The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-21 00:00:00

GALLOPS AT EPJOM THIS MORNING,

Rain having fallen heavily throughout yesterday
afternoon and during the night the Downs were
unpleasant to the tread of the horse-watchers this
morning, and the air was chilly and damp too.
Showers also prevailed ; therefore all things con-
sidered, especially as Achievement and Vauban
were still absentees, not having yet left their home
quarters, no wonder the attendance of on-lookers
at exercise time was short. As the herbage was
thick on the running ground, more particularly at
Tattenham Corner, " the track" was by no means
injuriously affected by the recent succession of
heavy rain, and, unless the " down pour " con-
tinues strong, the course will be in capital order to-
morrow, especially if the wind gets up. Still there
are symptoms of prolonged wet, and if the ground
becomes heavy, the Derby chances of a great many
will not be worth a .sous, though it cannot in the
least affect such animals as Vauban, Van Amburgh,
Roquefort, Fitz Ivan, &c., who like soft land and a
distance.

This morning the Blue Riband candidates tha
exercised included the Amanda colt, Corporal
D'Estournel, Dragon, Fitz Ivan, Flying Scud,
Hermit, Julius, Leases, Lord Hastings, Man of Ross
Marksman, Master Butterfly, Maid of Mashatr
colt, Nine Elms, Plaudit, Rus in Urbe, The Rake,
Rescue, Roquefort, the Teddington colt, and Tyne-
dale.

The Amanda colt and ben Nevis were about the
first of these to show, but the latter appeared to go
lame, and the former did most work, galloping a
mile and three quarters at a good pace.
Watson set Lozenge to give Plaudit and Strath-
conan three smart canters, and then a gallop of
over a mile and a half, Plaudit again sweating pro-
fusely. Strathconan is much improved in looks
and action since Chester.

The Corporal, Tynedale, and Minster Bell were
led nearly a couple of Miles by The Czar, and they
went uncommonly well. The Prelate pioneered
the rest of Tom Dawson's string, which consisted
of lona and Child of the Islands. The Corporal
goes uncommonly free, and, being fit, is a good
rough outsider for the Dezby.
The Dragon and Leases each galloped very little
short of two miles ; and Liddington took Marks-
man along at a rare pace over a mile and a half.
Sealskin was busy leading D'Estournel and
Roquefort, and the three moved freely, there being
no symptom of lameness in D'Estournel when in
action. Mr. Saville's chance is not done with yet.
The Hermit was bowling steadily over the ground
with Problem and another, but he was never ex-
tended, and appeared nervous.
The Baron's lot attracted much attention, the
magnificent Hippia acquitting herself first-class, as
did Restitution and King Alfred. Jasper is in form
too.

Mat Dawson set Julius, and Flying Scud to fol-
low Sultan two smart canters, and then a mile and
a half gallop, Julius looking fresher and moving
more freely than he did in the Two Thousand.
Ninny, Nike, Speculum, Clemente, and lnnerdale
cantered, and subsequently galloped a mile
steadily.

Moulsey took Queen of Trumps and Lady High-
thorn a famous mile gallop, and the three then
trotted about.

Four of Lord Glasgow's Derby and Oaks horses
were at exercise, but we missed them ; and we did
not get to see either what Rescue did. Man of
Ross and Fitz-Ivan, however, went nearly two miles
at a fair pace.

Lord Hastings, after a deal of trotting and a
couple of steady cantering bouts, started off on a
mile and three-quarters' gallop, with Master Butter-
fly in his wake ; but the latter tired very much at
the finish, evidently from want of condition.
On the Leatherhead Downs Westwick led Grand
Cross and Taraban two nice canters, and Knight
of the Crescent took the latter pair over a mile and
a half at rare speed, and no horse could go better
than Grand Cross. IVestwiek, War, and Klarinsk a,
did a couple of miles. Merry and Wise had a mile
gallop.
Skirmish gave Gipsy King a long smartish canter,
after which Beeswing took the Derby colt a mile
and a half e t a rattling speed.
A lot of other horses were working, but none of
any note ; and the weather was so raw and depres-
sing that few troubled about any of the gallops
beyond those taken by the Derby and Oaks horses.
Amongst the three year old fillies we noticed that
Bounceaway, Skysail, Sceur de Charite, and Sweet
Home were particularly busy, and went as well as
they looked.
The Rake was amongst Joseph Dawson's long
team, but he did nothing beyond trotting and
cantering about for half an hoer, and then a steady
mile gallop. He looks very dull this morning, but
otherwise appears fit, his trainer evidently having
given him a most painstaking preparation up to the
time the colt broke- a small bloodvessel in his head
last Friday. Since then he has been kept quiet,
and most of the veterinary surgeons here agree that
he rilAv escape a repetition of the disaster, even
when passing through the severe struggle of to-
morrow !

Bumblekite, Vauban, Van Amburgh, and a lot
of others were hourly expected when our parcel was
despatched from Epsom at ten o'clock this morning.-

NEWTON SUMMER MEETING.
WEDNESDAY, May 29.
Weights for the Great Newton Cup of 5 sous each, with
150 added. About one mile and three-quarters.
Age st lb Ago st lb
Sundeelab 6 8 12 Paxton ... 3 7 3
Empress of India 6 8 4 Honestish 3 7 0
Retrousse ... 4 8 2 Duchessof Welling-
Success ... ... 5 8 1 tou 4 7 0
Steamboat ... 4 7 13 Clatford 4 6 12
&Aim ... 4 7 11 SergeantPacquot... 4 6 10
Belmont ... ... 4 710 Hawthorn 8100 m... 3 6 9
Maurisa ... 4 7 6 Mrs. Wallet 4 6 8
Arkansas ... ... 5 7 6 Rejoinder ... 3 6 5
Eccleston ... 4 7 5 Greenhora... 3 6 1
Dubiety 5 7 5 Admiral 3 5 13
The Drone... ... 4 7 4 Rabbit Trap 3 513
I 0 by Newminster— Roger Mowbray 3 513
Barege ... 4 7 3 I Bracken ... 3 (pd.)
Weights for the Makerfield Handicap of 100 sous. Half a
mile.

Age st lb
Cranbury 6 9 13
Mr. Pitt ... ... 4 9 4
Queen of Trumps... a 9 2
Edinburgh ... 5 8 4
Repulse ... 4 7 9
Gay Tom... ... 4 7 2
Diadem ... ... 4 7 0
Alberta ... 4 7 0
Gundrede ... 4 6 12
Tortuga ... ... 3 611
The Squire ... 4 6 2
Weights for the South Lancashire Tradesmen's Cup of
100 sovs added to a handicap sweepstakes of 7 sovs each.

Age st lb
Madame Bosco 4 6 2
Miss Hawthorn ... 4 6 2
St. Clair ... 3 6 0
Fredericia 3 5 10
Vulcan ... 3 5 10
by Fandango out
of Southampton's
dam ... 3 5 8
Morning Star ... 2 5 7
F by Y. Melbourne
out of Doralice... 3 5 7

About one mile and a quarter.
Age st lb Age st lb
Sundeelah... 6 8 12 Hawthorn 8100 m... 3 6 10
Empress of India... 6 8 5 Mrs. Wallett 4 6 9
Success ... 5 8 2 Rejoinder ... 3 6
East Lynn... 57 12 Master Willie 36 6
Belmont •4
7 12 TheKing'sDaughter3 6 2
Eccleston ... ......4
7 7 The Dybbol •
3 6 1
Grey Stockings 47 6 Vulcan 36 0
3 6 0
Dubiety 5 7 6 Admiral
Paxton ... ... 3 7 4 Miss Alice... 3 6 0
D uchess of Welling- Rabbit Trap ... 36 0
ton ... ... 47 2 Rosa Nora•3 6 0
The Rescue .. 3 7 1 Cby Fandango out
. Tacitus 4 7 1 of Southampton's
Wave 4 7 0 dam ... 3 6 0
Clatford ... 4 6 13 Canarella ... 3 6 0
Sergeat.tPacquot... 4 6 11 Roger Mowbray ... 3 6 0
Weights for the Manor Cup, value 100 sovs. in specie,
added to a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. One
mile.

Age st lb
Janitor 4 8 12
Belmont 4 8 1
East Lynn... 5 8 0
Begunt 4 7 13
Eccleston 4 7 10
Grey Stockings ... 4 7 8
Dubiety 5 7 8
Radcliffe 5 7 8
Gundrede ... 4 7 4
The Rescue ... 3 7 3
Hawthorn 8100 m... 3 6 13
C by De Clare—Maid
of Kent 3 6 6
King's Daughter ... 3 6 4
Weights for the Warringtc
about fiv(

Age st lb
The Dybbol ... 36 3
Merry 80y... ... 3 6 3
ulcau ... 3 6 3
C by Fandango out
of Southampton's
dam 3 6 2
Miss Alice... ... 3 6 2
Admiral 3 6 '2
John Osborne ... 3 6 2
Canarolla ... 3 6 2
Highland Mary 3 6 2
Lexicon ... 3 6 2
Roger Mowbray ... 3 6 2
Fredericia ... 3 6 2
n Handicap of 100 soya ;
furlongs.

Age st lb
Cranbury ... 6 9 12
Mr. Pitt ... ... 4 9 4
Queen of Trumps a 9 1
Edinburgh ... 5 8 5
Rustic Beauty ... 5 8 3
Alice Lee ... 6 8 1
Repulse. ... ... 4 7 10
Belmont ... ... 4 7 9
Gay Tom... 4 7 3
Troubadour 5 7 1
Guadrede . 4 6 12.
Weights published

Ago at lb
Tortuga ... 3 6 11
Lightfoot (It b) ... 4 6 5
The Squire ... 4 6 4
Madame Bosco 4 6 4
Anchorite 3 5 13
Esmeralda ... 3 5 .13
Vulcan ... ... 3 512
F by Young Mel-
bourne—Doralice 3 5 8
Morning Star ... 2 5 7

:ay 20, at nitro

NOTES

FROM
TRAINING QUARTERS

THIS DAY.

THE EPSOM GALLOPS.

(The following appeared in our latest edition of yesterday
evening):

Bookmakers are in high glee respecting the Derby. The
winter favourites, The Hermit and Plaudit, have brought
them in a loi, of money, but not near so much as the un-
fortunate disaster to The Rake has done ; and what
between the apparent hopelessness of D'Estournel and
Dragon, the now blind public infatuation for certain un-
mistakeable noa-stayers and •white-feathered brutes, a lot
more coin is evidently to roll in for these met allicians.
Though th •ra are plenty of good judges who bdieve that
Van Ant'mrgh is overrated, ;Lad that Vauban will share
the fate of nearly all John Day's immense "pots," none of
them can pick out a second Blair Athol, or Caractacu4, for
Master Buttortly has nit cont' up to general expec-
tation. Sir o;iver has turned out to be a roarcr,
Thornapple has been atnias throughout the inter-
regnum, and done very little since, and there is nothing
better in the outside bevy of public performers than the
moderate Fitz Ivan, Gipsy King, and Roquefort. Still, the
blue riband this year is an exceedingly exciting one, thanks
possibly to the strong hopes which prevail as to the abi-
lity of Marksman and Julius to turn the tables upon Vau-
ban, and the doubt about Van Amburgh's quality. One
thing is certain, the ground could not be in better condi-
tion than it is, for the whole of the Derby course is
covered with beautiful thick herbage, and this morning's
delightful rain is exceedingly likely to be succeeded by
other beneficial showers. As soon as the present day
dawned, fresh and invigorating, the Downs became
alive with busy people, and re-echoed with the sound
of hammers, the erection of the booths, tents, and other
conveniences going forward. The undulating lands were
dotted here and there with saunterers of all classes and
both sexes, the majority of whom had spent "all night" in
the open air. Tho professional horse-watchers were in
myriads ; and as the morning grew older, the motley
crowds wore swollen by arrivals of a better class of indivi-
duals, who were anxious to see and glean all as to the early
exercise of the several animals that had already been quar-
tered in the neighbourhood, and who were destined to take
part in the events of the week.
Few horses, however, had as yet been stabled in the
vicinity of the Downs; that is "strange" animals,
for owners and trainers now do not allow them
to leave borne until the eleventh hour; hence there
are few Sunday gallops to record now, and the Monday
morning exercises are almost as scant. As usual, how-
ever, John Scott had brought his team on the previous
Saturday evening to Vale Lodge Farm, Leatherhead, and
the string consisted of the two Derby candidates, Grand
Cross and Taraban, old Klarinska, a two year old called
Merry and Wise, and the four year olds, Knight of the
Crescent, Knight of St. Michael, War, and Westwick; but
these had been preceded at Sherwoodh'sades,tfittbrliisedh,m,
maentrksby-
Moulsey and Queen of Trumps, who
Marks-
man at Lambourne, en route from Bath to Epsom, Mr.
Merry's colt having beaten Moulsey at 101bs, which
will account for the Scotch M.P. backing his
horse so freely at the close of last week to win
him an additional £20,000. In the course of
Sunday afternoon and eight other horses arrived ;
but very few, comparatively speaking, came out to work
on the Downs and its suburbs this morning, a greater
proportion being restricted to walking and trotting exercise
in the home paddocks.
The "home" horses, in fact, exercised the most freely
to-day, and every one was anxious to get a sight of Squire
Heathcote's Derby outsider, Gipsy King. He came out
in company with Skirmish and Beeswing, and after a short
canter or two, galloped about a mile and a half steadily,
with Morris up, but he looks very little improved since we
saw him at Stockton last season, and there are still traces
of the fall he had during the winter whereby he hurt his
knees.

W. Clay exercised Pevensey and. Fitz Ivan, the latter
of whom has also been backed for the Blue Riband ; but
Toddy Brayley will have it that he is hopeless. So con-
sider we, though the horse went very free in his action
this morning, and looks very fit.
J. Nightingall had Glendale leading Ailesbury and
Ammunition a mile and three-quarters ; and the first-
mentioned subsequently took the two-year olds Adjutant,
Lump Sugar, and Cecil, nearly a mile tolerably fast.
W. Rees brought out Nunquam Dormio, Spes, Fan-
chette, Miss Fanny, Queen of Scots, Brilliant, Sultana,
Ulan, Lord Derby, and Beatrice, the last six being two-
year-olds, but they did nothing worth enumerating.
Of all the youngsters that put in an appearance Bur-
lington certainly did the most, as Sherwood gave him
three canters, and then a gallop of over a mile.
Oa the Mickleham Downs Star Cross led the juveniles
Adamant, Seotchman's Pride, Bessie Dixon, Spnithrift,
and Beautiful Star, a mila gallop, after which they walked
about some time.

The more popular animals engaged in the great contests
for Wednesday and Thursday did not show until a later
hour than the above.

Conspicuous amongst them was Hippie, and there was
a great rush to take stock of the Oaks mare, "the only one
that has the ghost of a chance to floor Achievement." Her
condition was faultless, and as she bounded along after
Jasper, and then shot by him as he had got the length of
a mile and three quarters, pulling up, fresh, sound, and
lively, the Baron's friends were in ecstacies with her.
King Alfred accompanied them, as did Retribution; and
the former is one of the most promising youngsters we
have scanned over for some time, not even barring Lady
Highthorn and Lady Elizabeth. Retribution is " back-
ward," but will see a good day later on.
Tom Stevens was rattling Cranbury and some platers
along; and Paris and Quirina were also in active
exercise.

When Plaudit came out there was a general move to get
at the Richmond horse. Snowden got on him, and he
followed Lozenge a couple of steady canters of about three-
quarters of a mile each, Strathconan accompanying them;
and then all three had a nice gallop of somewhere about a
mile and a half. Plaudit, however, looks so beefy and
lathered so freely that his Derby chance, if be ever had one,
was pronounced " gone." His frame is big enough for
anything, but he has ill-formed legs, joints, and feet ; and
can never stand a strong preparation. He, too, is staying
at Mr. Christy's, Vale Lodge Farm, the grey and him oc-
cupying companion loose boxes. The latter is forward in
condition and must have done a lot of Work dtiring the
past two or three weeks. ,„
Master Butterfly soon afterwards issued from Arm-
strong's stables, followed by Lord Hastings and the Oaks
mare Hawthorn Bloom. His lordship ultimately led them
a canter or two and then a long slow gallop, but they were
condemned by the talent, as both had evidently been amiss
and wanted time.
Last, but not least, we must note the movements of John
Scott's bevy enumerated above. They walked about for a
little while, when Klarinska pioneered Merry and Wise
a three-quarters of a mile gallop (fast), and then joined
War and Westwick in a long steady gallop. Knight of
St. Michael took Knight of the Crescent, Grand Cross, and
Taraban two canters, walked a few minutes, and resumed
with a mile and three-quarters gallop,'.the four striding
magnificently along, and Taraban exhibiting no temper.
Grand Cross has received one of the best Whitewall pre-
parations, and will strip as fine an animal as any at the
Derby post, having size, length, bone, and substance. His
face is starred, his near hind heel white ; the hocks are of
good size, and perfectly free from windgall or other symp-
toms of unsoundness; and theknees are large, the cannon-
bone short, and his feet as sound as possible. The recent
operation Taraban underwent has evidently done him
good, but he does not appear to be wound up. John Scott
though, however, declares ho is the best privately tried
animal he ever had under his care. His shoulders are
good, so are his back and loins, and his legs and feet are
clean. Like the generality of the Rataplans, he has plenty
of strength, but lacks the quality.
Several fresh arrivals transpired during the day, and
to-morrow we shall have additional gallops to record.