The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-14 00:00:00

TATTE.RSALLS'-(T tIIS EVENING).

ST. LEGER.
sto 4 agst Kettledrum (taken)
7to 1 eget Aurelian (taken)
Bto 1 agst Lidy Ripon (offered)
10 to 1 agst Kildonan (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Brown Stout (taken)
20 to 1 agst Imaus (offered)
20 to 1 agst Janus (offered)
20 to 1 agst The Sage (offered)
20 to 1 agst The Roe (offered)
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
9to 2 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
9to 2 agst Voltella (taken)
10 to 1 agst Moorcobk (taken)

TUE DERBY.
10 to 1 apt Buckstone (taken)
16 to 1 The Marquis (taken)

PROPHECIES FOR THE ST. LEGE.R.

The following are the prophecies of the London weekly
sporting journals for the above important race
BEACON, in Bell's Life—K ETTLED itIJM has nothing
to fear from the best of his opponents, which I expect will
prove to be Aurelian and Lady Ripon.
RHYMING RICHARD, in Bell's Life—
" Brown Stout has too frothy a title, I fear;
I'm not his sup-porter—he is but small beer.
Dictator a race horse appeared to my sight,
But those nice penny papers have set me right;
Cease, angry layers, your spleen and spite,
Our victory's written in black and white.
To the very fore-front a chesnut springs,
The zest of the struggle has given him wings;
He passes Kildonan with flying feet,
He challenges Janus, and Janus is beat.
And Kettledrum wins"—" Hold, not so fast,"
Lady Doncaster cries—" I have found him at last 1"
" Yes, ma'am, to the front a bright chesnut springs,
And conquering Newminster lends him his wings;
HQ passes Kildonan with flying feet,
He challenges Janus, and Janus is beat—
A chesnut it is, in whose honour they raise
That deafening storm of loud-mouthed praise ;
But that chesnut, unless our old eyes betray us,
Is not your Kettledrum, but—IMAUS 1"
ORANGE BLOSSOM, in Bell's Life—
The Roe heads the race, and Kildonan is near,
But Kettledrum comes like a flash from the rear,
And tears to the front—let them catch him who can—
As they pass the Red House he's three lengths in the van,
" The crack in a canter—a trot—any how 1"
No, stop 1 he is tiring I they're reaching him now;
See I Snowden is riding him ! Lancashire's dumb,
By Jove, he is beat I it's all up with " the Drum !"
Kildonan has caught him, has passed him, he's done,
But ere Benhams can triumph the race must be won.
For again and again rings a Middleham shout,
As, pricking her ears, Lady Ripon comes out.
Again it re-echoes that thunder-born roar,
As Imaus and Edwards rush up to the fore.
Neck and neck, stride for stricL,, running close to the rails,
Now the "Market," now Yorkshire, now Berkshire pre-

vails—
They pass, and the discord convulses the air,
Was't Imaus, Kildonan, or was it the mare?
A cheer for the winner is borne wide and far;
If my spectacles serve me, that winner's—TOM PARR.
TOUCHSTONE, in the Era—Should a surprise be again in
store for us, it is to such a horse as Dictator we must look
to, or even the dickey Big Ben if he reached the post ; but
we have no idea of such a catastrophe (for the gentlemen)
happening as the victory of such rank outsiders as Sauce-
box, Gamester, and Imperieuse ; and shall look for the
Judge to perform on three horses somewhat in this style :
KETTLEDRUM
KILDONAN
AURELIAN

THE STABLE MOUSE, in the Era.—Kettledrum, by
Rat aplan, out of Mincemeat's dam. The nobler school ven-
ture I to declare that, "if not got at already, he would be."
But notwithstanding, sir, these raven croaks of ill omen,
Kettledrum's opponents could not throw him back in the
betting. Tha odds—that thermometer of the state of his
health, and probable issue of the race—have remained as
steady as time itself, and as there can be but one opinion
that if well at the post, and bar accident—l always bar
accident, Mr. Editor—KETTLEDRUM must win.

OBSERTER, in the Field.—My firm belief is, that we
shall see KETTLEDRUM the winner, and Aurelian the
onlfanimal disputing the premiership with him.
BREVITY, in the Weekly Times.—My decided preference
is for KET rLED RUM, while for a place Kildonan and
Lady Ripon look good investments.

THE SPHINX, in the Sunday Times:—
Now round the bend, the Red House they draw near,
The Drum is tight, not to be beaten here.
See for the straight—they come—there are but two—

My own, and just another I can view.
They're at the stand, I see them close to me ;
Ah I now I can predict the one, two, three,
They've done it I—KETTLEDRUM has won the day,
And from the next (Kildonan) runs away I

Another writer in the Sunday Times gives the following
as the correct card :

The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, for three-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; the owner of the second
horse to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes ; the winner to

pay 100 sovs towards expenses, 25 soya to the judge, and

25 sous to the starter. St. Leger Course. 177 subs.
Mr. T. Parr's Kildonan, Bst 71b (Clements) 1
Lord Stamford's Imaus, Bst 71b (Edwards) 2
Colonel Towneley's Kettledrum, Bst 71b (Bullock) 3
Baron Rothschild's Janus, Bst 71b (Wells) 4
Duke of Beaufort's The Roe, Bst 21b (A. Day) 5
Mr. Disney's Bombardier, Bst 71b
Mr. W. J. I'Anson's Caller Oui, Bst 21b....(Challoner) 0
Mr. Merry's Folkestone, Bst 71b (Custance) 0
Mrs. Osbaldestone's Camerino, Bst 71b.. (H. Grimshaw) 0
Captain Skipworth's Aurelian, Bst 71b . (J. Goater) 0
Betting at starting-7 to 4 agst Kettledrum, 6to 1 agst
Imaus, 9 to 1 agst Kildonan, 10 to 1 agst Janus, 12 to 1
agst Aurelian, 100 to 6 agst The Roe, 25 to 1 aget any
other.

AUGUR, in Sporting Life.—Brown Stout has been made
the object of demonstrations, and counter demonstrations,
rising in the betting as suddenly as a rocket, and coming
down almost as rapidly, but again returning to a shorter
price than ever in the course of the last four and twenty
hours. John Scott, great as he is in working wonders, can
hardly metamorphose the Selling plater into a Leger win-
ner, besides which, the market operations have been so pecu-
liar, "that it would be like " robbing a poor man of his
beer" to advise an investment upon him. I can see
nothing to beat KETTLEDRUM, the only other animal,
in my opinion, fit to wipe the dust from his feet being
AURELIAN, and this pair will, I anticipate, finish first
and second. But if anything should be amiss or happen to
the favourite, they may have their positions reversed.

SPORTING- INTELLIGENCE.