230 GAINS IN 1844 AND 1845. 



race was run at a capital pace, and Flatman on 

 Lothario won cleverly by a length, with Tommy 

 Lye on Rowena second. 



His Lordship also won a good deal of money by 

 backing three of his own two-year-olds, Cherokee, 

 Princess Alice, and Ennui. The first won the 

 Althorp Park at Northampton, the Woodcote at 

 Epsom, the Fern Hill at Ascot, and walked over 

 for the Theatre Stakes at Wolverhampton. The 

 second (Princess Alice) won the Weston Stakes at 

 Bath, the Two- Year-Old Sweepstakes at Chester 

 (beating a large field), the 200 Sovereigns Sweep- 

 stakes for fillies at Goodwood, the Champagne at 

 Doncaster, and the Prendergast at Newmarket. 

 The third (Ennui) came out for the first time at 

 Doncaster to run against Lord Maidstone's Tom 

 Tulloch in a match, nominally for 500 sovereigns, 

 but really for 1500 sovereigns each. Upon this 

 match I shall have something further to say 

 presently, when I have related that, after Princess 

 Alice's victory in the Champagne Stakes, I men- 

 tioned that it was customary for the winner to 

 give six dozen of that wine to the guests who 

 dined at the Turf Tavern after the races. His 

 Lordship therefore instructed me to give the 

 necessary orders, adding that he hoped in this 

 way to confer some slight benefit upon the hostess, 

 Mrs Bowe, who was the widow of Mr John Bowe, 

 in whose name some of his Lordship's horses had 

 previously run and won, most notably Grey Momus, 



