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The Duke of Paitland ran two of his, namely, Soli- 

 man and Rastopchin ; Mr. Lake also ran t.wo, Eurus 

 and Aladdin ; Lords Suffield, Derb}^, Darlington 

 and Grosvenor also supplied runners. The placed 

 jockeys were respectively T. Goodison, F. Buckle and 

 W. Wheatly. Smolensko, at evens, started favourite, 

 7 to 1 against Caterpillar. Buckle made play at once, 

 and kept the lead till within a few lengths of the win- 

 ning-post, when Smolensko, forging to the front, got 

 home with about half a length to the front. 



Music credited the Duke of Grafton with his third 

 Oaks, Goodison being, as in the Derby, the successful 

 jockey. 



Of the fifty-one horses entered for this j^ear's race, 



fourteen came to the starting-post on the 26th of May 



1814 — ^ Thursday — and victory fell to the share 



Biucher. of Lord StawcU by the aid of his b. c. 

 Blucher, which was ridden by W, ArnoLl. The winner 

 was by Waxy (who in 1793 credited Sir F, Poole with 

 the Derby of that year) out of Pantiiia, by Buzzard, 

 grand-dam by Treutham out of Cytherea. The only 

 other horse which appears to have been placed was 

 Mr. Prince's ch. c. Perchance, by Haphazard out of 

 Miss Holt, by Buzzard, on which Clift had the mount. 

 Other two Waxy colts took part in the Derby of the 

 year; namely, the Duke of Rutland's Kutusoff' and 

 the Duke of Grafton's Jeweller. Lord Egremont and 

 Lord F. Bentinck also supplied competitors, whilst 

 Mr. Lake ran two of his colts. Blucher was favourite 

 at the start at 5 to 2 and 3 to 1. During the runnino- 

 of the race it looked as if Perchance could not possibly 



