THE RACING SEASON, 1.S4«. ;i(;5 



out Glendower, Oorsican, and Surplice as competitors, won 

 by the former by a length, the latter no where. Canezou 

 made a good race for the Nassau, and won cleverly by 

 half a length ; and Pyrrhus the First managed to beat 

 Red Hart by a head for the 15 sovs. Sweepstakes, two 

 others beaten off. 



Passing by Brighton, Wolverhampton, and a number of 

 other provincial meetings, where the racing was generally 

 good, we find ourselves at York, where Mr Meiklam's good 

 old mare Inheritress showed her sterling qualities by car- 

 rying off the Dundas Stakes and Her Majesty's Guineas 

 for mares. Farthingale again came out a winner in the 

 Prince of Wales's Stakes, as did Glauca in the Gimcrack. 

 Canezou obtained the Ebor St Leger, beating Flatcatcher 

 by a length, Distaffina a bad third, four others beaten off. 

 The style in which Canezou won this race secured her the 

 favour of the betting world, who at once made her the 

 first favourite for the St Leger. Queen of the May can- 

 tered off with the Filly Stakes, but was not placed in the 

 Great Yorkshire, won cleverly by Maid of Masham by a 

 length. Springy Jack being second. The Great Ebor 

 Handicap, for which fourteen started, secured a very ani- 

 mated race, which Maux, after a hard contest, obtained by 

 a head from Ellerdale and Sylvan, w^ho ran a dead heat 

 for second place. Ada Mary won the Convivial Produce, 

 and Ellen Middleton the Filly Sapling, while the Chester- 

 field Handicap went to The Cur by a length. 



Doncaster Meeting received its usual multitudes, which 

 fine weather by no means decreased. Its amount of sport 

 is far from what it used to be in days of yore. The racing 

 commenced with the Cleveland Handicap, won by Saddle 

 by half a length. The Flying Dutchman then showed us 

 what he was made of l)y flying off wath the Champagne 

 and the Two Year Old Stakes at his ease. Tiresome did 



