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Other scandals there have been, including 

 the (justifiable by racing law) ' pulling ' of 

 Maroon to allow Launcelot to win the 

 St. Leger of 1840; the murder of the racing 

 man, Mr. Cook, by his racing friend, Mr. William 

 Palmer ; the establishment of ' betting houses ' 

 (not too speedily suppressed) ; the apparition of 

 ' leviathans,' of whom the first was Mr. William 

 Davis, ex-journeyman carpenter ; the disturbances 

 at Doncaster Races, in 1857, which caused a 

 letter to be written by the Stewards of the Jockey 

 Club to the Corporation of Doncaster ; the extra- 

 ordinary circumstances, it really must be said, 

 under which the immaculate Lord Stanley (four- 

 teenth Earl of Derby) himself won the Goodwood 

 Cup with Canezou ; the unsportsmanlike spirit 

 (with pain be it written) in which the first im- 

 portant successes of foreigners were received, 

 when objections were raised in the case of Mr. 

 Ten Broeck's Umpire, Comte Lagrange's Fille 

 de I'Air and Gladiateur, and Mr. Baltazzi's Kisber; 

 the troubles about ' reciprocity ' ; the objection 

 made to the Duke of Westminster's Bend Or, on 

 the ground that he was Tadcaster ; the case of 

 the ' millionaire-jockey,' Charles Wood (to whom, 



