liAY MIDDI.HION — iy:?U. 123 



I>ord Clicstt!rtield'.s e. by Zing-anee, out of Babel, 8st. 21b 4 



Mr Houlilsworth's c. by Tramp, out of Lunacy, 8st. 41b 5 



Mr Thornhill's Ermiae, 8st. 71b 6 



The betting was. confined to Brother to Nell Gwynne 

 and Babel; both fancied strongly, the first at 11 to 8 on 

 him, and the other at 5 to 2, and 3 to 1 agst him, while 20 

 to 1 was offered agst Emineh ! After three or four false 

 starts. Destiny sprung oil' with the lead, Emineh lying well 

 up with her, — the favourite in the rear, pulling double, fit 

 to run over them ; at the bushes he shot by them like an 

 arrow, and won in the commonest of canters by nearly two 

 lengths, — the last four, literally, " no where," as the 

 newspapers have it. 



Until this event Bay Middleton had the credit of being 

 a bad-tempered horse, but after this race the Newmarket 

 knowing ones, by some wonderful train of reasoning, arrived 

 at the conclusion that the winner was not a bad-tempered 

 horse, but merely high-couraged ! — that he was a fine, 

 slashing, muscular, clean-limbed, light-bodied, racing-like 

 nag, and very much like Priam in his figure and action ; 

 in fact, that he was the very nag for the Derby course ; so 

 he at once took up his position as first favourite for the 

 Derby (what a wonderful clarifier of muddy noodles this 

 success does seem) ; and finished the meeting by walking 

 over for the Bruton Street Stakes of 1 00 sovs. each, h. ft, 

 four subs. 



On the Monday in the Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 

 the betting was confined to the 2,000 gs. Stakes, 500 even 

 was betted on Lord .Jersey's nag against the field, 2000 to 

 200 agst Calmuck, and large sums against Elis at 7 to 4; 

 a trial with Spume having ended so favourably, that the 

 party determined on starting, and taking the chance of a 

 bet of 1200 to 800 p. p. laid on him agst Brother to Nell 

 Gwynne some months since : 6 to 1 offered agst Muezzin, 

 12 to 1 agst Whalley, and 20 to 1 agst Camarine's dam: 



