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Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 30 added; three yr 

 olds, 6st. 81b. ; four, 8st. 21b. ; five, 8st. 91b. ; six and aged, 

 9st. ; m. and g. allowed 31b. — A mile and a quarter. — Seven 

 subs. 



Lord Eg'linton's b. c. Doctor Caius, by Physician, 4 yrs old. — Lye 1 



Mr Ridsdale's b. h. Bloomsbury, 5 yrs old 2 



Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. Oxton, 3 yrs old 3 



Mr Watt's ch. c, by Zealot, out of Zillah, 3 yrs old 4 



Sir R. W. Bulkeley's ch. f. by Colwick, out of Sister to Ainderby, 3 yrs old 5 



This race was severely contested by Bloomsbury and 

 Doctor Caius from beginning to end, and after a neck and 

 neck race to the finish, the judge gave it " Doctor Caius 

 by a neck." The others came straggling in at a respectful 

 distance, enabling the whole of them to be placed. With 

 this race terminated Bloomsbury's career on the Turf. 

 Like many other of the Derby winners Bloomsbury owes 

 his honours to being fit to run on the day ; for his subse- 

 quent running proves him to have been but an inferior 

 horse. 



Many and merry were the stories which were created 

 on the occasion of Bloomsbury's unexpected triumph on 

 the Derby day. None is more rich than that, told as a 

 fact (?) of a celebrated sporting butcher, who, in passing 

 over Westminster Bridge, on his way to the races, rather 

 belated, was detained by an obstinate crowd of dog and 

 donkey-carts, which would not move on, in spite of all his 

 " Hies 1" and " Hoes !" — At last, provoked beyond en- 

 durance, he drove right at the obnoxious parties, and vowing 

 that he would indict them, drove rapidly past ; his eye, 

 straining at the name -board of the cart, on which the word 

 " Bloomsbury " alone was decypherable. This magic word, 

 the legend then goes on to say, settled down deep into his 

 ruffled breast, ever and anon rising again, and crossing his 

 imagination as he sped along the road. Upon the Downs, 



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