The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-04 00:00:00

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BRIGHTON RACE CLUB.-FRIDAY.

The Second Brighton Club Biennial Stakes of 10 sovs each,
with 50 added by the club ; for two-yr-olds, colts, Bst
71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners extra. T.Y.C. 16 subs.
Mr. Mundy's Mimic, by Barnton, Bst 71b..... (Bullock) 1
Sir C. Rushout's Conqueror, Bst 71b (L. Snowden) 2
Mr. Roger's Blisworth, Bst 121 b (including 51b extra)
(Rogers) 3

Chiffonniere and Henricus also ran.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Blisworth, 4to 1 agst Conundrum,
5 to 1 each agst Mimic and Chiffonniere.
Blisworth led to the bottom of the hill, where Mimic
came out, and after a good race won by a head ; bad third.
The,Brighton Club Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft (Handicap)
with 50 added by the club. Winners extra, &c. To be
ridden by members of the club. New course. 12 subs.
Lord Strathmore's Worcester, by Annandale or Mentor,
6 yrs, lOst 61b (car. lOst 71b) (Captain Little) 1
Mr. Hodgman's Wild Bird, 3 yrs, 9st 31b (inc. 51b -ex.)
(Mr. W. Bevil!) 2
Captain Little na Tocher, 6 yrs, lOst (Mr. Wood) 3
Newcastle and Prince of Orange also ran
Betting-2 to 1 agst Worcester, sto 2 agst Wild Bird, 4
to 1 agst Newcastle.
Worcester led from start to finish, and won by a length
and a half; the second beating the third by three lengths.
A Plate of 100 sovs, given from the Brighton Race Fund,
added to a sweepstakes of 5 soya each; for two-yr-olds,
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C.
Mr. Mundy's Malta, by Gibraltar, Bst 71b...(D. Plumb) 1
Mr. Onslow's Conundrum, Bst 31b (G. Fordham) 2
Mr. Fleming's Boabdil, Bst (car. Bst 31b) (Norman) 3
The following also ran :—Robin, Wombat, Rhedycina
filly, and Mantrap.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Conundrum, 4to 1 each agst Malta
and the Rhedycina filly, 6 to 1 agst Wombat.
Conundrum made play, with Mantrap second; Malta and
the Rhedycina filly next.
Coming down the hill, Malta went up to Conundrum,
and, from this point, the race was left to the two placed,
Malta winning by a length , the others, beaten off a long
way, straggled in at wide intervals.
The Claret Stakes, of 5 sovs each, with 50 added by the
Club ; winners extra ; to be ridden by members of the
Club. T.Y.C. 13 subs.
Captain Little's General Hesse, 3 yrs, lOst 101 b
(Captain Little)t 1
Duke of Bedford's Leontes, 5 yrs, list 31b (Mr. W. Bevill)t2
Mr. Payne's Rockley, 3 yrs, 9st 31b (Mr. Edwards) 3
The following also ran :—Catherine, Birdbolt, Conjuror,
and Vulture.
Betting.-7 to 4 agst Beckley, 3to 1 agst General Hesse,
6 to 1 agst Leontes and Vulture.
Vulture made play to the dip, where General Hesse and
Leontes caught him; the first two finished the race to-
gether and made a dead heat of it ; the others pulling up,
were beaten several lengths.
Deciding Heat.-7 to 4on General Hesse, who slightly
led to the bottom of the hill, where the old one got nearer,
but failing to get quite up, was defeated by a head.
The Brighton Club Plate of 50 soya ; optional selling
weights, &c. Last half-mile.
Sir W. Booth's Forager, 3 yrs (ao), 7st 91b (Challoner) 1
Mr. Hodgman's Apollo, 3 yrs (ao), 7st Sib
(11. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Morris's Athens, 3 yrs (L5O), Bst 51b (G. Fordham) 3
The following also ran :—Bayard, Mountebank, For-
tuna f, Queen of the May, and Rattlesnake.
Betting.-2 to 1 agst Apollo, 10 to 3 agst Rattlesnake,
6 to 1 each agst Forager and Queen of the May.
The running was made by Apollo to the stand, where
Forager and Athens joined him; Forager winning by
half a length ; a neck separating the second from the third ;
Bayard was last. The winner was sold to Mr. IVoolcet for
280 guineas.
A Plate of 60 sovs, for three-yr-olds, 9st 101 b ; four, lOs
101 b ; five, six, and aged, list. The winner to be sold
for 400 soya, &c. Mares and geldings allowed 31b ; to
ridden by members of the club. One mile.
Mr. Godding's Tyrant, 3 yrs, 9st 101 b .. (Mr. Edwards) 1
Mr. Saxon's White Rose, 3 yrs, 9st 131 b (in. 61b extra)
(L. Snowden) 2
Mr. W. Bevill's Claire, 4 yrs, lOst 71b
Independence and The Speaker also ran.
Betting-6 to 4 agst The Speaker, 2to 1 agst Tyrant,
100 to 15 agst any other, offered.
The first two ran in front throughout, Tyrant winning
by three-quarters of a length ; a bad third.
A Maiden Plate of 50 sovs, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ;
fillies and geldings, Bst 41b ; the winner to be sold for
100 soya. Half a mile.
Mr. Barnard's Parapet, Bst 71b (Bullock) 1
Mr. T. Hughes's Parole, Bst 41b (Hughes) 2
Mr. T. Browne's Launcelot Gobbo, 85t,71b.. (J. Goater) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Parole, sto 2 agst Parapet.
The latter took a slight lead, but on descending the hill
the favourite got in front, and appeared to have the best of
it. Opposite the stand, however, Parapet rushed up to
him, and•won a fine race on the post by a head ; same dis-
tance between the second and third.
A Plate of 50 sovs for three-yr-olds and upwards which
have never won £lOO ; three-yr-olds, 7st 101 b ; four,
Bst 81b ; five, six, and aged, Bst 121 b ; the winner to be
sold for 200 soy& T.Y.C.
Mr. Saxon's Lady Peel, 4 yrs, Bst 81b....(L. Snowden) 1
Mr. Mundy's Error, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b
Mr. Fleming's Fortuna filly, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Hibberd) 3
Betting-7 to 4on Lady Feel.
The Fortuna filly led to the bottom of the hill, when the
favourite came to the front, and won by a length ; a bad
third.

A Plate of 50 sovs, given by the Club, for beaten horses
during the week, two-yr-olds excepted ; the second horse
to receive 10 sovs out of the plate ; gentlemen riders
T.Y.C.
Mr. Hughes' Flitch, 4 yrs (including 61b ex.), lOst 101 b
(D. Hughes) 1
Mr. Barber's Prince of Orange, aged, 9st 121 b
(Mr. Baynton) 2
Mr. Payne's Rockley, 3 yrs, 9st 31b (Mr. Bevill) 3
The following also ran :—The Speaker, Bel Esperanza,
Ambush, General Havelock, and Joyeuse.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Rockley, 4to 1 agst Flitch, sto 1
agst Ambush, 6 to 1 agst Prince of Orange.
Won by a length and a half ; three-quarters of a length
between second and third; Bel Esperanza was fourth.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

ST. LEGER.
7to 2 on The Field (offered)—take 4to 1
12 to 1 agst Wallace (taken)
12 to 1 agst Sweetsauce (taken)
30 to 1 agst Horror (taken)
33 to 1 agst Stampedo (taken)
33 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (taken)

HEENAN AND BIS BEL7'.

As we anticipated, Mr. Wilkes, of the Spirit of the Times
has changed his tune on the arrival of Heenan in America.
The worthy editor is riled that
" Back to those expectant shores"
Heenan has "returned without the Belt." We are not
sorry that such has been the case. The friends, or rather
those who speculated in the rival champions, mismanaged
the whole concern from first to last, and the ridiculous
Yankee fancy of reciprocal presentations of sham cham-
pions' belts (for although of equal value they represented
nothing but the empty-headedness of those who called them
into existence) has ended in a bottle of smoke, and the oft
presented belts are destined to grace the studio of Mr.
Morris, as a memento of the failure of his presentation
speculation. Bell's Life makes the following remarks on
the subject :
In Wilkes's Spirit of the Times, announcing the return
of John C. Heenan to America, we find several statements
by the editor, which we cannot but fancy are deliberately
intended to mislead the American fancy. In the first place
he grumbles that Heenan was permitted to go from our
shores without a belt, and secondly without the English
testimonials which he had been offered. On these points
we have only to say, firstly, that, if Heenan did not get his
belt, Sayers was in no better predicament. Mr. Wilkes
knows as well as we do, if not better (for the suggestion was
his own), that the arrangement between Sayers and Heenan
was, that if Sayers would raise a subscription among his
friends to present Heenan with a belt, Heenan would per-
form a similar office for Sayers. This arrangement
was not carried out strictly, for the following
reasons :—Directly it became known to certain gentle-
men connected with an American circus that the men
had amicably settled their differences, an applica-
tion was made by them to Sayers and Heenan to
enter into an engagement with them at £250 a week
each to appear at the Alhambra and elsewhere with their
new belts. An application was made to us to get the belts
made at once, and, thanks to the exertions of Mr. Hancock,
they were manufactured with marvellous rapidity. They
were presented, as our readers know, at the Alhambra ;
but Sayers and Heenan not having raised sufficient to pay
for them, Mr. Morris, one of the speculators, advanced the
balance for that purpose. The public, finding the belts had
been presented, naturally concluded that the subscriptions
had been made up, and no more money was forthcoming on
either side. Mr. Morris retained the belts in his own pos-
session, and as Heenan and Sayers both refused to carry
out their engagement by paying the difference themselves,
why the belts still remain with Morris. Secondly, as to
the testimonials, Heenan's own letters, which were pub-
lished in this country, proved that he refused to accept
them when offered, and besides this he insisted on going
home when he did, refusing liberal offers in this country,
' which would have insured him silver compliments, as Mr.
Wilkes styles them, of almost equal value with those of
Sayers. Mr. Wilkes goes on to abuse the English people
because Heenan was not allowed to strangle Sayers on the
ropes, and uses ad captandem arguments to prove that
Heenan fairly won the fight, which may go down with
those for whom he writes in his own country, but which
every impartial man who saw the battle will regard with
contempt. It is not our intention to go further into the
matter, and we should not have made the above remarks
had we not deemed the statement in the Spirit too bare-
faced to be passed over. Our belief is patent to the world,
and nothing will induce us to deviate from it, that at the
finish of the fight at Farnborough, had the ring not been
broken into, Sayers would have proved the victor, as, had
the referee not been forced from the ring side during the
37th round he would, according to the rules of the ring,
have ordered the men to be separated when on the ropes
when it was seen that Sayers was in danger. That
Heenan afterwards struck Sayers f9ul is well known, as
is the fact that that worthy a few minutes after the battle
was quite blind, notwithstanding the certificate of Dr.
(?) Rawlings to the contrary. As to the severity of
the punishment on either side, the fact of Heenan's not
being able to make his appearance for a week speaks
Tehimese