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ridden respectively by J. Robinson and W. Scott. 

 Mr. J. Day's Venison came in third, Colonel Peel's 

 Slane and Lord Chesterfield's Alfred being fourth and 

 fifth respectively. The Colonel and Lord Chesterfield 

 had each another colt in the race. The Dukes of 

 Beaufort and Richmond also supplied competitors, as 

 did also Lords Egremont, Exeter, and Lichfield. Bay 

 ]\Iiddleton ran home a gallant winner by two lengths, 

 and as winner of the Two Thousand was elected 

 favourite with odds of 7 to 4 betted against him. 

 Lord George Bentinck became the purchaser of the 

 winner, paying for him a sum of 4,000 guineas. Value 

 of the stakes, 3,725 sovereigns. 



Steered to victory by W. Scott, Mr. J. Scott's 

 Cyprian, by Partisan out of Frailty, by Filho da Puta, 

 won the Oaks, beating eleven competitors, there being 

 ninety-eight subscribers. Mr. Houldsworth's Destiny, 

 winner of the One Thousand, came in second. Odds of 

 2 to 1 were offered against Cyprian at the start. ' It 

 was a beautiful race at the close, Scott by dint of 

 punishment landing his mare first by half a length.' 



That not much was thought of the chance of Phos- 

 phorus for Derby honours is evidenced by the price of 

 is.-jT. the horse in the betting, namely, the odds 

 Pho.piion.s. Qf 4Q J.Q 1 against him at the start, the 

 favourite being a horse belonging to the Duke of Rut- 

 land, called Rat Trap. As a matter of fact, Lord 

 Berners' colt was a dark horse, although the poet 

 who initiated the system of tips in verse went for him : 



* 'Tis over ; the trick for the thousands is done ; 

 George Edwards on Phosphorus the Derby has won,' 



