SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



Mr. Martin's Wilmont. 4 yrs., G st. 



Mr. Kemp's f. by Gladiator-Sprite. 4 yrs., 5 st. 10 lb 



Mr. R. Martin's Rubina. 4 yrs., 5 st, 10 lb. 



Duke of Richmond's Hurry Scurry. 3 jts., 4 st. 9 lb 



(car. 5 st.) 



Mr. Stebbing's Knook Knoll. 3 yrs., 4 st. 8 lb. (car 



4 St. 13 lb.) 



Mr. Maugan's Russborough. 4 yrs., 8 st. 6 lb. 

 Col. Anson's Backbiter. 6 yrs., 7 st. 9 lb. . 

 Major Pitt's Vampyre. Aged, 7 st. 7 lb. 

 Lord Waterford's Due au Darras. 6 yrs., 7 st. 5 lb. 

 Mr. Wilkin's Langton. 5 yrs., 7 st. 5 lb. . 

 Mr. Meiklam's The Italian. 4 yrs., 7 st. 5 lb. 

 Mr. Drinkald's Sauter la Coupe. 5 yrs., 7 st. 5 lb. 

 Lord Eglinton's The Knight of Avenal. 4 yrs., 7 st 



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Lord Strathmore's Montague. 5 yrs., 7 st. 2 lb 

 Mr. Treen's Rhesus. 5 yrs., 7 st. 

 Mr. Harrison's Seaman. 4 yrs., 7 st. . 



Won by half a neck ; about the same distance between the second 

 and third. 



Gorst C 



Wells 



T. Harrison 



Garvey 0' 



Sherwood O' 



Flatman 0- 



Simpson 



Dockeray 



H. Robinson 



Arnold 



Lye 



Rodney 



J. Sharpe 



Crouch 



Treen 



G. Harrison 



Here we have a field of twenty-eight, and seven- 

 teen of the runners carried under 7 st. The thino- 



to' 



as I have said, would be impossible at this day. 

 Why it is not possible is because apprentices are 

 not brought out as they were. 



To show this is no singular instance, take the 

 case of 



THE CHESTER CUP OF 1852. 

 Mr. Farrance's Joe Miller. 3 yrs., 4 st. 10 lb. . Goater 1 



Mr. Meiklam's Stilton. 3 yrs., 5 st. 8 lb. (inc. 10 



lb. extra) Aldcroft 2 



Lord Clifden's Poodle. 3 yrs., 5 st. 3 lb. (inc. 10 



lb. extra) T. Sherrard S- 



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