154 MANGO— 1837. 



Great St Leger, was naturally expected to win its minor 

 namesake at Newmarket. The betting at starting was 11 

 to 8 on him, 7 to 2 agst Rat-trap, 4 to 1 agst Dardanelles, 

 and 8 to 1 agst Troilus. The running was made at a great 

 pace by Troilus, Mango waiting on him, till half-way up 

 the Criterion Course, where Rat-trap and Dardanelles were 

 at Mango's side ; at the Duke's stand they dropped off, 

 and here Troilus appeared to have made Mango " as safe as 

 if he had been boiled." Mango, however, although slow 

 and remarkably lazy, took a vast deal more beating than 

 any other horse of his age — he was stout and honest in an 

 extraordinary degree ; and in this interesting race showed 

 how superior those qualities are to the vaunted speed for 

 which nine out of ten of our racers are celebrated. Suf- 

 fering Troilus to maintain his lead till past the Duke's 

 stand, he made his push, caught him in about half-a-dozen 

 strides ; and by the aid of a little tickling on the near side, 

 won by half a length, rather to the surprise of his jock, 

 John Day, who thought that he was beaten at the turn of 

 the lands, and who confessed that nothing but hard work, 

 and the indomitable courage of the horse, had enabled him 

 to pull through. 



In the Second October Meeting an unexpected result 

 came off in the Garden Stakes of 100 sovs. each, p.p. — 

 T.M.M. 



Lord Exeter's Velure, 3 yrs old, Gst. 71b 1 



Mr Greville's Mango, 3 yrs old, 7st. 71b 2 



Colonel Peel's Castaway, 5 yrs old, 8st. 41b 3 



After Mango's victories over his St Leger opponents, it 

 could^never have been expected that he would have been 

 defeated, and shamefully so, by a mare of such moderate 

 pretensions as Velure. At all events, so little was it looked 

 for here, that 2 to 1 was laid on him to a large amount; 

 whilst 4 to I agst Velure, and the same against Castaway, 

 wi'ut a-beg^,ing. 



