122 THE TURF 



But Sir Mark has made a good fight 

 he has given good prices for good horses, 

 which, with good training and good riding, 

 have pulled him through ; although since 

 the days of Lucetta, Camarine, and Vespa 

 (winner of the Oaks), he has not shone so 

 brightly. His last week of the last meeting 

 at Newmarket, 1832, was a very pretty 

 finish. He won six times and received 

 forfeit once ; and on one match, Camarine 

 versus Crutch, he is said to have netted 

 three thousand pounds ! His beating Row- 

 ton also for the Ascot Cup, with the same 

 mare the same year (Robinson riding against 

 Chifney), after running one dead heat, was 

 one of the grandest events of the season. 

 Lucetta with eight stone nine pounds met 

 the Duke of Grafton's Oxygen (a winner of 

 the Oaks) with seven stone two pounds, 

 one six years old, and the other four, for 

 the Jockey Club plate, at Newmarket, 

 Beacon course. Lucetta won, and the 

 speed was very little short of Childers, as 

 they were but seven minutes in coming to 

 the duke's stand. 



One of the oldest sportsmen at New- 

 market is General Grosvenor but far from 



