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Guineas, if his horse is in anything like form. Mr Batson, 

 the lucky Mr Batson, won two valuable stakes with his 

 wretched filly Vespertilio ; and the Duke of Portland, to 

 the joy of all frequenters of Newmarket, broke out very 

 strong with a son of Taurus, and Thebes, winning the Co- 

 lumn, and, in the following Meeting, the Newmarket Stakes, 

 two of the most fancy races. The four year olds turned 

 out very badly ; Rat-trap, whose running was always so un- 

 certain, cut down the elite of North and South in the Port 

 Stakes. During this Meeting Ion's partisans became ex- 

 ceedingly numerous, the running of his companion, Paga- 

 nini, and the trials in Cooper's stable, inspiring the gallant 

 Colonel and his party with increased confidence. 



The Newmarket First Spring Meeting is a meeting of 

 paramount interest always to the speculative turfite. The 

 2000 Guineas stake, the little Newmarket Derby, was this 

 year amazingly animating by its bringing out Grey Momus, 

 Bamboo, Alemdar, and Bond's Scurry colt, all backed 

 heavily to win the Derby, and Saintfoin, a good favourite 

 for the St Leger. Bamboo had been '' monstrously well 

 tried ;" and his noble and spirited owner, not content with 

 having backed him to win nearly 50,000 in the Derby, also 

 supported him freely for the 2000 Guineas stake; in short, 

 money made Bamboo an egregious favourite, but his " par- 

 ty" soon found they had been bamboozled out of their senses. 



The York Spring Meeting showed a little improvement 

 in the " bill of fare," still leaving much room for amend- 

 ment in the management and general routime of racing 

 there. The Two-yr-old Stakes were carried off, as usual, 

 by the Scotts. The Duke of Cleveland's Alzira won the 

 St Leger, beating two promising colts and an unpromising 

 filly cleverly, and, in consequence, began to be looked up to 

 as a Doncaster St Leger favourite. That good sportsman, 

 Mr Orde, won the York Derby with Charley Boy, after a 



