The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE,--This Day.

DONCASTER RACES.—Thus DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
LATEST BETTING.
ST. LEGER.
13 to Bon Lord Lyon (offered)
4to 1 agst Savernake (taken)
[OO to 8 agst Strathconan (taken)
50 to 1 agst Rustic (offered)

DONCASTER RACES.

(From our own Special Turf Correspondent),

DONCASTE.R, Tuesday Morning.

Wo shall have a great mcet;ng here, for up to last night
more than a hundred and fifty horses were quartered in
the locality. Most of these were at exercise on tha
Town Moor early this morning; and among;
them we especially noted Achievement, Grand
Cross, Knight of the Cres:•ant, Lord Lyon, Marksman,
Podargus, Regalia,, Rustic, 13..ais, Repulse, Rapid Rhone's
dam colt, Strathconan, Tormentor, Scour de Charite, West-
wick, and War. The two Leger cracks, Lard Lyon and
Savernake did not arrive unt; l P:itr: 4 o'clock yesterday,
and the former went to the Salutation, whN:. the latt,r

;alien to the K:rig-s UnforLunately during
exerese yester,lay Ell and hurt h7.rnself ; but we understand

t')l.t, Mr. I? Sutton is determined to run Lora Lyon for the
Donc-e'er Cup, whataver his Leger fate may be, and for
the Doncaster Stakes also.

The ground is not near so heavy as our metropolitan
friends generally fancy it is, and this morning Gardevisure
(ridden by Thomas) took Lord Lyon (with Custance up) a
nice steady gallop of over a mile and a half, and no ani-
mal in the world could move or look better than the Two
Thousand and Derby hero. Dover has evidently given
him a splendid preparation, for the colt is as fine as a star,
as hard as nails, as strong as a lion, and as docile- as a
lamb. He =not possibly be beaten, for Mr. Sutton makes no
secret of his being pounds better than he was on the
Derby day fact as good as Elland at even weights),
and it is very certain that Custance will be half a stone
better jockey in the north than he was in the south. His
lordship, too, likes the course, and his legs are
free from all trace of infirmity. Gardevisure also gave
Achievement a gentle gallop. Grand Cross and Scour de
Charite went brilliantly, as did Friponnier. Liddington
led Marksman and the Blanche of Middlebie filly, and Mr.
Merry's Lolt is ertainly much improved, and lays well
down to It's work. Mat Dawson galloped Opoponax,
Pericles, Misfortune and Moleskin. Sahli is look-
ing very dickey, but he may possibly be a Leger starter,
vs may Artesian, Emigrant, and the Irish representative
Assassin. Regalia galloped by herself as usual, and is
looking first class. The same may he said of Caithness.
Podargus (J. Osborne riding) went at three parts speed
with Quick March; and Stmthconan (J. Snowden up)
was taken along at a merry pace by Dolan ; the
four-year-old Flutt©r colt p;lotir Savernako (Chal-
loner in the SR id 10), 01 a mite and a half at fair speed.
War showed the way for Westwick, the whole of the
Leger course, the latter doing it beautifully ; but Knight
of the Crescent (Norman), led by linight of St. Michael,
did not go quits so far as Mr. Bowes's couplet. Jack-in the
hfollowed t
aCertyhtehre itao
ee,lPb'euis3 the unquestionably
aCwn:deactlushcel galloped
du
Rustic,KloOakvsaensaidndi different
did
the
a soft-heat,ed brute. Artesian appears very fit, an,.dOstre-
gor bounds along splendidly. Rama followed Kilkenny,
and is fancied for the Cup ; so is Tormentor, who has got
back to her old form. Nu does not go so freely as we have
seen her.

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