The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

YORK SPRING MEETING.

Weights for the Flying Dutchman's handicap of 100 sovs,
added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5
if declared by Tuesday, May 6. One mile and a quarter.
38 subs.

Yrs st lb
The Wizard
Cape Flyaway 5 8 10
The Lawyer (h b) 4 8 6
Lady Ripon
The Monk 5 8 0
Croagh Patrick 4 7 12
Silverhair
Virgilius
Finlande
Nightingale
Jingling Johnny.. 4 7 8
Doefoot
Vol tella 4 7 6
A • o
Tattoo
Lava .. 4 7 5
East Stanley 4 7 4
Paste
Interest
Springwell .. 5 7 2
Gardener

Yrs et lb
Colossus 4 6 10
Br. to Schiedam
The Pilot
Br. h. by Voltigeur
—Rosebud 6 6 9
Astarte
Tim Whiffler
Leonora
Beverley ..
Shipwreck 4 6 2
Fairy King (late
Lucky Lad, late
Fajrysrt) 3 8
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Flytrap
Lord of Lynne 3 5 10
Tisiphone .. 3 5 9
Earl of Westmore-

land
Black Prince 6 paid
Garrison Beauty

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-

MENTS.

April 23, at 11 a.m., Nutbush, out of All-aged Stakes,
Newmarket Houghton.

April 24, at 5.50 p.m., Rubicon and Umpire, out of
Chester engagements.

April 24, at 10.6 p.m., Cosmopolite, out of All-aged
Stakes, Newmarket Houghton.
April 25, at 12.15 p.m., Yarra, out of all engagements.
April 25, at 5 p.m., Carbineer, out of Great Northern
Handicap, York.

April 26, at 9 am., Phantom, o'at of Wynnetay Handi•
cap, Chester.
April 26, at 4 p.m., Garibaldi:, out of Newmarket Stakes.
April 28, at 9 a.m., May Qosling and Interducit, out of
Sowerby Plate, Thirsk.
April 28, at 9 a.m., Flytrap, out of Hambleton Plate, and
Thirsk Handicap, ane, Members' Plate, Malton,
April 28, at 9 a.m., King of Kars and Ruby, out of
Members' Plate, Malton.
April 28, at 9 a.m., Precursor and Faultless, out of
Chester engagements.
April 29, at 11 a.m., Black Prince, out of all engage-
ments.
April 30, at 4.10 p.m., Santa Claus and Watcbfire, out of
the Two Thousand Guineas.
Lord Chesterfield's filly by Stockwell, out of Babette,
4 yrs, has been named Bathilde.

MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB.
A general meeting of the Jockey Club will be held at the
New Rooms, Newmarket, after the races, on Wednesday
next, for a ballot and for other business. The following
notices of motion have been given :
By Mr. Greville—" That the resolutions passed at the
last meeting as to the signing of an agreement to abide by
the decision of the stewards be reconsidered, with a view to
their being rescinded, on account of the great difficulty, if
not impossibility, of carrying them out; and because the
prineipal object sought to be attained by them is, in fact,
attained by the present laws and practice of racing."
By Admiral Rous :—" Whereas rule 41 defeats the object
it was intended to remedy by dictating certain mechanical
punishments in the shape of fines for the first, second, and
third offences committed by jockeys at the starting-post,
without any reference to their gravity, of the extent of
which the stewards can alone form a correct estimate ; and
as the fines are seldom paid from the pockets of the offenders,
the sa d rule becomes a tacit encouragement for jockeys to
set the starter at defiance. It is virtually a dead letter,
and seldom attended to, but it remains a pul lic nuisance,
the only effectual remedy being suspension from riding at
the discretion of the stewards of the Jockey Club. I there-
fore to the Jockey Club to substitute a rule which shall en-
able the stewards of the Jockey Club to correct such enor-
mous abuses as we saw at Goodwood and Northampton,
where the riders of the winners of the Stewards' Cup and
the Spencer Plate started their hen es ton lengths in advance
of the starting post in defiance of the starter, for which
rule 41 prescribes only a £5 penalty; and I further submit
to the Jockey Club whether it would not be advisable to
disqualify a horse from winning under the above circum-
stances when the jockey absolutely refuses to obey the
orders of the starter."
The stewards will call the attention of the meeting to the
question of compromises, and the present unsettled state of
the law on this subject. In the case of a compromise after
a dead heat the liability of both horses to carry extra weight
is fixed by rule 47, but the effect of compromises without a
race is not regulated by any existing rule. The points to be
settled are—

1. Is the horse that walks over, dividing the forfeits with
one or more of the horses engaged against him, in equal or
unequal proportions, to be considered the winner of the
whole amount of the prize, according to rule 61 ? 2. Does
a horse that receives a portion, which is sometimes the
larger portion of the prize, by way of compromise from
the horse that walks over, incur any penalty of extra weight
as a winner ?

ENCLOSING or LANGTON- WOLD.—Owing• to the death of
Major-General N. Norcliffe, late of Langton-ball, Melton,
the famous Yorkshire training ground, Langton-wold,
passes into other hands, and it is proposed to enclose it. If
carried out, the whole of the Melton training establishment
will probably have to remove elsewhere, and the splendid
shooting ground of the Ist North York Volunteers will
likewise be lost. A strenuous effort is being made in racing
circles to secure the wold in its present state, certain noble
lords taking a warm interest in the "natter.