The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-09 00:00:00

A Plate of 1001ovs added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each;
for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for age, with selling
allowances. Half a mile,

Mr Johnson's Antidote, 4 yrs, Bst 9lb (X 100).... (Prior)
Lord Westmoreland's Wild Thyme, 3 yrs, Bst 21b.. (£100)

(Mr 2
Duke de blorny's Columbine, 2 yrs MOO), 6st 61gban)

(Watkins) 3
The followitg also ran :—Romola, Lady Fanny, Tailor,
William the Tourth, Voltiguer, Eudora, Belle of the Ball,
Prime MiniAr colt.

to 2 agst Wild Thyme, 4 to 1 agst Tailor,
The three placed ran in front throughout, Antidote
having a shale the best of it to the end, and won cleverly
baynßdae6nttetiocngl—k; t
Lady Fanny,
aft
third ; the Chalice ct,lt was a bad fourth,
Tailor fifth, Ane William the Fourth next. Tho others
beaten off. Tae winner was claimed by Lord Westmoreland,
and Mr Flentitg claimed the Chalice colt.
THE MAILEZ PLATE,—Mr M‘George having complained
of the followin; jockeys for disobeying orders at the post
for the Maiden Plate on Tuesday :—viz,, Reeves, Lynch,
T. Adams, B,tes, and Watkins, the Stewards ordered
" That Reeve be suspended from riding till the First
October Mectiig at Newmarket; and Lynch, T. Adams,
Bates, and Witkins till after the Goodwood Meeting.
BESSBOHOUGH,
111. Rous,
W. G. CRAVEN.

LATEST BETTING,
THE DERBY, 1865.
11 to llgst Liddington (taken)
18 to lagst Breadalbane (taken)
30 to lagst Bromielaw (taken)
33 to lagst The Duke (taken)
33 to lagst Koenig (taken)
33 to lagat Christmas Carol (taken)
40 to lagst The Phemy colt

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The Allied Deterioration in the Irish
Breed of Horses,

We have ben favoured with the following correspon-
dence between 3ir R. Peel and Admiral Rous on this inte-
resting subject—

Whitehall, June 3.
My dear Adniral,—Pray excuse my troubling you, as a
steward of the Jockey Club, and most deservedly one of
the highest aithorities upon all questions affecting the
character and tuality of thorough-bred stock in the coun-
try,.with certan inquiries with a view to elicit an opinion
from you as tothe breeding of horses for racing purposes
in Ireland, to which your attention has no noubt been
directed, from the especial notice this subject has of late
attracted in the eyes of the principal supporters and patrons
of the turf in hat country.
That the bred et horses in Ireland has deteriorated is
alleged to be m acknowledged fact, owing to the careless-
ness with regird to brood mares likely to produce superior
stock, and to fie dearth of good stallions, and it is a com-
plaint that Qrcen's Plates in Ireland arc all won by Eng-
lish horses, chile handicapping is put forwt.rd as a very
bad principle in racing, and the great cause of the bad
class of horse) being now bred, and it is urged that if, as
formerly, in ompetition for Royal Plates in four mile heats,
four-yr-old horses carried lOst 4.b, with a proportionate
increase of veight for older horses, a great inducement
wonld be given to breed and to keep horses of size and sub-
stance, and dus bring up our horses to that point of ex-
cellence which once made them the envy of Europe.
Since 1679 or 5 Royal Plates have been run for on the
Curragh, and so great was the interest attached to the en-
couragement to be given for the further improvement of fine
breeds that is was proposed by Szr Wm. Temple that "for
the honour of tbe winning horse /, the Lord Lieutenant or his
deputy should attend with two judges of the field to decide
all controversies, and with the sound of the trumpet to de-
clare the winning horses (two plates being run for at the
same meeting), the jockeys of which were permitted to ride
from the field with the Lord Lieutenant, and dine with him
on that day and there receive all the honours of the table."
The Irish Government is now entrusted by the Treasury
with the annual sum of nearly £1,600 for 15 Queen's Plates
to be run for in Ireland, and it rests with the Government
to determine the
weights and distance of her Majesty's
Plate, to be duly reported to the Treasury in an official re-
turn of the special application of the fund, and I would more
particularly
alteration in the present customary regulations, with which
you are familiar, for competition for these Plates, and more-
inquire of Sou whether you could suggest any
over, as the point has been raised, I would put it to you, al-
though I do not suppose such a limitation would meet with
your approval, whether you consider it advisable or expe-
dient to limit the entries for Queen's Plates in Ireland to
Irish bred horses. The whole subject may be expected to
give rise to debate in the House of Commons upon Class
11. of the estimates early next week ; and I should be very
glad to have it in my power to give the committee the bene-
fit of your views on a matter which unquestionably involves
considerations of national importance.—l am, my dear Ad-
miral, yours very truly, ROBERT PEEL,
.Admiral the Hon. H. Rous.

13, Berkeley-square, June 4.
My dear Peel,--I have received your letter on the sub-
ject of the deterioration of horses in Ireland, which has been
represented to you by the patrons of the Irish turf as an
acknowledged fact.
Nothing can be more fallacious than their statement. If
these gentlemen sell every first class stallion, every supe-
rior mare, and every promising young horse, it is not sur-
prising that they have nothing left to compete with the
third class of race horses sent from England to pick up
their Royal Plates.
When these patrons, instead of trying to depreciate their
own stock, will go to the expense of buying good stallions
for the benefit of their tenants at a reasonable fee, when by
private subscriptions they collect tempting prizes to bo
contended for by Irish horses, they will succeed in tho
object required.

No country can compete with the lillestone pasturage of
Ireland (especially Kildare) for breeding the best horses of
every description. At this time Ireland supplies the best
heavy weight hunters to foreigners and English gentlemen,
They are broup_•,lit up at two-years and three-years old by
clever agent-s, always on the look out ready to give large
prices. At the last National Steeplechase in England five
out of tb.b first seven horses were Irish. An Irish hunter
earric;s the highest price in every market. Good old horses
ate therefore scarce in Ireland ; French or English money
will buy them, True that of late years the Irish turf has
not produced brilliant racers like L'irdcatcher, Harkaway,
The Baron, Faup::-‘i a Ballagh ; the two last, owing to a
wise Governm,nt, aro improving the breed in France.
Last year Union Jack and Blarney, the two best two. year
olds, hailed
alwayshailed from the sister island. The fact is they convert
t aio d
as on a
itrieoidna
nof
their best horses into specie, and then complain of the
deterioration of stock. In 1863 the British Government
gave to the United Kingdom the
1,..-C113,t4i021 ori-
-6,5 f e,z. r£,716
Queen'sa-
-2s Plates,.by
a t a and in
running
horses the
a eonn t
Ton
r.it encouragement being £3,661 7s. to the bad. The
idshGo theyern famevnotugrievd country,esi£1,631 per
e annum,
magnificent
the racehorse-tax is un-
known. They take a very different view of this subject in
France.

It is not possible to improve the conditions of the
Queen's Plates as they have been laid down by tho Master
of the Horse, excepting by trebling the amount of money to
make it in accordance with the value originally given by the
country. If the House of Commons voted £lO,OOO for 40
Royal Plates, we could increase the weights, and augment
the diatance of the course; not that such additional onus