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Four years after this agreeable event a horse called 

 Running Rein was entered for the race by several 

 persons who seemed to be in conspiracy. He was a 

 four-year-old (all Derby horses should only be three 

 years) and consequently Colonel Peel, afterwards 

 General, brought in a protest, and his horse Orlando 

 received the prize. 



Baron Alderson said, when giving judgment, if he 

 had had the swindlers before him in the Criminal 

 Court, he would have transported them for life. Run- 

 ning Rein belonged to a London Jew, and when he 

 heard some years afterwards that Baron Rothschild 

 had a chance of carrying off the Blue Ribbon of the 

 Turf with King Tom, he exclaimed, "Vhat! a Jew 

 vin the Derby ? They never let a Jew vin the Derby. 

 Vy I won it myself once and they would not part 

 with the stakes." 



John Tombs, in his lively "Humours of Epsom 

 Races," speaks of the development of the town, 

 through the discovery of Epsom Wells, and relates 

 that a little over a century ago the journey from 

 London occupied from twelve to fourteen hours. Now, 

 it is a mere flight of a few minutes. "In the olden 

 times there were races on the Downs in the morning, 

 the gentry returned into the town to dinner, and then 

 went to the afternoon races ; and within recollection 

 in the 'race week' Epsom town was crowded with 

 company." 



It should be mentioned that both races and wells 

 were coeval with the residence of J^mes I, at the 

 Palace of Nonsuch, early in the seventeenth century ; 



