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are brought out to run for any plate, subscription, or 

 sweepstakes are called upon by the person appointed to 

 start them to take their places for their purpose, the owner 

 of every horse that comes up to the post shall be con- 

 sidered as liable to pay his whole stake, and all bets 

 respecting such horses shall be considered as play or pay 

 bets." 



The race for the Cup in 1828 was a brilliant event, 

 seven horses came to the post, having paraded before the 

 Royal Stand for His Majesty's gratification. The King 

 had two horses entered in the name of Mr. Radcliffe-- 

 Fleur de Lis, ridden by Robinson, and Mortgage, who won 

 the Oatlands Stakes in 1826, then the property of the 

 Duke of Portland, ridden by J, Day, but neither were 

 placed. Mr. Scott Stonehewer's b. f Souvenir was first 

 favourite, but Mr. Monoley's br. f Bobadilla from the start 

 kept her well in hand. Running at the top of their speed 

 all the way home, the race would probably have ended in 

 a dead-heat, had not Tommy Lye, who had been brought 

 expressly from the North to ride on this occasion, when 

 just coming to the post on the farthest side from the chair, 

 suddenly threw himself forward, attracted the eye of the 

 Judge, and saved the race for Bobadilla by a head only. 

 It was a beautiful race, but it cost a lot of money, as most 

 of the men of business had laid heavily upon Souvenir. 



George IV. founded a second race meeting in this 

 year, which took place on the 17th June, only a fortnight 

 after the first. Several good races took place ; on the 

 first day, in a sweepstake of 100 sovereigns each, h. ft., 

 for 3-year-olds, Lord Sefton's br. c. Juryman (Robinson 

 up) ran a neck-and-neck race with Mr. Thornhill's ch. f. 



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