The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-10 00:00:00

lIA.Y MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 15s ; clover.
£5 Os to £6 158 ; and straw, 83 to £1 12s per load:
Trade steady.
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CITMRERLAND.—Meadow hay, £1 to £6; clover, £5 to
£7 ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. A firm trace.
WIIITECHAPEL,—Meadow hay, Li to £6 ; clover, £5 to
£7; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. Steady demand.

ST. LEGER PROPHEC 1 IES.

(From Bell's Life.)
To sum up, we cannot look beyond General Peel, Blair
Athol, Miner, Ely, and Cambuscan for the actual winner.
This lot it is hard to choose between, the- two first named
being particularly troublesome ; and the difficulty may
best be got over, perhaps, by sticking to 6' public form"
and BLAIR ATHOL.

ORANGE BLOSSOM.

Swift as the plunge of cataract
Comes out the Melbourne ba3 r.
That rush terrific, blessed by ite,

Atones for Epsom FLUB ;
By all that's good and fortunate,
The llawkshead hero wins!
To Glasgow's Earl, the eft der,eised,
Those tempest shouts reveal
A lifetime's hope at last aeltieved
By gallant GENERAL PEAL !

THE GEM.

Now, Aldcroft, lay on with the vhalebone
And rouse up his pluck with y our heel ;
No just as he did in the Derby,
He swerves from the lash and t steel.
"The General's beat I" is the cry,.
'Tis the Derby again to be seen
BLAIR ATHOL comes home in a c, inter—
Three cheers for the straw and Ile peen I

TILE OLYMPIAN.

What cut the dried-up Ely down ?

Who came the odds to floor ?
Bowes' Baragah will see e'm home

He's such a slashing goer.
That black flag's shivered many a mast,

But here to strike must learn ;
Through the long lane he's safe at last,

And Glasgow's got a turn.
Shade of Jem Bland look down—or up,
Once more with that familiar grin,
And join old Crooky in a cup
To back " the Giniril" in

(From She Sporting Gault 0.)

We must "have our say," like the rest, and " plump"
unreservedly for BLAIR ATHOL, next to whom we shall

expect to see The Miner and some " rank outsider"...
probably Coastguard or Ely.

BEACON.

Finally, according to all we have seen this year, the
conteet ought to lie between Blair Athol, Miner, and Gene-
ral Peel ; but as the lattbr has given indications that he is
not gifted with the staying powers necessary to get a mile
and three-quarters, I believe we shall see BLAIR ATXOL
effect the double victory, and that his most dangerous op.
ponent will be The Minor.

RHYMING RICHARD.

Hark I I hear the solemn signal—they havo vanished into

space :
Who, upon their re• appearance, shall be foremost in the

race ?

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Claremont's beaten—Peon done for—gallant Ely fails in

speed—
Cracks the whip o'er Bowes's chesnut—vain Cambusean's

boasted breed ;
Miner struggles, but is conquered, bears the whalebone,

tastes the steel ;
Flashing on into the vanguard comes the striding General

Peel,
Now, Blair Athol I now bestir thee I answer to the quick-
ening hand
Stride for stride the pair are raeeing past the palpitating

Stand,
Swells the shouting into thunder-peals, and breaks and

dies away,
Green and yellow"—stout BLAIR ATHOL bears the
honours of the day I

COCK ROBIN.

What a'tta atannite theer for, loike a ad-deified peeg in a

rake ?
Dusta theenk meeakin fasces at mea 'ull coonjur' t' brass i'
tha poke ?
Pat thy foiver Ab say on Blear Ahthol, Ah tell thee he'll

show un hie teale,
Put thy foiver Ah on BLEAR AUTHOL, and yetch me a
gallon of pale I

SITIENS.

From the way that they've heaved, much shall I be deceived

If Baragah turns out the winner that day;
So, with song now I've greeted the favourites defeated,
And Ely will win every yard of the way 1
To the front, then, my own pick, my "beautiful Ely,"
To whom " Hotspur" and I so consistently cling ;
'Tis Custance and ELT we all should stand freely—
'Tis their joint success I triumphantly sing;

PEEPING Tom.
Are all in front; and as they pass
The Stand, you'll hear the shout,
" John Osborne wins I" "Blair Athol wins I"
Bat Aldroft looking out,
And coming with a rush at last,
Ten thousand voices roar
" LORD GLASGOW'S won the Bellinger
in eighteen sixty-four I

EAST RIDING.

Then theer'a you Miner—AT be boon' gon horse is worth

a deal—
An' Ely, an' yon Baragah, an Breeze, an' General reel :
An' Claremont did so badly they say he winna roonn ;
Boott All be theer an' all, A reckon, A'll be theer for
t' foonn.

Woon o' yon'a to win, A reckon, an' gin it worn't be
Breeze,
'T 'ull be a 'oss a laike her as chalk is laike to cheese ;
Boott A'll lay a croon o' GEN'RIL PEEL—A reckon he'll
be t'woonn :
Boott A'll tell ye more about it when A've been an seen
t' foonn,

TROL BADOUR.

Suffice to say, the Red House reached, that well-known

voice of Steele
Exclaims in his stentorian tones, "A level 'thou' on Peel I"
But ere the words have left his lips, he would they were
forgot,
For at the distance dying away, the General's bolt is shot ;
But Whitewall's chance looks rosy yet, for Ashmall's close
at hand,
Now " Baragah," "Blair Athol" now, re-echo through
the Stand ;
They struggle home, both Stockwell's sons, a game and

resolute pair,
But Snowden waits at Aohmall's girths, and "cops" a
length on Blair.

So, you that have cash "lump it on," and you that have'

—borrow ;
Believe me, you will not have cause to rue it on the mor

row ;
And when you see BLAIR ATUOL win on Doncaster's old

moor,
Remember who 'twas told you right, and think of " Trou
badour,"

(From the Field)
OBSERVER.

In conclusion, there will no doubt be important changes
in the market before the race comes off, and which may
affect the chances of several animals now in the background.
But if tie cracks of the day remain in their positions, and
run as they did in the Derby, I have a strong preposses-
sion that the increased time, and the change in the course,
will be so beneficial to GENERAL PEEL as to enable him
to verify the opinion both of his late and present trainer,
of being by far the beat three-yr-old of the season. and the
most probable winter of the St. Leger. Next to him I
think MINER will be discovered; but in spite of my doubts
as to his staying, I should advise my readers to avoid tak-
ing any liberties with BLAIR ATHOL.

(From She Sunday Times.)
We have a very great respect for Blair Athol and the
overlooked PEON, but we cannot reconcile ourselves to the
idea that either of them will make GENERAL PEEL lower
his colours next Wednesday, for he will have much greater
advantages in the north than ever he had in the south,
where he not only sweated profusely in his preliminary
gallop for the blue riband, bat was ridden to a stand still
in the race for that much envied trophy.

(From the Sporting Life.)
AUGUR.

I have now examined every horse's prospect of success,
and consider the struggle confined to four—Blair Athol,
General Peel, Ely, and Miner—and, being bold enough to
anticipate the judge, I shall venture to prognosticate the
three first positions as under—BLAlß ATHOL 1, GENERAL
PEEL 2, ELY 3.

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ORLANDO.
Yet the Pitman never quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting,
On the grate as stern as Pluto, and he raps just as before.
And his eyes have all the blinking of a fellow that's been

drinking,
And he oasteth still the shadows of the
And ceaselessly he croaketh, as he flings the shadows o'er,
Back TILE MINER—nothing more 1"

(From the Era.)
TOUCHSTONE.
We are strongly prepossessed in favour of Blair Athol
and General Peel, and are most inclined to Ely, Miner,
Baragah, and Coast Guard of the remainder, From the
fact of Baragah having been so recently amiss, and the
demonstration that has apparently set in so strongly against
him we do not think him so taking as the other three, one
of whom, we think, is bound to finish among the leading
trio. But they are not so worthy of notice as Blair Athol
and General Peel, and, in accordance with our usual cus-
tom, we shall thus anticipate the flat of the judge :—Glirts-
RAL PEEL, 1; BLAIR ATHOL, 2; ELY, 3.
THE " STABLE MOUSE."
I will now, if you please, " cut for the lead," and this is
the conclusion to which the Stable Mouse has come as to
the St Leger of 1864 :--THE MINER, 1; GANERAL PEEL,
2; BLAIR ATROL, 3.

(From the Weekly Times.)
FLY-BY-NIGHT.
The pace is certain to be a cracker, consequently I eon.