HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



having received orders from the horse's manager 

 to * take a back seat.' An action against the stake- 

 holder resulted in the defeat of Bloodstone's owner. 



As for Ratan, Mr. (ex-fishmonger) Crockford's 

 horse, ridden by S. Rogers, he ran so inexplicably 

 that, after a tardily held inquiry, Messrs. S. Rogers 

 and Braham were ' warned off,' chiefly through 

 the detective abilities of Lord G. Bentinck. 



The shadow of the coming event of which 

 Running Rein was to be the hero had been 

 'cast before' quite recently, of all places in the 

 world, in France, where horse-racing was still 

 almost in its infancy, and where, nevertheless, as 

 early as 1840, the French Derby haa been won 

 by a ' supposititious Tontine ' (of French extrac- 

 tion), which (according to the decision of the 

 French ' Stud Book ') was not the French Ton- 

 tine at all, but the Enalish Herodias, though 

 the substitution was not suf^ciently established at 

 the time of objection. 



There was in that case, however, no question, it 

 would seem, of the age ; and, of course, we could 

 show a precedent, if only in a small way, long 

 anterior to that date, as, for instance when, in 

 1 8 10, the Royal Plate at Warwick was thouo^ht to 



