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present at his funeral, and pointed out to me 

 the stone slab on the pavement of the church 

 which covers his remains. There is no in- 

 scription to his memory, and no ' Hie jacet ' 

 marks the last resting place of one of the 

 most renowned horsemen in the annals of 

 the British Turf." 



The next article chronicles one of the most 

 remarkable scenes ever witnessed upon the 

 Doncaster Town Moor. The appearance of 

 its course during the final heat of the St. 

 Leger in 1850 will never be forgotten by 

 those who were present — their number is 

 now small — on that memorable day. 



The Doncaster St. Leger of 1850. 

 From the Doncaster Gazette. 



" The morning of the seventy-fifth anni- 

 versary of the Great St. Leger was dark 

 and lowering, and in spite of the weather- 

 glass many began to look out with no little 

 dread for a second edition of its damp pre- 

 decessor, when the Flying Dutchman won 

 in 1849. These fears, which soon proved 

 groundless, seemed, however, to have taken 

 a remarkably slight hold of the breasts of 

 the excursionists to Doncaster. The hard- 



