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maintained, after the race, that he must have won, 

 but for the accident. 



Something intended to be received as an explanation of the impres- 

 sion sent abroad of that horse's being broken down, was given out ; 

 but I must be permitted to say, that it was the lamest part of the 

 whole business in my estimate. Tlie explanation was to the effect, 

 that the trainer, Mr. Dilly (Mango is not now in the hands of Mr. 

 Prince), who first pronounced the case a break-down, (that is to say, 

 a violent, generally a fatal muscular injury) presently discovered that 

 it was merely a bruise of the foot, or some trifle of the kind. When 

 this discovery was effected, is not stated ; but at whatever time it was 

 so providentially made, no notice of the circumstance was issued to 

 the public till it could no longer be kept, and when it was no longer 

 useful to conceal it. Whether any hopes existed or not, that the 

 bruise might allow the horse to start, surely it would have been as 

 courteous to have stated that it merely was a bruise that confined him 

 to his stable, and not a break-down, that precluded the possibility of 

 his crossing the threshold of its door." 



Upon these paragraphs appearing in print, Mr. Greville lost no 

 time in calling their author to account ; and after some correspond- 

 ence, which it is not necessaiy to republish here, the case was referred 

 to the stewards of the Jockey Club, when the result was, the follow- 

 ing apology and explanation from Craven, which was pubUshed in 

 the May number of the Old Sporting Magazine, vol. xvii, second 

 series, page 7, and headed : 



THE LATE NEWMAKET ST. LEGER. 



'* In consequence of the letter addressed to the stewards of the 

 Jockey Club, in the December number of the Sporting Magazine, a 

 meeting was appointed by them at Messrs Weatherby's, Oxendon 

 Street, London, for the Monday following the Craven week, to inves- 

 tigate the statements which appeared in my account of the Newmarket 

 St. Leger, in the First October Meeting, 1837. The correspondence 

 which took place between Mr. Greville and myself has already made 

 public the points at issue, viz : whether 20 to 1 were the odds at any 

 time against Mango for that race, and whether any concealment 



