THE TREBLE EVENT 13 



perhaps to many others as well, the most important as 

 well as the most interesting of all the five classic races, 

 and on the beautiful September afternoon on which it 

 was contested in the year 1904 there was a record 

 crowd on the Town Moor. 



The King invariably attends Doncaster, and in that 

 quiet simple way in which he is accustomed to go, 

 driving up to the course in a plain wagonette as a 

 private English gentleman. 



His Majesty must have been gratified at his colt 

 Chatsworth's success in the earlier stages of the Leger 

 afternoon, amid a spontaneous outburst of cheering 

 which must have reminded him of Persimmon's Leger. 



There were six runners for " t' great race," including, 

 as well as the Derby and Oaks winners, Henry the 

 First, who was deemed to have been unlucky in the 

 former race, Almscliff, St. Denis, and Andover. In 

 the preliminary canter much amusement was caused by 

 Polly's cob Little Missus joining in it and accompany- 

 ing her friend to the post. 



The favourite, as previously stated, started at odds of 

 5 to 2 on, 4 to I being booked against St. Amant, 100 

 to 6 Almscliff", 25 St. Denis, 50 Henry the First and 

 Andover. 



The running was made by St. Amant, who cut out 

 the pace at a tremendous rate, it being evidently the 

 order of his jockey to try forcing tactics as in the Derby. 



