I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some cucumbers. Paid John Shelley in cash £10 in full for the same sum he paid Mr John Crouch the 22nd instant on my account. In the evening took a walk to the Chequer at Terrible Down in order to get some money of the man who keeps the house there, but could obtain none. Spent only 6d and came home very sober about 7:20.
This day the five-year-old plate of £50 was run for on Lewes Downs, when Mr Scott’s horse Alphonso, Messrs Scrase and Verral’s mare Swishabout, Mr Smith’s horse Jack o’ the Green and Mr Bickham’s mare Venus started for the same, which was won by the former, he winning the 2 first heats (easily). The stakes were strongly contested in a third heat between Swishabout and Jack of the Green, and after the strictest scrutiny by the gentlemen on the stand it was given in favor of Swishabout by the length of her nose only.
N.B.: The last three belong to gentlemen etc. in and about Lewes.