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second, third, and fourth to him. Bay Middleton was not 

 in the St. Leger, which was won by Elis very easily by two 

 lengths. In the same year Bay Middleton and Elis met 

 again in the Newmarket First October Meeting, for the 

 Grand Duke St. Michael Stakes ; twenty-one horses 

 were frightened out of the field by their appearance ; 

 the race was won by the former by a length. Mr. 

 George Tattersall has thus described it : ' After all, it 

 was a falsely run race, the pace being poor, and each 

 on the lurching order till they passed the Bushes, where 

 Bay Middleton went up ; at the top of the hill he was 

 leading, and in going down it his wonderful stride 

 enabled him to show his tail to his gallant opponent. 

 " Honest John " (the rider of Elis) tried what whipping 

 would do, but it was " no go," and the winner of the 

 St. Leger was beaten in pace, stride, and stoutness, by 

 the winner of the Derby.' Here, I think, is a case in 

 point : The greater number of crosses of the Darley 

 Arabian blood in Bay Middleton and his sire Sultan 

 than in Elis and his sire Langar — although Sultan and 

 Langar were half-brothers, both being sons of Selim — 

 will account for Bay Middleton being stouter than Elis. 

 His career was brilliant, but short. A foreleg already 

 looking suspicious prevented his training on, and he 

 retired to the stud in 1838. As a sire he cannot be 

 said to have equalled Sultan. He was the sire of Ellen 

 Middleton, the dam of Wild Dayrell (winner of the 

 Derby, 1855), of Cowl (1842), of The Flying Dutch- 

 man (winner of the Derby and St. Leger in 1849), of 

 Aphrodite (winner of the One Thousand Guineas, 185 1), 



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