" The Doncaster Gazette" 163 



ware youths were up with the lark, and 

 though the first Sheffield train was not 

 announced to start until 10 a.m., we learn 

 that by six o'clock all the carriages in the 

 station-yard were filled by ' noble sportsmen,' 

 who breakfasted, sang, and indulged in every 

 kind of frolic, relieving their feelings at times 

 by roaring out in no very recherche' language 

 to the railway officials ' to 'arness a puffin' 

 Billy and tak' us on.' About half-past ten 

 o'clock the inmates of St. Sepulchre's Gate 

 in Doncaster became sensible of these and 

 other fashionable arrivals, and for upwards 

 of four hours there was one perpetual chorus 

 of engine whistles in the station-yard. Those 

 who have been accustomed to attend Don- 

 caster Races for the last half-century assured 

 us that the crowd which kept steadily tramp- 

 ing past the ' Salutation ' Inn was far bigger 

 than they had ever seen before. It was 

 evident from the buzz of conversation that 

 Voltigeur was the horse of the million, and 

 that they had come to see him win and 

 nothing else. His opponents were reduced in 

 number at nine that morning by the scratch- 

 ing of Cyprus and Mulgrave, thus leaving 



