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bered to caution people for the future about«belting on this 

 once interesting race. That Millepede v/ould have won 

 under any circumstances as regards " starting," we do firmly 

 believe, for he crept into the race at 7st. 31b., and was an 

 early five-year-old ! If people will wait for races of this 

 description, we can only say that no nobleman or gentleman, 

 not excepting Lord George Bentinck nor the Hon. Captain 

 Rous, can bring horses closely together. One of the fastest 

 two-year-olds of the year, in the shape of Lord Westmin- 

 ster's Fanny Eden, came out with great eclat at this meet- 

 ing. The field had individually been tried " good ;" yet 

 the yellow jacket "came in" handsomely, scattering Fair 

 Charlotte, Missy Milton, and several others, whose names 

 we omit for charity's sake. Prizefighter here made his de-* 

 but, and won the 5 sovs. each Sweepstakes, in two two-mile 

 heats, very easily indeed, but was not named in the odds 

 for either Derby or Leger at the time; although he made a 

 " pretty considerable" noise in the ring at Warwick and 

 Doncaster ; but more of that anon. The general racing at 

 the " Rhodee" was much inferior to that of late years, yet 

 the company was good. 



The Newmarket First Spring Meetings lately have been the 

 best of their respective years. This season was^ay enough, 

 but the interest of the great race for the Two Thousand 

 Guineas' Stakes was shorn of its usual popularity by Co- 

 therstone's previous splendid performances. It is true that 

 some bubbling sounds were heard about the superiority of 

 Cornopean over the Goodwood '* tackle," but those who de- 

 pend on " reports," generally get heavily shod in the end ; 

 and so it turned out in this case, for Cornopean and Cother- 

 stone are not within a score pounds of each other — 

 nevertheless, " reports" feed the professionals, and the pub- 

 lic " pay the piper." The Caster " threw in" in his match 

 against Queen of the Gipsies, who seemed to have lost the 



