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

ASCOT MEETING, 1863.

Weights for the Ascot Stakes of 25 sous 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
Fairwater
Zetland
Adventurer
Haddington
Hartington
Millionaire
Carisbrook
Alert
Bedouin .. 4 8 5;
Investment
Bellman 5 8 2
Costa .. 4 8 2
Canary
Black Prince . a 8 0
Buckenbam .. 4 8 0
Knutsford .. 5 8 0
Loiterer 6 7 13
Citadel
Gorse 4 7 10
01dminater
Amy
Myr,lo
The Knave .. 4 7 7
Lapidist 4 7 7
Sycophant 5 7 7
Bro to Rapid Rhone 4 7 6
Lacydes 4 7 6

Yrs st lb
Gibraltar
Captain Crow
Stanton
Magnum Denim 4 6 11
Rubicon 5 6 10
Cock Robin
Isoline
Ptarmigan
Golden Pledge 3 6 8
Dunkeld
Chaff
Vilette ..... 4 6 6
Anfield
Trojanus '3 6 4
Vivid
Bandage
Barchettina
The Plover
Romanoff 3 5 11
Oakapple
Alcestis ..
Sea Nymph
Cortical
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
Lord Glasgow, the other that of the great betting man
who turned out Tim Whiffia. John
Here, also, Canny 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 sti onghold of Yorkshire affections is
Malton, near Scarb-.-ourh, where lives he who has been
so often called the V, /Awl of the North that it turns one
sick to hear the name a N:ip, the 'nighty 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
Ilsley) ; Butler, employed by the late Duke of Bedford,
and the original manager of Asteroid,; Godding, the terror
of handicappers and the joy of MN r. aylor ; Harlock, who
had the care of Lord Exeter's large stnd, and now has a
public stable; Jennings, of the French Confederacy, at
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 Limekilns. 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 ono gets
into the high places of the turf again. But travelling
thence westwards to Hampshire and Wiltshire, a
whole army of master trainers deploys into view,
H. (loafer, whom Lord Palmerston himself deigns
to employ, holds his place near Winchester. John
Day at Stockbridge, William Day 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
clerc,
latter made havoc of Chester Cups, Cesarewitches, and the
like.
Passing Woolcot's, still nearer Salisbury, we go
northwardswr
tothevictories of Beadsman and Musjid, and
l la
liingclerc, where the lucky Sir Joseph
hastt
td
of
Asteroid, to the care and attention
of Manning. At Lambourne, Mr. Saxon's horses
soete
are neighbours of the great Bassi_y
e string, from which
that darling of the public, old Thormanby, sallied forth to
win his Derby, and of which Buckatone still keeps up the
good name. Ilsley in the e same neighbourhood, is notorious
for its good turf, and is now occupied for the dry weather
by Lords Stamford and Strathmore. Pi antage is adorned
by the present abiding of Mr. Thomas Parr and the past
reminiscences of Fisherman and Rataplan. 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 Amer
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
ultinta Thule of training in
England, the stables at Beck-
hatupton, where Treen trained alike the winner of the first
Metropolitan Handicap and the last Cesarewitch. Beyond,
westwards, excepot at Ch. eltenham and one or two unheard-
f oases in Devon, all. is desolation, and the foot of the
racellorse Odf resting-place.-41Lirror.