The New York herald., 1878-09-14
RACING IN ENGLAND.
LAST DAY OF THE DONCAsTER SEPTEMBER
~ MEETING PAGEANT THE WINNER OF THE
DoxcAsTER CUP

LAST DAY OF THE DoNcAsrER SEPTEMBER
poxcAsrER crP.
uY CABLE TO THE HERALD
LONDON, Sept. Is, 1878.
Tho Doncaster September meeting closed today,
and OF Its principal ovsn,s-the Doncaster Cup
for and won by Mr. Grctton's Pageant,
Lord Enesmero's Hampton being sccoud and Mr..
Greton's Kingsclere third These three only started
THE BETTING
The betting just before The start even on both
Pageant and Hampton
suxxARY.
The DoScAsrER CuP-vauo 800 sovs., for three
year-olds and upward; winners extra; any number
of horses the property OF The same owner allowed to
start The Cup Course, about two mics and ave iur-
Mr. \. Gretton's b. g. Pageant, aged, by ElaLd,
LORD ' EiissmeGe's b. b. Hampton, years. by Lord
Clitder, out OF Ltdy Langdou. u............... -.
Mr.. +. Grcstoa'so o. C. kingsclere, years, BY Lord
CIitdcn, out OF Queen Bee se......................
THE wIsSKR-PAGsASr.
Pageant Is aseveu-ycar-oid geldng, by Elland (son
'st Ratapian from Panoply, daughter livingston and
rare old Paradgm, dam OF Lord Lyon, Achievement
i&c He has had rather curious history, so far as
bis checkered career a Although
never descending very low on the ladder OF q
thoroughbred there Is very much more oreuit
10 Mr. Gretton, his owner, Tor roscuIrg
aim probably from life OF slavery In leather than
20 his breeder, General Pearson, who cast
MIN oui OF his stable us q comparatively worthless
snma. Pagsant's great achievement, and which
placed abe old geding the pedestai Of famc, was
me winning OF the Chester Cup two years In
zion ;ls77 and 1879, wherein no emulated tho deeds
si Leamsngton add Dalby Up to the time when
pageant nrst won the Chester Cuphe had been losing
property for Mr. Gretton, as the latter gave Mr. Comm
high price for him alter he won tho Column Handicap,
and ran secosd-six lengths behind QuafI--for the
shrewsbury Cup In that gentieman's coIors as u
sarsc yesr-oid In 1874 Mr. Grettou backed Pageant
neaviiy when he second 10 Duke Parma for the
CzArcwch of 1876, and agaiu for the
OF tho same soasoo whom he started second and
was unpiaced to sutton. Pageant, however, some
reparaton TO his in tho following season. when
he won three races value E565 General Pearson got
ND OF Pageant by entering him when two year-od TO
- sold Tor $50 sovereigns a.sweepstske, which he
uon at the Newmarket second October meeting anu
was claimed by Mr. Grant, but -he won bis next two
races ior Mr.. George Angel, who kept him through
thc winter following. After this Pageant saw many
s.ups and downs'' and In ewer than twenty
one races at three years old up TO the time
that passed into the hands of his present owner
at Shrewsbury. subsequent TO Pageants be-
ing hailed the hero OF tho Roodeo this year,
he ran unpiaced 10 Attalus IN the Manchester
Cup, and was beaten two lengths in tho Goodwood
Cup by tho incompatible Hungarian mare kincscni
Pageant bay, Standing nltecp hands three Inches
anu moro remarkable Tor quaty than great substance
He has tine shoulders Is very easy mover IN hts
gaops. These qusities vi course, assist him TO stay
without tirina speed and being tnus surej
aud enabling the OLD gciding-as u does all other
horses for tnat mattsrto gailop down the three-cor
ncfcd looking commoners, VI whom so many perform
for ono purpose or another IN Engsh handicap races
Hampton, who flushed second, captured me DON
caster Cup last year, beating Cncsleriop, Thom ana