238 THE RACING e.P-ASON, IS-iO. 



T, took the Column from the Angeiica coit ; and although 

 Lord Exeter's chance was on Velvet, and Lord Chesterfield's 

 on Molyneux, yet neither softness nor strength availed them 

 — they were easily beaten. The Claret Stakes were won 

 by little Euclid, beating The Corsair and Caesar — the latter 

 broke dovm badly, and certainly ought not to have started. 

 The Berkeley Square Stakes went into Scott's stables by the 

 aid of Black Bess, a filly about this time of considerable 

 notoriety in the Oaks betting ; she, unfortunately for her 

 gallant owner, soon after this race went dead amiss. The 

 Port Stakes were easily won by Domino, a stable companion 

 of Assassin, who, as a matter of course (for betting men 

 always make it a rule to follow luck) rose two points in 

 consequence. 



The First Spring Meeting let the secret out respecting 

 Crucifix — she won the Two Thousand Guineas on the 

 Tuesday, and the One Thousand Guineas on the Thursday, 

 in a style that might have made Eclipse blush, could he 

 have been restored to his best form. Confederate, the lead- 

 ing favourite at this period for the Derby, was foolishly 

 sent from Beckhampton to expose his weakness in the Two 

 Thousand Guineas, and that pride of Newmarket, the An- 

 gelica colt, was added to the show, which was one of the 

 finest burlesques on racing ever beheld by any critic. The 

 One Thousand Guinea race does not require a single word. 

 The Oaks was now settled. Launcelot, in this meeting, 

 gave the most unequivocal signs of being Scott's " Derby 

 horse." 



At Catterick Bridge, the opening meeting of the North- 

 ern district, that famous old mare Bee's-wing, came out in 

 capital form, and won her engagement in her usual style of 

 excellence. The Champagne was won b)'' Millepede, beat- 

 ing a little good-looking field, amongst them Kedge, who 

 certainly was not " as well as her friends could wish." 



