76 THE GOODWOOD STAKES, 1836. 



At Goodwood, on the 28th of July, Kockingham started 

 for the Goodwood Stakes of 25 sovs. each, &c.— Two miles 

 and a distance. 



Mr Houldsworth's Felix, 7st. 81b. and 51b. extra 1 



Mr Rush's Roadster, aged, 7st. 131b 2 



The following' also ran, making- up the larg-est field for a handicap seen for many years: 

 Pussy, 5 yrs old, 7st. 121b.; Rocking-ham, 6 yrs old, 9st. 121b.; Rush, 5 yrs old, Bst. 

 121b. ; Knobstick, 4 yrs old, 8st. 51b. ; Whimsical, 5 yrs old, 7st. 71b. ; Tauntonian, 4 yrs 

 old, 7st. 31b. ; Ruinous, 4 yrs old, 6st. 131b.; Tiber, 4 yrs old, 6st. 121b. ; Alfred, 3 yrs 

 old, 6st. 121b.; Lady Anna, 3 yrs old, 6st. 121b.; Sepoj, 3 yrs old, 6st. 101b.; Arbaces, 

 3 yrs old, 6st. ; Tag-lioni, 3 yrs old, 6st. ; Oberon, 3 yrs old, 5st. 121b. ; Flush filly, 3 yrs 

 old, 5st. 31b. ; and Fortuna filly, 3 yrs old, 5st. 31b. 



A good sprinkling- of business was got through at 2 to 1 agst Rockingham, 9 to 2 agst 

 Pussy (t.), 6 to 1 agst Houldsworth's two, 8 to 1 agst Rush (t.), 14 to 1 agst Lady Anna, 

 15 to 1 agst Knobstick, 20 to 1 agst Felix, and 20 to 1 agst Roadster. 



Pussy took a rattling lead, with a knot of light weights 

 clustered at her heels, " the Pride of Stockwell " waiting 

 behind with Felix and two or three others ; Pussy taking 

 them round the clump at a merry pace, and looking amaz- 

 ingly well up to the last turn, where she shut up. The 

 hindmost lot now came in front, but there was no deter- 

 mined lead, until about two distances from the winning- 

 post, where Felix went up, made the remainder of the play, 

 and won in a very neat style by a length, to the astonish- 

 ment and delight of the book-makers, very few of them 

 having heard his name mentioned in the odds. Knobstick, 

 Rockingham, Rush, and Alfred, were in pretty good places 

 at the finish, nor were the others beaten off any distance. 

 The winnings and losses were very considerable. 



On the following day, for the Cup, value 300 sovs., with 

 600 in specie, &c. Instead of four or five, as most people 

 had anticipated, the field was swollen into ten ; without, 

 excepting in the unlooked-for addition of Elis, in any de- 

 gree adding to the interest of the betting ; in fact, so cer- 

 tain was it, that 4 to 1 was betted that either he or Hornsea 

 won. Rockingham would not have started, but for the rain, 

 which the worthy proprietor of the most capacious pair of 



