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some excitement, fromX/ords Lichfield and Exeter 

 having each formally objected to Bloomsbury's 

 pedigree, who was the favourite at 5 to 1 . The 

 race was won cleverly by Bloomsbury, by nearly 

 a length, carrying 51b. extra. His only other 

 performance at this meeting, was for the 200 gs. 

 sweepstakes, which he won in a canter from Mr. 

 Forth's Sister to Hector by Priam, who was started 

 only to claim. 



The doings of the other Derby horses will be 

 found in our calendar, and require little or no 

 remark. Much of the interest invariably attached 

 to the race for the gold cup was lost, by Grey 

 Momus, the general favourite, having gone amiss. 

 St. Francis, at starting for this stake, was the 

 favourite, at even against the field, and is supposed 

 to have lost the race by having made the running, 

 which circumstance was taken advantage of by 

 Robinson, with his usual quickness and tact, and 

 who brought out Caravan at the critical moment, 

 and succeeded in bringing him in a winner by a 

 length. 



John Day, on Corsair, came in first by two 

 lengths, and in a canter, for the Windsor Castle 

 stakes, but owing to Day having omitted to put 

 the extra 51b. on his horse, as winner of the 

 2,000 gs. stakes, Alderman Copeland's The De- 

 puty was declared the winner. 



Altogether, the meeting may be said to have 

 gone off v/ith better sport and a more distinguished 



