the second round, the wind increased, and the cutters were compelled to down topsails, and set smaller ones. Wildfire unfortunately touched the sand on the White Bank, and was delayed several minutes. The Amazon only narrowly escaped a similar misfortune, having grazed the bank heavily with her keel. A determined struggle was made by Extravaganza to weather her opponent, but without avail; and after a most exciting race, the Amazon (the smallest vessel of the three) arrived at the winning-goal just half-a-minute ahead of the Extravaganza, and was cheerfully proclaimed the victress. The Tenby Regatta extended to two days; and accordingly another match was sailed, for a prize of the value of £40, open to any yachts not exceeding the admeasurement of 40 tons. For this match four yachts were entered: Here then was another small fleet of well-tried clippers; both Glance and Vigilant having won many a race, and the little Flirt having also been extremely successful. The day promised even better sport than the previous one, because of there being a good stiff breeze. The course was somewhat different to that of the other match, being round a vessel moored off Caermarthen bar, and thence round the Woodhouse rocks, and back to the starting-goal; three times round. The Vigilant got away with so much alacrity that she appeared to show signs of leading a determined race; the Blue Belle took the second position, followed by Flirt, Glance being last of all; but soon as the latter felt the full use of her sails, she glided_past Blue Belle and Flirt, bidding them farewell for the day. The Vigilant was rather stubborn, and hard to pass at first; but gradually the Glance gained upon, and eventually passed her, though but two minutes ahead on the completion of the first round. The wind was now all that could be desired, and the beautiful little clippers dashed boldly onwards, with gunwales borne down deep a-lee, and waves and spray sporting wildly about them. At the close of the second round, the Glance was found to have increased her time upon the Vigilant to five minutes, and on the third round to eight. Some twenty minutes later came Flirt and Blue Belle, neck and neck, for third place; which, after a very exciting struggle, was gained by the Flirt, by little more than a length. The prize was awarded to the well-deserving winner-Glance, and is the first she has won this season. Last year she sailed four matches, and won only one prize; though the year before, she won ten prizes, was the champion of the season, and the victress of every race she sailed, but one: she has changed hands twice since; but, from some unexplained cause, has never sailed so well as under her original ownership. (To be continued.) GOVERNESS. WINNER OF THE OAKS, 1858. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY HARRY HALL. BY CASTOR. Governess, bred by Mr. Gratwicke in 1855, is by Chatham, dam by Laurel out of Flight, by Velocipede. Chatham, bred by Colonel Peel in 1839, is by The Colonel, out of Hester, by Camel. He was the best two-year-old of his time, and a winner of the July, the Buckenham, and the Criterion. Chatham went to the stud in 1845, and his stock opened well with Woolwich in 1848. He is also the sire of the following well-known runners-Sittingbourne, Gossip, Walmer, Rochester, The Earl, Homebrewed, Maidstone, Strood, Student, Eloquence, and Kent. Chatham is now settled at Mr. Gratwicke's seat in Sussex, and, we believe, has never left the country, from his first location there at Michel Grove. This Laurel mare, bred by Mr. Fuller in 1840, is the dam of another Oaks winner, Rhedycina, as well as of Oxonian-as the dam of which she is commonly identified-and some seven or eight others not so well spoken of. She was put to the stud at three years old, and never appeared in public. Governess's dam has been in Mr. Gratwicke's possession since 1850. Another filly out of her, also called Governess, by the Merry Monarch, and only a year older than the Oaks winner, is in Mr. Mitchell's stud. Governess is a mealy chesnut mare, standing close on sixteen hands and an inch high. She has a neat head, with small ears, and a good neck and shoulder, well thrown back. She has great depth of girth, but is rather flat-sided and plain over her quarters, which are of fair size, but not particularly muscular. She stands rather upright before, and tapers from the arm and thigh downwards. Altogether, Governess is a large-framed mare, but not with very great bone, nor much muscular development. She has, so, rather a leggy look, but will still pass in any company as a great, fine filly. PERFORMANCES. Governess only ran once at two years old, when in the Newmarket First October Meeting she won, at 8st. 5lb., The Hopeful Stakes, of 40 sovs. each-half a mile-beating Sir L. Newman's Botany, 8st. 5lb. (2), Mr. Holland's Harry Stanley, 8st. 7lb. (3), Lord Ailesbury's Compromise, Sst. 71b., Mr. Alexander's Brown Middleton, 8st. 71b., Lord Exeter's Allspice, Sst. 5lb., Mr. Howard's Chutnee, 8st. 5lb., Mr. Lumley's Abron, 8st. 71b., Lord Londesborough's York, 8st. 10lb., Baron Rothchild's Venetia, 8st. 5lb., and Captain White's July, Sst. 5lb. 7 to 1 against Governess, who won by a neck. In 1858, at Newmarket First Spring Meeting, Governess won the 1,000 gs. stakes of 100 sovs. each, D. M., Sst. 7lbs. each, beating Sir C. Monck's Hepatica (2), Mr. Howard's Perfection (3), Mr. E. R. Clark's Shepherdess, Lord Clifden's Hydromel, Lord Clifden's Chanoinesse, Mr. Howard's Queenstown, Sir L. Newman's Botany, and Mr. Parker's Martha. 6 to 1 against Governess, who won by a head. At Epsom she ran a dead heat with, and afterwards beat Admiral Harcourt's Gildermire, for the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, &c.; 8st. 7lb. each; a mile and a-half. Mr. Jackson's Tunstall Maid was third; and the following also started :-Mr. J. Noble's Proud Preston Peg, Mr. Howard's Perfection, Lord Derby's Target, Mr. J. Merry's Sunbeam, Lord Londesborough's Rose de Florence, Lord Clifden's Chanoinesse, Mr. Saxon's Princess Royal, Sir L. Newman's Botany, Lord Portsmouth's My Niece, and Lord Chesterfield's La Fille du Regiment. 4 to 1 against Governess before the dead heat, and 6 to 5 on Gildermire after it. Won in a canter by three-quarters of a length. The first heat was run in 2 minutes and 53 seconds, and the second in 2 minutes and 56 seconds. SUMMARY OF GOVERNESS'S PERFORMANCES. In 1857 she started once and won once :- .... £630 2,050 3,975 £6,655 Governess's engagements are] first of all in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood-just on as this number is making up-in the Yorkshire Oaks, at York, with a 7lb. penalty, against Polly Peachum, Tunstall Maid, Queenstown, Hepatica, and her old opponent Gildermire, who has a 3lb. penalty; in the St. Leger, at Doncaster; and also in the Park Hill Stakes, when, so far at least, with 5lb. extra, she again may encounter Gildermire, Tunstall Maid, Queenstown, Sunbeam and Hepatica. The present price of Governess for the St. Leger, is about 6 to 1. She is sure to run straight, and will most likely be in a better form than when she ran at Epsom. The mares of the year are said not to be very good; but the horses, so far, are not much better. There is little question, either, but that Governess should have won the first heat for the Oaks; and putting this and that together, her repetition of the Queen of Trumps performance is hardly the impossibility some people would have it. Governess has been ridden in all her races by Ashmall, a rising jockey, who has rather lacked "opportunity" of late. One of his steadiest patrons has been Lord Zetland, and much liked as his riding has been, the only wonder is that we have not seen more of it. "The coincidence" of his success this spring is in winning the Thousand Guineas Stakes and the Oaks, while Wells secured the Two Thousand and the Derby. The knotty point now between them is, of course, the Leger. Like Beadsman, Governess has been trained in private. Her tutor, Etkrett, was installed at Michel Grove on the death of old Forth, who first brought Mr. Gratwicke's horses out, and won the Derby for him in 1829 with Frederick, and again in 1845 with Merry Monarch: |