THE TURF. 
The alteration in the amount of the St. Leger stakes 
will do something towards abating trickery at Doncaster. 
The sum subscribed was twenty-five sovereigns, play 
or pay. It is now fifty sovereigns, half forfeit. The 
lightness of the old charge induced several ill-disposed 
persons to bring their horses to the post, purposely to 
create false starts; and it will be recollected that, in 
1827, there were no less than eight of these, to which 
the defeat of Mameluke was chiefly attributed. The 
grand stand on this course is one of the finest in 
England ; and if the genius of taste had presided at 
the building of it, we scarcely know what improvement 
could have been made. The betting-room has been 
considered thoroughly Greek ! 
Although we have reason to believe that there have 
been fewer attempts at turf roguery within the last 
three or four years than formerly ; and we know that 
the exposure of it in these pages has not been without 
its effect ; yet we regret to be obliged to say, that the 
snake, though scotched, is not yet killed. That the 
Doncaster St. Leger race of 1834 was a robbery, there 
is not to be found a man in all his majesty's dominions, 
unconnected with the fraud, to deny. But by what 
means the best horse that England has seen since the 
days of Eclipse a horse allowed to have been (as 
Plenipotentiary was allowed to have been), a better 
horse than Priam was was made the worst horse in 
that race, so bad, indeed, as to have been beaten before 
he got a quarter of the distance he had to run, will 
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