The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH 110 P.

On the whole, tho accounts from the plantations are
favourable, and in somo grounds a considerable improve-
ment has taken place. Picking will be general in about a
week. For all kinds of hops the demand has been quiet,
and prices aro nominal. The imports into London last
week consisted of 19 bales from Boulogne, 54 Hamburg,
82 Antwerp, 37 Calais, 54 Dunkirk, 201 New York, 284
Rotterdam, 1 Hamburg, and 12 bales from Ostend.
Mid and East rents
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Farnham and country
Yearlings l3os to 160 s ,
Olds 6os to 112 s II

SPORTING NOTES.

The last week's racing has had very little effect upon
future event; although the Earl's two performances at
Warwick entitle him to rank amongst the best class of
candidates for next year's Derby, for which he ought cer-
tainly to bo backed at half his present price (50 to 1). lle
beat Voda in the first instance very easily, and on the next
occasion ran Redivivus to a head, giving him 2st 51b. The
forrnof the two animals alluded to speaks volumes in favour
of the Earl's excellence, and, when thoroughly fit, I am
quite convinced Lady Elizabeth will have to put her best
leg foremost to test his merit. Mr. Chaplin's filly beat Spe-
culum at Brighton, and ran second to Philosopher at the
same place, giving him 91b, and behind him was Sea Saw,
backed for a lot of money. After her defeat by the E irl
on Tuesday she met Python next day in the Grand Stand
Plate, giving him a year and 101 b, who was then only able
to defeat her in the last few strides by a head, and her
running at Leicester on Friday was equally good. As re-
gards Redivivus, report says he has been tried to be the
same animal as Dick Turpin, 3 yrs, at level weight; and
this is somewhat corroborated by his easy victory over
thirteen others in the Nursery S takes at Abingdon on Fri-
day.

I must now turn my attention to the programme of Don-
caster September Meeting, which commences on Tuesday
next. There are thirty-threw acceptances for the Groat
Yorkshire Handicap, of which lot the owner of Dutch
Admiral has very sensibly paid forfeit, as he could have no
possible chance in this company. From the top weight
down to 7st East Lancashire appears to be the only one
with a chance, and ho belongs to a clique who will only
run him as a matter of minds, shillings, and pence, so I
advise your readers to leave him alone. Admiral Bons, in
handicapping him for the Cesarewitch, evidently did not
forget the game that was played with the horse for the
Liverpool Cup. Miss Harriette and Knight Errant are
not unfavourably handicapped ; indeed whichever repre-
sents Joseph Dawson's stable is bound to be very near
the winner. 'Union Jack and La Dauphine are not likely to
distinguish Mr. Ten Broeck's colours this journey, but the
latter may prove good enough to get a situation. Wild
Briar ran very forward for a considerable distance in the
Goodwood Stakes, and if at the post would be worth back-
ing for this event, especially as with the penalty for win-
ning she would only have 6st 111 b on her back for the
Cosarewitch. I have a great fancy for The Priest,
but Padishah is too much of a rogue for me to
trust with a boy on his back. Weather Star is
very well, and I think sure to run forward, but
the Duke of Beaufort's filly .ought to have no difficulty
in winning if the Admiral's estimate of her quality is a
correct one, as he has made her impost for the Cam-
bridgeshire Stakes nearly two stone more. The sable
money is apparently on, and I must therefore take my
chance with

SEVILLE and THE PRIEST,
and, if your subscribers fancy backing one for a situation,
my recommendation is WEATHER STAR. As regards the
Champagne Stakes, I presume we shall sae Innerdale,
Mameluke, Blue Gown, Balsamo, Bel Giorno, Mercury,
Lady Highthorn, The Parson, Vale Royal, and Ironmastor
amongst the competitors; but believing that Sir Joseph
Hawley has a great horse in his colt by Beadsman out of
Bus Bleu, and that he is very much superior to his stable
companion, Rosicrucian, my choice is BLUE Gown, although
I hear good accounts of Ironmaster. The Filly Stakes
will only be a canter for ATHENA. I think the Revival
Plate will go to THE CORPORAL Or TIIII.IRU, as they are
entitled to an allowance of 71b an I slb respectively, whilst
Cecrops, Athena, Formosa, Speculum, &c., are each of
them penalised. For the Glasgow Stakes DONALDRAIN has
only False Alarm to beat. If Sir Frederick Johnstone
should run CHARLES 11., I see nothing so well in for the
Doncaster Plato. In the Matchbetwoen NIKE and Tremble
I prefer the Duke of Newcastle's filly.
The field for the St. Loger will not most likely exceed
a dozen, but whatever the number may be, I question if any
other starter, besides those enumerated below, can by any
chance attract the judge's notice :

Horse. Sire. Dam. Prob. Rider.
Achievement... Stockwell Paradigm T. Challoner
Hermit Newminster... Seclusion. Cus Lance.
Julius St. Albans..... Julie J. Daley.
Vauban Muscovite .... Palm G. Fordham.
Fer vaccines ..... Underhand.... Slapdash J. Osborne.
Challenge....... Trumpeter.... Princess Alice Cannon.
Palmer .... ....... Beadsman .... Madame Eglantine Wells.
Taraban Rataplan Wiasma
Carroll.

Van Amburgh. Van Galen Cavriana T. French.
Achievement since her victory at York has been in every-
body's mouth, and has excited an almost unparalleled
amount of enthusiasm on her behalf amongst the racing
public, and the easy manner in which she won has cer-
tainly enlisted me amongst her partisans ; and as Hermit
has to give her 51b for the difference of sex, it will be a
clog° race between them. There is no question that,
as a two-year-old, when well, she was at least 51b better
than Hermit, Marksman, Vauban, or any of the colts.
Julius has wonderfully improved since the Derby day,
and if ho can stay will, probably, turn out next
best, but I cannot for a moment believe he has any chancy
of beating the two favourites. Vaubau's defeat is
too recent to give him an opportunity of recovering his
form, but in his best day ho never was able, I think, to
beat Hermit. Fervacques will stay the distance, and might
for that very reason run into a place. What chance The
Palmer or Van Amburgh can possibly have I am quite at a
loss to know. Taraban, I have always persisted in say-
ing, will prove himself a race horse some day, and is
thoroughly fit to run for this great prize. However I fully
anticipate seeing
HERMIT

win the St. Leger, with ACHIEVEMENT and JULIUS in tho
next places, but should any outsider be destined to carry
off this rich prize, my belief is it will be TARA.BA.N.

The other races on Wednesday are the Municipal Stakes,
which ought to be credited to Mr. Merry by aid of THE
PARSON. There are no less than forty-seven youngsters
handicapped for the Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, but I
think the form displayed last week by REDIVIVUS is quite
good enough to follow.
The three horses best in for the Corporation Plate ap-
pear to be WOLSE; Grey Stocking, and Freemason, which
I fancy in the order named.

Notwithstanding THE EARL having incurred a penalty
of 51b for the Sweepstakes of 10 sovs for 2-yr-olds, run on
Thursday, if selected to run instead of Athena, who has
to carry 71b extra, I think ho will beat ROSIcRuciAN, who
seems to me to be his most dangerous opponent. There
is nothing to beat FLYING SCUD for the Scarborough
Stakes. Should ATHENA run for the Eglinton Stakes she
will win, but in case of her absence SPECULUM takes my
fancy most. The Zetland Stakes is a gift to VERULAM.
In the Cleveland Handicap CASTANET reads best in. The
Portland Plate was won last year by SKYLARK with 51b
more on his back, which should give him a great chance
now, and between him and WoLsEY I shall leave the
race.

Friday's racing includes the Park Hill Stakes, for which
I give the preference to ARAPEILE, but Ines is sure to
prove a troublesome customer. In the Doncaster Stakes
VAUBAII, Taraban, and Van Amburgh will have previously
decided their pretensions in the St. Leger, but in any case
my preference is for the first named. - A good many of-the
best 2-yr-olds are engaged in tho S weepstakes of 100 sovs
each, whose previous running during the week will be
the best guide to your readers, though I have very little
doubt Sir Joseph Hawley's representative, probably BLUE
Gowx, will win. The Don Stakes will go to FRIPONNIER,
and the Sweepstakes will, I presume, be a walk over for
HERMIT. The Nursery Plate and Doncaster Cup aro not
yet entered for.

A FRESH MAN.

(From a Correspondent of the Racing Times.)

Never in the annals of racing have there been more
favourites beaten with long odds laid on them than dur-
ing the past three weeks. The excitement at York after
the defeat of Vauban and Moulsey by Achievement and
Strathconan was nothing compared to what we saw at
Warwick when Goodwood cantered home before Gomera
in the Cup. The latter was meeting the son of Amanda
on 191 b worse terms than when she beat him in the Ebor
Handicap, but when the conqueror of Gomora was
beaten by a common plater in the Queen's Plato at Leicester
there was an and to all public form, and sporting writers
who try to explain such running get lost in a fog. We are
told by one contemporary that the paces in the Queen's
Plate at Leicester was very hot. What on earth was to
make it so? The Amanda colt is a lazy horse, and,
as he was obliged to make his own running, he
went as slow as donkeys gallop, which lost him the
race. When there was a fast-run race at Warwick it just
suited him, and won his owner the Cup: Miss Havelock
made the running as long as she could, and Fordham
brought Gomera to the front about three- quarters of a
mile from home, and forced the pace, which was done to
beat Moulsey, as he was the only one they feared, and such
running just suited a lazy horse like Goodwood, and won
him the race. This is the best explanation I -can give,
and all those who watched the running at Warwick and
Leicester cannot, I think, come to any other conclusion.
There seems to be a very great diversity of opinion about
the weights for the two great autumn handicaps, but it is
quite certain all the top weights are out of the long race
until we comp to Lothario, and he has tco much to carry
for a maiden four-year-old. From some cause or other tho
Baron's horses always get badlyin, and the gallant Admiral
invariably over-rates them. Tourmalin is handicapped
at Bst 71b. She has not won a race this year, and Miss
Harriette ran her to a head last year for the Queen's Plate
at Bedford, and now the Baron's mare is made to give her
211 b. Again, Janua, a very moderate performer, and a
maiden 3-yr-old, is made to give Miss Harriette a year and
21bs in the Cambridgeshire. We were told by a contempo-
rary last week that the Admiral was determined to handicap
all horses on their best form ; surely he has not done so, or
why should Janua and Wroughton be in the Cambridgeshire
at even weights when the latter ran Vauban to a head for
the Biennial at Newmarket? I once heard a Newmarket
trainer say that the cause of the Baron's horses getting so
badly in iu all handicaps was that he ran his horses honestly ;
but in his case honesty is foolishness, and loses what it works
for. Janitor has 7st 21b in the Cambridgeshire ; had he re-
mained in the Baron's stable he would have had Bst 101 b—not
that I.think he has any chance of winning with that weight
There are a lot of horses in both handicaps that could not
win with any weight. Blinkhoolie, King Victor, and
Cannon Ball are all well in, and will no doubt be great
favourites before the day. Pintail is well in, but she is

only moderate, although she boat Tourrnalin ;at a stone
this spring at Newmarket, and now the Baron's mare is
made to give her 181 b. There are several more glaring
mistake; if we may call them so, in both handicap; which
I shall point out in my next. I must now proceed to offer
some remarks on the events to be decided on the Town
Moor at Doncaster this week. I may first state that I hate
been over the course to-day, and the ground is in first-rate
order—in fact, it is like galloping on a Turkey carpet.
There are seven closed races on the first day, and as the
Champagne Stakes will I)+3' the most important event on
the card, I will point out what I think most likely to catch
the Judge's eye. Manieluke, Blue Gown, Mercury, and
Vale Royal are the best of the public performers. Sir
Joseph Hawley's horse is sure to be a rattling favourite ;
but, as I once stated in these columns, I don't think
him a Derby horse, and I shall expect to see Maine-
luke beat him next Tuesday. In the Doncaster
Plate Ravioli and Silenus aro both well in, and
1 shall expect to see them finish in the order named.
Of the 33 acceptances for the Yorkshire Handicap I don't
fancy any of the favourites, as I think Seville and Moni-
tress are very moderate ; but, of course, John Day must
have a favourite, and the Squire is sure to be followed.
I have heard a good account of Weather Star, and ,if Miss
Harriette has returned to the form she showed us last
autumn, she will win if she runs ; but as she is well in
the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire she might be reserved
for one or both of thorn, and should she come fit to the
post and be backed by the stable, I shall look no further for
the winner. The Revival Plate I shall award to my old
friend Cecrops, as should he come fit to the post he will
beat the two clipping 2-yr-olds Athena and Formosa. One
is almost at a loss to know how to begin to write about the
St. Leger, for sporting readers must now be tired of
seeing the performances of Hermit and Achievement
chronicled by every penny-a-liner. Some time ago we
were told that Achievement was beyond all doubt a non-
stayer, and that she can have no chance of winning
the St. Leger, but when she beat Vauban at York she
was again called the modern Crucifix. She lost her good
name at Epsom through being out of all form, and horse;
like men, often gain a reputation without merit, and lose it
without deserving it; but should Lord Lyon's sister come
as fit to the post next Wednesday as we saw her at
York she will take a lot of beating. Hermit's friends are
all sanguine, and the Newmarket people book the Leger
a certainty for him—in fact ho wins the race every time he
gallops on the Limekilns ; but his number is not put up
yet. Vauban is backed again, but what chance on earth
can he have after his York running? Challenge has boon
backed to win some thousands by his noble owner, aad
the Marquis of Hastings put'it down freely on him at War-
wick after the Amanda colt won the Cup. I wonder what
he would have thought had he been at Leicester when the
latter got beat by a common plater. I think the Marquis
will find, after next Wednesday, what with the large sum
he paid for Challenge, the amount that ho backed him
for in the Ebor Handicap, and since then for the St. Leger,
that he has made a very dear bargain. Julius, as I have
often stated lately, is one of the most improved horses in
the race, and is sure to beat all such horses as Challenge
and Vauban. To go through the performances of all the
horses in the race would be only a waste of time, there-
fore I shall at once place
ACHIEVEMENT 1;
and shall expect a good race with Juuns and IIERMIT for
second place. The Handicap for two-year-olds on Wednes-
day will bo won by Cornet. Mrs. Stratton is well in in
the Corporation Plate. The Portland Plate is a difficult
race to deal with, as it is sure to produce a large field, but
we often see it won by a heavy weight, and one never can
tell what such horses as Cecrops and Volunteer can do
with a lot of bad ones. Bounceaway goes at a great pace
over a short distance, and Skylark, the winner of this race
last year, is not badly in, and one of the above lot is most
likely to produce the winner. Weather Star looks as well
in as anything in the Cleveland Handicap. The races on
Friday will so much depend on previous running that I
shall net hazard an opinion about any of them.

Afargsman was struck out of the St. Leger on Thurs-
day morning at 9 a.m.

Beeswing was struck out of the Warwick Cup on the
day of the race at 12.25 p.m.
Mr. J. Scott will only have War and Taraban at Don-
caster.

Julius and Challenge are matched for £5OO a side, la ft,
last mile and throe quarters of the Cesarewitch course, in
the First October meeting.
Alarmist, the winner of the All-aged Stakes at Leicester,
on Friday, was purchased by Mr. J. W. Wright for 110
guineas. .

Gentian was bought by Mr. Gedding for 51 guineas
after winning the Licensed Victuallers' Plate at Leicester,
on Friday.
Mr. W. J. Legh's colours are blue, straw facings, blue
and straw quartered cap; and Mr. Rowley's rod, white,
and blue.

Eight yearlings arrived at Matthew Dawson's, on
Thursday, from the Duko of Newcastle's brooding stud
at Clumbor.

Lord Westmorland sold Skylight, 3 yrs, after her per-
formance at Warwick on Wednesday, for LA, to Mr. J.
Wood.

Mr. Robert Smith's annual sale of Exmoor cobs, gallo-
ways, and ponies, will take place on the 25th instant, at
Fielder's Repository, Bristol.
Mr. J. Wood's two year old filly, Beauty, in consequence
f breaking a blood vessel whilst at exercise on Wednes-
y morning, at Warwick, was prevented running for the

ursery.
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle will entertain a
large party at Clumber Park for the races at Doncaster
this week. Lord Londesborough will also have a select
party at Grimston Park, near Tadeaster ; and Lord and
Lady Wharncliffe will recoive a large and distinguished
party at Wortley Hall.
THE VAMPIRE OBJECTION AT OXPOILD.—The objection to
Vampire for crossing in the City Members' Plate, referred
by the stewards of Oxford to the stewards of the Jockey
Club, was heard by the Duke of Beaufort and Admiral
Rous at Warwick, and considered not proven, but Pep-
pier, the jockey of Vampire, was ;warned that, having
already been reported once, on his next offence he would
be suspended.
SWEEPSTAKES. The monster swindling St. Leger
Sweepstakes (thanks to the energy of the police) are now
nearly extinguished. There certainly are a few honest
ones amongst them, for instance the "City Spec," the
manager of which on receiving notice from the police im-
mediately returned the full amount paid for tickets with-
out a farthing of deduction for expenses.
NEW MATCRES.—Duke of Newcastle's Julius, 8 yrs, Bst
111 b, against the Marquis of Hastings's Lady Elizabeth,
2 yrs, Bst 21b; Bretby Stakes course; 1,000, h ft; last day
of the Second October meeting. Lord Uxbridge's Life
Guardsman, 4 yrs, 9st, against the Duke of Newcastle's
Silenus, 3 yrs, Bst 41b; Ditch mile ; last day of the New-
market First October meeting. Duke of Beaufort's Cau-.
easus against Admiral Rous's Pieman ; both then four-
year-olds; Bst 101 b each; D.ll. ; 100, b. ft; Mcnday,
Craven meeting, 1868.
RING REGULATIONS AT DONCASTER.—The following are
the revised conditions under which the weekly tickets will
be issued:—" In addition to the usual regulations as to
defaulters, these tickets will be sold conditionally only
that the purchaser or owner does not exhibit any betting
list within the enclosure, or in or upon the stands, and that
he shall not make use of any clogs or stools, &c. In the
event of these rules being disregarded the ticket will be-
come forfeited, and any person who may have obtained
admission by it will be expelled from the stand and its
enclosure."