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greatly increased the interest. There were eight starters, 

 and after three false attempts, they got away. The race 

 was without incident until the horses came to the rising 

 of the hill, when Zinganee, who had been last, and Mameluke 

 last but one, gradually advanced. Wheatley on Mameluke 

 did exactly as Chifney did ; if Chifney took a pull he did 

 the same, and when opposite the Betting Stand they 

 instantly called upon their horses, Zinganee finishing in 

 most beautiful style a length in front of Mameluke. Before 

 the race, the horses paraded in front of the King, and 

 afterwards down the lines of carriages, booths, and stands. 

 The vehicles were packed parallel with the Course twenty 

 deep, right down as far as the turn, and part of the way 

 on the London side. To save space, the horses had been 

 previously taken out, and the carriages left over-night in 

 the care of watchmen, and those who had the misfortune 

 not to be in the front ranks, must have fared badly for 

 a sight of the sport. The Course was in very good con- 

 dition, and it is said that the arrangements made by Lord 

 Maryborough, as Master of the Buckhounds, were a pattern 

 for other race courses. The match between his Majesty's 

 favourite mare Maria and Lord Sefton's Souvenir, in 

 which Maria was victorious, created much interest, and 

 greatly pleased the populace. 



The last race on the Friday was a ^50 Plate for horses 

 of all ages — the best of heats — and although starting with 

 II competitors, the fourth heat was a fiasco. Mr. Day's 

 bl. m., Busk, was first in the first heat, but was beaten 

 in the fourth by Lord Mountcharles' b. c. Coronet ; Tokay, 

 who won the second heat, having given up. Night, however, 

 had fallen ere the race was concluded, the company had 



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