186 THE DERBY, 1839. 



Mr J. Dixon's b. c. Hyllus, brother to The Hydra, by Sir Hercules. — S, Day 



Col. Peel's br. c. The Day of Algiers, by Priam, out of Tamworth's dam. 



A. Pavis 



But few words are necessary to describe a race which 

 afterwards gave rise to sc much diction and contradiction. 

 Euclid, Bloomsbury, and Deception, had the whole thing 

 to themselves, from beginning to end. Euclid, some people 

 thought, might have won — Deception, other people thought, 

 ought to have won — and Bloomsbury, to the astonishment 

 of all people, did win ; the odds being no less than 25 to 1 

 agst him. 



5 to 1 ag-st Sleigt-of-Hand, 6 to 1 ag-st Euclid, 7 to 1 agst Caesar, 8 to 1 agst Clariou, 

 12 to 1 agst Deception, 16 to 1 agst Corsair, 20 to 1 agst Dragsman, 24 to 1 agst Dart, 

 25 to 1 agst Montreal, 25 to 1 agst Bloomsbury, 30 to 1 agst Valaincourt, 30 to 1 agst 

 Melbourne, 50 to 1 agst iE.tlier, and 50 to 1 ag'st Ilderim. 



On the Friday after the race, a formal objection was made 

 to Bloomsbury's pedigree, by Mr Fulwar Craven, the owner 

 of Deception ; the objection being, that the Calendar and 

 the Stud Book differed as to his pedigree, — the Calendar 

 making him " by Mulatto," but the Stud Book by " Tram'p 

 or Mulatto^ The Stewards, accordingly, withheld the 

 Stakes until the Tuesday morning following, when Messrs 

 Weatherby received the following letter from them : 



Epsom, May 21, 1839. 

 " To Messrs Weatherby, 

 " We, the Stewards of Epsom Races, considering that although, by Hule 58, when 

 the qualification of any horse is objected to, after the race, the onus of proof lies upon 

 the party objecting, j et that we are not thereby precluded from receiving proof of such 

 qualification from the owner of the horse objected to, if he shall see fit to tender it, have 

 this day, at the request of Mr Ridsdale, examined the evidence tendered by him in 

 support of the qualification of his horse Bloomsbury, and are of opinion that the entry 

 in the Calendar is correct, that Bloomsbury was qualified to start for the Derby, and that 

 his owner is entitled to the slakes. 



" Signed GILBERT HEATHCOTE 

 J. DE TEISSIER." 



Mr Craven was not yet satisfied, but gave notice to the 

 Stakeholder not to pay over the Stakes to Mr Ridsdale, 

 being determined to bring the point at issue forward in a 

 court of law. 



Now all this was most decidedly wrong — Stewards of 

 races are either competent judges, or they are not so — If 



