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1837, he made his last appearance in public at Ascot Heath, 

 where he carried of the Gold Cup, beating Slane, Royal 

 George, and Alumnus ; — and at the end of the year his 

 name was entered in the Stud List. 



Touchstone was undoubtedly a good and, what was at 

 least of equal value, an honest horse. His performances as 

 a two year old were very unpromising, but he trained on, 

 and finally closed a brilliant career, in such a manner, as to 

 entitle him to take place in the first rank of the Cracks of 

 the Day. 



He now stands at Moor Park ; and so highly is he prized 

 by his noble owner, that, on one occasion, having been soli- 

 cited to sell him, that he might be sent to Germany ; he 

 wrote the following laconic answer : — 

 " A German Principality should not buy Touchstone." 



THE RACING SEASON, 1834. 



So much is necessarily given of the performances of all 

 the best nags of the day in our detail of the various races 

 in which our '' Cracks" have been engaged, that little now 

 remains to be discussed, or treated of, excepting such brief 

 summary as may complete the leading races of the year. 



The Newmarket Craven Meeting 1834, was distinguished 

 by the first display of Plenipo. and Glencoe, two of the 

 most superior horses that England has ever possessed, and 

 one of them, to our humble thinking, the best, not even 

 excepting the great Cracks of the olden time, or the mile 

 in a minute performances of Childers or Eclipse, who 

 would have stood but little chance of such great fame as 

 they achieved, had fate placed them beside the mighty 

 Plenipo. 



