The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-28 00:00:00

SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE. —This Da:

VICTORIA CLUB—Tfus DAY.
LINCOLN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (taken)
25 to 1 agst Batthyany (taken)
33 to 1 agst Vandervelde (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mount Palatine (taken)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLY:MIA:E.
25 to 1 agst Surney (taken)
33 to 1 agst Accident (taken)
33 to 1 agst Plover (taken)
CITY SUBURBAN.
25 to 1 agst Thalia (taken)
33 to 1 agst Special (taken)
33 to 1 agst Gretna (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst lloulsey (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Praserpine (taken)
40 to 1 agst Weather Star (taken)
40 to 1 agst Actma (taken)
40 to 1 agst Jollity (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Bracken (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Duke (offered)
50 to 1 agst Miss Harriette (taken and offerodl

TWO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Plaudit (offered, sto 1 taken)
6to 1 agst Hermit (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Julius (taken)
100 to 6 agst Marksman (taken and offered)
20 to 1 apt Master Butterfly (offered)
50 to 1 agst General (taken and offered)
DERBY.
9 to 1 D'Estournal (taken and offered)
11 to 1 agst Plaudit (offered)

SPORTING NOTES.

Another " Act" of justice in the " Soiled Dove' case has
been meted out to the principal performers by the stewards
of the Jockey Club, and it only remains now for the com-
mittee at Tattersalrs to decide respecting the bets in this
unfortunate affair. Admiral Rous, one of theadjudicators
in question, has already expressed a decided opinion on
the subject, which simply amounts to this, that any ono
who has made any wagers about any race this mare won
last season will have to refund the amount he received,
and also the amount he risked provided she had lost. One
of your Saturday contemporaries says, "she was foaled
either at General Shirley's place, near Rugby, or
at his training establishment at Hednesford, and adds,
"One link in the chain of evidence is missing,
bow and when Soiled Dove was conveyed to Belgium."
This is asserting facts, relative to which there is not
the slightest evidence, and I have as much right to believe,
on the contrary, that she was foaled abroaduntil proofs are
forthcoming. Furthermore, I contend no satisfactory
decision can be properly come to until her birth-place is
substantiated. Let any person of impartial mind study
the rules now in force, and whilst there is a doubt if the
filly was not foaled abroad, say the Jockey Club or
their officials have not neglected their duty by allow-
ing the mare to start at Newmarket the first
place where she made her appearance—and acted in
direct contravention to Rules 15 and 16. They ex-
ercise the most arbitrary power according to these rules ;
but if it is proved the mare was foaled out of England
they are certainly responsible for the loss inflicted upon
the public for their laches in this instance. If all bets
wore declared off the innocent and bona fide backers of this
filly would not have so much cause to complain, but when
the Admiral insists upon enforcing all the penalties at-
taching to Rule 17, it is natural for those parties inte-
rested to say, "Had your other rules been enforced this
could not possibly have occurred," and he must see the in-
vidious position in which the Jockey Club are placed."
The weights for the principal Spring Handicaps have
made their appearance in the "Calendar" simultaneously,
and display the usual amount of ability on the part of their
manipulators, but some of the estimates of the capabilities
of different animals formed by the handicapper of the
Epsom handicaps, to my notion, show a good deal of pre-
judice, but it must suffice at the present time if I instance
the weights apportioned to Copenhagen and Gretna for the
City and Suburban. The first-named horse is a maiden
6 yr old, belonging to Mr. H. Hill, whose best perform-
ances were running third for the Lincolnshire Handicap
last year with 7st 121 b on his back; and two months later
carrying Bst 21b, an indifferent fifth for this race. The
same handicapper, I believe, had to weight him towards the
end of the season for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, in which
he gave him Bst 81b, and now, let me hope for the sake
of his owner, as a climax he has to carry Bst 131 b, other:-
wise another defeat or two will bring him to the top weight.
Gretna, 4 yrs old, is handicapped at 6st 41b, consequently
has to receive 371bs. from the horse just alluded to, but.
except having run half a dozen times as a three-year-old
very indifferently—probably out of all form—there can be
no excuse for placing such a ridiculous weight upon her.
In 1865 (2 yrs old) she was successful six out of the twelve
times she started, her first win being a Maiden Plate at
Ascot, in which a field of 21 horses were behind, amongst
others Ambition and Lecturer. The next stake placed to
her credit is the Grange Park Stakes, at Winchester,
wherein she beat Abergeldie and the colt by Vengeance
out of Midia at even weights and with the greatest ease.
Sho next, allowing for difference of sex, gave Redan 21b
and a beating at Lewes, following it up by
winning the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ox-
ford, from Miss Roland and Rama, one being
in receipt of 21b. and the other 71b. from her. She
afterwards won a sweepstakes at Weymouth, defeating
seven others, and finished the season by winning the Ash-
down Stakes at Lanabourne in a canter. Every one who
enters his horse for a handicap does so naturally with the
full expectation of being dealt with impartially; but many
owners now-a-days complain bitterly of the apparent
favouritism shown towards some stables, and, as they con-
sider, unjust weight given to their horses.
It was my intention to allude to several animals which
look favourably in for the different Spring Handicaps, but
as the acceptances will be declared in a day or two, I shall
then be better able to judge of the probable intentions of
owners.

A FRESH MAN.

RACING FIXT

RES FOR 1867.

FEBR

Lincoln Spring
Harrow Spring
Nottingham 26

.ARY.

Liverpool Spring
Chelmsford Spring l2
Margate...
Warwick Spring l9

Cardiff
Northampton
Windsor Spring 4
Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6
Newmarket Craven 8
Abergavenny
M.

Ascot Spring
York Spring 7
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury
1 Bath .......................
JU:
Ascot Summer 4
Windsor Summer
Manchester Summer
Hampton l3
Odiham l7
13ibury Club lB
---

Oarlisle 2
Newmarket July 2
Pontefract
Reading .•—• 9
Liverpool July Meeting 10
Ilungerford
Nottingham l6

AUG
Ripon
Brighton .., .. 6
Brighton Cluu 8
Lewes
Egham ..... l3 I
Wolverhampton l3
Stockton
Oxford .... 15
Hastings
York August

NOVI
Liverpool Autumn 5
Shrewsbury Autumn ll

West Drayton 2G
Derby

Bromley
Epsom Spring 26
Lewes Spring . 28
Croxton Park 29
T hirsk
Newmarket ist Spring 22
Durham
Catterick
Chester BO

Y.
Harpenden
Epsom
Croydon
Newton , 29

Beverley
Stockbridge l9
Chelmsford Summer
Newcastle .. 25
Ipswich 27
Worcester Summer 27
Down Royal Corporatn l7
Stamford lB
Huntingdon • 23
Winchester
Southampton
Gaod wood

Dover
West Drayton 22
Plymouth . 23
Canterbury
Derby
Lichfield
Woymouth
Tunbridge
Baden Baden

.MBE R.
ILeamington Hunt

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

The Peninsular and oSr°ieuTntair lA lci Po TmOpNa,nJy
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ship Ripon with the above mails arrived here to-
day with 50 passengers, £320 in specie, and a gene-
ral cargo. She experienced a succession of heavy
gales from Malta to the Channel. The British
barque Sea Wave, from London for Batavia, was
spoken on the 11th by the ship Negotiator 30 miles
west of Lindsay Island, with a signal of distress
flying. The Sea Wave had lost her rudder and
sustained other damages, and asked for assistance.
The Negotiator attempted to tow her, but the
hawser breaking, was compelled to abandon her on
account of the weather. The British barque Prince
Albert, of London, sprung a leak, and was aban.
doned by her crew the same day.
The British ship Anne Buckle, of Newcastle,
was wrecked on the Barbary coast on the 15th,
and it was reported at Tangiers that she had
broken up on the 17th, and the crew were drowned.
A heavy gale visited Gibraltar on the 17th, and
several vessels were driven ashore, including the
British ships Sweden, Berbice, Jane and Rosalie,
and the Fanny.

Exchange on London at Gibraltar, 491 ; Paris,
sf, 13c.