The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

ASCOT MEETING, 1863.

Weights for the Ascot Stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5
only if declared to Messrs. Weatherby in London by
Tuesday, May 26, with 200 added. Two miles and a
a half. 54 subs.

Yrs st lb 1
Fairwater
Zetland
Adventurer
Haddington
Harlington
Millionaire
Carisbrook
Alert
Bedouin
Investment
Bellman -5 8 2
Costa
Canary
Black Prince .... a 8 0
Buckenham 4 8 0
Knutsford... 6 8 0
Loiterer 6 7 13
Citadel
Gorse 4 7 10
Oldminster
Amy
Myr:le
The Knave .. 4 7 7
Lapidist
Sycophant 5 7 7
Bro to Rapid Rhone 4 7 6
Lacydes

Yrs at lb
Gibraltar
Captain Crow
Stanton
Magnum Bonum 4 6 11
Rubicon
Cock Robin
Isoline .. 3 6 9
Ptarmigan....
Golden Pledge 3 6 8
Dunkeld
Chaff .. 3 6 7
Vilette • 4 6 6
Anfield
Trojanus
Vivid 3 6 4
Bandage .. 4 6 3
Barchettina. • 3 6 2
Tile Plover .....
Irornanoff
Oakapple
Alcestis
Sea Nymph
Conical
Jack o' Newbury 3 5 7
Indolence
Schoolmistress
Truant

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THE TRAINING GROUNDS OF ENGLAND.--The
training grounds of England cover the map rather
irregularly. To pass over minor places, and their less emi-
nent officiating ministers, we may begin with Yorkshire,
and in Yorkshire with Richmond, where Watson, Gill, and
Winteringham do their spiriting, and whence Lord Zet -
land's Voltigeur, Fandango, and Vedette, burst forth upon
an approving public. A. little to the south is Middleham,
glorified by the Flying Dutchman, whose trainer, Fobert,
still has a large string, with one of which, thanks to steam
transit, he has just won the Prix de Diane, or French
Oaks. At the same place are the Dawsons, father and
son, the one just now enjoying the precarious patronage of
Lori Glasgow, the other that of the great betting man
who turned out Tim Whiftlir. Here, also, Canny John
Osborne holds sway over horses and their boys, and turns
more of the latter into good jockeys than any one else
can. But the great stronghold of Yorkshire affections is
Mahon, near Scarborough, where lives he who has been
so often called the 'Wizard of the North that it turns one
sick to hear the name again, the mighty John Scott, trainer
of countless winners for Mr. Bowes and Lord Derby.
There, too, is that lesser luminary I'Anson, the owner and
trainer of Blink Bonny. Coming southwards, except at
Cliff's and Wadlow's, in Staffordshire, the eye rests on no
ground till it reaches Newmarket; and there, at the head-
quarters of the turf, more stables are to be found, espe.
cially of late years, than in any other spot, Two more
Dawsons, John and Joseph (the latter Lord Stamford's
private trainer, having a supplemental establishment at
has a
Miley) ; Butler, employed by the late Duke of Bedford,
and the original manager of Asteroid ; Godding, the terror
of handicappers
care cape and the
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had th
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public stable; Jennings, of the French Confederacy, at
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present responsible for the Hospodar and Stradella
failures ; old Tom Taylor, who has migrated from
Bretby Park to this more racing atmosphere ; Hayhoe,
who acts for Baron Rothschild ; and, trainer and jockey
in one, the great Mr. Samuel Rogers—these are but
a few of the celebrities who gallop their horses of mornings
on the Bury Hills, and of afternoons up the Bunbury Mile or
round the L'mekilns. Crossing the Thames, Epsom itself
supplies a nest of what may be called—without offence—
second rate trainers ; and one must go on to Lewes, where
Lord St. Vincent's horses are trained by E. Parr, and where
a base attempt to injure Lord Clifden by digging holes in the
turf, has been discovered ; and then to W. Goater's at
Findon, by Worthing, where in other days old John Day
galloped Virago, for " Mr. Howard," before one gets
into the high places of the turf again But travelling
thence westwards to Hampshire and Wiltshire, a
wholo army of master trainers deploys into view.
H. Goater, whom Lord Palmerston himself deigns
employ, holds his place near Winchester. John
Day at Stockbridge, William "fl
—ay towards Salisbury, re-
call sadly the days when the former stable won two Derbys
running, and were first and third for another, and when the
latter made havoc of Chester Cups, Cesarewitches, and the
like. Passing Woolcot's, still nearer Salisbury, we go
northwards to Kingclerc, where the lucky Sir Joseph
has owed the victories of Beadsman and Musjid, and
still later of Asteroid, to the care and attention
of Manning. At Lambourn Mr. Saxon's horses
are neighbours of the great Russef ley string, from which
that darling of the public, old Thormanby, sallied forth to
win his Derby, and of which Buckstone still keeps up the
good name. Ilsley in the same neighbourhood, is notorious
for its good turf, and is now occupied for the dry weather
by Lords Stamford and Strathmore. Vantage is adorned
by the present abiding of Mr. Thomas Parr and the past
reminiscences of Fisherman aria Rata
plan. Near Marl
borough A. Taylor has revived the old Teddington glories
with St. Albans, and made the white legs of Lord Ailes-
bury's handsome chestnut notorious in shop windows. Pass-
ing still onwards along the Wiltshire downs (we had almost
forgotten the American stable at Newbury, with its nigger
boys, and orders given in a rich nasal), and leaving the
once-celebrated quarters of Stevens at Chilton to our right,
we finally arrive by Swindon and its few small men to the
ultima Thule of training in
England, the stables at Beck-
hampton, where Treen trained alike the winner of the first
Metropolitan Handicap and the last Cesarewitch. Beyond,
westwards, except at Cheltenham and one or two unheard-
of oases in Devon, all is desolation, and the foot of the
racehorse finds no resting-place.--Nirror.