Till-: EAHL OF CIIKSTEKFIELD. 177 



Heaton Park, for the St Leger Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 

 ft, with 100 added by the club, for three yr olds. — St Leger 

 Course. — Fifteen subs. 



The history of Don John furnishes the first instance upon 

 record of any person winning the Oaks and Leger of the 

 same year with different horses. And on no one could this 

 distinguished piece of luck have fallen more deservedly 

 than on the kindly good-natured nobleman whose likeness 

 graces our page, and who is a thorough-bred one of a right 

 good sort. 



His Lordship's first appearance on the Turf was about 

 1826, when he made his debut by winning the Witherley 

 Stakes, at the Anson Hunt Meeting, on the Lichfield Course, 

 with a cock-tail called Raven, ridden by Mr White ; since 

 when, we find the following good, bad, and indifferent nags 

 figuring off under his colours — red jacket with blue 

 sleeves — Jerry, Teasdale, Heathen, Negro, Zinganee (win- 

 ner of the Gup at Ascot, in 1829), Carthusian, Splendour, 

 Sarcenet, Rufus, Massaroni, Titania, Olga, Squirrel, Kit- 

 turns, Non Compos, Weeper, Dirce, Whiskey, Uncle Bob, 

 Blanche of Devon, Elvaston, Brother to Nessus, Golden 

 Egg, Felix, Araphitrite, Theban, Fanny Grey, Tourist, La 

 Bayadere, and amongst many more, the immortal Priam, 

 winner of the Riddlesworth, the Column Stakes, the Der- 

 by, the 100 sovs. Sweepstakes at Ascot, the walker over for 

 the Gascoigne, and receiver of no end of forfeits in 1830; 

 the winner of the Port, the vanquisher of Lucetta, the 

 winner of the Goodwood Cup, the receiver of another filled 

 with guineas, at Heaton Park, and vanquisher of Augustus, 

 after giving him 161b., in 1831 ; the winner of the King's 

 Plate, in the First Spring Meeting, of the Eclipse Foot, at 

 Ascot, and the Cup, at Goodwood, in 1832; a horse, in 

 fact, the possession of which is sufficient to confer immor- 

 tality on any man that ever lived. 



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