LORD GEORGE BENTINCK AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN TURF. 45 I 



Hon. E. L. Mostyii's " Queen of Trum/>s" 

 (1832) by " Velocipede. ' 



start with a sharp touch 

 of the spurs, got the 

 lead before he had time 

 to think, and showed he 

 was not BlacklocKs half- 

 brother for nothing by 

 landing the Leger for 

 Mr. Petre, to the con- 

 sternation of everybody 

 else except Mr. Mills 

 who had bought Mr. 

 Petre's book and all his 

 chances for ,200. 



In the next year 

 another confusion was 



made with the start. After three futile efforts, twenty-three of the twenty-seven 



went the whole way, Mr. Peirse's Carnival winning. But this time the Stewards 



ordered a fresh race, in which 12 out of the 27 started and Mr. Peirse's colt (another 



Counts] only got fourth, the first being Mr. Watts' chestnut Barefoot by Tramp, who 



passed Comte d? Artois 400 yards from home. Bill Scott's first St. Leger winner 



was Jack Spigot, who 



hated him so heartily 



that he would never 



bear the sound of his 



voice again. Mr. T. 



Orde Powlett's son of 



Ardrossan (or Marmioti) 



was a beautiful colt, and 



won his race cleverly by 



half a length. Jerry 's 



victory he was a black 



son of Smolensko, owned 



by Mr. Gascoigne 



was a better one, and 



Brutandorf was among Mr. John /faces'" J///W/>" (1832) />v Cotton: 





