The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

COVENTRY RACES AND STEEPLECHASES.
TuEsDAY.—The Handicap (flat race) of 5 80V3. each,
and 25 aided. One mile and a half. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Cowley's Heart of Oak. sst 41b 1
Mr. Hamp's Bacton's, 7it 31b ... 2
The following also ran:—Captain Cunningham's The
Mease, 74—Mr. Pitcher's Hazy, 4st l2lb—and Mr.
Minor's Modestina, Est 101 b. Betting—Even on Heart
of Oak. Won easy.

The Annual Steeplechase Handicap of 20 soya. each,
10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 added; the
second to save his stake. Four miles.
Mr. W. Palmer's The Victim, lost 121 b ... (01liver) 1
Mr. J. Osbort,e's Abd-el-Rader, list
The following also started:—Mr. Vi-vers's Vainhope,
list 71b—Mr. Bernard's Sir Peter Laurie, 1 Ist 51b—
Mr. Hughes's Miss Collmgwood, lOst 71b—Mr. Elmore's
Mulligan, 10st 21b—Mr. John Tollitt's .Tippertify Boy;
Host 21b—Lord Lurgan's Fugitive, lOst 121 b. Betting
length and a half.
miles.
—3 to 1 agst Victim, 4 to 1 agst Abd-el-Kader, 5 to 1
cleverly by
bl race), of 10 soya. each, and
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agst Vainhope. 5 to 1 eget Sir Peter Laurie, sto 1 agst
Won
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General, lOst 61b
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olio 121 b .. ... ... 2
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Betting—Evena ke 's Half aonnd -half, ff .. 0
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and-half, Holderness, 9st 81b ...
2 to 1 agst The Ge-
neral, and 5 to 2 agst Soignor of Holderness. Won
cleverly.
The Selling Stakes of 5 soya. Each, and 20 added, one
aevine'rss' Sse Vig ennoicre Of
mile, 7 Subs., were won eatily by Mr. Pitcher's Hazy,
3 yrs, sit 111 b, beating Captain Cunningham's The
Mease, aged, Bst 111b—Mr., Land's Passion Flower, 6
yrs, Bst 111b—Mr. Humphry 3 Brother to Eldon, 5 yrs,
Bst 91b—Mr. Harvey's Sampler, 4 yrs, Tat 111b—Mr.
Morris's Peter the Great, 3 yrs, 65t 61b, and Mr. Smith's
Emma, 3 yrs, 6st 31b. Betting-2 to 1 agst Emma, 4
to 1 each agst The Mease and Passion Flower, and 5 to 1
agst Brother to Eldon.

MONSTER CORN STORES FOIL
OTTINGHAM.—
The agriculturists of this and the adjoining counties who
attend the markets at Nottingham, have been subject to
great inconvenience, trouble, and expense, through not find-
ing
s convenient
until
suiwarehousessuitable
purchasers might be
wherein to place the
p
found for it at a fair market price, and, consequently. many
farmers have been driven to sell at less than the ruling price
rodpurcoepeorfanthdeirfarm
for want of such store• rooms to place their corn in until the
next or some future market day. The Midland Railway
Company, seeing the necessity for a building of sufficient
magnitude, have, therefore, resolved to build a warehouse
large enough to contain 14,000 quarters of corn. They ad-
vertised for a builder to erect a
_warehouse of eight storeys
high, with room underneath to allow laden waggons to enter
under cover with their freight, and Mr. George Thompson,
the respectable builder, of Derby, has obtained the contract
to carry up such warehouses, 110 feet in length, by 75 feet
in width, the foundations to be formed of stone and concrete,
the walls of brick, &c. The buildings are now in progress,
to be finished by July next, when one of the largest corn
stores in the north will be found standing on the ground be-
longing and contiguous to the Nottingham
railway station.
Nearly 11 millions of bricks, besides other building mate-
rials, will be consumed in the erection and finish of these
great corn stores. The farmers will, by this gigantic enter-
prise of the railway company, have a greater chance of selling
without submitting to a reduction in price, or running the
risk of disposing of their grain to a needy or doubtful buyer.
Instead of offering by sample, the bulk will be at hand; the
bargain struck will enable many a needy man to take home
with him the money, instead of waiting two, three, four, or
even more weeks before he is paid; in fact, ere long, Not-
tingham sample and credit corn market will become a pitch
and cash one. —Derby Mercury.
A BULL TERRIER ROASTED IN THE ASII.PAN OF
A LOCOMOTIVE.—On Wednesday evening last, as the mail
train was passing that portion of the Eastern Union line near
Ipswich which divides Lady Harland's grounds, known as
the " Wherstead Cutting," the driver became aware, by the
unmistakeable evidence of his olfactory organs, that some-
thing much more savoury than coke was being con-
sumed by the fire of his engine ; and knowing that
hares are frequently cooked in a similar manner, be yielded
to the fond anticipation of a game supper at the end of his
journey. On arriving at the terminus, however, great was
his surpri.,e, equalled only by disappointment, on discovering
that the self-immolated victim was not a hare, but a large
dog of the bull terrier breed, which, having strayed on the
line, and doubtless attracted by the glare of the fire in the
ash-pan of the engine, had heedlessly rushed on its destruc-
tion, the poor animal being completely roasted.—lpswich
Exprefa.