11 The Doncaster Gazette." 165 



Pretty Pitsford was the first to show in the 

 Grand Stand enclosure, and just as he en- 

 tered it Voltigeur was espied, with Job 

 Marson up, emerging from the Carr- House 

 Lane. His party thought it best, in spite of 

 the quiet temper of their horse, to saddle him 

 in as much privacy as the fond public chose 

 to allow to them. Voltigeur only came into 

 the enclosure for an instant, and then sallied 

 forth for the fray. Alfred Day mounted 

 Pitsford as soon as he reached the weighing- 

 house, and walked him three or four times 

 round. Although the horse was undoubt- 

 edly light, he seemed the impersonation 

 of health and spirits, and arched his neck 

 proudly as if nothing could stop his reversing 

 the Epsom verdict. His friends professed 

 themselves confident ; but the majority, 

 although they well knew that the ground 

 was just in the state for him to indulge in 

 his favourite feet-rattle accompaniment, felt 

 that there was a want of substance about him, 

 and ran over the work he has gone through 

 since he won the Two Thousand Guineas, 

 declaring that such a slack-loined horse was 

 not the boy for the St. Leger course by 



