THE ST. LEGER DAY.

Evening Post, Issue 259, 6 December 1865, Page 2

THE ST. LEGER DAY.

The Count Lagrange's hor«e Gladiateur having carried off the stakes, great was the excitement on the course consequent thereon The Home News says that immense excitement and a scene never before witnessed ensued, as GUdiateur was led back with a posse of police at his side, and Jem Muee and several less notable pugilists in attendance. The crowd were making no violent demonstration, but in their enthusiasm they so completely hustled the jockey that he required all the services o the surrounding party to enable him to dismount. Gladiateur, who must lie now pretty well used to such incidents, Mas as collected and quiet as possible amidst these obtrusive demonstrations. Regalia ran the good mare she is, while Lord Stamford was, as la9t year with Cambuscan, third with Archimedes. The Duke ran a great horse for a mile and a quarter, but that is evidently the limit of his tether. Breadalbane, as above stated, was fifth, and beaten as he was for the third time by Gladiateur, his friends must be persuaded of his inferiority. After the " all right " had been pronounced by the clerk of the 'scales,

there was a continuance of cheering.'^id the occupants of the betting ring 1 having identified Count Lagrange at the end of the Stewards' stand, turned up their faces in that direction, and then followed a roar of congratulation and waving oi hats, which the count acknowledged with the proverbial grace and courtesy of his countrymen. The Duke of Beaufort and other distinguished sportsmerii*were very hearty in personal congratulaeions, and the episode was one of which (> must still furtner strengthen the friendly relations between the two countries. Gladiateur has proved himself one 'it the best horses of modem times, and winning the Two Thousand) Derby, and St. Leger, he has eclipsed West Australian by adding another splen•did trophy in the Grand Prize of Paris. Harry Grimshaw never rode a. .better race in his life, as he judged pace' exquisitely, and brought up his 'horse in a style that establishes hinxas one of the finest horsemen of the age. •