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 Lot
numerous. Many of the Cesarewitch candidates were
talked about, but investments were few and far between,
and to Ptnall 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 0 20 was taken about Eloquence, and afterwards
offered. Black Tommy is very firm ; December, Aster,
and Saccbarissa are in bad odour. The following
len:,thy list of quotations is to a great extent made up
from offers :

CISMIEWITOLI STALES.
8 to 1 agst M. Dobler (offered)
15 to 1 agst Mary (taken and offered)
15 to 1 apt Plush colt (offered)
20 to 1 agst Black Tommy (take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Warlock (taken freely)
25 to 1 agut Renown (offered)
25 to 1 agst Rosati (rake 30 to 1)
100 to 3 agst El Hakim (taken and offered)
100 to 3 asst Aster (offered)
100 to 3 agst December (offered)
100 to 3 agst Saeeharissa (,ffercd)
50 to 1 agst Poodle (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Neville (,aken and offered)
50 to 1 aget Eloquence (taken and offtrad)
65 to 1. apt 13Arileur (offered)

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

BLINK BONNY AND THE DONOASTER ST.

LEGE R.
TO THE EDITOR OF DELL'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
Benny 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 fellsws 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 suc-
cess ; and these, I feel confident, will be satisfactory to
such of my friends and the noblemen and gentlemen who
necked her. It is no secret that I won the Derby and
Oaks with Blink Bonny after a preparation which cut
really only be dated from Chester. Having achieved
these victories, the Doncaster St. Leger was, of cour•e,
the most earnest object of my ambition, and I resolved
that no stone should be left unturned on my part to pre-
serve Blink Bonny's fair fame, and render her name as
immortal in the annals of the turf asl believe it will even
he now. Oa the principle of its being impossible to keep
the bow always strung, I "let her down" a little after
Epsom, and at Liverpool and Goodwood she ran " big,"
but still won her engagements without being asked to
_wallop. 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
trom the tan to the turf, and in going up gallop she flung
i v t
o e her
put
a shoe and broke her ,oe so badly that I was obliged to
restbye
ah
her i ti oup
l set roof ng de
ewe work
rekf
ia. her
again, and she went on doing very well, except suffering
plAerf a fortnight,
yrtnorithlt,
began and give
slightly from her teeth, one of which was extracted by
Mr. Mawe on the 3Uth of August. That gentleman also
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
lotneetation I reduced the swelling, but n! 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 also set in
unusually strong, and aggravated by the muggy weather
and her nervous state it dui not go off until just before
.he Perk Hill. Still she galloped so free, and to the
lye so like in her old form, that although I should have
wished to have had her bigger, I still thought I shonl I
have "got through" with her. At Doncaster, singular
to state, she wool I not eat her hay in her usual way, but
ate t. well ofcorn, and perhaps had I given her
little grass, as I had done previous to the Derby and
ther races, she might have done better. She galloped
she morning before the Leger to my satisfaction, and
Alm Charlton's, and all who saw her then admitted at
.nee she was Blenk Bonny. I now come to the night
precious to the race, when, having heard of the rumours
which were in circulation respecting the mare being
•‘ safe," I took every possible precaution to protect my-
.elf, my friends, and the public. I had a long interview
with Charlton, in which I impressed upon him the serious-
less of his task in riding her for tl e Leger, adding my
perfect belief that he would do me the same justice he had
lone me in the Derby, Oaf e, and, in fact, in every race
in which he hid ridden for me; and I added, "the eyes of
Yorkshire and the world were on him." He assured me
,re had backed the mare for a sum which he mentioned to
no. I removed a pecuniary impediment to his mount,
mid 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, and,
lowever mortifying to me, I newt bear with it, the only
:oneelation I have being, that I did all I knew avoid
t, and my belief that it was brought about by c:rcurn-
tances over which I had no control, which I have
minted out, and which I endeavoured to master to the
wet cf my ability. The only bets I bail on the race wire
,tie following : viz., 75 to 1,125 and 50 to 150 on Blink
3.inny ; the-e I. hedged by betting 140 to 80 and 65 to
10 against her. I also took 400 to 200 about Igoora-
iras, and 250 to 10 aloout Imperieuec ; and at the espe-
aal request of Mr. Charles Peck I laid him 1001. t ) his.
ra,lc van, wh.c.i he valled at 601. Beyond these amounts
I had not one shilling dependent upon the St. Leger. 1
la 1 net the slightest communication, either personally
e• by letter, with Mr. Scott, who, I have reason to h.,
ieve, never fancied Imperaiuse ceuid have beaten Blink
loony, anti I should never have dared t I have approached
dm with any proposition which would not bear the
ight of day. In conclusion, let me avow my belief thee
.he best mars WOO cn the day, but my Lope is that when
se meet againß ink Benny will recover her laurels; and
laving laid before your readers my plain unvarnished
eatement of things lie they really were, and which I
nave done both io justice to myself and Mr. Scott, I beg
o state I shall teke no further notice of any more wri
.en or personal slanders on this unpleasant euhject, but
leave myself entirely in the hands of the sporting world,
vho one day or another lam setiefint will render ths
justice that is due te, sir, your obedient servant,
Spring-cottage, Melon, Sept. 26. W. VANsoN.
P S. Perhaps it may be satisfactory to add that no
!utnan being 017113 even a hair of Blink Bonny's tail but
mysel, nor has anybody the slightest control over her.