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won as game and honest a race as was ever run by a neck. 

 Shylock was a neck from the second, and Glendower a bad 

 fourth. Value of the stakes £5,500. 



In the Goodwood Meeting-, Surplice, carrying- 8st. lOlb., 

 ran second to Lord Chesterfield's Distaffina, 8st. 21b., for 

 the Gratwicke Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft, fifty 

 subs., Duke of Richmcnd's Hornpipe, 8st. 5lb., third, and 

 Mr Bowes's Wiasma, 7st. 131b., fourth and last. 



At the same Meeting, carrying 9st, 21b., he ran third and 

 last for the Racings Stakes of 50 sovs. each, won by Mr 

 Payne's Glendower, 8st. 131b., Colonel Anson's Corsican, 

 8st. 71b., second. 



At Doncaster we see him again successful ; the St Leger 

 Stakes, one hundred and thirty-two subscribers, brought the 

 following nine horses to the post. 



Lord Clifden's b. c. Surplice, by Touchstone - Flat«an 



Lord Stanley's br. f. Canezou, by Melbourne F- Butler 



Mr B. Green's b. c. Flatcatcher, by Touchstone J- Robinson 



Duke of Bedford's b. c. Justice to Ireland, by Irish Birdcatcher . S. Templeman 



Mr B. Green's b. c Assault, by Touchstone Winterin^hara 



Mr Parr's b. c. Spong, by Ascot G. Whitehouse 



Mr Humphries's b. c. Escape, by Lanercost J. Holmes 



Mr Pedley's b. c. Besborouarh, by Quid J- Marson 



Lord Stanley's gr. c. Cannibal, by Cain Marlow 



7 to 4 agst Canezou, 9 to 4 agst Surplice, 7 to 2 agst Flatcatcher, and t) to 2 eg-st 

 J«stice to Irehind. 



There was one false start when they were off. Flatcatcher 

 and Assault taking the lead at a rattling pace. Surplice, 

 Justice to Ireland, and Canezou close with them ; and by 

 the time they began to mount the hill, the others were out 

 of it altogether. Flatcatcher at the mile-post had a consi- 

 derable lead, makinjr play at a terrible rate. Justice to 

 Ireland, three or four lengths astern, was here second, a 

 place he maintained to the turn for home, where he shot his 

 bolt. Surplice, who had been third to this point in the 

 race, now closed with tlie leader, Canezou running up at 

 the same time ; and these three swept round the rails at the 



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