9\'2 TIIH I!A.fIN(+ SEASON, 18^,9. 



Now it is well known that many horses require a good deul 

 of 1 ousing to make them finish well, and Euclid not answering 

 the first call made upon him, when near home, induced 

 Conolly to decline the struggle. It is in many instances 

 a great drawback to a jockey to be tied down closely to 

 " order." The subsequent running of Euclid led the Jer- 

 sey party into great errors and diflficulties, from which they 

 never had a chance to extricate themselves; they were hur- 

 ried on into a belief that Csesar was a second Bay Middle- 

 ton, without w^aiting to weigh the merits of those miserable 

 creatures, Tros and Derrynane, whom he certainly defeated 

 by some half-a-dozen lengths, without being called upon, 

 liderim won the Tuesday's Riddlesworth, and receded some 

 fifteen or twenty points in the betting ; he won by four 

 lengths, with consummate ease, but the poverty of the field 

 and the loftiness of his action — not at all after the approved 

 " Derby fashion," left him nearly friendless. Grey Momus 

 w(m the Port Stakes in the commonest canter, from Don 

 John and Alemdar ; the Don was as " dead as a stone," and 

 ought not to have started. Flambeau won a race and lost 

 one during the week, and Caravan took the Oatlands to 

 Isaac Day, at Northleach. 



The Newmarket First Spring Meeting upset many of the 

 Derby books. The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes was a 

 pose?^ to the fancy men, who betted 7 and 8 to I on Caesar 

 against The Corsair and ^Ether ! Notwithstanding the 

 numerous reasons assigned for Caesar's defeat, time proved 

 that this was as true run a race as ever was contested over 

 any of the Hewmarket couises. Nothing is more easy than 

 for an infatuated turfite to persuade himself that a race is a 

 " mistake," when run home to a head, and his favourite de- 

 feated. It was so with the Jersey party ; " Robinson drew 

 it too fine ;" — " the horse changed his leg, at the critical 

 moment when called upon ;" " Robinson was watching 



