The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of colonial wool are progressing steadily.
Although foreigu buyers have extended their purchases,
ho bulk of the transactions hay() been on home 4ccount•

Fine wools have readily commanded fully the opening
rates, but inferior sorts are the turn cheaper. English
wool has moved off slowly, at drooping prices. The im-
ports into London last week consisted of 5,102 bales from
the Cape, 1,172 Adelaide, and 2,308 bales from Sydney.
Current prices of English wool per lb.

- - s d s d
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 4 1 5
Half-bred do l4l 1 5
Rent• fleeces . 1 31 1 4
South Down owes and wcthers... 1 3 1 4
Leicester do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

SPO ITING NO rE3.

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The principal events of the past week have been decided
in exact accordance with my anticipations, as I selected
Seville absolutely to win the Great Yorkshire Handicap;
B'ue Gown, the Champagne Stakes; Donaldbain, the
Glasgow Stakes; Nike, the Match; and placed FIRST
and SECOND horses for the St. Leg r ; in addition to
which I gave the winners of the Zftland Stakes, the
Don Stakes, the Sweepstakes of 200 sovs each, besides
running second in several of the other races. Included
n the above lot is Sir Joseph Hawley's Blue
Glown, because ho did win, although afterwards
disqualified. Never was there a greater amount
of excitement as the "swells" were on to a man, and there
is no question their balance, good or bad, was very much
affected at the end of the week by this unfortunate catas-
trophe. Sir Joseph has most cause of complaint, as it is
generally understood that Wells could not get within 41b.
or olb. of the weight, which over quantity has most likely
been carried by him throughout the season. This has
fortunately not been the means of his separation from the
celebrated cherry colours; but I very much doubt if we
shall see this splendid horseman in the saddle so frequently
again, as he will always have to waste to ride Bst 101 b.

The fixtures of the present week are unusually heavy,
but as some of them are only of local interest, I must de-
cline making any comments upon the events to be de-
cided at those meetings.
Kelso races, which commence to-day, are sure to be
well patronised by many of the visitors who attended
Doncaster, and not a few of the animals which ran on the
Town Moor will doubtless " fight their battles o'er again."

The principal feature at Richmond, which commences
to-morrow, will be the debut Of GEANT DES BATAILLES in
the Sapling Stakes, which, Lady Highthorn, La Mousse,
and Donaldbain being each penalised, be ought to have no
difficulty in winning, as he has boon heavily backed for
next year's Derby. The Richmond Handicap has only
eight acceptances, of whom the most favourably handi-
capped appear to be War, Dawson's pair (Tynedalo and
Minster Bell), and Little Treasure. My preference, how-
ever, provided a good lad is up, would be for LITTLE
TREASURE.

Of the eighteen nominations to the Wright Stakes, run
on Wednesday, LADY Aucesx is amongst those claiming
51b. allowance, and I fancy this will just enable her to
beat Frolicsome, who has incurred 71b penalty. ELVIRE
appears most attractive for the Burton Handicap, and
Her Majesty's Plate will go to the owner of ROMPING
GIRL.

Two good days' sport will also take place on Tuesday and
Wednesday at Hampton, which will probably be the prin-
cipal point of attraction to the London bookmakers, as
the June mooting this year was extensively patronised by
the aristocracy, who made the betting there un•isually
brisk. For the Mole Nursery Stakes Miss CAMERINB and
and SULTANA read best in. The East and West Molesey
Stakes ought to be won by by the COLT BY VEDETTE OUT
OF CROSSLANES. I expect to see DAWDLE win the
Thames Valley Plate, and GLENARM the Durdans Han-
dicap.

The second day's events will depend a great deal, of
course, upon previous running, hut WILD BEE is nicely
weighted for the Innkeepers' Plate. VIXEN has nothing
to complain of in the Epsom Plato, and PERO is not badly
in in the Hampton Nursery Handicap.
The Western Meeting (Ayr) will occupy Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, but the results will depend so much
upon the decisions in the earlier part of the week at Kelso,
and other places, where many of the same horses are en-
gaged, that it is quite impossible at the present time to
make any reliable selections for the different stakes. It
must suffice, therefore, if I suggest PINTAIL for the Ayr
Gold Cup, and CADLEY, for the Ayrshire Handicap, if
amongst the starters, should be very near winning.
On the same grounds, in referring to Manchester, where
by the way the Stakes offered to be competed for are of the
most paltry description, and a disgrace to the management,
I can only say if JEZABEL and ORNE, in Wadlow's stable,
should be sent for the Manchester Cup, run on Friday,
and the Northern Metropolitan Plate the next day,
for which they are both engaged, they will represent my
interests.

A FRESH MAN.

From the Newmarket Correspondent of the Racing Times.
All those not blinded by prejudice must now see I was
right when I stated in a former article that the Duke of
Beaufort was ono of fortune's favourites in having won
some large stakes with a moderate horse; for had hermit
or Julius been half fit to run for the Two Thousand
Guineas he would only have been third best in the race.
This was proved beyond all doubt on Wednesday last;
but his unfortunate backers said he was stale and used up
at York, and that a fortnight's rest would get him all right
again. They backed him right out for the St. Leger, and
his clever trainer thought it impossible that he could be
beaten for a place, so the stable money went on him in
thousands for a situation. But 1 wrote the week after
Goodwood that Julius would beat him in their places, and
that he would have no earthly chance of winning so long
as Hermit kept well ; and it will be remembered I recom-
mended Julius to be backed for a place at the same time;
for after Tynedale got sc close to Vauban at Goodwood, I
was quite sure the Duke of Newcastle's horse would beat
him for a place in the St. Leger, and had not Julius
twisted a plate in the race ho would have been nearer

the winner. As it was, he could have be:;;;;;;;c1,
only Daley had orders not to get there, which would
have incurred him a 51b penalty for the Cesarewitch and
Cambridgeshire. He must have a great chance when
the running of the St. Leger horses in former years in the
Cosarewitch is taken into consideration; but the Cam-
bridgeshire, to my thinking, would be more suitable to the
fine stride of this son of St. Albans. Since the great match
between the Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur there has
not been so much excitement over any race as the past
St. Leger. Some of your contemporaries call it a struggle
between the two first. What rubbish! when any one
with their eyes open could see the mare won in a cantor.
Most people call it an exciting race, but all the excitement
was beforehand, for how can it be an exciting race to see
one horse canter home before the others. The Marquis of
Hastings must now have discovered that Challenge is not
worth one half or even a quarter of the sum he paid for
him; and, what with the money ho lost on him for the
Leger, and £5OO more he will lose when ho meets Julius in
their match at Newmarket, he will be a dear purchase.
The racing commenced on Tuesday with the Fitzwilliam
Stakes, when Friponnier landed his backers, but his
was not a bloodless victory, as ho only beat Sundeelah
by a head ; the running of the latter proved that the
stable was not far out in piling the money on Dawdle at
York, little thinking that the son of Jeremy Diddler
would upset the pot. It served them right, for had
matters been managed properly he could have beat the
moderate lot that were opposed to hint at Brighton. It
was only an exercise canter for Athena to dispose of the
moderate lot she had to meet in the Filly Stakes. The
Marquis of Hastings got a facer in the Glasgow Stakes,
as he heaped the money on Prince Louis, and Donaldbain
won in a canter. Seville won the Yorkshire Han-
dicap cleverly, but it will be seen before the year
is over that all those behind ber are very moderate.
The remainder of the races on Tuesday call for no
comment from me, with the exception of the Champagne
Stakes.. It was a most unfortunate thing for Sir Joseph
and the backers of Blue Gown that Wells should have
made such a fearful mistake; and I am quite sure that no
one repents more than he does that such a sad occurrence
should have happened. From what I know of Wells
he would sooner have his right arm chopped off than do
wrong to Sir Joseph or any ono else knowingly. Most
uncharitable things have been said of him ; it would have
been better for Wells had he not won the race, as he would
then have saved his reputation ; it was cnly his fine riding
that got his horse's head in front in the last few strides;
but I hope, for the sake of this great horseman, that the time
is not far distant when he will be able to make Sir Joseph
amends for the sad mistake he made in the Champagne,
and let his detractors see that ho has lost none of the
form ho displayed on Musjid and Beadsman at Epsom.
There has been so much written about the doings on the
Leger Day that it must by this time be getting stale and
unprofitable to sporting readers. I must congratulate
myself on having placed Achievement first, and, as I pre-
dicted, it was a good' race with Hermit and Julius for
second place. The latter could have been nearer, as stated
above, had Daley thought proper to have ridden him out,
so that my favourite horse Julius has realised all 1 have
written about him lately. The racing on Thursday was
only moderate. Seville had little trouble to land his
backers in the Cleveland Handicap, but the sooner the
Mayonaise filly is turned out of training the better, as she
is a wretch, and not worth £5 for racing purposes. Paco
upset the pot in the Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, and the

fielders had a fine turn this time, the winner not being
backed for a shilling. The Marquis backed the Earl in
earnest, and some people thought Cannon left off riding too
soon, but the running of Paco on Friday proved the race
to be quite correct, when the Duko of Newcastle's good-
looking colt cantered away from Blue Gown, Court Mantle,
and two others. Time will give us proof whether Pace
is a clipper, as he will have to meet Lady Elizabeth iu the
Blenkiron Plato at Newmarket, when I expect to see him
succumb to the Marquis of Hastings's beautiful filly. She
is engaged three times this year"at Newmarket., and her
match with Julius will be a most exciting one. Her
owner must be a bold man indeed to match her against
Julius at 91b. ; but of course he ought to know what he is
doing, as Lord Ronald beat Julius at 'Winchester, giving
him 201 b., and I know for a fact that the filly beat Lord
Ronald in a trial at 91b. difference. Still I have not much
faith
.in private trials, as I know some first-rate judges