218 THE RACING SEASON, 1839 



1838. July. Goodwood Gold Cup, won 

 August. Wolverhampton Cleveland Cup, won 

 September. Doncaster, Her Majesty's Plate, won 

 Ditto. Heaton Park, H. P. Stakes, beaten (fell) 

 October. Chesterfield, Sweepstakes, walked over 



1839. May. Chester, Tradesmen's Cup, beaten 

 Ditto. Chester, Stand Cup, won 

 Ditto. Chester, Marquis of Westminster's Plate, beaten 

 July. Cheltenham, Tradesmen's Cup, won 

 Aug-ust. Goodwood Cup, won 

 Ditto. Wolverhampton Cleveland Cup, beaten. 



making a total of thirty-eight races run ; — thirteen lost, and 

 twenty-five won. 



All these successes made the Americans, ever on the 

 alert, cast a jealous eye upon Harkaway, and Messrs Tat- 

 tersall having been commissioned to send him to the New 

 World, at a price, wrote to ask Mr Ferguson what sum was 

 asked for him, and witether he was in work ; to which ap- 

 plication he returned for answer, " The price of Harkaway 



is SIX THOUSAND GUINEAS, AND I HUNT HIM TWICE AND THRICE 



a-week;" So much for Harkaway ! — But to return to the 

 Racing Season. 



The Doncaster Meetings are palpably degenerating, and 

 unless some stir is made they will soon be at their " last 

 kick." The interest is now solely confined to the St Leger 

 race ; and to show the bearing up of one party, and the 

 quietude of the others, 1 to A and 2 to 1 ivas freely betted 

 on Charles XII. against the field. That Euclid would 

 have beaten him in the first race, if the ground had been 

 sounder, is the opinion of many good judges ; and this 

 supposition is tolerably well borne out by the eagerness 

 with which the Scott's party sought to hedge their money 

 after the dead heat. The second heat was difi'erently run, 

 and Euclid lost by a neck. Of the two year olds that run 

 during the week, Launcelot, Brother to Euclid, Fitzroy, and 

 Lord Kelburne's Derby colt, were the best; but they were 

 very close together. There was a mystery respecting 

 Bloomsbury, the horse, from some cause or another, not 



