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beaten any three-year old in the kingdom. Posthumus ran 

 a bad second to Beiram, and on the last day beat Dryad 

 and Roebuck in a canter; this, added to his own excellent 

 running, brought Beiram into the betting for the St Leger, 

 and it is to be regretted that Lord Exeter should have pre- 

 ferred sending Byzantium. The Gold Cup served as a 

 brilliant finale to Priam's racing career ; although he won, 

 his legs suffered so much from the severity of the race, that 

 Lord Chesterfield wisely elected to pay in his subsequent 

 engagements. 



Next comes " the Great Meeting of the North," — Don- 

 caster, On Monday the Champagne Stakes was closely 

 contested between Lord Cleveland's Muley colt and Bel- 

 shazzar, the former winning solely through the incapacity 

 of the rider of his opponent. On Tuesday the St Leger 

 disappointed the expectations of the North country people, 

 all their favourites showing in very bad form. Wednesday 

 was a blank day. On Thursday Margrave, with 41b. extra, 

 beat Julius in a canter for the Gascoigne Stakes ; Gallopade 

 beat a field of good horses for the Cup ; and Wolverhamp- 

 ton pulled a snug 1400 sovs. into Mr Beards worth's pocket ; 

 and on the concluding day Birdcatcher and Physician met 

 for the Thirty Guineas Stakes ; the latter being victorious 

 through the splendid jockeyship of Harry Edwards : and 

 on the same day, Jem Robinson, by a similar display, en- 

 abled Emiliana to give a quietus to three or four mares of 

 higher pretensions than her own. 



The Newmaiket October Meetings closed the Racing 

 Season, 1832, and never did they excite so little attention, 

 or furnish so moderate a quantity of sport. Some of the 

 races, however, were important. Margrave, within ten days 

 from Doncaster, started for the Grand Duke Michael, against 

 Salute, Beiram, and another, and won it. Here he ought 

 to have stopped; but no, there was a snug little four luin- 



