The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-20 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLOCK.

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP.
7to 2 agst Brighton (taken)
4to 1 agst Duicibella (taken)
sto 1 agst Blithfield (taken)
7to 1 agst Bandage (taken)
7to 1 agst Flirtation (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
3to 1 agst Anfield (taken)
100 to 15 agst Bellman (taken)
7to 1 agst Blond in (taken)
9to 1 agst Zapateado taken)
20 to 1 agst Grimston (taken)
GOODWOOD cur.
sto 2 agst Buckstone (taken)
9to 2 agst La Toucques (taken)
7to 1 bar two (offered)

SPORTING NOTES:

Ihe Liverpool Meeting was a decided success, although
the fields on the first day were the smallest ever remem-
bered, and the competitors were of such an indifferent stamp
that their performances need but few words of comment.
The twenty horses weighted for the Sefton Handicap only
produced two runners—Cerintha and Don't Coma Late,
and as the former was weighted only 81b heavier than Mr.
Hodgman's filly,
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fortune and Flower Safety. On the Cup day, the courts:
presented a very animated appearance, and whatever short-
comings the racing was subject to, there was certainly little
perceptible falling off in the company assembled. True
Heart in the opening race, the Welter Cup, effected the
overthrow of The Cutler, who inflicted a severe cut on his
backers, as they laid 2 to 1 on him, and Practitioner prac.
tised after the same fashion in the Mersey Stakes, whose
defeat by Persuasion was another extraordinary turn up
after his recent brilliant achievement at Worcester. The
Cup brought to the post a more numerous field than was
generally anticipated. There was nothing much to find fault
with in the condition of any of the competitors, though some
considered Victor to be on the "big" side, while others
thought The Knave and Joey Jones too fine drawn. Mr.
Hodgman's horse was, perhaps, not quitelup to the mark,
but the others were as fit as training could make them, and
that there was nothing amiss with The Knave was proved
by h's clever victory; but if Oak Apple had not met with an
accident I have no doubt he would have turned the tables
on Mr. Merry's horse. Stamford, as usual, attracted a

most aristocratic attendance, but the meeting was not

' served by being brought forward a week, as, independent
of Liverpool and Abingdon using up several of the horses
engaged, it clashed directly with Hungerford and Ponte-
fract, which divided the Ring, and, of course, lessened the
attendance. The meetings for this week are Notting..
ham, Winchester, Southampton, Knutsford, Cambridge,
and Aldershott, and as all, except Knutsford, are
within a morning's ride of the metropolis they will
afford a good opportunity for an "outing " in this delight-
ful weather, when the heat of town has become almost un-
bearable. Nottingham takes place on Tuesday and Wed.
nesday, and Mr Bradfield has seldom brought out a better
bill of fare, as there are 18 races on the list for the two days,
nearly all of which have filled in a manner that shows how
popular the meeting on " merrie Sherwood" has become.
Of the nine items set for decision on the first day six are
closed, the principal of which is the Nottinghamshire
Handicap. It secured a fair acceptance, all things con-
sidered, as 23 horses remain in, with a likelihood
of some ten reaching the starting post, to be
selected from Prince Plausible, Doefoot, Dulcibella, Flir-
tation, Pilot, Bandage, Brighton, Liston, Blithfield,
Airedale, Joco, Luna, Jack's Alive, and Middlewatch.
Brighton has been backed within the last few days, but I
doubt his ability to beat either Flirtation or Blithfield over
the distance, and from what I saw of the latter at Liverpool
last week it ought to be a very near thing between him and
Flirtation, Garotter ought to win the Robin Hood Stakes;
Bertha or Tippler the Bradgate Handicap; Light or The
Clown the Buney Park Stakes, and Garotter the Rufford
Abbey Stakes. The Hampshire Stakes, run at Winchester,
will be won by either Gardener or Earl of Surrey, and the
Grange Park Stakes by Hengist.

Knutsford appears to be on the sick list for the Goodwood
Stakes, but I expect he will recover his position again as the
horse is well.

A FRESH MAN.

CITY BETTING—SATURDAY.
NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP.
9 to 2 agst Brighton (taken)
6to 1 agst Blithfield (taken)
7to 1 agst any other (offered)

GOODNVOOD STAKES.
9to 2 agst Anfield (taken)
6to 1 agst Bellman (taken)
7to 1 agst Blondin (taken)

GOODWOOD CL?.
9to 4 agat Buckstone (taken)
9to 2 agat La Toucques (taken)

,RES FOR 1863.
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Southampton. 22
Cambridge .. 23
Knutsford 23
Hartlep00l
Goodwood 22
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York August lB
Plymouth 20
Egham 25
Stockton ..........25
Oxford
Lichfield
MBER.
Wordsley g 1
Brecon ..... 21
Richmond 22
Monmouth 24
Manchester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist Oct. 29
Edinburgh, tic. Club 30
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Lincoln Autumn........ 20
Kelso ............ 21
Gloucester
...22
Newmarket Houghton ..26