The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-12 00:00:00

SPORTING MINT,.

The Bporti”g Gass* soye it is Mr. Olsaplin's in-
Meths to sell this whole of his ruing stud. with the el.
caption of Hesmit, and two or three mares, from which Le
twee& eventmuly to breed. The time required to manage
• large ;acing stud suooesefully Mr. Chaplin considers
iu-
compatsble with attention to ntary duties;
although be may continue to have two or three hones in
Tux Tux Fuca Dthectrthe.—The Epsom authorities have
announced in the Wender that the City and Suburban,
Great Metropolitan, and other races, for which the distance
exceeds half • mils, will be run over the now, or Miami
course, "situated within the boundary of the parish of
Epsom." In accordance with the announcement the new
course was inspected an Saturday by the Duke of Beau-
fog and Admual Nous ; and Mr. Clark, of Newmarket,
has given the following certificate in the matter: —" 1
hereby certify that I have this day examined the race
course over which it is proposed to run the Epsom Spriug
Meeting of 1869. I find it will differ very in form
from the course over which the races took place this year,
and I am of opinion that it is quite as good for racing pur-
poses; the proposed now turn et Tottenham Corner o deg
an improviment on the present one." We are gist to
hear such • favourable opinion upon the latter point, as
it differs from Mims which have reached us as to the turn
being "so aharp."
Tins OHJECTION TO n 11.21011 SKRIOVS CATX).-
011 Wedoof day the stewards of the Kingsbury meeting
heard the objection that had been lodged against Far-
leigh, the winner of a selling steeplechase at St. Albans.
The stewaids, having gone through the evidence, ppro.
flounced the objection groundless, and deeded Farleigh
to be the winner. king of Spades, who came in second,
has been claimed by Mr. Jackson.—Sporting Lift,.
Brame Norne.—Mr. Elias Trendett, master of the
Hollacomb hounds, is reported to have met with
a milieus accident on Thursday while followinr
the chase. He stooped to unfasten a gate, which
proved to be unhung, and fell est him.
His horse started, and one of Mr. Tramlines legs be-
coming entangled in the bars, the gate was dragged some
distance, until Mr. T. was thrown of. Mr. Tremlett was
much hurt, but though unable to leave his couch, be is
(says the tipereing GacrUe) believed to have sustained no
permanent injury By special invitation of the Duke
d'Aumale, Mr. Heathoote's stag-hounds met at Woo I-
norton, near Evesham, about eight miles from Worcester,
nu Thursday last, when a vm• large field assembled,
numbering at least 600. They a splendid day'saport,
the only drawback to which was an accident to David
Hughes, whose horse fell, rolled over him, and broke his
rider's leg, after they had gone about fourteen miles.
Mn. C. H. FRXWZX ow FOXIXINTLXO ix Lincesnut-
tortan—Mr. Frewen has sent to a Leicester newspaper a
characteristic letter on the subject of foxhunting. He
lasing by giving an account of the ancestry of the an-
cient Nimrod. " You have," he says, • • correspondent
who signs himself 'Nimrod.' It is, indeed, assuming a
fine old name. He, Nimrod, was the son of Cush, who
was the eon of Ham, one of the sons of Nosh. He was
the first King of Babel at the time of the confusion of
tongues, and appears to have exerted himself to rid the
country of wild beasts that infested that part
occofu pa the
world at the time be lived—a very useful -
tion and rather a different one to that of
your correspondent at Milton." He then refers
to Nimrod's complaint respecting the scarcity of foxes, but
hints at the cause by observing that "if the tenant farmers
are to be treated in the way they have been hy the fox-
hunters, some coverts to the booth and east of MOM will
very often be drawn blank. It tenants are to have their
wheat ridden over by scores of horsemen, their gates and
fences broken down, their lambs worried by foxes by
wholesale, and their fowls carried off, and to receive no
compensation for it, how are they over to
to pay their rents, even though it martli;
be asked for once a year 'r" And Mr. Yreweu
pee on to say that "there are two farmers who live near
Cold Overton whose landlords live a long way off, but
they have each told their tenants to keep the hunters off
their farms if they can, and I believe they have now both
served Mr. Tailby with notices not to trespass. One of
these men put his ewes last March in a field where he
thought the hunters were nut likely to come, but
they rode into this held one day, and when
be endeavoured to stop them at the gate he
was violently assaulted, and Ids gate broken
down. The other gut • cut across the shoulders from a
bunting whip last season, and if he bad got hold of the
gentleman (F.) who did it he would very soon have un-
horsed him. A third who resides in another parish very
civilly asked the hunters one day nut to ride over his
turnips, as there was • fallow place up the field where
they could go. The answer he got was, 'Oh d—
your temps,' and they went over the field and cut them
all to pieces. Now if the farmers resort to the expedient
of putting an iron wire in their fences, the foxhunters
must not be surprised at it."