The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-10 00:00:00

THE GREAT ST. LEGER.

The Doncaster meeting commences to-morrow, and ex-
tends over an area of four days, each of which holds out
every hope of most attractive sport. On the first day the
Champagne Stakes and the Great Yorkshire Handicap aro
set down for decision. The Great St. Leger, the Doncas-
ter Plate, and Her Majesty's Guineas will be decided on
Wednesday. Thursday's card will include the Eglinton
Stakes, the Corporation and Portland Plates, and the
Cleveland Handicap, and Friday will wind up with the
Nursery Plate, the Park Hill, the Doncaster, and the Don
Stakes. The Glasgow Stakes will probably go to FRIPON-
NIER The Champagne Stakes will not excite tho usual
amount of interest from the fact that ACHIEVEMENT is
amongst the entries and sure to win, her most formid-
able opponent being Marksman.' The Filly Stakes ought
to be won by PROBLEM. Of the nineteen contents for
the Great Yorkshire Handicap the following six have
most attraction for me, viz., Bradamante, Sundeelah,
Salpinctes, Ameer, War and Nu. Bradamante's perform-
ance will be watched with no little interest, as a guide
to Savernake's form for the great event on the ensuing
day, Sundeelah has been selected instead of Red Earl
to do battle for Major Stapylton. Salpinctes in his Cesare-
witch form would assuredly win this race, but the mar-
ket looks unhealthy to a degree as he has been sent to 20
to 1. Ameer is highly thought of in the stable. War
looks especially dangerous, and being a sound, good game
horse, he is bound to be ono of the first three, if not

the actual winner. The Revival Plato has a lot of
penalties and allowances, but I think the CORPORAL,
from his running at York, is most trustworthy. In
the Doncaster Plate NORWOOD is well in, and to him
or SWEET ANNE I shall leave the race. The St. Leger
is the great feature of the meeting, and will put
all the other races of Wednesday completely in the
shade. Annexed,is a list of the probable starters .and
their jockeys, or at any rate of those horses at all likely to
biterfore with the result :

PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS.

Savernake Challoner
Lord Lyon Custance
Westwick A. Edwards
Rustic Fordham
Knight of the
Crescent Norman

Vespasian J. Grimshaw
Repulse Cannon
Tosophilite c Parry
Podargus J. Osborne

LORD LYON holds his pride of place in the betting with
unmistakeable firmness, and is selected almost unanimously
to champion the prophets to victory, an opinion in which
I entirely coincide. SAVEitNAKE has now resumed a more
healthy appearance is the betting, at this present time of
writing, but on the eve of all great events canards are
always the order of the day, and his reported defeat by
l3radamante surely is ono of them. Scund and well at

the post Lord Ailesbury's horse has pretensions to
win this much-coveted prize second to none in the race,
but doubts of his possessing the former necessary qualifi-
fication will cross my mind, and more especially as since
the Derby he has missed some of the richest stakes of the
year, which appeared almost at his mercy. STRATH-
CONAN has to be photographed under two very dif-
ferent views ; in the first, the gallant grey as he made
his appearance at Stockton in The Great Northern Leger
there, and was supported by a host of friends ; but West-
wick, whom he beat a long way in the Derby, with Mb.
less on his back, made a shocking example of him and his
deluded supporters. Just seven days afterwards, at odds
varying from 20 to 50 to 1, according to the eagerness of
his supporters to be on (all Yorkshiremeu), he afforded his
owner (Mr. Watts) an agreeable surprise by winning the
Great Yorkshire Stakes easily, turning the tables ou his
Stockton conqueror, and at the same time upsetting the
liberal odds laid ou Rustic ; but this was a great fluke,
and not likely to be repeated at Doncaster. Lord Glasgow's
representative, whichever it may be, has no chance.
KNIGHT OF THE CRESCENT and WESTWICK are evidently
the two upon which John Scott's supporters will have to
depend on the day. Lord Exeter's horse met with a mishap
at Ascot, which prevented him running there, but having
had an opportunity of lately seeing the horse taking his
exorcise on the Welds, and afterwards stripped in the
stable, I am in a position to state that he has not only
recovered from his mishap, but is as sound as a bell,
besides which, in point of condition and appearance, I
have no hesitation in saying ho will look, and, as Ifobreo-
lieve perform, a better horse than he over ran bo
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qualifications by wining the Queen's Guineas at New-
castle-upon-Tyne from Honesty and Terror, but that
form is not good enough for a great race, still his lord-
ship is one of the most straightforward noblemen on the
Turf, and his horse is sure to run and try. Nothing else
seems to me to have a chance for the Great Northern
Prize, and I shall anticipate the judge's decision by placing
LORD LYON 1
SAVERNAKE 2
WEST WICK 3
LIDDINGTON will win the Corporation Plate. The Munici-
pal Stakes MANDRAKE will win. In the Handicap Sweep-
stakes for Two-year-olds MISFORTUNX ought to secure.
There are no less than fifty-eight subscriptions for a
Sweepstakes of 10 says each, run on Thursday, and of the
public performers those penalised are most trustworthy,
and of this lot I should think Ksicarr OF THE GARTER has
only to run and win. For the Egliuton Stakes, BUMELEICITE.
The Scarborough Stakes is a question of weight between
KNIGHT OF THE CRESCENT and REPULSE, Which might be
k altered by the St.l.,eger running. The Cleveland Ilaudiesn

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EAST LYNN certainly cannot very well lose, and the following
look best in the Portland Plate, viz., Coup d'Etat, Mrs.
Stratton, Gretna, Hopvine, Musician, and fiily by Lord of
the Isles Of Friday's runningl can say very little. WEST-
WICK leas like winning the Sweepstakes of 200 sous each,
Loan LYON the Don Stakes, and QUICK Mancu the Park
Hill Stakes, whilst the Doncaster Stakes will be decided
in a great measure by the result of the St. Leger.
A FRESH MAN.