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Lord Scarbroug'h's b. h. Cistercian, 5 yrs old 3 



Duke of Leeds's ch. f. Lady Mowbray, 4 yrs old 4 



Lord Milton's b. f. Sister to Ballad-sing-er, 3 yrs old 5 



6 to 4 ag'st Chorister. 



Chorister, however, remamed as yet unmentioned in the 

 cogitations of the sages of the betting ring, as having half 

 a chance for the St. Leger; nor did the thought once 

 cross their minds that he 7night win it. Circassian, who 

 had lost the Oaks, and Riddlesw^orth and Col wick, who 

 had lost the Derby, were the favourite nags, whilst Liver- 

 pool, The Saddler, Marcus, and in fact every thing in 

 turn, was touched upon except the one. 



The Derby and the Oaks have passed through our 

 pages, but though last, " the best of all the three," the 

 Great St. Leger, crowns the racing of the year. We may 

 safely say that no event throughout the year causes such 

 intense speculation, or creates more general interest 

 among all classes and conditions of persons than this great 

 midland race. To it the tried of all England's studs from 

 north to south, and east to west, arrive, to contest in one 

 grand struggle for the spolia ojitlma of the Turf. Here 

 the victors on NeT\Tiiarket Heath or Epsom Downs meet 

 the champions of the Aintree or the Yorkshire courses, 

 and north country versus south, is the order of the day. 



Of eighty -six subscribers, the following showed at the 

 post, viz. — 



Lord Cleveland's b. c. Chorister — .J. Day ; Mr Skipsey's br. c. The Saddler — T. Ni- 

 cholson ; Mr Golden's br. f. La Fille Mai Gardee — R. Johnson ; Mr F. Richardson's b. f. 

 Lady Elizabetli — Wakefield ; Lord Cleveland's br. e. Marcus — S. Cliifuey ; Mr Robinson's 

 b. c. Liverpool — W.Scott; Lord Fitzwilliani's b. c. Creole — W.Wheatley ; Mr Bower's br.c. 

 Sir John — T. Whitehouse; Lord Scarbroug'h's b. c. Brother to Tarrare — G. Nelson; Mr 

 Sadler's ch. c. Acliilles — Wrig-ht ; Mr Sadler's b. f. Delig-ht — J. Chappie; Col. Cradock's 

 b. c. Brother to Homer — H. Edwards ; Mr R. Bower's b. c. Chancellor — Holmes ; Lord 

 Slig'o's cli. c. Bras de Fer — P. Conolly ; Mr Wag-statf 's b. f. Joan d'Arc — Greathead ; Mr 

 Wag's taif 's b. f. Streamlet — J. Garbutt; Mr Houldsworth's b. f. Circassian — S. Dailin"- • 

 Mr Beardsworth'sbr. c. Colwick — Calloway; Mr R. Harrison's b. e. Braithwaite — Dod"'- 

 son ; Mr Vansittart's ch. c. Rubini — F. Boyce ; Mr W.Turner's b. c. Shrigley — J. Spring' ; 

 Mr Sing-leton's b. c. Tremaine — S. Templeman ; Mr Ferg-uson's b. c. Teetotum — Jacques ; 

 Mr S. Reed's b. c. Panton, by Arbutus — Marson, jun. 



