38 STEEPLECHASING 



1833 



The conditions of the race varied in some small par- 

 ticulars from those of the previous year. Each horse 

 had to carry twelve stone, and the winner had to pay ten 

 guineas, while nothing was said about the last horse 

 paying the stake of the winner or second. The starters 

 comprised Captain Fairlie's Antelope, Mr. Holmes's 

 Roscommon, Mr. Elmore's Bogey (Captain Becher), Mr. 

 Calvert's The Druggist, Mr. D. Radcliffe's Pantaloon 

 (Jem Mason), Mr. Cardale's Surrey, Mr. Elmore's 

 Pall Mall, Mr. Showbridge's Zanga and Hotspur, Mr. 

 Gardener's Talisman, and Mr. Curwen's Druid. 



Tittenhanger Green was the starting-point, and that 

 being about five miles from St. Albans, the jockeys had 

 a tolerably long ride. 



The start took place just before half-past three o'clock, Antelope, 

 The Druggist, and Bogey being the first three away ; but at the second 

 fence the last-named became first owing to the downfall of the first 

 two. Then Surrey led over the brook, but in another three fields 

 Antelope, who had been remounted, was able to take the lead ; and 

 here it may be remarked again that the pace could not have been so 

 very fast or Antelope would not have been in front so soon after his 

 downfall. Hotspur fell at a fence near the first flag, Pantaloon coming 

 to grief just afterwards. Antelope, however, kept the lead and won by 

 about two lengths, followed home by Roscommon, whose rider had 

 taken a line of country a good deal to the right of that run by the 

 other horses. Bogey was third, and the " probable " time was given as 

 " seventeen or eighteen minutes " ; fifteen minutes and a few seconds 

 was the professed time for the earlier races. 



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The well-known Col. Charretie was to have officiated 

 as umpire at the race of 1834, but he was so ill as 

 to be unable to leave Cheltenham, a place at which 

 he often lived, so Lord Clanricarde officiated in his 



