THE JULY MEETINGS, 1832, 57 



Hail, hail ! — Yes, thou wert great, Eclipse, 



Thou wert, indeed, first-rate ; 

 Thou'dst even beat Apollo's steeds, 



Tho' carrying such light weight 



Eclipse, all nags, compared with thee, 



Excite contempt and laughter ; 

 There never was a horse, I do 



Believe, so much run after. 



Eclipse, the fleetest of thy race, 



Thy name shall last like leather ; 

 Thy name shall still be heard when sun 



And moon shall fall together. 



At Stockbridge we saw the first of Glaucus, who won the 

 same stakes in which Margrave made his debut last season, 

 but with less formidable opponents. At Liverpool July 

 Meeting, Birdcatcher was opposed to a larger field of horses 

 than at Chester, and beat them with no less ease, notwith- 

 standing he lost several lengths by running out at the start. 

 The betting men did not however appear to think much of 

 this performance, if the Great St Leger betting be taken as 

 indicative of their opinions. The Trade Cup was won by 

 Consol, who had been bottled up nearly two years, and came 

 out with all the advantages of freshness and light weight. 



The Newmarket July Meeting was a very indifferent af- 

 fair; no company and bad sport. At York there was "no- 

 thing stirring but stagnation," although the sport was good 

 enough to deserve better encouragement, bringing out 

 amongst others, Mr Watt's Belshazzar, who beat a large 

 field, and subsequently figured as a great favourite for the 

 Leger, 1833. 



Goodwood surpassed all the races of the season; the 

 company was aristocratic and numerous, the racing plentiful 

 and good. After the Two-year Old Stakes, which was 

 carried off by Lord Chesterfield's Weeper (a remarkably 

 game mare), the Drawing Room Stakes were won by Bei- 

 ram, fresh, full of running, and able at that moment to have 



