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of the race have been pubhshed, but Bloomsbury beat 

 Deception cleverly by two lengths. Lord Westminster's 

 Sleight-of-Hand was favourite in the betting, with 

 odds of 9 to 2 betted against him ; the odds offered 

 against the winner have already been stated, oQ to 1. 

 Value of the stakes, 4,100 sovereigns. 



Deception, second in the Derby, won the Oaks in a 

 canter, without ever having been headed. J. Day 

 was the fortunate jockey. There were ninety-six 

 subscribers, and thirteen fillies came to the post. 

 Betting : 6 to 4 on Deception. 



The appearance at Epsom of the Queen and Prince 

 Albert was the feature of this year's Derby, which was 

 1840 ^^^^ ^y -^^^^ Robertson's horse called Little 

 Little Wonder. Wonder. Out of the 144 colts nomi- 

 nated, seventeen started for the race, but only two of 

 the number were placed by the judge. These were : 



Little Wonder, by Muley out of Lacerta, bv Zodiac - - 1 

 Lord Westminster's Launcelot, brother to Touchstone - - 2 



The horseman who rode the winner was William Mac- 

 donald, who was presented with an elegant riding-whip 

 by Prince Albert. The rider of Launcelot was W. Scott, 

 who afterwards Avon the St. Leger on the same animal. 

 Most of the celebrated jockeys of tlie period had mounts 

 in the Derby of 1840— Rogers, Flatman, J. Day, jun. ; 

 Robinson, Buckle, and others. Forth rode his own 

 horse, a brown colt by Muley out of Solace. Among 

 the horses which ran were a colt by Mulatto out of 

 j\[elody, which might have been placed third ; the 

 Duke of Cleveland and Lord Exeter had each two in 



