i^V KLIS — 1KJ7. 



reached the new ground ; he continued with a good lead to 

 the hill, Elis all the while pulling as if he meant so come 

 out at the cords and win by two or three lengths ; in rising 

 the hill, however, he found that it was not so great a cer- 

 tainty as he had expected, — John called upon him and he 

 went up to Mr Wags,— kept at his head to the end, and 

 was lucky enough to make it a dead heat, but had stronger 

 running;- been made, nothino; could have saved him from 

 defeat. Muezzin was beaten three parts of a length. The 

 stakes were divided, not a little to the mortification of the 

 betters of the odds. 



Elis made his first appearance for the season, 1837, in 

 the Newmarket Craven Meeting in a Match for 300 sovs., 

 D. M., with Slane, Elis, 8st. 7lb., and Slane, Sst., the half 

 stone, however, went for nothing. Elis won in the com- 

 monest canter by three lengths, and proved, first, that his 

 race with Wags in the October, must have been a mistake; 

 and secondly, that Lord George Bentinck was not out of his 

 judgment in giving 4,000 gs. for Bay Middleton, which he 

 had done on the strength of his having so often beaten Elis. 

 This, however, was our hero's last appearance on the Turf, 

 as soon afterwards he went irrecoverably lame, and finally 

 appeared in the List of Stallions for 1838. 



