The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1868.

SPORTING PROPHECIES.

THE LEWES SPRING MEETING.

Bell's Life.—Two Year Old Plate : Electricity.
Town Plate : Miss Frances, Goodfellow, and Miller's
Maid. Craven Handicap : Tina. Welter Cup :
Feodor. Lewes handicap : Chivalry, Yardarm, or
Aurifera.

The Field. —Two Year Old Plate : Electricity o
Esther. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs : Spitfire. Town
Plate: Ottoman or Herennianus. Welter Cup :
Leases or Zeloo. Craven Handicap : Sugarstick
and Epigram. Lewes Spring Handicap : Powder-
ham and Choral.

Sporting Gazette.—Craven Handicap : Chivalry
Lictor, and Sugarstick. Two Year Old Plate :
Electricity, Bonnie Katie, or Hymen. Town Plate :
Goolfellow, Lady Clinton, Bauquetiere, and The
Hackler. Welter Cup : Pevensey, Douro, and Pur-
veyor. Lewes Spring Handicap : Powderhatu, Hop
Leaf, and Choral.

The Era.—Two Year Old Plate : Brother to
Union Jack or Electricity. &fling Sweepstakes :
Ottoman or Lady Diana. Town Plate : Tumbler
or Ottoman. Welter Cup : Feodor or Purveyor.
Craven Handicap : Exceller. Lewes Spring Han-
dicap : Whitworth and Muezzin.
The Sportsman.—Two Year Old Plate : Electri-
city or Bonnie Katie. Craven Handicap : Sugar-
stick or Mr. Thellusson's best. Town Plate : Good-
fellow or Ottoman. Welter Cup : Minute Gun and
Mexico. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs : Miss Sophie or
Ottoman.

Sporting Life.--Two Year Old Plate : Electricity.
Sweepstakes of 5 sous : Ottoman or Adjutant. Town
Plate : Ottoman or Dawdle. Welter Cup : John
Bull or Mexico. Craven Handicap : Landlord or
Patrician. Lewes Spring Handicap : Residuary
Legatee or Black Diamond.

Sunday Times.—Two Year Old Plate : Electri-
city. Craven Handicap: Landlord or Patrician.
Welter Cup : Maesllwch. Lewes Spring Handicap :
Python.

champion of the blue and yellow, Suffolk, who was
made a hot favourite for the anxiously-looked for
Biennial, in the face of what had been said as to
the relative merits of the two. So ridiculous did
the idea of his inferiority appear, the talent would
have it their trial was all a mistake, and that Suf-
folk's public form might yet be the proper criterion
of his merits. On the strength of -this he had a
very fair chance against The Earl and Blue Gown,
especially as rumour had not favoured them of late,
though it was easy to perceive he had wintered the
worse of the three. The Gown's appearance was
quite marvellous to those who had listened to the
awful reports rife concerning him ever since
the previous Saturday. Had the Earl not been a
companion of Lady Elizabeth, he, too, would have
touched a much shorter price before the race was
laid after, so much was he admired. Beyond the
three, there was no candidate of any note in the
field, what little improvement The Parson had
shown on his overthrow of the soft Court Mantle
being negatived by the brief interval allowed him
for resting. Three of the remainder—Nelusko,
Boanerges, and Stamford—belonging to the un-
known division, and of these Nelusko made a better
show than the Parson, running so well with the

Earl for a long way as to give the Frenchman a
pretty good idea of the capabilities of the Danebury
second string, and also auguring that he will yet do
a good thing on his own account. The repre-
sentatives of the two great Derby divisions, at
the same time, got a capital line of each other; and
if we are to believe that Silenus really beat The Earl
in a recent spin Matthew Dawson has the measure
of them both, so that the Marquis of Hastings, Sir
Joseph Hawley, and the Duke of Newcastle have
only to compare notes when the proper time arrives
to reduce the Derby as nearly to a certainty as pos-
sible. Obstinate followers of public form would
naturally give the Newmarket stable the preference
now, owing to Pace having beating The Earl and
Blue Gown last Doncaster, when he was palpably be-
low the mark, and to :Speculum's surprising "paper"
superiority to Moslem ; but the long odds to be had
about the sons of Young Melbourne and Bas Bleu
plainly signify that Lady Elizabeth, with Rosi-
crucian or Green Sleeve, must be immeasurably
their superiors, and certainly nothing decisive can
be arrived at by " outsiders," pending the Two and
One Thousand, as to which the three gentlemen
above-named possesses the best of this season's
flying three year olds. That the Earl and Blue
Gown are defunct for the Derby has long been in-
dicated by the market, for it has not been a case of
laying one day and backing the next on the part of
the rulers of the price current, but a steady, per-
sistent opposition that even " public money" cannot
check. Pace, on the contrary, has always had plenty
of friends to come to his rescue, and they have their
confidence in his being the best strengthened not only
by a trial wherein be is stated to have conic off victo-
rious, but by the opposition that broke out against
Speculum because he did not beat a filly of Lord
Glasgow's in his race on Thursday in a style
to please the critics. What more they could want
than an easy victory it is hard to guess, and,
besides, the dark filly was receiving no less than
201 b. ; nevertheless, there is the fact that Pace
is now quite as good a favourite, for all his shirk-
ing the easy task that was before him yesterday,
and it must be admittedtheson of Caterer and Lady
Trespass goes very like a Hermit in the market
just now. The race he missed, fortunately, was not
devoid of interest, as it brought out a very useful
member of Lord Glasgow's nameless crew, whose
success, coupled with the form shown by some of his
companions at the meeting, caused renewed atten-
tion to be directed to the representatives of the
crimson and white. He is not in the Two Thousand'
but a better horse may be found in the string when
they are put together—a proceeding that will be
taken very shortly, we believe—and it is on the
cards that Lord Glasgow will cut in for all the great
three year old races of the year.

(From the Bp ()rang Gazette.)

I believe if the Two Thousand is destined to fall
to a Newmarket trained horse—that the winner will
be race, tnougn wherever he twines, Vale Royal
is bound to be. Le Sarrazin, it was generally re-
ported, won his trial with Nelusko, Ouragan, and
Montagnard, since which his name has appeared in
the quotations at lessening figures ; and as they also
back him for the " Blue Riband," it is to be sup-
posed his spin was
quite satisfactory to Count
Lagrange's astute trainer.
The meetings for next week are Lewes Spring,
Thirsk, and Croydon, the programmes issued for
which give promise of some good racing. Tuesday
and Wednesday are the days appointed for the
reunion on the beautiful south downs, a visit to
which, now that the weather has got mild, will be
most enjoyable. Five of the races on the list for
Tuesday are closed, the most important of which
is :;the Craven Handicap, which is run on the
T.Y.C. Twenty-seven horses have been weighted
for it, of whom I consider CHIVALRY, 3 yrs, 7st 51b;
LICTOR, 3 yrs, 7st 21b; and SUGARSTICK, 3 yrs, 6st,
to be the best in.

In the Two Year Old Plate seventeen youngsters
are engaged, with a probability of its falling to
ELECTRICITY.

For the Town
1.
Plate thirty-three horses have
been weighted, of
Whom GOODFELLOW and CRoM-
WELL appear to me to have a good chance.
For the Welter Cup twenty-three horses have
been handicapped,
of whom I prefer the chances of
FEODOR and DOURO.

For the Lewes Spring Handicap thirty-one horses
have been weighted, the greater number are en-
gaged on the first day, consequently a great deal
will depend on their previous performances. Pow-
DEREIA3I, 6 yrs, 7st 41b ; HOP LEAF, 5 yrs, 7st 41b ;
and CIIORAL, 3 yrs, 6.3 t, I consider to have an ex-
cellent chance.

The programme for Thirsk, like that of Catte-
rick Bridge, shows such a marked improvement,
compared with those issued for the last three or
four years, that racing is evidently becoming more
popular than ever in the North Riding of York-
shire. The list for Tuesday extends to five races,
four of which are already closed—viz., the Mow-
bray Stakes, the Hambleton Plate, the Sowerby
Plate, and the Hunt Cup. Twelve horses have
been nominatedfor the Mowbray Stakes, nearly ail
of whom are " dark."

For the Hambleton Plate forty horses have been
weighted to run a mile, which is a distance so
suited to CzAR, 5 yrs, Bst ; VULCAN, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b ;
QUALITY, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ; and EVELTNA, 3 yrs,
6st 51b, that I fancy the winner is among them.
In the Sowerby
Plate twenty-two horses are en-
gaged, of whom SKYSAIL, 4 yrs, Est 131 b, ought to
win. _

The Hunt Cup, in which fourteen horses are en-
gaged, looks a good thing for SCARRI
On the second day there are thirty-five horses
nominated for the Tilirsk Handicap, to run one
mile and three-quarters. The three horses I con-
sider best in are KING OF THE FAIRIES, 4 yrs,
7st 71b ; Frolicsome, 3 Yrs, Est 21b ; and Evelina,
3 yrs, 6st 2lb ; and I give the preference to the
former. _

The Silver Cup will fall to SCARRINGTON or
HELEN ; but respecting the Falcon Plate I can give
no opinions, as the issue is entirely dependent on
the running of the first day.

The meetings of the coming week on which we
shall offer advice are Thirsk) Lewes, and York and
Croydon Steeplechases. York Steeplechases com-
mence on Monday. The principal event, the Great
Yorkshire Handicap, has 20 subscribers, the Doctor
having the post of honour, by Mr. Johnson accord-
ing him 12st 121 b to carry; an impost 1 should
think he would never try successfully to carry.
Meanwood is nicey weighted at list 101 b,
and will, if his owner approves of his weight,
as near win as possible. Next to him, I esteem the
chance of Mr. Welfitt's selected oue—Tathwell and
Greenland. The former, it will be remembered, the
other week won the Bedford Grand Steeplechase in
a common canter. Mr. George Simpson's mare, old
Diana, looks best to trust if he prefers the Hunters'
Steeplechase to the grand event of the day. Next
to Diana, Rickaby's Woldsman appears most
trustworthy if found at the post. Thirsk and
Lewes meetings commence on. Tuesday next, and
the items at botitplacefi Wald, Z thick, be beet left

alone till the morning of the races, as any idea we
may have now as to their result will be then pro-
bably changed. Still, we may point to Czar's
running at Catterick on Thursday as very good,
and him or Evelina might carry off the Ilambleton
Plate. Fobert looks threatening with Liberal and
Frolicsome in the Thirsk Handie gyp.—Locket.