Royal Ascot 



handsome trophv it was that the Czar j^rcsented tor the 

 inaugural race. It was a reduced copy of Falconetti's statue 



of ]\'ter the Great at 

 St. Petersburg. In the 

 oriLrinal the fiQ^ure is 

 mounted on a rock, and 

 in this reproduction both 

 figure and rock were 

 raised on a three-cor- 

 nered base, on the sides 

 of which were engraved 

 viewsof Windsor Castle, 

 the Kremlin at Moscow, 

 and the Winter Palace, 

 St. Petersburg. The 

 jilate was also orna- 

 mented with figures of 

 Russian soldiers. 



During the race 

 meeting of 1845 the 

 troj^hy stood on the 

 table of the drawing- 

 rooni ol the Grand 

 Stand. Naturally there 

 was much interest over the race. There were 26 sub- 

 scribers at 20 guineas each, and four horses came to the 

 post. The distance, as usual, was 2.V miles, and there 

 was great applause when Lord Albemarle's Emperor won 

 most gallantb' by two lengths, Mr. Irwin's P^iugh-a-Pallagh, 

 4 years old, 8 st. 5 \h., second, and Mr. Salvin's Alice 

 Hawthorn, aged, 9 St., third. The race throughout was 



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■riii'. i:MnoKoK'.s clt, 1845 



