The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

Among those who have taken their gallops as-
tiifactorily, I place prominently* Alcoran, Little
Harry, Kingston, Claverhouse, Robbie Noble, Chief
Baron Nicholson, The. Suiveyor and King Pepin.
The mysterious Robbie :Noble, though not alto-
gether the picture of perfection in condition,
is in good enough form to stand a first-rate chance of
disposing 'of all his rivals but one, and he may also
knock him over too. Little Harry is quite up to the
mark, looks and goes well; and will be about the bulls-
eye. Alcoran is almost • certain 'to obtain a place.
Claverhouse, if the pace is not too great, will have his
stride served over the hill, being peculiarly adapted for
it. Joe Miller will be nowhere; ditto King of Trumps.
Homebrewed starts only to serve his stable companion.
Alfred the Great will finish in the foremost portion of
the ruck, with Augur by bis aide. Stockwell and Am-
brose will beat more than beat them. Orelio will shut ,1
up before reaching the distance. Chief Baron Nichol-
son
shall bo my " outrigger" on the occasion ;
a better one I believe I could not have.
Maidstone, Marinello colt, Surveyor, Treasurer,
Northman, Convulsion, King Pepin, Barbarian,
Young Hammond, and Poodle will form that delightful
portion of the field called the ruck. Daniel O'Rourke
cannot obtain a place. Missive, all along reported to be
a wonder of some sort or other, I anticipate will give up
the ghost long before reaching the stand. Vortex runs
merely to assist Little Ratty. . The " legally". Nabob
will find the co_urse as well suited to him it irai to'
Bolingbroke. in 1850.. Womersley will finish forward,
but not run into a place. harbinger has a neat stride,
and bowls away merrily enough; I shall not be sur-
prised, and indeed expect, to find him in a place not
very remote from the winner.
The field it is now supposed, will consist of the fol-
lowing :—Hobbie Noble (Whitehouse), Little Harry (A.
Day), Alcoran (Bartholomew), Harbinger (Nat), Claver-
house (Marlow), Kingston (G. Brown), Joe Miller (W.
Day or Wakefi-ld), King of Trumps (T. Lye), doubt-
ful; Alfred the Great (Bumby), Homebrewed (S. Mann),
Stockwell (Norman), Ambrose (Boyce or J. Mann),
Augur (S. Rogers), Orelio (Pearl), Chief Baron Nichol-
son (Kitchener), Maidstone (Pettit), Surveyor (J. Mar-
son), King Pepin (Charlton), Womersley (Templeman),
Hyacinth or Marinella colt (Holmes), Daniel O'Rourke
(F. Butler), Vortex (Raton), Convulsion (Abdale),
Poodle (Sly), Young Hammond (Dickenson), North-
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AUGUR, HARBINGER, ALFRED THE GREAT, and
WOMEABLET, heading the ruck.
I am, Sir, yours, Sm.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
May 25, 1852.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—MowDAY.
DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hobbie Noble
9 to 2 agst Mr. J. Arnold's Little Harry—take 5 to 1
10 to 1 agst Lord O: ford's Alcoran
10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Harbinger
14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhonse
16 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdalo's Kingston
18 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Alfred the Great—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Stockwell—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. S. Hawkes's Womersley— taken and
afterwards offered
30 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's King of Trumps—
friendless
30 to 1 agst Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orelio
30 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Daniel O'Rourke
40 to 1 agst Mr. Dorrien's Chief Baron Nicholson
50 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Nabob
50 to 1 agst Mr. Barton's The Surveyor
Filius and Father Thames were declared not to start
yesterday.
Great eagerness was shown to get on Little Harry,
and large sums were laid out at an average of 5 to 1;
not a fraction above 9 to 2 was obtainable at the close.
This movement affected most of the other " first-class"
favourites, and very little was laid out on them. Wo have
quoted the highest offer against Hobbie Noble-7 to 2
would have been taken. He reached Watford between
ten and eleven in the morning, and was sent thence by
van to Epsom. Next to Little Harry the run was chiefly
on Stockwell and Womersley; both left off at an im-
provement on the prices previously quoted. The King of
Trumps, Augur, Orelio, and Chief Baron Nicholson,
were friendless.

OARS.
6 to 1 egst Duko of Richmond's Red Hind
6 to 1 agst Mr. John Scott's Songstress
7 to 1 agst Sir C. Monk's Gossamer
15 to 1 agst Mr. Wright's Bird-on-the-Wing
Flirt is declared not to start.
The above quotations arc made from offers—the race
s almost a dead lettEer.
PSOM RACES.

The following horses, in addition to those mentioned
yesterday, have reached Epsom :—Bordeaux, Gossip
Desdemone, Senorita, Plot, and Lord Chesterfield's Oak;
filly, by Heiman Platoff, out of Infidelity.
The King of Trumps passed through York yesterday
en route for Epsom.

AQUATICS.
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.

The championship of the Thames—the first of the
three great sporting events of the week—was contested
yesterday, and so extraordinary a boat race was never
seen. After the most gallant struggle on record, from
the first to the last, over a course of nearly four miles
and a half, the champion of the Thames and Tyne, the
hero of nearly half-a-hundred desperate conflicts,e the
pride of the Thames, sustained a defeat—
" Sic transit gloria mundi."
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It had been thought that ho was as as ever—that
nothing in the shape of humanity could wrest from
his " mastery o'er the flood;" and so sanguine werethe
expectations of his friends, that Robert Coombes, bes
whom we speak as he who held the proud distinction,of
was, at the moment of starting, absolutely backed by
many at 2 to 1; and a very large amount of money has
changed owners upon the result, which was certainly un-
expected by the very best judges of aquatics.
Some notion may be formed of the interest the match
created when we mention that no less than len steamers,
some densely crowded with persons, accompanied the
match, to say nothing of the thousands of persons ranged
along the course and in every description of craft. It
was a great prelude to, with all the excitement of, a
Derby day, and amply repaid was the vast concourse by
the unparalleled struggle for superiority.
The match was for 2001. aside, besides the honorary
distinction we have before mentioned; and the competi-
tors, Robert Coombes, the champion of many years'
standing, and Thomas 'Cole of Chelsea, who aspired to
that honour. The former has been before the public for
the last twenty years, and earned such extraordinary
reputation for pre-eminence in this art, that many, de-
spite his being in his 43d year, considered him invincible.
He had, step by step, ascended the ladder of fame by de
ntil
feating the greatest men of each succeeding year, u
nobody was left to beat. In the course of last season h
rac e
had occasion to impart some of his principle and p-
tice of training to his yesterday's opponent, who was
at that time taken under his charge to be got in
condition against Robert Newell, and the pupil, as the
result has shown, was superior to the preceptor. Of
Cole but very little was known, so little that hundreds
did not scruple to impute to himself and backers a pretty
considerable share of arrogance in supposing that he
could contend, with any chance of success, against so
formidable a rival. Cole bad won Doggett's coat and
badge four years ago, and had since beaten
with Chitty, of
Richmond, at least a fourth-rate man; and so little
on record to recommend him as a doer, it can scarcely
be wondered that the circumstance of a private gentle-
man backing him, purely for the love of aquatic sport,
was considered a bold step. The match had been about
since the early part of the winter,
and both men bad
paid the most scrupulous attention to their training, the
result of which Was, that they both came to the starting
post yesterday in the most beautiful condition. Cooenb,'*,
who has in his time beaten eleven-stone men is, as we
have already said, in his 43d year, and his rowing
weight was 9st 11b. Cole is 25 years old, and is half
a stone heavier.
The distance contested was from Putney-bridge to
Mortlake, and the attendance of spectaLurs was the
greatest weever saw t such
and in some a race. Betting was brisk
at 6 and 7 to 4 on Coaombes, instances en-
larged to 2 to 1.
At a little after five o'clock both men rowed to their
stations, Cole having the choice, and taking tho Mid-
dlesex side of the centre arch. Royal was umpire for
Coombes; Salter fur Cole; and Mr. E.
c s Searlek. kindly
sculls officiated as referee. Coombes dashedf lightning, and
ull
length,
then which
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in the
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ater with almost the rapidity o
lead of something like a quarter ot a
anes retained but for about twenty yards,
were scull and scull, and no two rowing men
ably displayed the perfection of style, while their
pace,