The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-09 00:00:00

OBSERVER-The Sportsman.

I consider that nothing but his going amiss can prevent
GLADIATEUR adding the St. Leger to his previous victories;
but it is far from so easy a task to point out what is likely
to obtain second honours. As recent public form is the
best guide, it may be best to stick to KLARINSKA.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LEICES TER RACES-FRIDAY.

The Welter Handicap, a sweepstakes of 10 sous each, 3 ft,
with 40 added; winners extra; gentlemen riders. One

mile and a quarter. 9 subs. _
Mr. Morris's Raglan, 5 yrs, list 101 b (Mr. Dixon) 1
Mr. Copeland's Queen of Trumps, 4 yrs, lOst 51b
(Mr. Edwards) 2
Mr. Dudley's Rosina, 5 yrs, lOst 81b (inc 41b ex) (Potter) 3
Betting-4 to lon Raglan. Rosina cut out the work, fol-
lowed by Queen of Trumps, Raglan lying about a couple of
lengths in her rear to the three quarters of a mile post,
where Queen of Trumps ran alongside of Rosina, and the
pair went on side by side to the bottom turn, when Rosina
gave way, and Raglan heading Queen of Trumps, was fol-
lowed by her to the distance, whence the pair ran home a
good race, which ended in favour of Raglan by a head ;
Rossina beaten off.

The Castle Donnington Nursery Handicap of 100 sovs,
added to a sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 3 ft, for 2-yr-
olds ; winners extra ; the second to save his stake. Three

quarters of a mile. 20 subs.
Mr. H. Rich's. King of France, Est 101 b (Kenyon).l
Mr. J. Kent's Strathfieldsaye, 7st 41b (Hibberd) 2
Mr. Jones's Hopbine filly, Est 71b (R. I'Anson) 3
Mr. Hartley's Alberta, Bst .(Payne) 4
Mr. Blacoe's Andrew Marvel, 7st 51b (Metcalfe) 5
Betting-6 to 4 agst King of France, 2to 1 agst Andrew
Marvel, and 4to 1 bar 2. Alberta was first off, followed
by Andrew Marvel, the favourite, and the Hopbine filly,
Strathfieldsaye lying off the bend where the lot closed, but
upon entering the straight the favourite, next the rails,
showed slightly in front, and retaining the lead to the dis-
stance then drew clear, and won easily by two lengths ;
the Hopbine filly finished a length and a half in rear of Mr.
Kent's colt; Alberta was a moderate fourth: and Andrew
Marvel last.

The Licensed Victuallers' Plate (handicap) of 30 sovs,
added to a sweepstakes of three sovs each ; winners
extra ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs. One mile. Five
subs.

Mr. Blacoe's Memento, 2 yrs, 4st 71b (Butters) w. o.
The Borough Handicap of 5 sous each, 2 ft, with 50 added;
for all ages ; winners extra. Half a mile. 18 subs.
Lord Poulett's Wild Thyme, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Parry 1
Captain Christie's Prescription, 4 yrs, Bst 91b(in 71b ex.
Mr. Gay's Gazelle, 2 yrs, sst 71b (ement 2
(Kenyon 8
Mr. York's Catapulta, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Johnson 4
Betting-8 to lon Prescription, 4to 1 agst Wild Thyme.
Won by a length ; bad third.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; weight for age. Three

miles.

Mr. Jones's Dr. Syntax, 5 yrs, lOst (Fordham) 1
Mr. Blacoe's Mainsail, 3 yrs, Bst 41b (Metcalf) 2
Betting-8 to lon Dr. Syntax, who won by two
lengths.

The All-aged Selling Stakes did not fill.
There was no betting on future events.

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-FRIDAL

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Ackworth (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Claremont (taken)
12 to 1 agst Hippolyta (taken)
100 to 7 agst Moulsey (taken)
100 to 6 agst Swordsman (taken)
20 to 1 agst Nemo (offered)
25 to 1 agst Brindisi (offered)

ST. LEGER.
6to 5 agst Gladiateur (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Regalia (taken)
9to 1 agst The Duke (offered—take 10)
LOO to 6 agst Christmas Carol (taken and offered)
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
25 to 1 agst Salpinctes (taken freely)

SALE OF THE ASHGILL BREEDING AND RACING
STUDS.

From the well-known character of the late Mr. John
Osborne's stud, and the manner in which the two-year-olds,
Blue Riband and Lord of the Vale (both trained at Ashgill),
ran at York, much interest was created among buyers on
the announcement of the sale, and they assembled pretty
numerously from all pats of the kingdom. Several
foreigners were also in attendance, Austria being repre-
sented by Col. do Butze, whose face has been for some
period as familiar at our great sales of blood stock, as a
purchaser of brood mares, as that of any English buyer.
The veteran Mr. Ransom (who was half-brother to Mr.
Osborne), the Queen's stud-groom at Hampton Court, came
down on Tuesday, and, though far on the wrong side of 70,
he was as active as any man present. Mr. Lumley, of the
King's Head Hotel, Epsom, formerly a trainer, and the
inventor of a very unique safety-box for the shipment of
horses, or conveying them with more security by railway,
was also present. Mr. W. Day, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. R. Hill,
Mr. Oldacre, and other well-known buyers, arrived in the
neighbourhood the night before the first day's sale, and beds
were very scarce, particularly at the Bolton Arms, Ley-
burne, and S wale's Hotel, Middlesham. Mr. Fobert enter-
tained a large party at Spigot Lodge, and the veterans, T.
Dawson had his house full at Tupgill, while Messrs. Chal-

LATEST DONCASTER SCRATCMNGS.—PIanet, Menace,
Carthusian, Harridan filly, and Bedminster out of their
Doncaster engagements. Accident out of the Great York-
shire Handicap.
EXTENSION OF THE WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING TO
THREE DAYS.—The liberal patronage for many years ac-
corded to the Worcester Meetings having placed a hand-
some balance on the right side, the committee, to afford the
racing public a participation thereof, have resolved to ex-
tend the forthcoming autumn gathering to three days.
There will be half a dozen items per diem, including two
hurdle races, a new two mile Hunters' Race over the flat,
as also the Grand Stand Plate of 100 soya, one mile, and
four steeplechases, the Grand Annual being reserved for
the last day. In the aggregate the added money, inclusive
of the Earl of Coventry's contribution to the Severn Bank
Stakes, amounts to 180 soya.
" TOUTING" AT WOODYATES AND THE " TIP."—At Oran-
borne Petty Sessions, before G. Churchill, Esq. (chairman),
Colonel Napier Sturt, M.P., and Major Portman, George
Bollen, an apprenticed training boy, in the service of Mr.
Wm. Day, the well-known trainer, was summoned by his
master for disobedience and disclosing the secrets of his
master, contrary to his indenture. It appears the defendant
was under indentures of apprenticeship to learn the pro-
fession of a jockey, and from a letter which fell into Mr.
Day's hands, wrongly directed to the defendant, and which
contained a £5-note, it seemed that the defendant was in
the habit of giving information to some betting men of the
merits of particular race horses. All this was proved, and
acts of disobedince in the stable. The bench were advised
that the case was within the statute, and, considering the
defendant was deserving of punishment, committed him to
two months' hard labour to the House of Correction at
Dorchester.

At Annan Races, on Friday week, a jockey, named Har-
rison, was killed in consequence of being thrown by the
horse (Measure for Measure) he was riding. The accident
was caused by a shepherd's dog rushing across the course
while the horses were running, and getting among the legs
of Harrison's horse. The same jockey was thrown while
riding Miss Pickle at Carlisle.

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.—Vire are requested to
correct an error that was inadvertently made in a contem-
porary with respect to Vanquisher's weight in the above
race. The horse actually carries 6st 91b, and not Bst 91b,
as was at first accidentally printed.
LICHFIELD, 1866.—T0 the noblemen and gentlemenpub-
lished as having already accepted the stewardship of this
meeting next year, we are requested to add the name of
Alderman Copeland, one of the oldest living patrons of
Lichfield races.

THE GREAT Yonxszatz STARES.—The York race com-
mittee have decided upon giving 200 sovs to the stake for
1868. It is for foals of the present year, and closes on
Tuesday, Oct. 3.

Wynnstay, from some delay on the road, not arriving at
Leicester in time for the Queen's Plate, was struck out of
that event at 3.5 p.m. on Friday.
WALLACE.—This horse, the winner of the Goodwood
Stakes, will stand on view in the yard adjoining the pad-
dock with Lord Scarborough's yearlings during the Don-
caster week.

We are glad to hear that C. Booth, the jockey, who sus-
tained a fracture of the leg while riding in the Turnbridge
Handicap, is progressing very favourably.
Stoic, 2 yrs, after winning and being bought in at War-
wick on Tuesday last, was sold privately to Lord West-
moreland for 200 gs, and goes into T. Cliff's stables.
INDIAN STAB.—We are authorised by the owner of this
horse to state that he was not scratched for the Brighton
Nursery as announced.

Sentinel, the winner of the South Eastern Railway
Stakes at Margate and the Lord Warden Stakes at Dover,
has gone into W. Burbidge's stables at Smitham Bottom.
SALE OF CLAXTON.—This notorious horse has been pur-
chased by Mr. Walkeley, and is gone into H. Hadley's
stables at Prestbury, near Cheltenham.

In consequence of Mr. William Day having now so many
horses in training, those belonging to himself will shortly
be brought to the hammer by Messrs. Tattersall.
Lansdowne is about to leave Danebury to be trained at
Newmarket for his engagements.
Mr. Montague has named the two year old filly by St.
Albans out of Lady Kingston, Lady Mary, and sold her to
go to Germany.

Upton-upon-Severn Steeple Chases will take place on
Friday, Nov. 3, being the day after the Worcester Autumn
Meeting. _ _

JohnNightingall has purchased Duenna, and she has
joined his string.
Mr. Abron has sold Proctor, and he has left J. Nightin-
gall's stables.
Lady Mary, 4 yrs, was destroyed at Leicester on Thurs-
day last.
Athelstane has been added to the list of geldings.

FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE AT BIRMINGHAM.—
The Great Western Company yesterday sustained
another loss by the partial destruction of one of its bridges
in Birmingham, the accident being attended with serious
injuries to one man only, though it is astonishing that no
more have suffered either loss of life or injury to limb. The
scene of the occurrence is known as Livery-street Bridge,
the line of the Great Western Railway passing on a diagonal
line beneath Livery-street at this point. The roof of the
bridge is formed of large iron girders, supported on strong
brick arches, and between it and the street pavement are
courses of brick and a mass of soil. At present there seems
nothing to account for the accident, a great portion of one
end of it having given way with no warning whatever.
From Snow-hill Station a high brick wall runs by the side
of the line, protecting it from the street ; and from the
direction taken by the line at the end of the bridge farthest
from the railway station, a portion of this wall was over
the railway. The fall of the bridge, which took place about
10 minutes to five in the afternoon, was Observed by a
great many persons in the neighbourhood, who at first
thought several of the foot passengers in the street must
have fallen with the mass of iron, soil, and brickwork.
The wall was observed to totter, and then a great portion
of that side of the roadway over the end of the bridge was
seen to fall in, a tremendous crash alarming the people at
a considerable distance, who were quite unaware of the
cause. It was soon seen that one of the large and several
of the smaller girders had given way, and having broken
in several pieces, had fallen on the rails, leaving a great
gap in the street, and tearing the masonry on each side.
Sergeant Heavering, of the Birmingham police force, was
within a very short distance when the fall took place, and
he noticed that one man was
passing along the footway,
and had fallen with the mass of material, which there was
much reason to fear would have crushed or stifled him.
The first thing done by the police sergeant was to send a
messenger to Snow-hill and Hockley stations, in order
that the railway officers there might prevent any trains
coming in the direction of the damaged bridge until the
line was cleared, and he then sought assistance to extricate
the unfortunate man, who lay almost completely buried
amid the debris in which he had sunk. It was found that
his name was John Huxtable, a traveller, living in Cox-
street, and that he had sustained a fracture of the thigh and
a lacerated face. These injuries were at once attended to,
and there is every likelihood that the case will progress
favourably.—Birmingham Post.

loner (the jockey), S. Barrow, and James Ridley, of Bellerby
(three of the late Mr.Osborne's-Sons-in-law) had beds made
up and the best of accommodation for old friends of the
family. The morning was beautiful in the extreme, and
the sun shone brilliantly throughout the day, rendering
the splendid scenery in the midst of which the establish-
ment is situated very interesting and enjoyable. A large
marquee was erected on the lawn in front of the comfort-
able homestead adjoining the stables, in which a most
recherché luncheon (embracing every delicacy of the season)
was served, with champagne ad libitum. Mr. Edmund
Tattersall officiated, and had his rostrum pitched in the
middle of a field adjoining the premises, and as the time
drew near for the commencement of the sale many farmers
and several of the gentry of the neighbourhood assembled
to take a parting look at the horses. The
sale commenced at about 1 o'clock, Mr. Tattersall
making a very neat speech, laudatory of the well-known
judgment of the late respected breeder, and stating empha-
tically that every lot would be sold without reserve. The
first lot was a small two-year-old gelding, by Lambton, out
of Queen of Troy, which, after some shy bidding, was
knocked down to Mr. Bragg for 12 guineas. Messrs.
Holmes, Micklethwaite, and Bragg (the latter buying Lady
Abbess cheap for a brood mare at 62 guineas) made some
cheap purchases at the commencement. Mr. James Ridley
also purchased Gaily, a nice, short-legged, compact, well-
"made mare (whose ultimate destination is the stud), very
cheap at 155 guineas. King Arthur (sold for 2,000 guineas
as a two year old to the Duke of Cleveland, and repurchased
at the sale of that nobleman's stud at Newmarket for 550
guineas) created a little more animation among the assem-
bly, but, although a very powerful and well-formed horse,
he showed such decided symptoms of decay in his fore
fetlock joints that he was finally sold to Mr. barley (a
patron of the stable) for 175 guineas. Xi, a colt by General
Williams, out of Lambda, of extraordinary size and great
muscular power, on short, well-formed legs and capital feet,
in every way likely to make a horse of great character,
created a lot of opposition, and was eventually sold to Mr.
barley for 2,100 guineas. He is a bard bay, with black
legs, and the moment he was brought out of the ring, he
broke loose, and showed off his points to great advantage,
but was soon caught. Dark Agnes, a very clever-looking,
short-legged two-year-old, that has never run, was very
cheap to Mr. John Peart at 220 guineas. The yearlings
were, as a whole, an extraordinarily good lot, particularly
noticeable for their very powerful loins, muscular quarters,
capital arms, and good legs. A very good-looking colt, by
Van Galen, with a deal of use about him, Mr. I'Anson took
for 300 guineas ; and Mr. W. Day went up to 520 guineas
for Alexander, by Musjid, out of Agnes, by Clarton, a very
handsome, symmetrical, and racing-like colt from head to
heels. He is a brown, with a star in his face, and three
white legs, and he is in every way likely to train into a
first-rate horse. The horses in training owned by Captain
Cathcart were next offered, the first lot being Prince Arthur,
and he came up with charges on his fore legs, being bought
in for 290 guineas. Blue Riband was also bought in for
2,900 guineas. Jezebel went back for 350, Trump Card for
190, Lord of the Vale 850, Haphazard 300, and Breffni for
135 guineas.