26 MALTON. 



lenofth in the Great Yorkshire Stakes at the 

 York August Meeting. The chesnut was carry- 

 ing a 71b. penalty, and Ely, who had been running 

 well through the summer, and had given the Oaks 

 winner a two lengths beating in the Prince of 

 Wales' Stakes at Ascot, was much fencied by 

 many good judges, though he did not start 

 second favourite, a position held by Mr. Bowes' 

 Claremont, a horse that had been winning races 

 in good company. Claremont's party made the 

 pace a cracker, and when Chaloner and Custance 

 were watching each other Osborne came with one 

 of his famous rushes on The Miner, who was 

 served by the strong pace, and won by a length. 

 There are some who affirm that it was the jockey 

 and not the horse that won the race, but this is 

 by no means Osborne's opinion, and he thinks 

 that with a strono;- run race The Miner, who was 

 a good but very unlucky horse, was the best at 

 the weights. 



When the first shock of surprise was over, the 

 Malton men picked up heart of grace, and, 

 refusing to believe in the correctness of the York 



I did not ride the mare at Newmarket." Ami it is not unlikely 

 that the diversion caused by his coolness and ready wit had some- 

 thing to do with asoisting the escape of his companion, who 

 looked like being in " grievous case." 



It was only likely that such an incident would cause a great 

 deal of irritation, and our excitable neighbours retaliated by 

 throwing sticks and stones at Chaloner as he rode Blair Athol up 

 the course at Paris. 



