The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-07 00:00:00

SPORTING ITEMS.

GRAND NATIONAL HUNT COMMITTEE.

At a- meeting of this committee held at the Adelphi
Hotel, Liverpool, ou the 4th of March, present—Mr. B. J.
Angell, Mr. E. C. Burton, Mr. C. H. Carew, Captain G.
Johnstone, Colonel Knox, Lord Poulett, Mr. A. H. Sum-
ner, and Lord Westmorland—the Duke of Hamilton was
elected a member of the committee, and attended the

meeting.
A request from some clerks of the courses to alter Rule
39, so that the weights in handicaps should not be raised
after acceptance, was not entertained.
After reading several letters from owners of horses, both
for and against the alteration of Rule 71, rela,tive( to the
postponement of races—the balance being against any alte-
ration—it was unanimously decided that the rule should
remain as it stands at present.
Lord Poulott laid before the committee a letter from Mr.
F..G. Hobson, enclosing one from the committee of Tatter-
sall's, declining to adjudicate on any question of disputed
bets on steeplechases. It was proposed by Lord West-
morland, and seconded by Lord Poulett, that a letter should
be addressed to the committee requesting them to 11-con-
sider their decision,

The following gentlemen were elected as qualified to
ride;—Mr. W. 11. Long, Mr. John Groom, Mr. Bower
Talbot, .I.lr. W. C. Baldwin,

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE•
MENTS.

Feb. 28, at 9 a.m., Said and Bretoline, out of both Hurdle
Rues at Liverpool.

Feb. 28, at 9 a.m., Lawrence (late Maelstrom), out o 1
all engagements in 1863.

Feb. 28, at 2.15 p.m., Pocket Hercules, out of all engage.

men ts.

Fob. 28, at 5 p.m., Flandrin, out of all Liverpool en
gagements.

Feb. 28, at 5 p.m., Astrolabe, out of the Trial Steeple-
chase at Liverpool.

Feb. 29, at 9 a.m., Malton and Weather Isle, out of L
verpool engagements.

Feb. 29, at 9 a.m., Fawn, out of Liverpool and Shrows.
bury engagements.

Feb. 29, at 9 a.m., The Colonel, out of both Hurdle
Races at Liverpool. .

March 2, at 9 a.m., Excitement, Bortie, Belzoni, Kato
Kearney, Star of the Evening, and Corkscrew, out of
Liverpool engagements.

March 2, at 9 a.m., Sea King and Tennyson, out of the
Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool.
March 2, at 9 a.m., Reporter and Surney, out of all
engagements.

MarehT, at 9 a.m., Jupiter, out of the Grand Nationa
Steeplechase at Liverpool, and out of Shrewsbury en
gagements.

March 2, at 9 a.m., Bishopton, and all Mr. Herbert's
horses (except Columbia for the Spring Steeplechase), out
of Shrewsbury engagements.

March '2, at 9 a.m., Hopleaf, out of the Seftoa Handicap
at Liverpool.

March 2, at 9 a.m., Philip, out of Norton Open Steeple
chase, at Mahon.

March 3, at 10.35 a.m., all Mr. Plersheim's horses, out o,
Shrewsbury and Warwick engagements.
March 3, at 2.30 p.m. (to the Clerk of the Course), Philo•
sopher out of Shrewsbury engagements.

March 2, at 3.6 p.m., Hornet, out of Liverpool en
gagements.

March 2, at 4.9 p.m., Northern Light and Port Royal
out of tho Grand National Steeplechase, at Liverpool.
March 2, after 6 p.m., Revolver, out of Liverpool en
gagements.

March 2, after 6 p.m., Molock, out of the Grand Nationa
Hunt Handicap Steeplechase at Bedford.
March 3, at 10.25 a.m.,
.Dragoon and La Forte Fresnel,
out of Liverpool engagements.

March 3, at 0.40 p.m., Vici, out of all engagements.
March 3, at 2.28 p.m., Nutpecker, out of Oroxton Park
engagements.

March 3, at 2.28 p.m., Golden Cross, out of Shrewsbury
engagements.

March 3, at 2.45 p.m., Workman and Woful, out o
Chelmsford engagements.

March 3, after 8 p.m., Chantilly, out of Epsom Spring
Cup.

March 3, at 8.5 p.m., Woadbury Hill, out of the Spring
Handicap Steeplechase at Shrewsbury.

March 5, at 1.39 p.m., all Lord Poulett'a horses, out o
Streatham engagements.

NOMENCLATURE.
Tho following names have been given :
Sir Joseph Hawley's two-yr-olds.
B c by Asteroid—Mendicant liingCophotua.
Br f by Musjid—Bas Bleu Nyl Gau.
Br c by Beadsman—Salamanca

FORFEIT LIST.—The forfeits of the following horses
have been paid: —Jess, Ralf-moon, and c by Bucolic—Do-
bonaire, in List 1863.
STEEPLECHASE FORFEIT LIST.-13allycasey's forfeit pub-
lished as paid was only paid to qualify Mr. Barton's name,
the horse still remains in the list, and the forfeit is duo to
Mr. T. Barton.
FERSHORE HUNT STEEPLECHASES.—The objection to
Brighton for the Croomo Open Stakes has fallen to the
ground, as it was not made within a quarter of an hour after
the race.

SHREWSBURY RACES.—The following trainers will have
horses at this meeting :-11. Dawson, T. Dawson, Lowe,
Blanton, Bloss, T. S. Dawson, Wadlow, T. Stevens, Hol-
man, Peck C. Green, Nightingall, Waugh, T. Brown, B.
Laud, Palmer, T. Price, Sly, Cowley, Treen, Hopwood,
Wetherell, Saunders, G. Stevens, Holmes, Balchiu, Wat-
son, Daily, Martin, Reeves, Golby, W. Ford, and several
private trainers. A special express train will leave Pad-
dington on Tuesday morning at 8.30, arriving at Shrews.
bury in good time for the first race.
CHELMSFORD SPRING MEETING.—For this meeting,
which comes off on Tuesday and Wednesday next, the
course, we are requested to state, is in the best possille
condition, and a large number of horses are expected.
The London ring division will be well represented, and
the upper ten are expected in considerable cumber. which,
coupled with good fields and sharp contests, will well
repay a visit to old Gallewood.
ABANDONMENT OF CHERTSEY STEEFLE CHASES.—In
consequence of Capt. Hastings refusing to send police o
maintain order, this meeting, fixed for the 20th and 21st
nst., has been abandoned.

LEAF FROG.—Mr. H. Smithson, of Mahon, has this
week purchased this promising two year old colt by
ThOrmanby out of Sautt-relle from Mr. C. Peck's string,
and we understand he is for the Continent. He has also
sold his four year old mare Queen Ellis, byllobbie Noble,
out of Queen of England, by Velox, and she has gone to
the North.

THE DUKE OF 13EAUPoRT'S SAL AT ASCOT.—We are
informed that the Duke of Beaufors horses will arrive
at Stockbridge on Thursday by special train for Ascot
Stand stables, where they will be on view on Friday, and
on Saturday they will cantor on the course before the
commencement of the sale, which will take place at two
o'clock.

DONINGTON HUNT (FARMERS' HUNT Cur).—The ob-
jection to the winner in this race, as having won 15 sovs
at Fazeley, having been referred by the stewards to tho
Grand National Steeplechase Committee, they decided
that a winner of a race under the value of 20 sous was not
a winner according to Rule 4. •

THE LATE PEE...SHORE STEEPLECHASE.—The protests
put in with the view of rendering the Croome Open Chase
null and void, on the ground that the horses did not go
the proper course, have been overruled by Lord Coventry,
the acting steward, and Brighton, who came in first, is
declared the winner.

Egham Races will take place on Aug. 17 and 18, having
been altered in deference to the wish of the stewards, to
avoid clashing with York.
We regret to announce the death of Mr. William Owen,
of Liverpool, which took place rather suddenly on Thurs-
day night, from the effects of an attack of bronchitis.

Tubal Cain, 2 yrs, claimed by Lord Westmorland a
Liverpool, has joined T. Cliff's string.

Mr. Fletcher has sold Van Dienan, 3 yrs, to Mr.
Valentine for "fifty," and purchased Lupus, 3 yrs, for 46
guineas.

THE SPORTSMAN AT TROY.—For the information
of that class of Englishmen who are devoted to the sports
of the gun, I may state that a great variety of game is
found in the uplands and lowlands of the western sea-
board of Asia Minor. In the boundless waste of wild-
growing scrub, pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits, wood-
cocks, doves, quails, &c., are met with in great profusion;
while in the beds of the old rivers, ducks, geese, snipes,
widgeons, teal, cranes, and long-necked swans, offer good
sport to the knights of the trigger," reminding the stu-
dent of the well-known lines of Homer which speak of
swans, geese, and cranes. Game also of a nobler kind is
occasionally met with, viz., wolves, foxes, jackals, and
boars, to try the mettle of the sportsman.—The Gentle-
man's Magazine.
THE PRESIDENTIAL STAKE.—The entries to the
great National Presidential Stake, which now stands open
for November next, come in so numerously that we shall
be obliged to defer the publication until they can all be
published in a regular list, according to the usual custom,
at the time of the stakes. This course is rendered still
more necessary from the fact that
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—lVilkes' Spirit of the
Times.

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