The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

SPORTING NOIES.

The opening of the Alexandra Park Race Course on
Tuesday last was a great success in many points of view,
but the company will have to tax all their energies to
make it a permanent institution. In the first place, the
plan of the ground over which the different events took
place was universally condemned, and the most strenuous
efforts should be made by the officials to increase the size
of the course. At the same time it is equally necessary
to remove all the trees which prevented the spectators from
getting a view of the contests for more than a few hundred
yards. There were many other shortcomings which are
always apparent in new undertakings, and which will
doubtless be rectified on a future occasion. The refresh-
ments at the Grand Stand are au important consideration,
and it is to be hoped the company may be disposed for the
future to undertake their supply, or at any rate reserve
to themselves the power of reducing the tariff to a reason-
able scale. There were uafortunately a great many com-
plaints from visitors last week on the score of price and
quality too. Having carried out their plans hitherto with
most persistent energy, it is only fair to suppose that the
directors will be fully alive to the improvements required,
and lose no time in carrying them into effect.
The Newmarket July Ileetin,g is principally interesting
for the light it throws on the Derby candidates from the
running in the July and other Stakes for two years olds.
According to:public form there can be no dispute about
The Orphan (the newly named filly, by Nowiniuster out
of Diornedia), Belladrum, Ryshworth, Do Vero, and Direc-
tor being decidedly the best. Still I am not at all im-
pressed with the superior quality of any one of the lot,
and before the season is over it will surprise me if we do
not find some fresh candidate who will be able to give
each of them 51b. and a beating. On the present
occasion I question if anything will be able to defeat
BELLADRUM if he runs, next to whom I fancy RYSIIWORTII,
although DIRECTOB. might do so, as ho is reported to be
very much improved lately. The Gladiateur Stakes BADS-
WORTH should have no difficulty in winning. I should
think Count La Grange will depend upon GITRIEUSE, who
must be my selection for the Achievement Stakes.

Wednesday's events include the Beaufort Stakes,:which
is run over the Suffolk Course, about one mile four fur-
longs, and if ARTESIAN can stay the distance he is remark-
ably well in, next to whom I fancy BLacK DIAMOND.
The Midsummer Stakes will certainly go to the THE EARL
with a start. BASILIA seems most trustworthy for the
Sweepstakes of 500 Sovs. each, and DE VERE for the
Exeter Stakes, although FLOWER Guth is evidently in
good form from her running at the Alexandra Park last
week.

Concerning Thursday's events I see nothing to boat
BESMARCK for the Summer Stakes. My impression is de-
cidedly in favour of ORPHAN and TENEDOS for the Pocket
Sweepstakes. The Chesterfield Stakes will probably in-
troduce us to some fresh candidates for next year's
Derby; but if BRIGANTINE conies well to the post, her
previous form is quite good enough to win. I hear good
accounts of Glenlyon, who is brother to Monarch of the
Glen, and one of Mr. Naylor's six nominations for the
Epsom prize.

The weights for the Newcastle Stakes on Friday do
not appear until Wednesday evening, and the only stake
to allude to on that day is the Audley-square Sweep-
stakes, in which one of Prince D. Soltykoff's pair, ROYAL
RAKE or COUP DE GRACE, is likely to prove the best in-
vestment.

Carlisle races come off on Tuesday and Wednesday
next, where the principal competition will doubtless be
amongst the north country horses, as, besides Newmarket,
trainers in the south have engagement.; this week at
Sutton Park and Hungerford. For the first day my selec-
tion is LIBERAL in the Grand Stand Handicap, and with-
out troubling your readers with details, relative to the
Cumberland Plate, I may at once state my firm conviction
that FLORA will prove the winner. The Corby Castle
Stakes and the Carlisle Stakes have HYMEN and THE HIND
engaged in both of them. Ono of the pair should win.
On Wednesday, if The Czar runs for The Athletic
Stakes he will win, and SISTER TO LITTLE AGNES iS
by no means badly in The Lottery Stakes.
Hungerford Meeting will wind up an unusually heavy
week's sport on Friday and Saturday. The acceptances,
however, for the principal event, the Barks and Wilts
Stakes, do not appear until to-morrow, but if 'Thorn-
dyke is one of them I should fancy him. The Craven
Stakes LIGURIAN may be able to win. The Hungerford
Stakes is a foregone conclusion for CARLOTTA. In the
Ladies' Plate MISS ALICE is not overburthened with
weight.
The only two races for Saturday complete for analysis
are the John o'Gaunt Stakes, in which I would sooner
trust VIGILANT than anything; and the Nursery Plate, for
which SISTER to VEDA Or BONNIE KATIE may first attract
the judge's notice.
A FRESH MAN.

Friponnier was struck out of the Grand Prizo at Alex-
andra Park at 1 p.m. on Wednesday last.
The filly by Gunboat out of Flyaway (sister to Flying
Jib) has been named Flying Shot.
Sir W. Booth's filly by Parmesan out of Lady Blanche
has been named Parmesina.

The objection made to Electricity, who came in first for
the Windsor Stakes, has been withdrawn.
THE GRAND STAND TICKETS AT ASCOT.—At the Reading
Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, Charles Piggott was
charged with having stolen seven tickets of admission to
the Grand Stand at Ascot, value £3 10s., and James Rent-
ley, 42, was indicted for receiving the same, knowing
them to have been stolen. The prisoner Piggott is the
son of a highly respectable auctioneer and house
agent in a suburb of London, and during Ascot races he
was employed as ticket-taker at one of the entrances to
the Grand Stand, Mr. Skinner, the manager of the
Grand Stand, cautioned him that a watch would be kept
on the part of the trustees to check any dishonest prac-
tices, and on the face of this the prisoner gave Hentley
seven tickets of admission. The jury found both prisoners
guilty, and the court sentenced them to four months' im-
prisonment. Immediately after the sentence had been
pronounced, Pigott's father---a man of gentlemanly ap-
pearance—fell senseless to the floor, and caused mull
sympathy to Do felt for him in court.