The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY.

Only a few of the subscribers having returned from
Newmarket the attendance at the rooms was not
numerous. Many of the Cesarewitch candidates were
talked about, but investments were few and far between,
and to small amounts. M. Dobler retains the position
of first favourite, although offers against him are plenti-
ful• Warlock was supported rather freely at 25 to 1.
1000 to 20 was taken about Eloquence, and afterwards
offered. Black Tommy is very firm ; December, Aster,
and Saccharissa are in bad odour. The following
lengthy list of quotations is to a great extent made ups
from offers :

CZEILUIWITOII STAKES.
Bto 1 apt M. Dobler (offered)
15 to 1 agst Mary (taken and offered)
15 to 1 aget Plush colt (offered)
20 to 1 agst Black Tommy (take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Warlock (taken freely)
25 to 1 apt Renown (offered)
25 to 1 agst Rosati (take 30 to 1)
100 to 3 apt El Hakim (taken and offered)
100 to 3 agst Aster (offered)
100 to 3 agst December (offered)
100 to 3 agst Saechariasa (offered)
50 to 1 eget. Poodle (taken and offered)
50 to 1 aget Neville (Laken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Eloquence (taken and offered)
6 to 1 agst Barfleur (offered)

Tattersall's Subscription Rooms will be open this day
(Saturday).

BLINii." BONNY AND THE DONCASTER ST.

LEGER.
TO THE EDITOR Or BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON.

Sir,—l have to thank you for your generous advocacy
of my cause relative to the defeat of my mare Blink
Bonny for the Doncaster St. Leger. • Your report ex-
hibited what I should like to see imitated in your con-
temporaries, viz., a desire to inquire into) the truth of
facts before giving them to the public heedless of the
consequences which may thereby arise ; and the absence
of all prejudice and malice is alike conspicuous through-
out the whole of your narrative of the meeting. I should
not have troubled you on the subject bad it not been for
the infamous and false statements that have been Made
about me and my neighbour and friend Mr. Scott, whom
parties would in vain endeavour to sacrifice as well as
myself ; and having receive,: several threatening letters
of the vilest description from fellows who are not courage-
ous enough to give their names, and being threatened,
moreover with personal violence the next time I appear
on a race course, I trust you will lend me your columns
to lay before the public the following statement of the
way I prepared my mare for the St. Leger, the bets I
had on her, and the measures I took to ensure her atm-
cess ; and these, I feel confident, will be satisfactory to,
such of my friends and the noblemen and gentlemen who
backed her. It is no secret that I won the Derby and
Oaks with Blink Bonny after a preparation which c,n
really only be dated, from Chester. Having achieved
those victories, the Doncaster St. Leger was, of tour e,
the most earnest object of my ambition, and I resolved
that no stone should he left unturned on my part to pre-
serve Blink Bonny's fair fame, and render her name as
inarnoetal in the annals of the turf asl believe it will oven
he now. On the principle of its being impossible to keep
the bow always strung, I "let her down" a little niter"
Epsom, and at Liverpool and Goodwood she ran " big,
but still won her engagements without being asked to
gallop. I then entertained the idea of running her at
York for the Great Yorkshire Stakes, but the heavy
rains setting in we had to change her exercise ground
Irons the tan to the turf, and in going up gallop she flung
-a shoe and broke her too so badly that I was obliged to
rest her for a fortnight, and give her a couple of doses of
physic. After York I began to put her in strong work
again, and she wont on doing very well, except suffering
slightly from her teeth, one of which was extracted b
Mr. Maws on the 3Uth of August. That gentleman slso
dressed her mouth twice between then and Doncaster.
A. fortnight previous to the race, I regret to add that
she slipped up and injured her quarter from whipping
round suddenly on being frightened at a gentleman get-
ting into a gig that was standing on the `Vold. By
fomentation I reduced the swelling, but nf course
.by
this circumstance I could not work the mane to my lik-
ing, and had, as may be imagined, much to contend with
—the complaint peculiar to her sex having al o set in
usaggravated by the muggy weather
autladbucarlinyesrtvrooun andsg:ta itet did not go off until just before
the Perk Hill. Still she galloped so free, and to the
eye so like in her old form, that although I should have
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to state, she would not eat her bay in her usual way, but
ate tolerably well of corn, and perhaps had I given her
a little grave, as I had done previous to the Derby and
other races, she might have done better. She galloped
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once she was Blink Bonny. I now come to the night
previous to the race, when, having heard of the rumours
satisfaction,
which were in circulation respecting the mare being
"safe," I took every possible precaution to protect my.
self, soy friends, and the public. I had a long interview
with Charlton, in which I impressed upon him the serious-
ness of hie task in riding her for the Leger, adding my
perfect belief that he would do me the same justice he had
done me in the Derby, Oat's, and, in fact, in every race
in which he had ridden for me; and I added, "the eyes of
Yorkshire and the world were on him." He assured me
he had backed the mare for a sum which he mentioned to
me. I removed a pecuniary impediment to his mount,
and we parted mutually satisfied with each other, he
and I both believing that we should be successful on the
morrow. The result of the race is now well known, alid,
however mortifying to me, I must bear with it, the only
consolation I have being, that I did all I knew to avoi I
it, and my belief that it was brought about by circum-
stances over which I had no control, which I have
pointed out, and which I endeavoured to master to the
best of my ability. The only
bets I bad on the race were
the following: viz.s 75 to 1 125 and 50 to 150 on Blink
Bonny; these I hedged by betting 140 to 80 and 65 to
40 against her. I also took 400 to 200 about Ignore-
mils, and 250 to 10 about Imperious° ; and at the espe-
cial request of Mr. Charles Peck I laid him 1001. to his
race vac, which he valued at 601. Beyond these amounts
I had not one shilling dependent upon the St. Leger. I
had not the slightest communication, either personally
or by letter, with Mr. Scott, who, I have reason to be
lieve, never fancied Itnpertense could have beaten Blink
Bonny,. and I should never have dared to have approached
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Scott,
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beg
to state I :hall take no further notice of any more writ
ten or personal Blinders on this unpleasant subject, but
leave myself entirely in the hands of the sporting world,
who one day or another lam satisfied will render the
Justice that is due to, sir, your obedient servant,
Spring-cottage, Mahon, Sept. 26. W. l'AesaN. •
P.S, Perhaps it may be satisfactory to add that no
humsoi being owns even a hair of Blink Bonny's tail but
myeetF, nor has anybody the slightest control over her.