262 BLUE BONNET. 



her head in front at the kStand, and after a long set-to, \> on 

 by a neck. Dilbar was a bad third. 



Blue Bonnet closed her performances in the Season 1 842, 

 by rurning among&t "the unplaced" for the Cesarewitch 

 Stakes in the Newmarket Second October, won very cleverly 

 by Mr F. Clarke's Arcanus, beautifully ridden by little 

 Tommy Day. 



Blue Bonnet did not sustain her reputation in 1S43, 

 being beaten in every race for which she started. At 

 Eglinton Park she ran third for the Innkeeper's Cup, The 

 Shadow winning ; at the same Meeting Blue Bonnet was 

 not placed for the Stewards' Cup, won by William le Gros. 



At Liverpool, Blue Bonnet Avas again among the lot 

 without places for the Tradesmen's Cup, carried off by 

 Ariutotle, Etoracum second, and Pompey third. 



Blue Bonnet met with no greater succe-s at Goodwood, 

 being again not placed in the Goodwood Stakes, Lucy Banks 

 being first, Scalteen second, and Aristotle third. At the 

 same Meeting ^he was without a place for the Chesterfield 

 Cup won by Scalteen, Policy and Wee Pet running a dead 

 heat for second place. 



In a Match for 300 sovs., St Leger Course, at Doncaster, 

 Blue Bonnet, 4 yrs old, 8st. 91b., was beaten by Mr Payne's 

 b. f. Mania, 3 yrs old, 7st. 41b. For the Cleveland Handi- 

 cap of 20 sovs. each, at the same Meeting, Blue Bonnet 

 ran second to Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle. 

 With which race Blue Bonnet terminated her adventures 

 on the Turf, being another mare that rests her claim to a 

 place among our Cracks for the doings of a day. 



