The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

DERBY.

10 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph colt
12 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster
22 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Constellation-25 to 1 t
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Storm
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clark's The Marlborough Buck
50 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Lightfoot—taken
6,000 to 100 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Lady Geraldine
—taken

3,000 to 100 and 2,500 to 100 agat Mountain Sylph
c winning the 2.000 Guineas Stakes and Derby—taken.
THE DISPUTED RACE AT DONCASTER CASE.
The owner of Knook Knoll objects to the owner of Nancy
receiving the Betting-room Stakes at Doncaster,because she
carried more than 21bs. above her proper weight. The con-
ditions of the race being " that a winner once, in 1850 or
1851, should carry 31135., twice, 51bs. extra." -Nancy won
one race in 1850, and one race in 1851.
CAPTAIN Rous's OPINION.—" I find by the official report
of the clerk of the course, that she carried 9st. 21b., very fine
weight—this weight, 9st. 21b., in my opinion, she was bound
to carry; the conjunction (or) coupled the two events.
Nancy is, theretbre, entitled to the B. R. Stakes."
WARWICK SPRING MEETING, 1851.

WARWICK, MONDAY AFTERNOON. —The following horses
had arrived up to three o'clock this afternoon :

TUESDAY.
The Trial Stakes—Aaron Smith, 3 years; Pilot, 4 yrs;
The Reaper, 3 yrs; Sir Robert, 4 yrs; Le Jeuif, 3 yrs; Bull-
finch, 4 yrs; Nancy, 3 yrs; Gladiole, 4 yrs; The Thistle,
3 yrs; Musician, 4 yrs; lanthe, 8 yrs.
The Willoughby Handicap—Borneo, 5 yrs; Clothworker,
5 yrs; Agis, 6 yrs ; Kissaway, 5 yrs • Escape, 6 yrs ; The
Baroness, 5 yrs; Reversion, 5 yrs; daptain Parry, 5 yrs;
Upton' 5 yrs.
The Woodcote Stakes—Skulda, ch f by Sloane, out of
Pelerine.
The races commence at half-past one.

WEDNESDAY.

The Debiale Stakes Bajazet, Smuggler Bill, Capsicum,
Miss Mowbray.
The Two-year-Old Stakes—Lord Clifden's f by Bay Mid-
dleton, out of H.R.11-Sir J. Hawley's Skulda—Mr. W.
Etwall's ch f bySlane, out of Pelerine Mr. Greville's f by
Slane, out of Brington's dam.
The Great Warwickshire handicap—Borneo, Cloth-
worker, Doubt, Kissaway, Unity, Bupranger, Escape,
Gladiole, Docility, Little George, Abd-el-Kader, Captain
Parry,. Sunrise.
THVASDAY.

The Grand Annual Steeplechase— Victim, Vain Hope,
British Yeoman, Fugitive, Rattrap, Miss Collingwood, An-
glesey, The Young'un, Mulligan, Rendsburgh, Miss Mow-
bray.
Free Handicap Steeplechase—The Hero, Gulnare.
Free Handicap Hurdle Race—Fugitive, Half-and-Hall;
Little Queen.
The weather is unfavourable and the course very heavy.
Warwick and Leamington are full.

SPORTING NOTES.

No. XX.

WARWICK ANDSTEEPL LEAMINGTO
ECHASES N RACES AND
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin—l forgot to state last week that the game grey
gelding Isaac, by Young Roller, dam by Drone, with
1 Ist 101 b up, tooled by his trainer (W. Rutherford) verified
my prediction, by winning the:Milnthorpe Steeplecase in a
common canter by several lengths. A ,sporting paper ob-
serves, that it was the first essay of Isaac's trainer in a
steeplechase, and that he displayed courage and judgment.
The winner is nine years old, and up to this period has won
twenty-one steeplecases at all weights; his owner (Mr. Tier-
nan), a highly honourable man, always running him to win,
and not playing off the shuffling tricks practised by many of
his contemporaries.
The betting at "The Corner" yesterday evidenced the rapid 1I
approach of the legitimate racing season, by the number of
events touched upon, amounting to no less than ten ; some
alterations of consequence occurred. St. Rosalie was ele-
vated to the premiership for the Northamptonshire Stakes,
7to 1 being the latest .figure; Legerdemain declined to
eights, offered ; Cocktail and Clothworker at twelves each,
were the only others backed. Mem. The field is stronger
than the favourites at present. Agis sprang to the front not
only for the Willoughby Handicap, ran to-day, but also for
the Metropolitan, for which 12 to 1 was taken to nearly a
hundred; for this stake The Ban was backed at an outside
figure; and Glance and Vatican at 20 to 1 each. The Moun-
tain Sylph colt was in high force for both the Two Thousand
and Derby, 4 to 1 taken to between two and three hundred
pounds for the former, and 10 to 1 for the latter, in addition
to thirties and five-and-twenties, taken freely, that he won
both ; good judges say he will accomplish this feat, I say
no I Six to five, and even five to four, might have been ob-
tained about Grecian for the Guineas, and 5 to 1 about New-
minster.
Lightfoot, the bugbear of the ring, is in force at the list-
houses as well as " The Corner," his price at the former
ranging from 30 to 60 to 1, and at the latter no more than
fifty could be obtained. This mysterious animal, about
whom such strange accounts are heard, and concerning whom
a contemporary says, "A tale is going about that a clumsy
horse is shown up in Yorkshire to all comers as Lightfoot,
and that the real Simon Pure is caged,"—this said animal, I
can assure the public, was as late as last week doing good
work, and looking uncommonly well. He is not a bad look-
ing horse; a good deal of his sire's cut about him, and, I
think, will distinguish himself in the handicap department
some time or other; but, as to the Derby, the sporting com-
munity are wall aware of my opinion of his chance, as I said
before, so I say again, "lie is not worth a thought." The
Chester Cup betting, with the exception of Rhesus 's advance
to 8, Nancy to 14, The Italian to 18, and Damask to 40, re-
mains much the same as before. Nancy, notwithstanding the
desperate chance a three-year-old stands on the Chester
Roodee begins to look dangerous. The Port Stakes seem to be
a certainty for Beehunter or Bolingbroke; both are forward
in their preparation; the latter was missed from his work
for a few days a short time since, which put several parties
in the City into a terrific funk; but, as Charles Mathews is
Used Up would say, " There was nothing in it."
As I anticipated in Note No. 19, I have to make some
trifling alterations in the starting list for to-morrow's races
at Warwick. For the Great Warwickshire Handicap, of 20
FOVS. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, etc.; two miles;
the following will be brought to the post:—Doubt, 5 yrs,
76t 1011) ; Kissaway, 5 yrs, 7st 71b ; Bushranger,
4 yrs, 7st 41b ; Escape, 6 yrs, 7st 31b ; Zadoc, 4 Yrs,
7st ilb; Gladiola, 4 yrs, 7st ; Docility, 5 yrs, 6st
121 b ; Little Geore 4 yrs, fist 11lb; Abd-el Kader,
aged, fist ; Sunrise, 3 yrs,. sst 41b •, and Unity,
.3 yrs,
sst. Borneo, Clothworker, Captain Parry, and Colibri,may
also run, but it is very dubious. The winner, I fancy, will
one of the three-years old, and as the sunrise to morroweteb may
be a glorious one, I cannot altogether, in instance,
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