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Stakes at Donca^•e^, for which the following field of nine 

 contested. 



Mr S. Wrather's b. c, Nutwith, by Tomboy, out of Hackfall's dam. . . .Marson 



Mr Bowes's b. c. Cotherstoue, by Touchstone, out of Emma F. Butler 



Lord Chesterfield's ch. c. Prizefig-hter, by Gladiator, out of Barbara . . Holmes 



Lord Exeter's b c. by Beiram or Sultan, out of Lucetta Robinson 



Lord Eg'linton's b. c. Aristides, by Bay Middleton, out of Rectitude. .G. Noble 



Mr Payne's br. f. Mania, by Mulcy Moloch, out of Bessy Bedlam Nat 



MrgD. Cooke's br. c. Trueboy, by Tomboy, out of Muleteer's dam. .Cartwrig-ht 

 Mr Bell's br. c. Reviewer, brother to Frea, by Romulus, out of Seliua. W. Noble 

 Major Yarburg'h's br. c. Dumpling-, by Muley Moloch, out of Easter. Templeman 

 The closing- odds were : 6 to 4 on Cotherstone, 11 to 2 ag-st Prizefig-hter (t.), 6 to 1 



ag-st Lucetta colt (t.), 100 to 6 ag-st Nutwith (t.), 100 to 6 ag-st Mania, 20 to 1 agst 



Aristides, 25 to 1 ag-st Dumpling-, 40 to 1 ag-st Trueboy. 



Never had a field so weak in general estimation been 

 marshalled at the St Leger post. After two false starts, 

 Reviewer jumped off with the lead ; Prizefighter, however, 

 soon passed him, and settled down into steady running, 

 followed by Reviewer, Nutwith, Cotherstone, Lucetta, Ma- 

 nia, and Dumpling, with Dawson's two in the rear. In 

 dropping the hill Prizefighter increased his lead, and on 

 re-appearing was three lengths in advance of Reviewer, 

 Nutwith third, with Cotherstone at his quarters. At the 

 mile post Lucetta drew towards the front, and half way be- 

 tween it and the Red House, was lying next Reviewer, but 

 before they reached the Red House both he and Review^erdied 

 away. Prizefighter retained a commanding lead to the 

 Red House, when it gradually lessened, and at a distance and 

 a half from home he was passed by his two followers, Co- 

 therstone taking a slight lead ; but Marson still sticking to 

 him like a burr. The race, now left to these three, became 

 exciting in the highest degree — Cotherstone running on the 

 whip hand of Nutwith, with his head in advance, and Nut- 

 with in the centre about a neck and shoulder before Prize- 

 fighter, each struggling with extraordinary gameness, and 

 the first two with equal chances of success, to within three 

 strides of home, when Marson, making a grand effort, won 

 the finest race ever ''een for the Doncaster St Leger, by a 



