1 68 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur are about the 

 best horses that the modern turf has seen. Upon 

 this conventional estimate, the contest, the issue 

 of which is about to be disposed of, created more 

 interest than any match between horses within 

 my memory. The weighing had been adjusted 

 to a grain ; and thus the runners were set down : 

 Match for ^1,000, half forfeit, two miles over the 

 whole course ; Lord Eglinton's The Flying Dutch- 

 man, by Bay Middleton out of Barbelle, 5 yrs., 

 8 St. 8^ lb. ; Lord Zetland's Voltigeur, by Vol- 

 taire out of Martha Lynn. The pair were at 

 even betting almost from the period when the 

 race was publicly announced up to the day on 

 which it was run, and as they went to the 

 post. When the flag fell, Voltigeur went off 

 with the running at the top of his pace, taking 

 a lead of at least three lengths, and making 

 very severe play, the heavy state of the ground 

 being taken into account. In this way they 

 rounded the last turn, when Marlow, the rider 

 of the Dutchman, called upon his horse with a 

 request very pointedly urged. As they passed 

 the stand it was stride for stride, and a struggle 

 of desperate effort. It was too much, however, 

 for the young one — he tired the sooner, and the 

 Flying Dutchman passed the winning-chair first 

 by a short length. Both horses showed marks 

 of the keenness of the contest." 



After winning the match, Lord Eglinton 

 announced that his career on the turf had 

 ceased. 



It would not be difficult to fill a few pages 

 of this work with accounts of several other 

 matches of more or less interest, but those already 



