122 HAY MIDIJJ-ETON. 



BAY MIDDLETON. 



WINNER OP THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1836. 



Here stands Bay Middleton, .as his name bespeaks, a i icli 

 bay horse, about sixteen hands and an inch and a half", lie 

 was bred by liis noble owner, Lord Jersey, in 1833. Got 

 by Lord Exeter's Sultan, out of Cobweb, by Phantom, out 

 of Filagree, by Soothsayer — Web by Waxy — Penelope by 

 Trumpator — Pnmella by Highflyer. 



It has rarely occurred that the field for the Derby has at 

 the commencement of the year been composed of horses so 

 nearly balanced, as at the opening of the Racing Season 

 183o, which can only be accounted for by the fact that both 

 favourites and field were of a remarkably poor character; 

 or, in otlier words, that the Southern two year olds of 

 1835-36, were a very bad lot, whilst the Northern two year 

 olds showed qualities in every respect superior. 



Under these cuTumstances, and, moreover, as the favour- 

 ites for the Oaks were of precisely the same moderate de- 

 scription, it is not a matter of surprise that gentlemen were 

 shy in backing their horses — they waited for the Craven 

 Meeting, but this meeting, although it produced the winner 

 of the Derby, and he, too, a Southern, did not much en- 

 lighten their eyes in other respects, but left them still in 

 darkness. 



On the Tuesday in the Newmarket Craven Meeting, for 

 the Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, &;c. — Ab. M. — 

 Twenty-two subs. The following came to the post. 



Lord Jersey's Brother to Nell Gwyune, 8st. 71b 1 



Mr Walker's cli. f. Kiiiiii(!!i, 8st. 21b -' 



Mr Houldswoi-di'.s ell. f. Dt\s(iiiv, ir*st. HI) ;} 



