The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-30 00:00:00

DERBY.

5 and 6 to 1 laid against Nunnykirk, and a great dea
of money laid out on The Knout, from 50 to 1 to 16 to I
No other change.

OAKS.
700 to 100 laid against Glauca.
THE METROPOLITAN STEEPLE CHASES,
SATURDAY.

The Great Metropolitan Handicap Steeple Chase
Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared,
with 250/. added ; the second to receive 50/., and the
third to save his stake. (36 Subs.), 13 of whom de-
clared.
Mr. Bevill's British Yeoman, list 21b (Archer) 1
Captain Little's Commoner, lOst 6lb (olliver) 2
Mr. Vevers's Vengeance, lOst 2lb (Owner) 3
Mr. Dixon named The Victim, Ilst 91b (Taylor) 4
The following also ran:—Proceed, I Ist 101b—Spring
Buck, I Ist 21b—Knight of Gwynne, list
lOst 121b—Falcon, lOst 121b—Donny brook, 10st 121 b
Liberty, lost 101b—Valiant, 10,t—iVIaurice Daly, lOst.
31b—Charity, lOst 21b—Bold Davy, 9st 131b—Chatham,
9st 131b—Oily Gammon, 9st 121b—Sparta, 9st.
Won in a canter by 100 yards, Vengeance a bad third.
The Free Handicap Steeple Chase was won by Mr.
Potter's Outcast, lOst 7lb (Captain Barlowe), beating
Mr. 011iver's Pullaway, Ilst 131 b ; Mr. Bull's Tobacco-
nist, list 71b ; and Mr. Robinson's Sauterne, lOst 61b,
easily.

The Aristocratic Steeple Chase was won in a trot by
Mr. Beville's Young Lott-ry, (Mr. Phi!pot), bating
Mr. Carew's Vindictive (Captain I)'Arcy), Mr. Vever's
Governor (Captain W. Peel), and Lord Strathmore's
Second Thought (Captain Harlowe).
CHESTER RACES.
CHESTER, SATURDAY NIGHT.
The following horses have arrived :—Blucher, Swallow,
Gaffer Green, Wilmont, Chanticleer, Collingwood, Ruby,
Inheritress, Sponge, Fernbill, Slashing Alice, Lady
Wildair, Didsbury, Magician, Shilmalier West, br t by
Morning Star, out of Miss Lucy, Harriott, Concertina
colt, Romance, Capsicum, Cast-off, Ada:Mary, Carthage-
Man, Teresa, Post- tempore, &c.
A great number are on the road, and will be here to-
morrow.

Since the Autumn meeting a great many improve-
ments have been made, and the course is now as complete
as it is possible to make it. The run in from the distance
has been widened, the saddling area has been extended
by the removal of the hedge, and adding to it a portion
of the Rodee, to give additional room for such purpose ;
the betting ring has been enlarged, and placed nearer to
the south end of the Grand Stand, so as to remove every
inconvenience to the spectators above; the space at the
south end thereof has been extended; a new telegraph
frame, designed on the most approved principle, will
exhibit, in addition to the number of each horse, the
names of the jockeys; there will also be the number of
the first and second horse exhibited immediately after
the races. The rails have also been extended round as
far as the railway turn. It is expected that about thirty
will run for the Cup.

" The time approaches
That will, with due decision, make us know
What we shall say we have, and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate ;
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate."
SHARSPERE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The first act of the racing drama of 1849 has
just closed its wintry existence. Before reviewing the
good things at Chester, let me take a retrospective glance
at the two Newmarket, Epsom, and Bath meetings, and
sae what light their results throw on those reunions of
note yet in embryo.
En passant, I cannot help remarking how completely
suceessful the prognostications of my last two " general"
letters were. In the first, written in the Warwick weok,
September, 1848, I foretold the victories of Surplice for
the St. Leger and Grand Duke Michael Stakes ; of Tad-
mor for all his Newmarket engagements, five in number;
of Nunn} kirk for the Two Thousand Guineas ; and in-
formed your readers that Blucher and three or four other
nags would be entered, and accept, for the Chester Cup;
with the exception of Limestone, they have all dune so.
I also declared my conviction that Tadmor and the Flying
Dutchman were the best horses in the Derby, and that
tkey would figure at small odds before the day; that
Nunnykirk and Flying Dutchman were the nags for the
St. Leger ; that Narbonne, if she remained sound, would
be a rattler for the Oaks of 1850 ; and that Pontifex
was a " second edition" of Surplice.
In my second general letter, written at the beginning
of February, among others, I selected Loupgarou
(2d) for the Northamptonshire Stakes; Canezou (Ist)
for the Newmarket Handicap; Tadmor (Ist) for the
Column Stakes; Flatcatcher (Ist) for the Port Stakes;
Brandyface (3d) for the Somersetshire Stakes; Canezou
(fell amiss), and Inheritress (reserved for Chester), for
the Great Metropolitan Stakes; Nunnykirk (Ist) for
the 2,000 Guineas; Pylos and Vatican (Ist) for the
Newmarket Stakes; Inheritress, Lady Wildair, Blucher,
and Dacia, for the Chester Cup; Elthiron for the Dee
Stakes; Tadmor, Flying Dutchman, and Nunnykirk, for
the Derby; and Glauca, Sister to Arkwright, and Esca-
lade, for the Oaks.
The Newmarket Craven " meet" annihilated by de
feat the chances of the following Derby horses:—
Burghley, Skudar, Escalade, Turban, Pylaates, Queens.
berry, Silistria colt, Knight Errant, Cracow, Tommy,
Mecca colt, Indus, Flambenu's dam colt, The New Era,
Routh, Fire King, Sir Launcelot, Velveteen colt, Pylos,
Chicot, and Honeycomb; and the First Spring disposed
of this additional batch :—Caeus, Strongbew, Cambric,
Abd el-Kader, Vatican, Garrick, Do-the-Boys, Oquitos,
Beauvale, Testator, Cashier, Bernadotte, and Juggler.
All that are likely to run for the " great go" on the
Surrey hills are included he the following list:—Tad.
mor, Nunnykirk, Flying Dutchman, Elthiron, Beim,
Vanguard, Uriel, Honeycomb, Osterley, The Jester,
Old Dan Tucker, Langton, Rochester, Snowstorm,
Saucy Dick, Garrick, Chatterer, Drakelow, John Bull,
Vatican, Brother to Campanero, Normanton, Magician,
The Seraph, Fire King, and Newport. Even at this dis.
taut date I thick I can venture to proclaim Tadmor with
Nat up as the winner of the Derby! with Nunnykirk
and the Dutchman handy; the next rank being com-
posed of Old Dan Tucker, Osterley, Saucy Dick, Uriel,
Elthiron, and Vanguard.
The past Newmarket meetings, according to the run-
ning, have disposed of the chances of the following
Oaks fillies:—Quinine, Escalade, Damson, Jane Eyre,
Premature filly, Industry filly, White Lady, Racketty
Girl, Midia, Grace, Cayenne, Kiss-away, Bon Bon,
Sister to Jolly Dick, Chadlington Maid filly, Touchy,
Francesca, Fleece, Susan Lovell, Perspicacity, Czarina,
Memento, Highland Fling, and filly by Piocaroon out of
Bonny Bonnet. It is impossible to name the starters for
the Oaks at the present time, but the following list may
be somewhere near the mark.—Glauca, Clarissa, Eva,
The Model, Sister to Arkwright, Lady Tryphena, Emma
Donna, Lady Barymore, Priestess, Grace, Christiana,
Czarina, Letitia, Highland Fling, The Probe, Escalade,
Fleece. Nina, Lady Jersey, West Country Lass, Heroine,
Wet Nurse, Rosalind filly, Cheerful, Cigarette, Jeanie
Woman, and Batwing. Nat on Glauca or Clarissa will,
in my opinion, clear the post first; Escalade, Tho Model,
West Country Lass, Industry filly, and Nina forming
the van of the ruck.
The Bath racing was very mediocre, Jelly Fish doing
a clever thing in beating The Model and Tiresome for
the City Cup ; and Essedarius, with little Cowley up,
doing another clever thing by just winning the Sumer-
shire Stakes from Loupgarou.
As I expected, that crack little filly. Officious, won
the Wsstow Stakes at Bath on the Tuesday, and the
Two years-old Stakes at Epsom on the Saturday, in the
easiest of canters.

For the Great Metropolitan Stakes, my especial
fancy, Flatestcher, did not exert himvelf running in sixth,
while the horse I placed third (Fernhill) did the deed of
note,

The Chester bout begins at half•past two o'clock on
Tuesday with the Grosvenor Stakes, for whioh Raby,