CHAPTERS FROM TURF HISTORY 



the Reform Bill he won the Two Thousand Guineas 

 with Archibald, a small horse of exquisite quality 

 and a great favourite with the public. His next 

 classic was the sensational Derby of 1844. 



Among the two-year-olds of 1843 was a reputed 

 one named Running Rein. He was described as 

 by the Saddler — Mab by Duncan Grey, a bay 

 with four black legs, and a few grey hairs on the 

 forehead not amounting to a star.^ The colt 

 ran in two races at Newmarket during the Second 

 October Meeting. He won a £$0 plate, beating 

 twelve others in a canter. In the Clearwell the 

 next day, won by Colonel Peel's Zenobia, he was 

 not placed. At this, his first appearance on the 

 race-course, he was evidently regarded with sus- 

 picion — indeed, the Turf chronicler of the day 

 called him " that disputed animal " — and, after 

 winning his race, the Duke of Rutland, who was 

 second with Crenoiine, objected to the owner 

 receiving the stakes on the ground that the winner 

 was a year older than he ought to be. There is 

 no doubt that Lord George Bentinck suspected 

 the colt, and that he instigated the Duke to lodge 

 the objection. A fortnight after the race the 

 Stewards — Lord Stradbroke, Mr. Greville and Mr. 

 Thornhill — investigated the objection. They took 

 the evidence of a boy named Kitchen, who professed 

 to identify the horse as the Saddler colt which 



the sire of Cobweb was Phantom (the Derby winner of 1811), and 

 that the sire's name in the race record, following after Cobweb's 

 name, was mistaken by the writer for that of the second in the race. 



'■ According to the evidence at the subsequent trial there was 

 practically no difference in the colour or marking of Running Rein 

 and Maccabaeus. There was some question about scars on the 

 fore legs, but it came to Uttle or nothing. 



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