ciiucii''ix— isio. 2:29 



Betting : 4 to 1 on Crucifix, which, at starting, degene- 

 rated to 3 to 1 (t.), for, worried to death with the eternal 

 starting-post, and 91b. extra weight, she showed restiveness, 

 and carried her oppression half an hour more than &lie 

 ought to have done. Gibraltar made a rare race and a 

 dead heat. The filly, however, was about the last off. The 

 stakes were divided — wisely on both sides, as both the horse 

 and the mare were notoriously unfit to run. 



Thus ended the first season of the most extraordinary 

 two -year -old ever seen upon the English Turf; who had 

 performed the wonderful feat of going through nine en- 

 gagements without having been once beaten, and had 

 moreover won, as a two-year-old, a clear four thousand five 



HUNDRED and EIGHTY-SEVEN POUNDS IN PUBLIC MONEY ! A 



right worthy nag this to grace the stable of the " Leviathan 

 of the Turf," as her noble owner, Lord George Bentinck^ 

 is not inappropriately called. 



Never since the days of Filho and Sir Joshua, had so 

 many visitors crowded Newmarket as on the Tuesday in the 

 First Spring Meeting, 1840. Some came because the 

 weather tempted ; others, in consequence of a report that 

 the Princes Albert and Ernest were expected to honour 

 the Heath with their presence ; but more than all these 

 came to see the most interesting race of the year, the Two 

 Thousand Guineas Stakes, by which the " Cracks of the 

 Day," Crucifix, Confederate, and Lord Orford's Angelica 

 colt, were to determine which was in reality '' the flyer." 



Much heavy betting depended on the issue of this race. 

 Cruciax, of course, w^as the favourite, but the Angelica 

 colt was found in frequent trials to be such a flyer for a 

 mile, that many made investments on the strength of his 

 fulfilling, by his public running, the promise of his private 

 performances ; but the Angelica colt deceived them all by 

 showing that worst of all faults in a race -horse, cowardice. 



