" The Doncaster Gazette." 181 



the few words that were dropped at York 

 proved the precursor of his 'Leger doom, are 

 all dark passages of Turf politics, and not 

 easily forgotten. We saw the last of The 

 Earl when he was bought in, as stout as a 

 burgomaster, for 3,900 guineas at Tattersall's, 

 and then he departed to Findon with a leg, 

 as to whose chances of standing a preparation 

 each man seemed to differ with his fellows. 



"The Marquis had been abroad all the 

 summer in his yacht, but no northern breeze 

 could fan him back to health. He came to 

 Doncaster from Norway on crutches, looking 

 very ill and nervous, and well he might, as, 

 instead of having a St. Leger winner, he had 

 only the lean comfort of a veterinary certifi- 

 cate from Mr. Mavor. At the First October 

 he was on Newmarket heath in a basket 

 carriage, which he only quitted to say a 

 word to the pretty Athena ' which once was 

 mare of mine,' when she was led back a 

 winner. As at Doncaster, he did not go 

 beyond 'a pony' or two. 'Mind, I'm to 

 have this paid,' said one vulgar Ring man 

 when he booked it to him ; and after that 

 week they saw him no more. Nearly seven 



