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which they afterwards kept up so well throughout the 

 season, — winning their only two Races with Epirus. 



The performances of Oakley in the Craven Meeting 

 1 laving prepared the world for another nine days' wonder 

 from William Edwards's stable, the First Spring Meeting 

 hrought out Ralph an easy winner of the Two Thousand 

 (Juineas Stakes, — an event which settled the pretensions 

 of Metternich in the opinion of the public. The Palace 

 stable was either in luck or in force during this Meeting 

 having won thirteen stakes, amongst which were the Two 

 Thousand, The Column, and the Newmarket Stakes. Po- 

 tentia " fixed" her friends in this Meeting, by winning the 

 Thousand Guineas' Stakes in a way which surprised even 

 her own party. 



The Newmarket Second Spring Meeting produced no 

 race possessing the slightest public interest, and only served 

 as a marplot to the other meetings. 



That the Epsom Derby was this year won by the best 

 horse in the race, no one will now presume to deny. A 

 larger field never started for this great stake. 



The Oaks consoled Lord Westminster for his provoking 

 " miss" in the Derby; but this race is now hardly thought 

 of before the day, being eclipsed by the superior importance 

 of the Tuesday. 



The settling day at Tattersall's proved a most imsettlmg 

 day, since it originated a fermentation in the betting market, 

 which is hardly yet worked off. 



Ascot — Royal Ascot this year showed a falling off as 

 well in the quantity of the visitors, as in the quality of the 

 Racing. 



The first race on the first day spoke well for the strength 

 of Scott's stable. This strength was afterwards more 

 satisfactorily put forth by Satirist who kicked Her Majesty's 

 Vase out of the reach of Llanercost, to whom it had been 



