The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

" Wary as the trainer himself tatty be, however keen-
eyed his assistants, and let the surrounding points of van-
tage be scanned and examined as keenly as they may, it ix
wonierful how frequently the result of a trial is seen and
spread abroad. Some years ago a three years old was un-
dergoing a preparation on a high northern training-
ground. In his early days he had performed very mode-
rately. lle vt as not fashionably- bred, and had died ou.-;, of
the memory of the public altogether. The colt was, how-
ever, so good that, if treated with any degree of leniency
by the adjuster of weights, one or both of the great autumn
handicaps at Newmarket were nearly certain to fall to hie
lot. Towards the close of the summer, it was determined
that his merits should be severely tested, and very er.rly
one morning before aught was astir on the moor., anu
with no discernible witnesses save or ner and treir.er, the
colt was asked a question.' He answered it in. a manner
so unexpectedly clever that those interested is him hugged
themselves at the bright prospect of gain. which opened
out before them. As their exultation was at boiling-piteli
a ragged, dishevelled form rose above the crest of a neirsh_
bouring hollow, and approached the party. ConsternAtion
pictured on their faces, they gazed upon the uuwelcrAne in _
truder. It's only Fond Jemmy,' exclaimed one of them,
with a sigh of relief, as the poor addle-pated creature, walk-
ing up to them, displayed a large basket of mushrooms which,
he had collected in the neighbouringpastures. 'Jemmy,ll,l6
continued, in a seductive tone, bast thou seen aught?
We're nobbut giving t'horses a bit of a gallop. Nay,' said
Jemmy, carefully avoiding the speaker's eye, and •Aaring
fixedly into vacancy. Ah hevn't. Mebbe yell want a
few misherums.' A glance was exchanged by the two
principal conspirators, and Jemmy was directed to hand
over his succulent burden then and there ; and with a bright
half-crown clasped tightly in his dusky fist, he moved
hurriedly away towards the town. Luckless and mistaken
liberality ! Had the reward been confined to the shilling
which usually repaid the mushroom-gatherer's exertions,
all would have been well. Half-a-crown was too much for
Jemmy to carry unbroached. An early visit to the Black
Lion was the natural consequence. One three-penn'orth
was consumed ; a second ; and when a third dram of un-
sweetened Nicholson had been despatched, he grew talka-
tive. It chanced that one acute member of the brotherhood
of touts was taking his 'morning' in the same establish,_
meet ; and, pricking up Ifis ears ftt the disjointed sentences
uttered by the weak-headed tippler, he soon extracted front
him the secret of the trial at early dawn. Jemmy; it ap-
peared, had seen the spin, and, notwithstanding leis infir-
mity,' retained sufficient Yorkshire cunning to deny the
fact when first taxed with it on the moor. Now that his
tongue was loosened he described with such accuracy to
his tempter how the short-legged bay, who carried his head
so low, had beaten the others to a stand-still, that the shrewd
listener—himself a great believer in the prowess of Le
Medecin'—putting this and that together, was able to place
the information, within a few hours, at the disposal of hie
London employer. The latter quietly took advantage of
it. Owing to an extraordinary and unprecedented blunder
the good thing did not come off. Had it done so, the dis-
burser of the half-crown and his allies would have disco--
vered that the amount which they had backed their colt to
win was considerably less than the great stake for which
he was stood by the Metropolitan bookmaker, who had ac-
quired his information through the tipsy babbling of Fond
Jemmy.'"

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867.
FEBRUARY.

Lincoln Spring
Harrow 2l
MA.
Liverpool Spring
Chelmsford Spring l2
West Drayton l9
Bromley

Nottingham 26
Derby
Epsom Spring 26
Lewes Spring
Croxton Park 29

Northampton
Windsor Spring
Edinburgh Sp. Meeting
Newmarket Craven
Curragh

IThirsk
I Durham .. 22
1 Newmarket Ist Spring 22
Catterick
Chester 3O
AY.

Chester (continued) I
York Spring 7
Salisbury 9
Doncaster Spring
Bath
JU.

Harpenden
Epsom Summer
Newton
Croydon

Ascot Summer 4
Windsor Summer
Manchester Summer 12
Hampton l3
Odiham l7
Bibury Club lB

Stockbridge: l9
I Chelmsford
Newcastle
Curragh
Worcester Summer ,)7
IpswiCh , 0- ~..
LY.

varliste 2
Newmarket July 2
Pontefract
Reading
Liverpool July Meeting 10
Hun,gerford
Nottingham July

Down Royal Corporatn l7
Stamford
Huntingdon 23
Winchester
Southampton
(.13odwukx 1

AUG

Goodwood (continued)
Ripon
Brighton
Brighton Club 8
La wes
Egham .. . l3
Wolverhamptou l3
Stockton
Oxford
Hastings
SEPT.P.MBER.
Warwick
Margate
Curragh
Leicester
Abingdon 5 Newmarket Ist October 24
Doncaster
OCTOBER
-- -

York August
Dovor
%Vest Drayton 22
Plymouth. .
Cauterbury
Lichfield
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Tunbridge

Northampton Autumn. 1 v Curragh
Edinburgh Autumn ... 2 Newmarket Houghton
Newmarket 2d October. 7 Worcester Autumn 29
Cheltenham l5

NOVEMBER.
Liverpool Autumn 5 I Leamington Hunt
Shrewsbury ll I

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867.

T A NUARY.

Manchester.

FEBR

1
GARY.
Harrow Spring
Derby

Oarmarthen
Birmingham... l`2.
12.
Windsor • 15
MA:

Liverpool Spring
Grand Military
Chertaey
Malton ..... 13

Croydon Spring
Cheltenham Grand An 2l
Bromley

COURSING.

COURSING MEETINGS TO COME.
JANUARY, 1867.

Name. . Judge. Days of Running
Huntingdon Club Mr. Warwick l, 2,
Lincolnshire, Ho'beach .Mr. Spafford
Coole, co. Cork (Open)
Third S. Lancashire, (South-

9, &c.

port (Open) Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11
Spelthorne Club Mr. Warwick
Border Union (Longtown)

Cumberland ' Mr. Warwick
Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford
Altcar Club, Lancashire -
Wigtonsh. Club (Stranraer) Mr. Boulton
Little Crosby Mr. Welding
County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spafford
Ridgway Club, Lytham - - 3 O, 3O, &c.

ROW THE TRIAL GOT WIND.
The following episode is extracted from a pleasant ar-
ticle headed "Town and Moor" in Bailys Magazine for
January