DECEPTION, 1839, 197 



Sir G. Heathcote's two, 10 to 1 agst Dolphin, 10 to 1 agst 

 Hesione, 1 1 to 1 agst The Shadow, 20 to I agst Mickleton 

 Maid, and 25 to 1 agst Reel. But the odds, as the event 

 proved, were in fact anything and everything to nothing 

 on Deception, who won in a common canter ; John Day 

 having nothing to do but to sit still and pull his hardest. 



At the Bath Meeting Deception won a Produce Sweep- 

 stakes of 50 sovs. each, twenty-three subs., beating her 

 former conqueror Westonian, and Science. 



At the Liverpool July Meeting, the Croxteth 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. — Once round. — Nine subs., ended in 

 her defeat by 



Mr Ramsay's bl. h. The Doctor, by Doctor Syntax, 5 yi-s old 1 



Mr Fulwar Craven's b. f. Deception, 3 yrs old (can-ied 41b. over weig-bt) . . 2 



Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Apothecary, 3 yrs old (carried 21b. over weight) 3 



Col. Synge's b. c. Troy, 3 yrs old 4 



Mr Mostyn's b. f. Wonder, 4 yrs old ^ 



Betting: 21 to 20 on Deception, and 10 to 12 agst The 

 Doctor, who made all the running, and won a fine race by 

 a neck. 



On Tuesday in the Goodwood Meeting, the Drawing 

 Room Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with a bonus by an inde- 

 pendent subscription of 10 sovs. each, for three yr olds; 

 colts, 8st. 71b., and fillies, 8st. 2lb.; the winner of the 

 Derby or Oaks to carry 81b. extra ; the second for either, 

 41b. extra. — D.S.C.; the second to receive 100 sovs. out of 

 the Stakes, and the winner to pay 25 sovs. to the Judge. 

 — Twenty-four subs, to the Stakes, and twenty-five to the 

 bonus, were won by 



Mr Fulwar Craven's Deception (81b. extra) 1 



Mr Thornhill's b. f. Merg-anser 2 



Lord Exeter's Bosphorus ^ 



Colonel Anson's b. c. Nickleby ^ 



Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Glenlivat ^ 



Duke of Richmond's b. f. Reel ^ 



