The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-15 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WEIGHTS FOR THE WORCESTER GRAND STEEPLECHASE
or 25 sovs., &e.
st lb 1 at lb
Peter Simple, aged 12 6 The Falcon (h ,b) a.. 10 4
Proceed. aged ll 12 Aerie Day, 6 yrs ... 10 4
British Yeoman, aged 11 12 Red Lancer, aged ... 10 4
Rat•trap, 6 yrs
Chandler, aged .
The Doctor, aged
The Commoner, aged 11 0 lus (h b), aged ... 10 0
Trust-me•not, aged lO 12 The Young-'un, 6 yrs 10 0
Farnham, 5 yrs lO 10 Liberty, aged . lO 0
Wolverhampton, a lO 10 Jerry, aged lO 0
Valiant (h b) aged... 10 10 Abd-el-Kader, aged 10 0
Spectator, aged
Tipperary Boy, 5 yrs 10 7 Victory, 5 yrs lO 0
Young Lottery, aged 10 7 Linkboy, 5 yrs
Fugleman, 6 yrs lO 7 Billy Morgan 9 7
Ch g by Hurlatone Shepherdess (h b) a 9 7
(h b), aged lO 7 Tom Bowling, aged 9 7
Shinrone, 6 yrs
Gr gby Amaranth d Vulture, aged 9 7
Alice Gray, 6 yrs 10 7 Rector (h b), aged
Miss Collingwood, 6 Bayonet, 4 yrs
yrs
Ben Lomond, 6 yrs... 10 7 Jack-of-all-Trades, 4
Polygon, aged
Laird-o'Cockpen,6ys 10 4 Little Tommy, aged 8 10
St. Ruth, aged
Prince George and Proceed were scratched on Thurs-
day night for the above handicap. The hurdle races at
this meeting will remain open till the 18th (Thursday
next), and weights, &c., published on the 21st, and
declarations made on or before the 27th.

WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON.— This meeting will
take place on the 27th and 28th of next month, when
there will be four flat races, three steeplechases, a hurdle
race, &c. Three hundred soya. of public money, in-
cluding 100 to the grand steeplechase, and 50 to the
handicap flat race, will be given, of which due advertise-
ment will be made.

The Edgeware Trial Steeplechase and hurdle races
,eke place on Thursday next, the 18th, over the Sccus-
,omed ground.

THE- ENGLISH RACEHORSE V. THE ARAB, ON HIS
OWN GROUND —A proposition of a chivalric order, in
the true sense of the word, has been alluded to in these
columns, as having proceeded from the Pacha of Egypt
to the owners of English racehorses. Should the affair
come to fruition, it will excite interest far beyond the
circle of those immediately connected with the turf af-
fairs, strictly so called.
Mr. C. C. Greville, who has been chosen as the me-
dium for this friendly and spirited cartel, has addressed
the following letter to the public prints :
" Sir,—A challenge has been sent through me on the
part of the Pacha of Egypt to the English turf, which I
first communicated to the Jockey Club, and now wish to
notify to the public through the medium of your paper.
It was my,inteution to have sent you the letter of our
Consul-Cieneral, in which this challenge is conveyed, but
I have unfortunately mislaid it, and after the most dili-
gent search have been unable to find it. I remember,
however, the contents of it with sufficient accuracy to
answer every purpose. Mr. Murray states that his
Highness the Pacha is convinced that his Arab horses
are superior to our English race•horses over a length of
ground, and he proposes to test their relative merits by a
match to be run in Egypt; the distance to be ten milts;
the stake 10,000/., which he thinks, if desired, might he
iocrimsed to 15,0001.; .no limitation as to ago or weight.
The ground over which the match would be run is sand,
with a good many stones in it. He concludes by saying
that if there is a disposition here to make the match, he
will proceed to adjust the preliminaries. Upon the re-
ceipt of this bitter, I wrote him word that I would
make this cliallebge public, and that I thought it very
probable it would be accepted, and I then put to him a
variety of questions as to certain points on which I
deemed it essential that information should be supplied.
Thus the matter stands at present. As soon as I hear
again from Cairo I will trouble you with .a further com-
munication.

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" C. C. GuEvn.ix.

" Bruton street, Oct, 12, 1849;"
The vast superiority of the English thoroughbred
horses over Arabs of the purest blood, has been estab-
lished by innumerable trials in India, and that the Cos-
sack horses have as little chance with them will be
gathered from the following account of a match in
Russia, from the Stud. book:—" Sharper (bred by Lord
Egremont, and•got by Octavius out of Young Amazon,
by Gohanna) was sent in 1825 to Russia, where ho and
Minna (bred by Mr. Newton, and got by Woful out of
Diana, by Stamford) were matched to run 75 versts
(494 English Mires) on the public road, against two
Cossack horses: , Minna falling lame, was pulled up
early in the race which Sharper won with ease, not-
withstanding the loss of a stirrup, and the consequent
inability of his rider to restrain him for several miles.
The Cossack horses had nearly 3st. advantage in weight,
and one of them fell at the end of 25 miles and died.
This race was run in 1825, near St. Petersburgb."

DEATH of GEORGE NELSON,the JOCKEY.
(From the Doncaster Chronicle.)
We have this s• k to record the sudden and
unexpected demise of George Nelson, the celebrated
north-country jockey, who expired at the Turf
Tavern, in this town, on Wednesday night last, after
an illness of only a few hours' duration. Deceased
was .out. in the town on the afternoon of his death,
and was apparently in the enjoyment of his accus-
tomed health. The last place which be visited was
the bank of Sir W. B. Cooke and Co., where he was
suddenly seized with an apoplectic fit, and, dropped
upon the floor. Medical assistance. was immediately
rendered, but the deceased never afterwards rallied,
and expired about eleven o'clock the same evening.
The deceased was born at Masham, near Middleham,
Yorkshire, on the 15th October, 1793, When the
time approached for him to be put apprentice to some
business, his godfather interposed, and Procured him-
a situation under Mr. Samuel King, now of this
town, who was at. that time the celebrated training
groom to Sir T. Gascoigne, Bart. Nelson was placedl
under the charge of Mr. King in Januaiy, 1807, and
though at that time upwards of 13 years of age
his weight scarcely exceeded four stone. He soon
became an especially favourite with the worthy
baronet, and kept him at exercise on the young
horses. The young jockey in 1809 made hisdebut on
Rover, at York, where he rode sst. 41b., and cleverly
beat Cardinal York, Paul, and Teazle Evitch, in four
mile heats. In 1810 he made several starts in
Cheshire and Lancashire, bis weight :at that time
scarcely exceeding four stones.
Sir Thomas Gascoigne dying in 1810, Mr. King
was appointed head trainer to Lord Scarborough, and
Nelson obtained a fair share of public employment.
His star was now in the ascendant, and in 1816 he
became the established jockey of Lord Scarborough,
and had the best mounts in the stable, with the ex-
ception of old Catton, during the latter part of whose
performances that celebrated animal was ridden by
Mr. King himself.
The deceased had by this time established his rept],
tation as a rider, and continued to achieve consider.
able fame in the sporting world. On Lottery and
Fleur-de-Lis he was never .beaten, and during the
racing season of 1824 he landed in Minna
.a winner no
less than eight times. Two years aftewards he won
the Doncaster St. Leger on Tarrare, and the skill and
judgment which he displayed in the race throughout
were highly commended by the sporting men of that
dayD.
uring the time that Nelson was in the service of
Lord Scarborough, he occasionally rode for his late
Majesty King George IV., when young John, the
son of Mr. Samuel King, used to supply his place in
his Lordship's stud. His Majesty conceived a great
liking for Nelson, and he at one time remarked that
they had had "a clever jockey on sea, and now he
had a clever jockey on land."
On the death of George IV., King William being
imbued with the racing propensities of his predeces-
sor, kept on a stud of horses, and retained Nelson in
his service up to the time of his death, when a com-
fortable annuity was settled by Government upon the
fortunate jockey. Nelson afterwards entered the
service of Lord. Glasgow, but from the time of his
receiving the but little regard to
pension he paid
racing matters. Ms last atount, we believe, was in