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man ; Mr Skipsey's bl. c. Inheritor ; and Sir J. Gerard's br. c. Billinge ; also started, but 

 were not placed. 



5 to 2 ag-st General Chasse, 7 to 2 ag-st Billing^e, 7 to 2 ag-st Mr Powlett's colt, 6 to 1 

 ag'st Touchstone, 8 to 1 ag'st Inheritor, 10 to 1 ag-st Queen Bess. 



Plenipotentiary, from his style of running, and the un- 

 equalled success of his races, was now the only horse at all 

 thought of for the St Leger, and the defeat of Touchstone, 

 by General Chasse, at the Liverpool Meeting, had thrown 

 cold water on the hopes of even his best friends. Shilelagh, 

 who ran second for the Derby, stood next upon the list to 

 Plenipo., but even then with eight points difference between 

 them. Bran, Warlaby Baylock, and Bubastes were also 

 liked well by their respective parties, whilst Touchstone, 

 on the day, found but few friends at forty to one. 



Only ten horses appeared at the post, viz : 



The Marquis of Westminster's Touchstone 1 



Lord Slig-o's ch, c. Bran, by Humphrey Cliaker, out of Velvet 2 



Sir J. Boswell's ch. c. General Chasse, by Actaeon 3 



Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Shilelag-h, by St Patrick 4 



Mr Batson's ch. c. Plenipotentiary, by Emilius ; Mr Watt's b. c. Bubastes, by Blacklock ; 

 Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Valparaiso, by Velocipede ; Mr W. Richardson's b. f. Lady de Gros, 

 by Young- Phantom, out of Jenny Mills's dam ; Mr Heseltine's b. c. Warlaby Baylock, 

 by Blacklock ; Mr Chisholme's b. f. by Partisan, dam by Walton or Orville, out of Pipylina, 

 by Sir Peter; and Mr Marson's bl. c. Louden, by Chateau Marg-aux, out of Morg-iana, 

 by Muley ; also started, but were not placed. 



11 to 10 on Plenipotentiary, 3 to 1 ag-st Shilelag-h, 6 to 1 ag-st Warlaby Baylock, 10 to 

 1 ag-st General Chasse, 25 to 1 agat Lady de Gros, 30 to 1 ag-st Louden, and 40 to 1 ag-st 

 Touchstone. 



Having already had occasion, in our foregoing account 

 of Plenipo., to detail the vicissitudes and unexpected catas- 

 trophe of this race, it is sufficient for our present purpose 

 to repeat, that Touchstone, ridden by Calloway, ran in three 

 good lengths a-head of the field ; Bran being second ; 

 General Chasse, his former conqueror, third; Shilelagh 

 fourth ; Warlaby Baylock, Bubastes, and Valparaiso in a 

 cluster — and Plenipo. last but one. 



The astonishment of every body at this most unexpected 

 result, may, as the novelists say, " be more easily imagined 

 than described;" though, certainly, of all the astonished 

 ones, Callo^vav. the rider of Touchstone, was most so. 



