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of the difficulty was to give a larger amount of money 

 to some other race, but for want of funds that was not 

 found to be practicable at the time, therefore it seemed 

 that the fate of the Middle Park Plate was sealed. 

 Mr. Blenkiron and Mr. Gee came to the rescue by 

 subscriptions, each being willing to contribute the 

 necessary 500, and to the spirit of these two worthy 

 departed breeders is due the existence of the great 

 two-year-old race ever since. 



DONCASTER CHAMPAGNE STAKES, 1874. 



THE CHAMPAGNE STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for two-year-olds; colts, 

 8 at. 10 Ib. , and fillies, 8 at. 8 Ib. ; second to save stake. Red House in 

 (5 furlongs 152 yards). (34 subs.) 



Mr. Vyner's Camballo, by Cambuscan Little Lady, 



8 st. 10 Ib., J. Osbonie 1 



Mr. Savile's Earl of Dartrey, 8st. lOlb., 



Lord Fitzwilliam's Breechloader, 8 st. 10 Ib., . 



M. Lefevre's Regalade, 8st. 81b. (carried 8st. 91b.), 



Mr. Somervile's (Edipus, 8st. lOlb., 



Mr. Gretton's Alpha, 8st. lOlb., . 



Sir G. Chetwynd's Chyrpe, 8 st. 8 Ib., 



Maidment 2 

 Parry 3 

 Custance 

 Mordan 

 Cannon 

 F. Webb 



Betting 7 to 4 against Camballo, 100 to 30 against Alpha, 9 to 2 against 

 Regalade, and 6 to 1 against Breechloader. Won hard held by a length ; 

 a bad third. 



On the Thursday of this memorable Doncaster 

 Meeting, Osborne and Goater had ridden a tremendous 

 finish for the Alexandra Plate, the former on Thorn, 

 four years, 8 st. 12 Ibs. (including 7 Ibs. extra), 

 and the latter on Mr. M. Dawson's Thunder, four 

 years, 8 st. 12 Ibs. Kaiser, four years, 8 st. 

 11 Ibs., also being in the field of ten runners. 

 The betting was 5 to 1 each against Kaiser, 

 Precentor, and Oxford Mixture; 100 to 15 against 

 Thorn; 10 to 1 each against Thunder, Syrian, 

 Blenheim, Princess Theresa, Day Dream, and Dukedom. 

 At the distance, Thorn, Dukedom, and Syrian, followed 

 closely Sy Thunder, drew quickly away from the others, 



