BAY MI DDLIiTOX— 1.^:^6. 12? 



where Bay Middleton went up : at the top of the hill he 

 was leading, and in going down it, his wonderful stride 

 enabled him to show his tail to his gallant opponent. 

 " Honest John" tried what whipping would do, but it was 

 " no go," and the winner of the Leger was beaten in pace, 

 stride, and stoutness, by the winner of the Derby. The 

 judge gave it by a length. Robinson jockied the winner. 



The Newmarket Houorhton Meetinsj finished the season, 

 1836, at least as far as regarded Bay Middleton, by his 

 beating Muezzin again in a match for 300 sovs. each. 

 Muezzin received thirteen pounds, but no weight would 

 ever have brought these two together. 



Lord Jersey now sold Bay Middleton to Lord George 

 Bentinck, for 4000 guineas, he buying him chiefly upon 

 the strength of his running with Elis, and in the hope that 

 his leg, already looking suspicious, would still stand training. 

 In this expectation, however, he was disappointed, although 

 John Day nursed it, and bandaged it, and tried every means 

 in his power to bring him round, but all in vain. He never 

 came right again, and finally appeared in the List of 

 Stallions for 1838. 



