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for good round sums at 20 to 1 and even less. It only 

 remains to be stated, that with the exception of Benedict 

 (who would have been as well in his box at Ascot Heath), 

 not one of them even started for the stakes. 



Phosphorus was well known by his noble owner and his 

 trainer to be, what is called, a wear-and-tear horse, yet 

 wanting a turn of speed for the short flat courses at New- 

 market. At Epsom he was quite at home, and had he con- 

 tinued as well as his friends could have wished, he would 

 have figured at somewhere about 8 to 1 against him ; indeed, 

 his performances entitled him to this position in the odds, 

 if we take the supposed chance of Rat-trap at 6 to 4 — his 

 price at starting. Notwithstanding a limping sort of going 

 on the morning of the race, the trainer of Phosphorus never 

 imagined his chance completely out ; and honest John (who 

 had the option of riding him or Wisdom) looked " unutterable 

 things" when informed that Phosphorus had won. 



Of the Oaks it will be sujERcient to observe, that a more 

 wretched lot of three year old fillies never showed in the 

 Warren; yet the race, with prolmbly the exception of 

 Egeria (who would not run in a crowd, much to Mr Thorn - 

 hill's loss this season), was carried off by the best of the 

 "kit." 



Ascot Heath Races were now in a state of improvement, 

 and the sport upon the whole this season w^as good, without 

 calling for any particular remark. Mango won his two 

 races cleverly, and Touchstone closed his career as a racer 

 by winning, in glorious style, the Gold Cup against Slane, 

 whose running during the year proved him to be a very 

 good racer, and his defeat certainly added another feather 

 to old Touchstone's cap, who trotted in ! 



The Newton Meeting brought The Prime Warden into 

 some notice amongst his select friends, by winning his two 

 races in an easv manner. 



