136 HEROES AND HEROINES OF 



Lord Coventry's niare coming- clean away, apparently 

 without an effort, and cantering in by twenty 

 lengths. Arbury was second, two lengths ahead of 

 Yaller Gal, with Fosco two lengths away fourth. 



Time : 1 1 minutes 20 seconds. 



Value of stakes, ^855. 



On this occasion of the eleven fields comprising 

 the course, nearly all were fallow, wheat and seeds, 

 the race-course and common being almost the only 

 prass ; the Pfoino- however, was excellent, whilst as 

 for the fences, they had been pruned to such an 

 extent as to be hardly worthy of the name. 



A sporting writer of the time describes them in the 

 following scathing terms : — 



" A post and rails was put up in front of Becher's 

 and Valentine's Brooks, but all the other fences 

 were mere narrow ditches of the most contemptible 

 description and practicable for a schoolboy of ten 

 years on his twelve hands' pony. The thorn fence 

 at the distance and the water jump were of the 

 ordinary size, and these two were the only jumps, 

 save that at Valentine's Brook, which required any 

 doinof." 



Easily as Emblem won, the "good thing" bid 

 fair to have come undone at the very last 



