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CHAPTER IX. 



Racing in Great Britain in the years 1836 and 1837 — The winners of 

 the Derby and St. Leger in 1836— Present of Arabian horses to his 

 Majesty from the Imaum of Muscat — Death of the eccentric 

 " Parson Harvey" — Melancholy suicide of the Hon. Henry Au- 

 gustus Berkeley Craven — Death of Frank Boyce the jockey — Re- 

 marks on the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger races in 1837. — C. C. 

 Greville, Esq. and the Newmarket St. Leger — Samuel Chifney's 

 bankruptcy — Decease of his Majesty William IV, and consequent 

 sale of the Royal Stud at Hampton Court — Death of Sir Mark 

 Wood, Bart, and sale of his valuable racing stud, with the pe- 

 digrees and performances of his two n^mous mares, Camarine and 

 Lucetta — Death of the Earl of Egremont — Death of James Ed- 

 wards, the Newmarket trainer. 



PRINCIPAL STAKES, &C., IN 1836. 



Newmarket Craven Meeting, Monday, April 4. — The Craven stakes, 

 eight subscribers, won by Mr. Bird's b. c. Redshank by Sandbeck. 

 Handicap sweepstakes of 10 sovs., won by Lord Exeter's ch. c. AureUus 

 by Sultan. Handicap sweepstakes of 10 sovs., nine subscribers, won by 

 Mr. Perth's b. m. Famine l)y Humphrey Clinker. The twenty-second 

 Riddlesworth stakes, twenty-two subscribers, won by Lord Jersey's 

 b. c. Bay Middleton by Sultan out of Cobweb. The Scrub stakes, nine 

 subscribers, won by Col. Peel's b. c. Waverer by Emilius. Sweepstakes 

 of 50 sovs , seven subscribers, won by Mr. Batson's b. c. Taishteer by 

 Whisker or Zinganee. Third year of the Tuesday Riddlesworth 



