with Capote. Seventeen false 6tarts 
 caused a delay of an hour. Ten-pound-note was 
 first away ; Crucifix took up the running within the 
 distance, followed by JefFy, Col. Peel's filly, and 
 Capote, Ten-pound-note still lying forward ; the 
 favourite, with a bad start, and 91bs. extra on her 
 back for an hour, won as she pleased ; and afterwards- 
 walked over for a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each ; h. 
 ft— -T.Y.C.— Four subs. 
 
 The Second October gave her the Clearwell Stakes 
 of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. ; for two year olds ; colts, 8st. 
 7lb.; and fillies, 8st. 51b.; the winner of the July 
 Stakes to carry 71b. extra. — T. Y. C. — Twenty-nine 
 subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, by Priam, out of Carmelite's dam 
 
 (71b. extra) 1 
 
 Gen. Yates's b. c. Gibraltar, Brother to Tariek 2 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's ch. c. Capote, by Velocipede out of Mantilla 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's ch. c. by Sultan, out of Marinella 4 
 
 Mr- Greville's ch. c. Perseus, by Emilius, out of Victoire 5 
 
 Lord Albemarle's Spangle, by Croesus, out of Variella G 
 
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 Betting : 9 to 2 on Crucifix, and 10 to 8 agst. 
 Gibraltar ; Lord G. Bentinck declared to win with 
 the mare. — After one or two failures, and a delay of 
 about ten minutes, occasioned by a little restiveness 
 on the part Crucifix, the lot got awayi Gibraltar 
 made a better show with this wonderful mare than any 
 of her previous competitors. But he never had a 
 chance from the one post to the other — And the Pren- 
 dergast Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for two year 
 olds; colts, 8st. 71b.; and fillies, 8st. 51b.— T. Y.C. 
 — Twenty-five subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix 1 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's ch. c. Capote 
 
 Col. Anson's Nicholas 
 
 Betting : 9 to 2 on Crucifix, who won in the com- 
 monest of canters ; and in the Houghton Meeting 
 divided with Gibraltar the Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. 
 each, 20 ft., for twoyr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; fillies, 8st. 
 51b. ; a winner of the July, Clearwell, or Prendergast 
 Stakes, to carry 71b. ; or of any two of those Stakes, 
 91b. extra ; all other winners, previously to the day of 
 running, to carry 21b. extra ; the owner of the second 
 horse to receive back his stake. — From the Turn of 
 the Lands in. — Forty-four subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, by Priam, 9lb. extra 
 
 General Yates's b. c. Gibraltar, brother to Tarick 
 
 Lord Albemarle's Olive-branch, by Plenipo., out of Ally ; Lord G. Bentinck's 
 gr. c. Grey Milton, brother to Grey Momus ; Lord G. Bentinck's ch. c Capote, 
 by Velocipede ; Lord Exeter's Brother to Alemdar (Marinella colt) ; Mr. Great- 
 rex's b. f. Pocahontas, by Glencoe, out of Marpessa ; Mr. Wadeson's c. by 
 Buzzard, out of Margaret ; and Colonel Peel's ro. c. by Augustus, out of Con- 
 slantia ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 Betting : 4 to 1 on Crucifix, which, at starting, 
 degenerated to 3 to 1 (t.), for, worried to death with 
 the eternal starting-post, and 91b. extra weight, she 
 
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 showed restiveness, and carried her oppression half 
 an hour more than she ought to have done. Gibraltar 
 made a rare race and a dead heat. The filly, however, 
 was about the last off. The stakes were divided — 
 wisely on both sides, as both the horse and the mare 
 were notoriously unfit to run. 
 
 Thus ended the first season of the most extraordi- 
 nary two-year-old ever seen upon the English Turf; 
 who had performed the wonderful feat of going through 
 nine engagements without having been once beaten, 
 and had moreover won, as 'a two-year-old, a clear 
 
 FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY- 
 SEVEN pounds in public money ! A right worthy 
 nag this to grace the stable of the "Leviathan of 
 the Turf," as her noble owner, Lord George Bentinck, 
 is not inappropriately called. 
 
 Never since the days of Filho and Sir Joshua, had 
 so many visitors crowded Newmarket as on the Tuesday 
 in the First Spring Meeting, 1840. Some came 
 because the weather tempted ; others, in consequence 
 of a report that the Princes Albert and Ernest were 
 expected to honour the Heath with their presence; 
 but more than all these came to see the most inter- 
 esting race of the year, the Two Thousand Guinea 
 Stakes, by which the " Cracks of the Day," Crucifix, 
 Confederate, and Lord Orford's Angelica colt, were to 
 determine which was in reality " the flyer." 
 
 Much heavy betting depended on the issue of this 
 race. Crucifix, of course, was the favourite, but the 
 Angelica colt was found in frequent trials to be such 
 a flyer for a mile, that many made investments on the 
 strength of his fulfilling, by his public running, the 
 
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 promise of his private performances ; but the Angelica 
 colt deceived them all by showing that worst of all 
 faults in a race-horse, cowardice. He would not face 
 a crowd, and so his speed was useless, though we do 
 verily believe that privately, and in a trial, he would 
 have beaten Crucifix. Confederate had also his party 
 in the race, but he was an impostor from beginning to 
 end — a most consummate impostor. 
 
 The betting on the Heath was 2 to 1 on Crucifix, a 
 state of things which completely annihilated our friend 
 Bland's notions of propriety, for, said he, "I never 
 will lay such odds, and I daren't bet against her.' 
 However, many did lay such odds, and the event 
 justified their venture. 
 
 Six eventually came to the post for the 2000 Guineas 
 Stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for 
 three yr. olds ; colts, 8st. 71b. ; fillies, 8st. 4lb.—R. M. 
 — Twenty-five subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, by Priam 1 
 
 Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Confederate, by Velocipede 2 
 
 Lord Orford's gr. c. by Clearwell, out of Angelica 3 
 
 Mr. Bowes's br. c. Black Beck, by Mulatto 4 
 
 Lord Exeter's b. c. by Sultan, out of Velvet 5 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's cb. c. Capote, by Velocipede 6 
 
 The running was made at a good pace by the grey, 
 followed on the right by Velvet, with Confederate at 
 his quarters, and on the other by Capote ; Black Beck, 
 and Crucifix lying away from them. Capote lived in 
 front for about half a mile, and then dropped astern, but 
 no other movement took place until they reached the 
 bushes, where Crucifix, quitting the rear, took up the 
 running with a lead of more than a length, the grey 
 following her, Confederate third, with his head at the 
 grey's haunches, and Black Beck fourth ; in this order 
 
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 they went a capital pace to the cords, where Black 
 Beck was beaten off. Confederate entered the cords 
 at the grey's shoulder, and, after a fine race with him, 
 obtained the second place by a head ; the mare, in the 
 mean time, retaining her lead, and winning, without an 
 effort, by a length. 
 
 On the Thursday, in the same meeting, the " Crack," 
 as may be seen by the betting, made a hollow thing of 
 the 1000 Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs. 
 each, h. ft, for three yr. old fillies, 8st 7lb. — D. M.— 
 Twenty-eight subs. 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, by Priam 1 
 
 Lord G. Bentinck's ch. f. Rosabianca, by Augustus 2 
 
 Lord Albemarle's b. f. Spangle, by Croesus 3 
 
 Lord Exeter's br. f. Silistria, by Reveller 4 
 
 Betting: 8, 9, and 10 to 1 on Crucifix. 
 
 Crucifix was now of course first favourite for the 
 Oaks, in fact, people considered that Race as over, 
 barring the few accidents, on the strength of which, a 
 little money was laid out. But had they known the 
 truth, her backers would have hardly shewn such con- 
 fidence, nor other parties so much apathy. In short, 
 Crucifix was now beginning to feel the effects of 
 so many hard run races at so early an age, added to 
 which, John Day's method of training is not the most 
 saving in the world — and as he had always been 
 obliged to keep the mare well up to the mark, it is no 
 wonder that her legs began to fail. But the secret 
 was well kept, if, indeed, it was known, for she was 
 always a rough, shambling goer, crossing her legs, 
 and accustomed to run in strengthening bandages. 
 
 On Friday, June the 5th, the following fifteen fillies 
 came to the post to contest the Oak Stakes of 50 
 
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 sovs. each, h. ft. for three years old fillies, 8st. 4lb. ; 
 the owner of the second horse received 100 sovs. 
 out of the Stakes, and the winner paid 100 sovs. 
 towards the expenses of additional police officers. — 
 Last mile and a half. — One hundred and three subs. 
 
 Lord G . Bentinck'a b. f. Crucifix, by Priam, out of Carmelite's dam 1 
 
 Mr. Payne's br. f. Welfare, by Priam, out of Vat 2 
 
 Mr. Wigram's ch. f. Teleta, by Plenipotentiary 3 
 
 Mr. Fowler's b. f. Lalla Rookh, by Defence ; Mr. Greatrex's b. f. Pocahontas, 
 by Glencoe, out of Marpessa; Col. Wyndham's ch. f. by Nonsense, out of 
 Elfrid ; Sir G. Heathcote's b. f. by Emilius, out of Nannette ; Duke of Grafton's 
 ch. f. Currency, by St. Patrick ; Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. by Glencoe, out of 
 Victoria; Col. Anson's bl. f. Black Bess, by Camel ; Mr. Batson's br. f. Plenary, 
 by Emilius; Lord Albemarle's ch. f. Iris, by Cain; Lord Chesterfield's b. f. The 
 Ant, by Priam < 1 Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f. Diploma, by Plenipotentiary ; and Mr. 
 Bell's b. f. La Femme Sage, by Gainsborough ; also started, but were not placed. 
 
 The betting- at starting were 3 to l on Crucifix, 
 9 to l agst. Black Bess, ll to l agst. Pocahontas, 
 20 to l agst. Lalla Rookh, 40 to 1 agst. Welfare, 
 40 to 1 agst. Currency, 40 to 1 agst. The Ant, and 50 
 to 1 agst. Teleta. 
 
 After fourteen or fifteen failures the race com- 
 menced, Lalla Rookh taking the lead, followed by 
 Welfare and Teleta, the ruck lying close to them, with 
 the exception of Crucifix, who was last off by two or 
 three lengths ; the pace, however, was so far from 
 being good, that at the Craven post she took up the 
 running, and at the 6ame time mended the speed. 
 Lalla Rookh waited on her, Welfare and Teleta 
 third and fourth till they reached the top of the hill, 
 when Welfare ran into the second place, Teleta taking 
 the third at the turn. These three, Lalla Rookh, 
 and Pocahontas, were fairly singled out from the 
 crowd as they commenced the straight running, 
 Crucifix having a lead of about a length and a half. 
 
270 THE OAKS, 1840. 
 
 At the distance the struggle was exceedingly interest- 
 ing, and at the Stand it was a good race, Welfare and 
 Teleta being then at the favourite's side; they kept 
 there to the finish, Crucifix winning by half a length, 
 which, had the race been ten yards farther, would have 
 been just the mark by which she would have run second 
 to Welfare. Welfare beat Teleta for the second place 
 by about a length, and Lalla Rookh, a length behind 
 them, was fourth, with a very slight advantage over 
 Pocahontas ; nothing was within some lengths of this 
 lot, but the Elfrid and Nannette fillies were sixth and 
 seventh, and Iris eighth. La Femme Sage fell shortly 
 after starting, cut herself badly and bruised her 
 jockey. The pace, as we have before stated, was 
 middling at first, and only first-rate from Tattenham 
 Corner. Value of the Stakes, £2,700. 
 
 Thus ended the Oaks, to the satisfaction of those 
 who had backed the favourite, but, at the same time, 
 to their great trepidation. But this race finished what 
 the wear and tear of her severe two year old running 
 had commenced, and though she rose high in the odds 
 for the Leger, it was finally declared that Crucifix was 
 lame, nor is it thought that she will ever " come 
 again." 
 
 Crucifix certainly did more, in less time, than any 
 horse that ever yet appeared upon the English Turf, 
 haying run twelve races within as many months, 
 without having been once beaten, and won ten thou- 
 sand two hundred and eighty-seven pounds in public 
 stakes alone. Surely that system of Turf management and 
 Training cannot be good, which thus forces a superior 
 animal so much beyond her strength, and sends her a 
 
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 cripple to the stud at three years old. Sacrificed ere 
 she has reached the zenith of her age, by premature 
 abuse of her great powers. Much better in our 
 humble opinion were these things managed in " the 
 days of old:" when time was given for a horse to 
 come to full maturity before his speed was tested 
 to its utmost, so that they grew in strength and fame, 
 year after year, from the first mount of the jockey, to 
 
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WALTER SPIERS, PRINTER, 17, NORTH AUDLEY STREET.