CLOSE or THK gUEEX Ob' TRUMPS' CAREER. I I 7 



added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft; three yr 

 olds, a feather; four, 8st. ; five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st. 

 41b. — Thrice round the course. — Seven subs. 



At Newton, on the 9th of June, the Queen of Trumps 

 won the Borough Cup, value 100 sovs., added to a Sweep- 

 stakes of 10 sovs. each; three yr olds, Gst. 3lb. ; four, 8st. 

 21b. ; five, 8st. lOlb. ; six and aged, 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 

 31b. ; the winner of a Cup or Piece of Plate value 100 

 sovs to carry 31b, ; of two, 5lb. ; of three, 7lb. extra; the 

 winner of the Doncaster St Leger in 1835, to carry 41b. 

 extra, and second, 2lb. extra; no horse to carry more than 

 7lb. extra; maidens allowed 31b. Two miles — Nine subs. 



Mr Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede, 4 yrs old I 



Mr Ramsay's b. h. Vestment, 5 yrs old 2 



G to 1 on Queen of Trumps ; 



and at Holywell Hunt, on the I9th October, she pocketed 

 a Post Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft, for four yr 

 olds; colts, 8st. 71b.; and fillies, 8st. 5lb. — Two miles. — 

 Four subs. 



Mr Mostyn's br. f. Queen of Trumps, by Velocipede 1 



Lord Westminster's Oswald 2 



as a finish to the season 1836; and thus ended her racing 

 career as successfully as it had been begun. 



The Queen of Trumps was, on the whole, certainly, the 

 most extraordinary mare these our days have seen. She is 

 the only one who ever carried off both Oaks and Leger, — 

 and had she been entered in the Derby, it seems no great 

 risk to assert, that she would have won that also ; at least, 

 if the St Leger running, with Mundig " nowhere,'''' may be 

 taken as a true test of the relative powers of the two great 

 winners. Her only fault was that she had a somewhat ten- 

 der constitution, which obliged her always to carry some- 

 what more flesh than would exactly please a critical eye, 

 and which eventually prevented her from training on so 

 well as might have been expected: but taking her '■ for all 



