A GREAT MATCH 



the paddock passed an unfavourable judgment on 

 him, and he started at the long odds of i6 to i. 

 Davis the bookmaker perambulated the ring or'ier- 

 ing any odds against him. Over this Derby and 

 the two following, when Teddington and Daniel 

 O'Rourke won, the Leviathan operator was said 

 to have lost more than a quarter of a million. 

 Ridden by Job Marson, Voltigeur, although in 

 running he nearly gave himself an overreach, won 

 the race easily by a length from Pitsford, the 

 winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, a victory 

 of no little satisfaction to the jockey, who thus 

 handsomely justified the confidence of a new master. 

 The horse was then reserved for the St. Leger, 

 and for the Doncaster race he was a hot favourite, 

 13 to 8 being laid on his chance. His victory was 

 regarded as so certain that only eight horses came 

 to the post to oppose him. But the crack had a 

 very different task to that set him on Epsom 

 Downs. In the race, when he had apparently 

 settled all his English opponents, a despised out- 

 sider, against whom 20 to i had been laid at the 

 start, was seen to be gaining on him yard by yard, 

 and sticking gallantly to him refused to be shaken 

 off. Head to head they came thundering on amid 

 the roar of the multitude, and head to head the 

 brown and the chestnut passed the judge's chair. 

 The suspense was breathless, the anxiety over- 

 whelming. At length the verdict was given. 

 The judge had been unable to separate the two 

 horses : it was a dead heat. An Irish horse, Russ- 

 borough, the property of Mr. Mangan, who had 

 been backed by the Irish division to win a great 

 stake, and who was a grandson of Voltigeur's 



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