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Mr Hunter's gr. c. Morotto, by Gustavus; Duke of Grafton's cL. c. Olympic, by Revel- 

 1 er ; Mr Gully's g-r. c. Viator, by Stumps ; Mr Sadler's b. c. Defensive, by Defence ; 

 Mr Gardner's br. c. Comet, by Whalebone ; Duke of Rutland's br. c. by Bizarre, out of 

 Young" Barrossa, by Partisan ; Sir G. Heathcote's b. c. Nisus, by Velocipede ; Lord 

 Orford's br. c. Paris, by Waterloo ; Mr Greatrex's br. c. by Lottery, out of Trulla ; Mr 

 Cosby's b. c, Stradbally, by Waterloo or Reveller; Mr Mills's b, c. Brother to Ka^e ; Sir 

 M. Wood's b. c. Flatterer, brother to Marpessa ; Lord Lowther's b. c. by Reveller, out 

 of Trictrac; Mr E. Peel's ch. c. Noodle, by Bedlamite; and Duke of Cleveland's b. c. 

 Guardian, brother to Trustee. 



It had been, and will be, many years before a Derby ex- 

 cites SO much interest as the one about to be described, and 

 seldom had so many good horses contended for it ; three of 

 them, viz. Plenipotentiary, Shilelagh, and Bubastes, had 

 been backed by different parties to an enormous extent, and 

 it is not a little remarkable that the principal backers of 

 Bubastes — an indifferent runner — stood the heaviest odds 

 against Plenipo., decidedly the best public horse in the 

 race. The latter was the pet not of the " fancy " but of 

 the gentlemen, whose confidence in him never showed any 

 symptoms of abatement till a few days before the race, 

 when many of them began to doubt — some from a dread of 

 the other two favourites, others from a notion that the horse 

 carried too much flesh, and a few from an ill- founded suspi- 

 cion that be would not be suffered to win — a suspicion, by 

 the way, which had some colour for it in the outrageous 

 price offered for him. Shilelagh's party was not less san- 

 guine — the Chifney's declared that he was 51b. better than 

 Priam had ever been, and upon the faith of it backed him 

 heavily. Bubastes, without any thing to warrant it, was an 

 immense favourite until Belshazzar's defeat, on the previous 

 Tuesday, forced upon his friends the unwilling belief that 

 his taking the Derby into the North was no longer a thing 

 of course. The bettino", the weight of which was confined 

 to this trio, underwent repeated fluctuations in the course 

 of the twenty-four hours preceding the race, the last cur- 

 rent odds being 5 to 2 agst Plenipo., 11 to 4 agst Shilelagli, 

 15 to 2 agst Bubastes, 10 to 1 agst Glencoe, 20 to 1 agst 



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