The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-27 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
EPSOM RACES.—FRIDAY.
Looking at it with reference to the monster meeting
on Wednesday, the attendance yesterday was moderate
enough, but comparing it with all other Oak days, it was
by far the most numerous we ever beheld. There was a
good show of carriages on the course (amongst them one
containing the " Swedish nightingale," Jenny Lind,
who, it will be easily credited was an attraction scarcely
inferior to the Oaks itself), and a very fair sprinkling of
the aristocracy of both sexes in the stand. We look
upon this to have been the natural consequence of the
ease and quickness with which the journey is now ac-
complished from London-bridge, vast numbers of the
mercantile classes being enabled to devote the whole of
the morning to business, and to reach the Downs in
ample time for the first race. The arrangements on this
line, although very good on the whole, do not appear to
have given entire satisfaction; there was a good deal of
grumbling at the raising of the fares considerably above
the ordinary standard, and at its being compulsory on
all to take first-class tickets, although the number of
first-class carriages was not sufficient for one-third of
the passengers. This proceedin will, doubtless, help to
swell the next dividend, but it had not the advantage of
precedent in railway travelling, and to say the least of it,
was irregular.
The racing yesterday was the same in character and
quantity as on Wednesday, and the principal event, it
will be seen, had an advantage over the Derby in the
numerical strength of the field; in other respects it was
inferior; the animals were of a very moderate grade, and
the number who were up at the finish proves that even
the winner cannot be looked upon as a flyer.
The race was fixed for the same hour at which the
Derby was run, and all the preliminaries were completed
in time for its coming off accordingly; mares, however,
are ticklish animals to deal with
a
thist
season, and it was
not without some little trouble that they were marshalled
into order for starting. About eight minutes after the
time, however, they were brought in line up to the post,
and started in good style. The issue of the struggle that
ensued was favourable to Cymba, a mare trainedl3y John
Day, jun., an addition to a number of grand " p '
amongst which will be found the Derbvs of
1846 and
1847, and the Oaks of 1847 • it is still more extraordinary
that Templeman should have ridden the winners of
Derby and Oaks, two years in succession.
With this race the interest of a most successful meeting
terminated. We may congratulate Mr. Dorling upon
having so managed it, from first to last, as to
give satis-
faction to all parties.
The Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for three yrs
old fillies, Bst 71b each; the second to receive 100 sovs.
out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs.
towards expenses. Mile and a half. New Derby
Course.
Mr. N. Hill's Cymba •-• (Templeman ) 1
Mr, Quin's Attraction ... ..• (Robinson) 2
Mr. Foljambe's Queen of the May „.. (Bumby) 3
The following also started, but were not placed:—
Mr. Bowes's Wiasma ... (F. Butler) 0
Mr. J. Dixon's Do-it-again (A. Day) 0
Mr. Dixon's Hope (W. Hope) 0
Mr. S. Conway's Lady Elizabeth . .(Whitehouse) 0
Mr. Bartley's Grist ... (Hornby, jun.) 0
Mr. S. Hawkes's Miss Harrison ... (J. Holmes) 0
Mr. Pedley's Lady Mary ... (Dickenson) 0
Colonel Peel's lodine ... (Nat) 0
Mr. Merry's Aspasia (J. Prince) 0
Duke of Richmond's Reflection ... (Kitchener) 0
Mr. Mostyn's fby Lord Stafford—Birdlime (Tasker) 0
Mr. Wrather's filly by Don John ... (Cartwright) 0
Lord Exeter's Tisiphone ... (Bartholomew) 0
Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia (Pettit) 0
Mr. Cookson's Camphine (H. Bell) 0
Baron Rothschild's Sister to Satirist... (Sly) 0
Mr. E. Peel's fby Colwick, out of Ninny (Crouch) 0
Colonel Peel's Lola Monies ... (S. Rogers) 0
Lord Eglinton's Astrema ... (Marlow) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Vexation ... (Marson) 0
Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Miss Orbell ... (Denman) 0
Mr. Bouverie's Prairie Bird ... ... (W. Boyce) 0
Mr. Walker's Dimanche ... (Wakefield) 0
Betting-3 to 1 agst Do-it-again (taken freely), 7to 2
agst Wiasma, 6 to 1 agst lodine, 7 to 1 agst Cymba, 8 to
1 agst Attraction, 8 to 1 agst Queen of the May, 20 to 1
agst Lady Elizabeth, 20 to I agst Prairie Bird, and 20
to 1 agst Lord Exeter's two.
At starting, the lead was taken by Hope, followed by
Lola tlontez, lodine, and Do-it-again, with Tisiphone,
Queen of the May, Cymba, Wiasma, and [two or three
others in their wake, and behind them Attraction and
the ruck. At the Craven Post, Do-it-again took the
third place, but no other change of moment was ob-
servable until they came to the turn; the lead was then
taken by Camphine, followed by Dc-it-again and lodine,
Cymba, Wiasma, Miss Orbell, the Miss Lydia filly, and
one or two others, whose colours we eould not make out,
lying very forward. After crossing the road, Queen of
the May took up the running, Camphine and Cymba
waiting on her, with Attraction, Wiasma, lodine, and
half a dozen others, close at hand. So they reached the
end of the , stand, where a decisive change took place.
Cymba went up to Queen of the May, headed her, and
although Attraction came immediately: after, made the
race look doubtful for a moment, she won cleverly in the
end by a length, Attraction beating Queen of the May
by half a length. Wiasma, Camphine, lodine, Miss
Lydia filly, and three or four others, were close up at
the finish, and so nearly abreast that we cannot under-
take to speak with any certainty as to their relative po-
sitions, we fancied Wiasma had a shade the best of it.
The pace was fast up the hill, but was not sustained
throughout. Run in 2 min. 48 secs. Value of the stakes,
2,4001.
The Members' Plate of 50 soya.; three yrs old, Est 71b;
four, Sit 91b; five, Bst 131 b; six and aged, 9st 21b;
mares and geldings allowed alb- Th. m;nnor }n ho
sold for 200 soya, if demanded, &c. The entrance
money to go to the second horse. Metropolitan Stakes
Course.
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Latitat, 3 yrs
Lord Strathmore's Tit-bit, 5 yrs
Mr. Drewitt's Pimento, aged ...
Mr. Hargreave's No-go, 6 yrs... ...
Sir G. Heathcote's cby Lanercost, 3 yrs ... 5
Betting-6 to 4 agst No-go, 3to 1 agst Latitat, and 4
to 1 agst each of the others. Won in a canter by three
lengths, and the winner was claimed. Run in 4 min.
40 secs.
The Derby and Oaks Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30
added; horses having started once at this meeting and
been beaten allowed 31b, twice 51b. The winner to be
sold for 120 soya., if demanded, and allowances if to be
sold for less. Heats, one mile.
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Self-Defence, 3 yrs 0 1 1
Mr. Hargreave's Fistiana, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
Mr. E. Maugham's Martingale, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 0 0 3
Sir G. Heathcote's fby Astracan, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b 1 0 0
Mr. Drinkald's Widred, 3 yrs, Bst llb
Mr. Dawson's Genuine, 3 yrs, Est 51b... ..• 0 0 0
Mr. Balchin's Sir Edmund, 5 yrs, Bst llb
Mr. Ayre's Wee-bit, 4 yrs. 7st 131 b 0 0 0
Mr. Crosby's Cast-off, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b... 0 0 0
Mr. Brown's Faunus, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b 0 3 dr
Mr. Arcedeckne's Famine, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
Mr. May's Senga, 3 yrs, 6st Illb 0 0 dr
Lord Strathmore's Bedouin, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b
Duke of Richmond's Nectar, 3 yrs, 6st 81b
Mr. Busk'a Red Doe, 3 yrs, Est 51b ••• dis
First heat-3 to 1 agst Fistiana' 4to 1 agst Nectar,
and 7to 1 agst Genuine. Won by a head. Second
heat-6 to 4 agat Fistiana, and sto 1 agst Wee-bit.
Won by a neck. Third heat-3 to 1 agst Fistiana, and
7 to 2 agst Self-Defence, and 4 to 1 each agst Genuine
and Wee-bit. Won easily by two lengths.
Match, 50, h ft; Bst 7lb each. T.Y.C.
Mr. G. Hobson's ch f First of May, received forfeit
frem Mr. Darrian's Sulria.

... (Dockeray) 1

THE NEW DERBY COURSE.
That the New Course is a great boon to the specula-
tors does not admit of a question; and even trainers and
jockeys are disposed to allow that they had formed an
erroneous estimate of its severity. To remove anything
in the shape of doubt on the subject, we subjoin the
gradients, or rate of inclination, on the new course,
from the starting post to its junction with the old course,
on comparing which with the gradients of the latter,
which are also given, it will b© found that the new course
is the easier of the two:—
THE NEW COURSE.
In the first 100 yards it rises 1 foot in 18.
In the next 120 yards it rises 1 foot in 16.
In the next 130 yards it rises 1 foot in 17.
In the next 160 yards it rises 1 foot in 18.
In the next 215 yards it rises 1 foot in 40.
In the next 155 yards
and in junction with it rises 1 foot in 25.
oldcourse ....... . ..

880 Total-1 foot in 134
THE OLD DERBY COURSE.
In the first 180 yards it rises 1 foot in 20.
In the next 320 yards it rises 1 foot in 24.
In the next 170 yards it rises 1 foot in 35.
In the next 210 yards
or junction with the it rises 1 foot in 17.
new course ............

880 Total-1 foot in 96.
The above has been taken from the elaborate plan and
sections of Epsom Downs, lately made by Mr. Cloatt,
the eminent railway surveyor, of Great Queen-street,
Westminster, who was employed by Mr. Dorling for
that purpose. The result of the average taken between
the old and new course is this—the rate of inclination of
the new one is 1 in 134, of the old one 1 in 96; the
trifling difference being in favour of the new course,
which is less severe. The new course was set oat by
Lord George Bentinck in person, in the summer of
1846; his Lordship having obtained permission from Mr.
Briscoe, the Lord of the Manor, who though not a rac-
ing man himself, has always manifested his desire that
the suggestion of the steward should be acted upon, and
that every facility should be given for the good manage-
ment of Epsom races, the whole of the work was carried
out by Mr. Dorling himself, who at the express desire of
Lord George Bentinck, engaged a large number of unem-
ployed agricultural labourers of Epsom, and adjoining
parish of Walton, for two winters, in constructing the
course, the amount of money expended is little short of
1,000/., which, considering the substantial nature of the
work, is but a small sum. Captain Halliwell Carew, the
lord of the manor of Walton, also gave his sanction to
the course going through his manor. We hear that
greater improvements are in contemplation, and that it
is Lord George's intention to apply to Lord Egremont,
whose estate adjoins Epsom illowns, for permission to
improve the turn at Tattenham Corner, by taking a
small piece from a field there, which would make the
course perfection itself. Long may Epsom continue
under its present able manager, whose arrangements
are, without exception, admirable.
We should advise in future that no booths should be
placed on the hill or lower side of the course, nor that
Wombwell's menagerie should be stuck in front of the
grand stand, for the apparent purpose of annoying half
the nobility of the country by intercepting the view of
the starting place. A. word from Mr. Briscoe, the lord