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

'SPORTING NOTES.

The DoncasTtenr mEeGotßinEgAcfmSmiet.ncLeEs to-morrow,GEß 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 are
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 Ilandic4), and Friday *rill wind up with the
Nursery Plate, the Park Hill, the Doncaster, and the Don
Stakes. The Glasgow Stakes will probably go to nurox-
NIER The Champagne Stakes will not excite the usual
amount of interest from the fact that ACHIEVEMENT is
amongst the entries and sure to win, her most forinid-:
able opponent being Marksman. The Filly Stakes ought
to be won by PROBLEM. Of the nineteen contents for
the Groat Yorkshire Handicap the following six have
most attraction for me, viz., Bradamaute, 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, Suudeelah 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 bo one of the first three, if not
the actual winner. The Revival Plate has a lot of
penal Lies 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 hint
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 tho
shade. Annexed is a list of the probable starters and
their jockeys, or at any rate of those horses at all likely tv
interfere with the result :

PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS.
Savernake Challoner Vespasian J. Grimshaw
Lord Lyon Custanco Repulse Cannon
Westwick A. Edwards Toxophilite c... Parry
Rustic Fordham Podargus J Osborne
Knight of the
Crescent Norman
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
SAVERNAKE has now resumed a more
Iheeaulttihryely capptaracidn% in the betting, at this present time o(
writing, but on the eve of all groat events canards are
always the order of the day, and his reported defeat by
Bradamanto surely ie 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 qualiii-
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. STRATI-L-
-CD:CAN 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 51b.
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 Yorkshiremen), he afforded his
owner (Mr. Watts) an agreeable surprise by winning the
Great Yorkshire Stakes easily, turning the tables on his
Stockton conqueror, and at the same time upsetting the
liberal odds laid on 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
exercise on the `Molds, 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 he will look, and, as I be-
lieve perform, a bettor horse than ho. over ran before
Westwick is also much improved, and, from his running
with Strathconan and Honesty at Stockton, must not be
lost sight of ; and his performance of winning the Ebor
Handicap subsequently is another argument in his favour,
because he won all the way and at the finish with re-
markable ease. His running the next day I ignore alto-
gether, as he was leg-weary, and upset from his pre-
vious day's exertions. RUSTIC belongs to one of the roost
honourable sportsmen of the day ; a noblemna and gentle..
man in every sense of the word ; who treats all those
parties who are lucky enough to come in contact with
him with a suaciter in mode, which is worthy of all praise,
and. reminds one of those days when the Turf was pa-
tronised by many of a similar class. He was doubtless
short of preparation when he performed last week at
York, and will most likely reverse the running there
with Strathconan—nevertheless, so little if any improve-
ment has been made in his Derby form, that he can-
not defeat Lord Lyon. PODARGUS, ;the property of the
Earl of Zetland, has given us a taste of his staying
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 groat race, still his lord-
ship is one of the most straightforward nobleipen 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 Plato. The Munici-
pal Stakes MANDRAKE will win. Iu the Handicap Sweep-
stakes for Two-year-olds MlsronTuNE ought to secure.
There are no less than fifty-eight , subscriptions for a
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, run on Thursday, and of the
public performers those penalised aro most trustworthy,
and of th.s lot I should think KNIGHT OF THE GARTER has
only to run and win. For the Eglinton Stakes, BUMBLEKITE.
The Scarborough Stakes is a question of weight between
KNIGHT OF THE CRESCENT and REPULSE, which might be
altered by the St. Leger running. The Cleveland Handicap,
EAST LYNN certainly cannot very well lose, and the following
look- best yin the Portland Plate, viz., Coup d'Etat, Mrs.
Stratton, Gretna, Hopvine, Musician, and fiily by Lord of
the Isles Of Friday's running I can say very little. WEST-
WICK looks like winning the Sweepstakes of 200 soya each,
LORD LYON the Don Stakes, and QUICK MARCH 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.

TURF AGENCY OFFICE,
100, JEEMTN-STREET, ST. JAMES'S, LONDON.
MR. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter-
sall's) begs to inform the racing public ho will
execute COMMISSIONS (by letter only) on all the prin-
cipal races throughout the year. For further particulars
and prices see advertisement iu The Sportsman newspaper
every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY.
Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded on receipt
of stamped directed envelope.
Post-office Orders to be made payable at the Piccadilly
or St. James's street offices, and cheques to be crossed the
Lo ndon and Westminster lank."

DEATH OF A ST. LEGER HORSE.—One of Mr. J.
Scott's lot for the St. Leger, Mr. Bowes's Claros, 3
years, the winner of the Ebor St. Leger at the recent York
meeting, fell dead en Langton Weld on Thursday. Claros,
with War, Westwiek, and Knight of the Crescent, took a
gallop with Norman up, and wont on all right ; but on
walking 50 yards or so afterwards suddenly rolled over on
his rider and expired. Death is supposed to havo boon
caused by disease of the heart.
The late Mr. Gordon's Cumming's collection has been
added to Barnum's AfitSeutn, at Now York.
FRACTIONS IN TIME.—The man that invented eighths in.
timing watches had bettor have been at some other busi-
ness. A quarter of a second is quite near enough, and we
have resolved to take no notice of smaller divisions ; thus,
hereafter, "two-fifths" will be set down as one-half, five_
eighths as throo-quarters, and seven-eighths as a whole
second. This eighth of second business is all a humbug.—
Trlkels Spirit of " The Times," New York.
Theth e
tdeatherf, toefek Charlesplee Ctehciiel kidaarytywne, well-knownweek
akathis patron
ofresidence,
Whitehall Gardens, from congestion of the lungs.
Arthur Edwards will ride for the Whitewall
stable in the
St. Leger.

Robert Peck has succeedod 11. May as private trainer to
Lord Stamford.

THE ATL&NTIC CABLE.

The following telegram has been received by
neuter's Telegram Co: (Limited) from the Anglo-
American Telegraph Co. (Limited), Sept. 8 :