9 8 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



of that year, which it will be seen does not in any 

 material point alter the case as I have represented it : 

 1 On the Friday after the race the owner of Deception 

 made an objection to the pedigree of Bloomsbury, and 

 requested that the stakes might be withheld to give 

 time to investigate the matter, to which the stewards 

 assented. On Tuesday morning Messrs. Weatherby 

 received the following letter from the stewards : 



' Epsom, 



1 May 21, 1839. 

 ' To Messrs. Weatherby, 



' We, the stewards of Epsom Eaces, considering 



that although, by Rule 58, when the qualification of 



any horse is objected to after the race, the onus of 



proof lies upon the party objecting, yet that we are 



not thereby precluded from receiving proof of such 



qualification from the owner of the horse objected to, 



if he shall see fit to tender it, we have this day, at 



the request of Mr. Ridsdale, examined the evidence 



tendered by him in support of the qualification of his 



horse Bloomsbury, and are of opinion that the entry 



in the Calendar is correct, that Bloomsbury was 



qualified to start for the Derby, and that the owner 



is entitled to the stake. 



(Signed) ' Gilbert Heathcote, 



' J. de Teissier.' 



Now most people would think that an authoritative 

 decision of this kind would have been final. But 



