BRITISH TURF. S81 



The Oaks was run at a miserable pace, afford- 

 ing an eas)^ victory to Miss Letty, herself a very 

 inferior mare, having ran only fourth for the 

 Claret stakes at the Catterick Bridge Meeting in 

 the previous March, which stakes were won by 

 Abraham Newland, afterwards second for the 

 Great St. Leger. 



This year's race for the St. Leger stakes at 

 Doncaster, is more remarkable for the accidents 

 that occurred in it, than from the pace at which 

 it was run. The first of these befel Epirus, the 

 favourite, the betting being 2 to 1 against him. Being 

 on the inside of the course, at the dip of the hill, he 

 was forced, from want of room, upon the bank of 

 the ditch, and after running nearly forty yards, and 

 with great difficulty keeping his legs, at last fell 

 into the ditch, throwing his jockey, Wm. Scott, 

 on to the course, when Prime Warden ran over 

 him, and struck him with his hind leg, by which 

 he sustained a severe fracture of the collar-bone. 



At the four-mile starting post, a greyhound ran 

 into the course, and after causing much alarm and 

 confusion among the eight horses, then running 

 well together, at last ran between Henriade's legs, 

 and threw him down. His rider, John Day, how- 

 ever, luckily escaped without injury. 



The practice of bringing dogs to races cannot 

 be too severely animadverted upon, from the great 

 risk they have but too frequently occasioned to 

 human life ; and we would earnestly recommend 



