The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES FOIL MONDAY.
Handicap. D.M.
Wanota, 4 yrs, BA' 71b—Diplomatist, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—
The Admiral, 4 yrss 7st 51b—Swordplayer, 3 yrs, Est 91b
—lfinchinbrook, 3 yrs, Est 11b—Holloa, 3 yrs, sst 81b—
f by Lord Stafford, out of Birdlime, 3 yrs, sst 71b.
Three declared, &c.
Sweepstakes of 10 sot's. each; for three yrs old, &c.
Criterion Course. Winner to be sold for 3501, &c.
The Widow, aged—Bishop of Roinford's Cub
Blackbird, 5 yrs—The Traverser, 5 yrs.
Sweepstakes of 10 Boys. each; for three yrs old, &c.
D.M. The winner to be sold for 601., &c.
Marquis of Conyngbam, 5 yrs—Circassian Maid, 5
yrs—Dromedary, 4 yrs—Ulysses, 4 yrs—Besborough,
3 yrs.
The Criterion Stakes—The following are scratched.—
Canadian, Ortez, Diana, Solon, c by Voltaire, out of
Mecca; c by Voltaire, out of Silistria; Legerdemain,
Routh, Crucible, Ferozepore, Philippa, b f by Venison,
out of Marzellina; b c by Sir Hercules, out of Empress;
Abbot 'of Meaux, br c by Touchstone, out of Caststeel;
Vanguard, Eddystone, Damson, f by Touchstone, out of
Mickleton Main; Ravenabone, Broadway Swell, Eagle-
stone.

Matches—Czarina receives from The Provost filly,
and Blackcock from Paultons. The one hundred yards'
match between the Jereed gelding and The Provost filly
will be run to-morrow; and that between Duke of Bed-
ford's and Mr. Gregory's yearlings on Thursday, instead
of Saturday.

BETTING.
CANBRIDGESEURE STARES.
5 to 1 offered on the Field
12 to 1 agst Chanticleer
12 to 1 agst Geraldine
14 to 1 agst Fern
23 to 1 agst Miss Sarah
30 to 1 agst Yardley

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
" Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence ? Or why,
Upon this heath, you stop our way,
With such prophetic greeting ?"—SHARSPERE.

" 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."—lmp.

SlR,—This being my last epistle of the present year,
it is my intention before proceeding to unravel the
mysteries of the Houghton week, to throw out a few
hints with respect to the forthcoming steeple chases; to
show your readers how "Fortune hath given me a rare
helping cast," and them a lucky counsel learned in
affairs of sport; and then to

" Wander back,
O'er Time's dim shadowy track."
For a brief summary of the season now about to close,
to show how far certain passages of sport will bear upon
those stakes of note sow in the womb of time.

The steeple chase nags likely to come prominent

before the public during the ensuing winter 'are the fol-
lowing:—Chandler, Proceed, St. Leger, Garendon, Jus-
tice to England, The Victim, Iron Duke, Jack Boots,
Forest Boy, Mushroom, The British Yeoman, Tipperary
Boy, and The Curate. There are a few others in the
background whose names I have not been able to ascer-
tain; the above lot are all doing good work, and will be
brought out in great force.
For the Worcester Steeple Chase, Proceed, with the
rather heavy weight of 12st. 21b up; British Yeoman,
list 101 b; The Victim, lOst. 121 b.; and Justice to Eng-
land, 9st. 101 b., will be the foremost Jot in favouritism
and the field, the first, with Captain Little up, for choice.
For the Crewe Steeple Chase, Forest Boy, The Cot-
tesmore Lass, or The Eagle.
For the Newport Pagnel, St. Leger, the Curate,
Justice to England, Crown Prince, and Proceed are the
best ; but it is dubious whether the latter two are meant
for it, the weights not being out as yet.
With this letter I close the fourth session of my pro-
phetic scribblings, during which time I've accomplished
two unparalled feats, the picking out of four successive
Derby winners—to wit, the Merry Monarch, Pyrrhus,
Cossack, and Surplice—and the placing of the first and
second tor the St. Leger two successive years, with Van
Tromp and Cossack last year, and Surplice and Ca-
ner)u this.

Of my minor achievements, I consider the selection of
Wits end for the Cesare witch, in 1846, to be the best,
not ono of the half dozen prophets, and only a ♦ery
small portion of the public, going with me in my selec-
tion. This year my ventures have been on an average
of twenty-four hits to ten misses—pretty fair, I think 5
and should I continue at the same rate, you readers will
have little cause to find fault with my exertions on their
behalf.

Now for a short summary of the present season, which
may be said to have commenced at Northampton, where
Me, Payne's fillies, Farthingale and Glance, made their
debut—the first winning a produce stakes in a common
canter in exactly the same time (47 seconds), over the
same course (half mile), as the sister to Arkwright took
to win 'the Althorp Park Stakes, when she beat Glauca
by a head, Nina being beaten the same distance from
Glauca, and thirteen others, including Routh and Good-
wood, not placed. At the Epsom Spring Meeting,
stranger to say, Christiana, a second-rate filly, came
out and bowled Farthingale over in 60 seconds, distance
half a mile. Mr. Hesse'tine's black filly Quivra won a
couple of stakes very easily, at Catterick ; Lord Zet-
land's filly, by Don John, since named Castanette, won
the Shorts easily, beating Routh, Cigarette, and three
others; this filly is rapidly improving, and will b© quite
capable of accomplishing a deed of note, in the handicap
department, next year..
At Epsom Glauca won the Woodcote Stakes in a
canter, in lin. 18sec., three quarters of a mile—beating
Tefiis, Abbot of Meaux, Philippa, and three others.
What Lord G. Bentinck attempted to do a few years
ago with Gaper, was this year accomplished by means of
Surplice, his winning the Derby, was, without excep-
tion, the hardest hit the ring ever sustained ; it most
effectually cleared off all the dubious members both at
the corner, aid the sporting houses; the dose, though
severe, was absolutely necessary, the great number of
chance speculators, with nil at their bankers, or in their
pockets, were so much on the increase that none were
safe from their depredations; the settling, so far as the
regulars were concerned, though mostly losers, went off
without a crash, smash, or annihilation.
Ascot brought out Elthiron as the clever winner of
the Triennial Stakes; and Garrick, Bst. 71b., as the
winner of the New Stakes, beating Glauca, Bst. alb., and
for others.
At the Newmarket July Meeting The Flying Dutch-
man made a most triumphant debut as the winner of the
July Stakes, beating The Sister to lodine, The Jester,
and five others; and Farthingale was again in the ascen-
dant, winning the Chesterfield with the most perfect
ease, beating a field of nine at Goodwood, Glauca once
more appeared as a winner for the Levant Stakes, an
also once more as a loser, carrying Bst 111 b.; being beaten
by Mr. Milner, Bst. 71h., Uriel, Bst. 71b., and The High-
land Fling, Bst. 41b., for the Molecomb Stakes.
At York, we find Mr. Payne's fillies Farthingale and
Glauca again triumphant, the former beating Ellen
Middleton, Garrick, Legerdemain, and five others
cleverly for the Prince of 'Wales's Stakes, and the latter
beating a field of third rates, for the Gimcrack Stakes.
At Doncaster, The Flying Dutchman wins as a
matter of course the Champagne and Two years old
Stakes. For the St. Leger, Surplice repeats the Derby
dose, almost annihilating an eighth of the ring, including
some of the leading men at the corner, as well as in the
City; many will rue the day they entered the lists as
opponents of the champion of the 19th century.
In the Newmarket First October Meeting, Colonel
Peel's son of lon and Palmyra, Tadmor, the winner of
the Ham Stakes at Goodwood in a canter! put in an
appearance for the First Triennial Stakes, which he won
very easily in 1 min. 15 secs. (5 furlongs 136 yards),
beating the Highland Fling second, Elthiron third, and
fifteen not placed. He also won the same day a sweep-
stakes of 50 soya. each, in a common canter, beating
Sobraon and His Excellency.
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Produce Match;
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beaten horse has won for Colonel Peel in stakes alone
tisk ells':
4,5861.
I had almost overlooked ono of the cleverest fillies of
the present year—Lord Stanley's Escalade, who ran a
good second to The Flying Dutchman at Liverpool for
a sweepstakes of 200 sore. each, and has since won a
stake at Newmarket in a canter!

And now to
"Look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow, and which will not."
For the Two Thousand Guineas I still remain of the
same opinion as expressed in my Warwick letter six
weeks ago. Honeycomb, or Nunnykirk, in my opinion,
have the rest as safe as boiled. Perhaps with the ex-
ception of Indus, who may for this race have a chance,
but not being within 101 b. of Tadmor cannot possess one
for the Derby.
For the Chester Cup, Limestone, the Tartar, Sur-
plice, Shyluck, Ellerdale, Lady Mashatn, Dough, Sylvan,
Escape, and Blucher, are likely to be among the accept-
ances, and one or two, The
.Tartar and Ellerdale, for
instance, rattling favourites.
For the Derby I see nothing that possesses the most
remote chance of beating the Flying Dutchman, and
Tadmor, the latter for choice.
For the Oaks, the Sister to Arkwright, Farthingale,
Escalade, 'and one of the Duke of Richmond's, against
the field, for my money.
The " hay and straw," or last week of the racing sea-
son, commonly yclept the Houghton week, commences
on Monday, and in all probability will extend to the
Monday following ; there is at present on thelist thirty-
five Sweepstakes, and twenty-one Matches, affording an
average of eight rims per diem ; amount of sport
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- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
The ..following horses have arrived at Newmarket
since our. sketch of the engagements for the week were
made up:—Maid of my Soul, Garrick, Prime Minister,
Serenade (from France), Leopoldiae filly (from France),
Latitat, Vanish, Osterley, Dulcet, Thornhill, Sauter le
Coup, the Widow, Tommy, Man of my Heart, Buck-
stone, Willingham, Lady Lift, the Hind of the Forest,
Yardley, Birdlime filly, Concertina colt, Vanguard, F.
by Auckland out of biopsy, Psalmsinger, Buscot Buck,
Ploughboy, First Chance, Queen Mary,Pell.mell, Syrup,
Miss Bunny, Capt. Parry, Din:tench°, Mignon, F. by
Birdcatcher out of Gag's dam, besides ten or a dozen of
Lord Strathmore's for sale.
The following match has been added to the list for
Tuesday :—Mr. Mostyn's f. by Lord Strafford, out of
Birdlime, 3 yrs, against Duke of Bedford's Newport, 2
yrs, Sat First half of Ab. M. 100 h ft.
The Cambridgeshire.—Hope, c. by Theon, out of Fer-
neley's dam, and Blunderbuss, are acatched.
The Criterion.—Philippa, Ortez, and Ferozepore, are
struck out. Mr. 11. Combe's horses will in future be
trained by W. Cotton; and Sir Joseph Hawley's, alter
next week, by G. Taylor, a son of Lord Chesterfield's
trainer.