The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

FORTUNIO

will prove the winner. ELVIRE is not overburthene,d with
weight for the Harry Fowler Stakes, and I b:lievo TILE
SPY will carry his penalty of 81b. extra, and win the
Zetland Biennial Stakes for three-year-olds. My preference
is forJENNY MILLS, engaged in the Town Plate, but if de-
feated, it will be by BOOTY.

Thursday's engagements at this m3,3ting are The Wyn -
yard Handicap, for which ATTACIIE sea:ns In )st f tvour -
ably handicapped; and the Elton Juvenile Stak-m, tJr which
I prefer POMFRET.

Tho Middlesbro' Handicap is run on Friday, ant if ever
TIMART; could gallop she has an opportunity of winning
this stake. The Garbutt Nursery Handicap is a gift to Pox-
FRET, unless LOUD BOTUWELL should baat him. Cone •rn-
iug the thirty subscribers for the Stockton Stewards' Cup,
FROLICSOME appears to have a chance sawn 1 to none

The Windsor Meeting, which is fixed for Thurs lay
and Friday, is sure to be well patronised, as Mr. Frail, of
Shrewsbury, under Whose management it is, is a great
favourite amongst the "swells," and in my opinion de-
servedly so too. On the first day PRESIDENT LINCOLN
ought to win the Castle Handicap, unless Licron should
beat him. In the Park Nursery Handicap KING OF THE
ROVERS and TOrT are not heavily handicapped. If MINA
runs she will win the Frogmore Handicap, and in her
absence I fancy REDIVINUS. Should Zrsc.t come well
.to the post for the Forest Handicap Plate I shall
look no further for the winner. The best aubnal
engaged in The Clewer Stakes is CIIANOINESSE, and I
think she will win in spite of her 71b penalty, but if she
should not I have most faith in PREBENDAL, who is a good-
looking filly in a small compass.
On Friday, The Windsor August Handicap has only
about a dozen competitors loft in, ani of these I think
CHORAL has only HONESTY to fear.
I do not see anything more favourably in than DISTAFF
and THE VIXEN COLT for the Welt 3r Hui lieap, whilst
SELEUCUS and Luau are equally well in the Winkfield
Nursery Handicap. The Hamilton Cup. has same of the
best speed of the day. engaged, and I presume LEONIE
will beat all corners, but I should very, much like to ale
FLEETWING brought out for this engtgernent. Their re-
spntive weights would be Leouie 3 yrs 9st, Fleet wing 2
yrs 6st 101 b, and my impression is that the youngster
will win. •

A FRESH MAN.

(From a Correspondent of the Racing Times.)
The Brighton Meeting only requires a few remarks, as
with several exceptions, the horses that ran during the
week were very little ab -we plating form. Of course
Speculum is the best of the lot, and all those who selected
him to win the Goodwood and Brighton Cup will now
applaud themselves to the skies, but his backers for the
Goodwood event won their money in coasequence of
Julius having lost his temper and refusing to go nxtr his
horses when Daley called on him. The stable
held the same opinion that 1 formed of the latter
the week before Goodwood, as both his noble
owner, trainer, and jockey, thought he was sure
to win, and started Speculum to make the running
for him. The Brighton Cup was a mere canter for Sp3cu-
lum, as Blueskin, who was shinsore,could not move from
the effects of the severe race he had the day before in the
Stakes, whore, I think, he ought to have won. Had he
come a little sooner, and got up to Thorndyke's heal, it
is the opinion of many people that the son of Thormanby
would have cut it as he did at Hampton and Ascot ; but
Blueskin never quite reached him, and was just defeated
by a head. Paul Jones ran like a bad horse for this event,
which corroborated the opinion I formed of him
the week after Chester, as he beat nothing of any merit.
He has been called by some sporting writers Mr. Hodg-
man's steam engine, and it was said Mr. Brayley had
backed him for a £l,OOO, and that Fordham would like
to ride him in the Derby. Such remarks are sure to make
bad horses into favourites, but Mr Hodgman must now
be convinced that the celebrated " Pirate" is a third-rate
horse instead of a steam-engine. Sir Oliver did his stable
some service by winning three races. I told your readers
he was very fit before he went to Goodwood, but all those
that he beat are very moderate. The Duke of Newcastle
was apparently afraid to pull out Speculum for the Cham-
pagne Stakes against Vespasian, and if he had he would
certainly have been second. Ho has now returned to New-
market with all his full-blown honours on his head, and
some writers would make the public believe that he is a re-
gular, clinker, but he has done nothing first rate, as I question
if the stable backed Tabouret for auy money on the Good-
wood Cup ; therefore, the latter's running should not be
sot down as any criterion to the Ebor Handicap, for if that
is his true form it is 20 to 1 agst him for the York event.
The victory of Storm Sing in the Nursery shows the un-
certainty of private trials at Newmarket, as the Impera-
trice colt beat him before they left home, and the stable
stood the latter for some money. The backers had a bad
time of it over Becky Sharp filly, still they put the money
down like men, and with as much confidence as if they
were sure to pick it up again. The class of horses that
ran at Lewes were much the same as those we saw at
Brighton.T he running of Leon ie proved what a lot of weight
a good animal can give to bad ones, and the running of
Reindeer was much better than the form
.he showed at
Brighton, as he made Leonia gallop. Haymaker is a good-
looking horse, and is sure to pay his way before the year
is Intr. Gannon ball's Pairnrablo parfprnagam ohyviocl