Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of the English Turf, Vol. 3
In, spite of Greville's admitted distaste for the manners and methods of the Turf, he was not above owning the winner of the St. Leger; and, curiously enough, [llango's race was the scene of an accident, and a description of that accident which many must have remembered, even to its turns of phrase, when they heard Lord George Bentinck's little oration on the misfortunes of Alarm. Two years before, John Bowes, of Streatlam, had celebrated his majority by winning the Derby with [llz'indzg, after a scene with his trustees about the horse which led John Scott to exclaim, What an owdacious young 'un! And which gave unfailing promise of his calmly successful career later on. In 1837 he had a colt named Epirus, whose first appearance was in the St. Leger at the starting-price of 2 to 1. From the Jockey Club Stand at Doncaster he was watching the pro gress of the race, when, as the horses passed from the gravel road over the hill, every one near him became wildly excited over an accident that had evidently occurred.
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