164 Life and Times of " The Druid" 



the Whitewall stable without a single repre- 

 sentative. It lost all hopes of winning the 

 St. Leger when Clincher met with an acci- 

 dent at Pigburn, and was scratched some 

 weeks since. When the first two events 

 (the Doncaster Plate and the Municipal 

 Stakes) were over, the ominous words 

 ' Great St. Leger Stakes ' were sent up the 

 telegraph slide, and every one awaited in 

 breathless impatience the solution of the 

 great secret. At that moment the scene 

 on the course was most extraordinary, and 

 such was the anxiety of the crowd to catch a 

 glimpse of the St. Leger horses, that it was 

 with the greatest difficulty that the course 

 could be kept clear. The men on horse- 

 back were powerless in the hands of the 

 thousands who could hardly be forced to 

 leave running space, and it was the universal 

 remark that a much stronger body of mounted 

 officials must be placed on duty next year 

 As it was, the deciding heat for the St. 

 Leger was positively run off down a narrow 

 lane of human beings for the last 400 yards, 

 and Robinson on Russborough had fairly to 

 clear the way for himself and his antagonist. 



