The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-25 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The great event of the year will be decided on
Wednesday, and no doubt the copious showers of
rai❑ which have fallen will make the ground evet,y-
thing that can be desired.' The programme ext,,lnds
from Tuesday to Friday ; and on the first day soma
good two-year-olds will contest the Woo icote
Stakes, the best public performers engaged in. which
are the colt by Tim Whiffler, Hermioue,
Flower Girl, and Electricity. Flower O.lrl suc-
cumbed to a good horse (Badsworth) at North-
atnpton, and John Day is reported to have
under his care two other fair yourTsters, in
Arbaces and the filly by Oulston, but I prefer the
liermione Cult and Martyr. Of the thirty-two
left in the Reserved Lawn Stakes, the heavy
weights are the best looking, and I prefer the two
in front for the Heathcote Plate at the Spring
Meeting. Bismarck and Tumbler, who, strange
to say, meet at 111 b., whereas, with 13114
the best of it, the latter was defeated
two lengths the last time he performed against
the Duke of Newcastle's representative. No more
curious turf anomaly will be presentel if he arLe...
ceeds in turning the tables. On the Bath runni jag,
Athena must beat Liddiugton for the Heat'Acote
Plate (a weight-for-age race of half a milts), and
her owner has the most danger to apprehettd from
Grimston (the winner of the prizs last year). For
the Rous Stakes, Palmer, despite his 9st 31b, is sure
to be handy.

THE DERBY..
PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS.
HORSE. SIRE. DAPS. JOCKEY.
Lady Elizabeth Trumpeter Miss Bovrzer ... Fordhani
Blue Gown Beadsman Bas Bleu Wells
Rosicrucian Beadsman Mdme.Eglantine J. Adams
Green Sleeve ... Beadsman Mrs. Quickley ... Huxtable
Suffolk North Lincoln ... Protection J. Daley
Paul Jones Buccaneer Qn.of the Gipsies Cannon
Forest King Kingof the Forest Start Point Hibberd
Speculum Vedette Doralice Aldcroft
Pace Caterer Lady Tresspass Kenyon
Orion Cramond Beautiful Star... Clement
Colt by Tom Bowline Melbourne mare Challoner
St. Ronan St. Albans Elspeth Custance
*Uncas Stockwell Nightingale H. Taylor
Mercury Lambton Starlight J. Osborne
Purveyor Caterer Cygnet Lynch
Cock a the Walk Chanticleer Whimsical ...... T. French
Viscount Marquis Columbine Cameron
Samson ' Stockwell Masten Maid... Deacon
Sawyer Kettledrum Corrival J. Snowden
Colt by Buccaneer Viscountess
The Earl Y. Melbourne ... Bay Celia —
*Restitution King Teat Rest's dam
... . .

•Franchise Sto&wall Bribery .
Legislator _ _

Those ms.rked with an asterisk (5) are doubtful runners.

Lady Elizabeth (nay selected during the winter)
has kept her place as first favourite, notwith-
standing the hostile demonstrations that have been
made to knock ber out of the betting. Sir Joseph
Hawley's lot have been knocked about in the mar-
ket like shuttlecocks, and if Blue Gown is the best
he cannot have the slightest chance with The
Earl, who beat him easily this year. Paul
Jones, after his Chester victory, was backed for
good money. He may run into a place. Speculum
has been very steady in the market ever
since his defeat by Grimston, which is no
disgrace to him, as Grimston last year
ran Lady Elizabeth a dead heat at weight for age,
and on another 'pension ran her ladyship to a short
head. Thas it will be seen that the three are not
far removed in quality front each other. Suffolk
is one of the soaude-st horses in training, and will
beat a lot of the bolstered-up favourites, if he does
not actually win, but I fear he will have to be con-
tent with the place that King Tom got when he
split the two Danebury horses, Andover and Hermit.
raca ;51 Gm,' [tally creeping into the betting, and it
is just possible the all bat knocked out one may
repeat the surprise that Hermit did last year,
when he started at 6G to 1, after having been first
favourite during the winter. Ilrhen the race is
over, I expect the judge will place them in the
following order :
LADY E LIZ BE Ea
THE EARL 2
ORION 3

The concluding day tile " ladies' race" will
call forth the most attention, but the field- for it
will be worse than that for the Derby. It is
no use going through the performances of any
engaged, as there are only two that have any
chance, viz., Lady Elizabeth and Formosa, and I
prefer them in the order named.

A FRESH MAN.

EACINU FIXTURES FOR 1868.
MAY.
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Epsom Summer

JUNE
West Drayton 1 i Newton
Croydon 2d Summer ... 3 Hampton ._ lB
Manchester 3 Newcastle '23
Ascot Slimmer 9 Bibury Clue 23
Beverley, Hull, and I Stockbridge
East lidding lO I Alexandra Park 3O
Windsor Summer

JULY.

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Kingsbury and Hendon 6
Radcliffe
Carlisle 7
Newmarket July
Huugerford
Pontefract
Down Royal Corp-- 14 1
Reading
Spilsby

Liverpool July M.
Odilizun l6
Stamford
Huntingdon 2l
Nottingtma►m July
Chesterfield 23
Knutsford 23
Southamptou
Sudbury and Ealing
Goodwood

AUGUST.

Deauville
Leek 3 Somerset .. 2O
Brighton
Brighton Club 6 Scarborough •24
I Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll Great Yarmouth
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3 Ipswich
_ .

Egliain .._
17
Hastings
York August
Oxford

Lichfield
Tunbridge
Margate 3l

SEPTEIIBER.
1 I Hendon l7
1 Monmouth . 17

Baden
Warwick September

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Abingdon 3 1 Manchester lB
Leicester
Doncaster September 8 Walsall
I Brecon l4 Edinburgh
Richmond
Hampton Autumn l5 Royal Caledonian Hunt
Kelso