2S6 THE BLUE RIBBON OE THE TURF. 



play and got up. A desperate contest followed, and 

 lasted to the last few yards, when Cadland won by 

 half a leno^th.' The followino: was the result : 



Duke of Rutland's br. c. Cadland, by Andrew out of Porcery 1 

 Mr. Petre's ch. c. The Colonel, by Whis-ker out of Sister to 

 Miss Newton ---2 



No thh'd horse was placed by the judge. The Duke 

 of Grafton ran two colts in this 3'ear's race. Mr. W. 

 Chifney's Zingaree also started ; and ]jord Grosvenor 

 and General Grosvenor also supjjlied starters, as did 

 also Messrs. Payne, Holdsworth, Benson, and Thorn- 

 hill ; and ' two finer races than those for this year's 

 Derby never were seen.' The value of the stakes 

 would be 2,G00 sovereigns. 



The Duke of Grafton's Turquoise, by Selim out o 

 Pope Joan, by Waxy, beating thiiteen opponents, won 

 the Oaks, for which there were seventy-eight sub- 

 scribers. 



Several incidents in connection with the Derby of 

 1829, other than the race itself, deserve to be 

 jgo() chronicled. In the first place, a new 

 Frederick. Grand Stand bad been erected, and, in the 

 second place, the horses were started for the first 

 time at Epsom by means of flags, the plan successfully 

 adopted at the Doncaster meeting of the preceding 

 year; thirdly, the jockey who rode the winner (Forth) 

 was over sixty years of age ! The field numbered 

 seventeen runners, and would have been swelled by 

 three more had not Rupert, Harold, and Camel colt 

 been drawn an hour or two before the race. The 

 subscribers of this year included, as usual, several 



