A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
" THE SPECTATOR," AUGUST 5TH, 1837.
Goodwood Races commenced on Wednesday ; and the running was good, but the company was thin. The Craven Stakes were won by Mr. Day's Drummer, beating Scroggins and Sepoy, after a splendid race. Mr. Wreford's Wisdom won the Drawing-room Stakes, and Mr. Bowes's Comus the Levant Stakes. The chief race was for the Goodwood Stakes, for which twenty horses started : they were won by Mr. Forth's Lucifer, after a severe struggle with Mr. Fox's Carpenter and Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea. The winning horses on Thursday were Colonel Peel's Castaway, the Duke of Richmond's Guava, and Lord Chesterfield's Edgar.
Yesterday the races were won by Mr. Rush's Pickwick, Mr. Bowes's Grey Momus, Lord Jersey's Mendicant, Lord Tavistock's Lyrnessus and Lord Chesterfield's Carew. None of these races were particularly well contested.
The Whigs in Cambridge are giving great annoyance to the Tory voters, by bringing before the Magistrates such of them as they can prove to have voted without due qualification. Mr. Parfitt, a shop- keeper, who on being questioned by the poll-clerk as to whether he still held the qualification for which he was registered, replied that he did, though he quitted it in May last, was one of the parties ordered to find bail. Mr. Parfitt had premises in the same street, of ample value, but they were not those alluded to in the register. It is all very well that these clauses in the Reform Act should be stringently enforced : they will then become intolerable, and be got rid of.
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