The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-17 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The SUCCCB3 of Ploughboy in the Great Northern
and Doncaster Handicaps was a great relief to the
bookmakers. Scarcely any of them ever wrote his
name for either event. Paul Jones, after :being
backed for no end of money in the former race re-
mained in her stable, the cry of being forestalled in
the market- being the excuse, although he was on
the spot. But his party put the prices down
for the latter race, as if it was all over but
shouting, but they bit their fingers, and it served
them right. In any other stable but the dangerot's
Dawson's Lord Hawthorn would be at 20 to 1 r
the Derby ; and if it were not known that " his
lordship" had no chance whatever with Pretender,
speculators whose calculations are based upo
public running would be justified iu accepting the
abovenamed odds about his lordship, who, it should
be remembered, beat Pretender in the Hardwicke
Stakes at Stockton. Visitors to Winchester
and Salisbury were favoured with fine weather,
except on the last day (Friday). A majority
of the principal bookmakers patronised th J
home circuit, where the sport was good, but, like
the northern gathering, nothing particular was
gathered to effect the all-absorbing topic, thellerb.,, .
The bookmakers lost on the meetings at Winch( s-
ter and Salisbury. PrAeuder is wonderfully firm,
and do spite the backing of Pero Gomez, at
shade over 3 to 1, the Two Thousand wiLal r
held his own at 2 to 1, adds accepted in sums amount-
ing iu the aggregate to £1,00) one day at York. S r
Charles Legard, at the finish of the week's racing
iu the north, took 2,000 to I,ouo in a b..t hum
'Whittaker, about Pretender. At York and 1)01.-
caster there was a diipoAtion to lay against Pero
Gomez. Hostility against Laths, lithus, and Thor-
wa'dsen, at so short a period before the race, is
ominouly bad, and signs are given that ne:ther
Martyrdom nor Rupert will become the fatvour:ti
their warm supporters anticipated. The "getting
out" by those who have taken liberties with Bell.i.
drum accounts for the lessening prices taken about
the son of Stockwell, who; if nothing happens to
him at Batb,will even see shorter prices. Mr. SaVii3
Las a great fancy for Rya' worth, who has improved
wonderfully since his Biennial defeat.

The Bath and Manchester meetings will be the
principal attractions of the week, and at the ha -
mer a great revolution in the Derby betting will no
doubt take Owe. The Beaufort Cup looks a cer-
tainty for Mr. Savile, with either Lancet or Blue-
skin, whichever he trusts. Rhysworth, if he h, a
any chance fur the Derby, should win the Seven-
teenth Biennial Stakes, his most dangerous oppo-
nent being De Vere. Elferon or Captivator are
the two most trustworthy in the Eighteenth Bien-
nial St ,kes. The Bath an 1 Somersetaire
cap, in the abseece of Ronqing Gill, should be tar-
ried off by Amara or Ligurian.

A FIIESa MAN.

6PORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WEST DRAYTON RACES—SATunDAr.

IVEIL PLATE.

Hereford

Chera et Belle
Mr. Pitt

Ten ran.
COLNE HANDICAP.

Tyrone
Rally
Contempt ti
LADIES' PLATE.

Nannie •
Primula
Claymore

Eleven ran.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

Diadem

Tom Coke 2
Sapling

Six ran.
GREAT WESTERN HANDICAP.
Kamschatea
Edna
Hopgirl ••