The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-08 00:00:00

ORTING NOTES.—No. COCO VIII.

,_4l.eeti bout
-01 l the best day's racing ever seen at the Spring
nyesterday.
no on the Downs of Epsom came off
The fields
lar for the two principal races e
ge, and the results very close and
peculiarly,re interest-
ing.unusually
The Trial Stakes afforded arastued
said not to his
'very easy defeat of the celeb
ThirsprwisaestoPhe ring
finished an indifferent fourth. Hobble Noble, who
ywthhoe
Day's stable, was.
running, and I think thartosmuch_om.
nust have been the case.out
The winner_ Lascelles, from
five times last year and John
on every occasion.
capsizing all judgment in the matter,
row, by way of the large-strided Ephesus and
he defeats .very cleverlyheat
gun before named. He is well
Frantic, besides the great
Touchstone, out of Cara, and probably
bred, being by
will do a few good things where the distance is short.
The City and Suburban Handicap afforded a splendid
race with three, and proved myu j d ent in this bout to
be very correct, for I gave the race to Ethelbert, and
placed Jouvence and Pancake very close up. Now these
three ran home together, Ethelbert, in the last stride,
making a dead heat of it with Panes,' lie, In the : and Jouvence
not beingtheaten more than half a lengt,
de-
ciding, heat Ethelbert won very cleverly, by a short neck.
This perrormanc3 of the winner is undoubtedlysuperior,
Pancake,
as he conceded his year and eleven pounds to
Ind gave weight away to every horse of his own age
the race. If top much of the " steel" has not been
taken out of him by these severe races, he will be tole-
rably sure of carrying off the Newmarket Handicap next
week, for which race, however, Contentment andNerza
must not be forgotten, the three, in my opinion,
having
the rice all to themselves.
The Two-year-old Stakes resulted, rather unexpectedly,ie...
in favour of Village Lass, a remarkably well-bred c au,li
ter of Pyrrhus the First, the strain on the dam's side
Much better
being through Provost and Martha Lynn.
blood it would be difficult to find. The stable did not
support the horse for a shilling that I am aware of, and
their want of confidence led me to believe that she was
of no account. tary engagement. At the present time she has not a soli-
The Great Metropolitan. Stakes in its decision did not
produce contentment so much desired by a large
Portion tatthe public. The great " pot," Contentment,
after having been backed at 5 to 4 go off very well in
the start, laid forward throughout the race, but when
the important moment arrived for the final strug_gle,,.
compounded, and was beal.en about a length from Gad-
play about, the iiv,in_ner, who disposed of Richmond (second)
Snowdon Dunhill' made strong
play the greater .
of the distance and nearly over-
powered his jockeyrel3eeeveral tirnes. The result of the
"Met"
shad the
copnin, lioneywtro j of sseonnadeinigontrheorwifinvneerp'soisnttasbilne
the betting for theelDt
aeisrboyalnanoneinitance as little as 9
to I was taken.
Rich to the rank
of second fayourite for the Cheste
tentment right out of the marketr Cup' and sent Con-
thmoesDt
oerfbtyh.e
Ring is not particularly hard bit, amodr ing list men are winners. It is •
said that the
winner is Captain Scott.
The other
principal
l-
A .. e r races require no remarks.
It 8 th Newmarket Craven Meeting commences on
~,Londay I
, may as well review the first day's racing at
once.
The Craven Stakes will bear usual, open the perform-
ance, after which will
entries for both of which. stalierr haveela not as yet closed.
eaThhe Thirty-ninth Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sous.
I o , h ft, over the A.b. M , will fall to the lot of one of
4ord Clifden's nominatio 2.•
The 100 says. Sweepstaku stakes, over the D. M., will be
Won by Filbert, should he iiet'bekept for more important
races later in the week ; in° his absence, War Whoop
Will do the deed.
have N Sweepstakes of 50
h, D. M., will probably
athan as the winner,
each,
l'he Produce Stakes of 300 sous. each, h ft, R. M.,
Will be a walk over for the Duke of Bedford's Diomedia.
In the Matches Frantic, Bst 121 b, is, I fancy, capable
of beating
,
be rash CaracaL Bst .71b. over the flat • and I shall
enough to t.'llie the Miss Sarah filly in preference
to Gossip over the D. M.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

6/tRIOUS ACCIDENT IN CLEBBENwELL.—Yesterday, as
cinae men were employed in taking down one of the
'louses in Ray-street, Clerkenwell, which is to be cleared
ronlayvfor they-street, purpose of forming the new thoroughfare
floc • arringdon-street to Coppice-row, Clerkenwell, the
ring suddenly gave way. At the time, there were on
it three men, of the names of Daniel Murphy, Michael
MurPhY, and Daniel Connor, who were precipitated a
depth of 16 feet, and who were instantly covered with
the rubbish and materials of the building. As quick as
possible, several of the labourers were en; aged to extri-
cate the poor fellos, which was done promptly. They
'were found in an exhausted state, and were immediately
placed on shutters on which they were removed to St.
tartholornew's Hospital. None of them were found to
haveerio any bones broken, but they had suffered very
Tere
sus injuries internally, when they were put to bed.
ex ~h the. were hortunate men,opes this morning of the ultimate recovery
unf