124 BAY MIDDLETOX- 



-1836. 



these prices being maintained to the breaking up of the 

 ring in the evening. On the day the excitement was supe- 

 rior to anything seen at Newmarket since Cadland ran for 

 the same stake. The crowd on the Heath was without 

 precedent since the day of Filho and Sir Joshua, and the 

 odds betted, not in tens and ponies, but in hundreds ; the 

 books, in short, were dreadfully heavy, and, in two or three 

 cases, the balances large enough to shake some who had 

 been in hopes of surviving till the Derby was over. 



At last the eventful moment came, which, in the opinion 

 of many, decided the Derl)y without appeal : and the 

 following horses saddled for the start. 



Lord Jersey's b. e. Buy Middleton, by Sultan, out of Cobweb 1 



Lord Lichfield's ch. e. Elis 2 



Lord Berners's cb. c. by Lamplig-hter, out of Camariiie's dam 3 



Duke of Graftou's b. c. Calmuck 4 



Mr J. Robinson's ch. c. Whaley .5 



Lord Exeter's b. c. Muezzin 6 



After nearly a quarter of an hour's delay, they got away 

 in good order, Elis springing off with the lead, seconded 

 by the Lamplighter colt, and closely waited on by the 

 others, the pace being so severe that by the time they 

 reached the end of the two year old course it was " bellows 

 to mend" with Muezzin (the first to shut up), Calmuck, 

 and Whaley ; the other three rattled away to the bushes, 

 where the second place was occupied by Lord Jersey's 

 horse, the Lamplighter colt having shot his bolt. Elis now 

 had a lead of about a length, but before they got to the 

 bottom, this advantage was reduced one half, and in 

 charging the hill they were fairly abreast. John Day was 

 first at work, for he discovered that the Sultan colt had 

 the foot of him. Robinson, a stride or two further, also 

 found the spur necessary to keep his horse in place, and so 

 they ran home, one ramming the spurs into his horse's side 

 without daring to apply the whip, — tlic other u-ing both 

 unmercifully. Tlie liirii of tlic scale was in favour oi' Lord 



