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won no less than £3,465 of public money. In 

 1836, he ran second to Bay Middleton for the 

 2,000 gs. stakes, being beaten only by a neck, 

 after a most severe race, and which excited the 

 greatest interest in all who beheld it. At Good- 

 wood, he won the Drawing-room stakes and the 

 Racing stakes, and ran second to Hornsea for the 

 Goodwood cup. After winning the Lewes stakes, 

 beating a large field, Elis completed his greatest 

 victory, the Great St. Leger stakes at Doncaster, 

 winning easily by a length and a half. 



In the course of this year, his Majesty received 

 a valuable addition to his stud at Hampton Court, 

 by a present of four Arabians, from the Imaum of 

 Muscat. They consisted of two stallions and two 

 mares, selected by that Eastern Prince, with the 

 greatest care and at a costly price, from the best 

 blood of the desert, and which proclaimed the 

 purity of their descent, by their extraordinary and 

 singular beauty. It is deeply to be regretted that, 

 upon the sale of the royal Hampton Court stud, 

 in 1837, these horses were purchased by foreign 

 governments ; as we thus lost the opportunity of 

 ascertaining whether their stock, after several 

 generations, would prove superior to that of our 

 best native stallions in speed or bottom. 



On the 13th of May, the Rev. Wm. Harvey, 

 better known by the familiar name of *' Parson 

 Harvey," died suddenly, in the 68th year of his 

 age, at his living, in Caldecot, in Bedfordshire. 



