The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

(rßom OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

What Lord George Bentinck has been to Goodwood Lord
Rosslyn has been to Ascot. It would really seem that there
was a spirit of rivalry between the two Noble Lords as to
which should get up the best meeting.

There will be on an average eight races each day, quite
sufficient to satisfy the appetite of the most racing gourmand.
On Tuesday the Trial Stakes, as a matter of course, opens
the meeting, and at the same time the eyes of the public, by
giving them a peep into the merits of the " tutors" of the
different stables. There are eleven horses named for this
stake, and out of them I expect to see Discord first and the
Old Knight second. The race will in all probability be well
contested, and won by not more than a head by either of
these horses.

The Welcome Stakes likely to become a powerful rival to
the Goodwood Drawing Room, has 37 subscribers. Refrac-
tion's having to carry 61b. extra will materially operate
against her chance for this race, and if Old England is
brought all right to the post, why, in my opinion, he will
beat her and all the others. Lord Lonsdale's colt by Jerry,
out of Turquoise, is the only opponent I think he has really
to fear, and as he has been lying by for this race the two will
no doubt make a pretty fight of it.
For the Ascot Derby I expect to see at the starting post
Idas, Wood Pigeon, Salopian, and Sir Gilbert's filly, and at
the winning post those horses passing in the order I have
given their names.

From the allowances far defeats, and the penalties for win-
ning, the Queen's Vase may be almost termed a handicap race.
Out of the fourteen horses named for it I fancy only Alice
Hawthorn, 9st. I llbs. Ithuriel, 9st., Zanoni, 3st. 91bs.,
Sweetmeat, 7st. 31bs., Wood Pigeon, 6st, 131b5., and Fuzbos,
6st. 131b5., will start. I have no doubt an understanding
between the Faugh-a-ballagh and Alice Hawthorn parties has
been come to, that if the horse does not oppose the mare for
this race, the compliment shall be returned for the Em-
peror's Plate. By this arrangement they hope to deprive
Mr. Hill of this splendid trophy. I think, however, that
plan will be unsuccessful, and that Mr. Hill with his Sweet-
meat will regain some of his Epsom losses. Ithuriel's
temper and less are far too uncertain for me to place any
reliance on him. Zanoni, although receiving an allowance
of 121b5., cannot, I conceive, beat Alice or Sweetmeat, to which
two animals I leave the race with a decided leaning in favour
of the young one.
To the Ascot Stakes there are 140 subscribers, the same
number, singular to say, as last year. The acceptances,
amounting to 47, have been divided into two classes, in order
to afford sport. A fairer handicap has not been out this
season. In the first class of this stakes everything is so
well in that it would be wrong in me to presume to say
which animal is likely to be the winner. I will, however,
venture to tell my readers that Perkin Warbeck, Inheritress
Boarding-school Miss, and Best Bower, are best entitled to
their consideration, and that out of that small lot the two
latter will, I think, turn out the best.
In the Second Clase Yol-au-vent and I-am-not-aware

again meet, but on different terms from what they did in the
Craven Meeting. Then, for the Newmarket Handicap the
old horse gave him 161bs. ; now he only gives him 7lbs. From
the manner in which Vol-au-vent tired in winning that race
and the distance on this occasion just suiting Colonel Peel's
horse, I think their respective positions will be reversed, and
that the only horse that can have a chance with the latter is
Moustache.

The Two Hundred Sovereigns Sweepstakes will, in all
probability, be reduced to a match between the Cobweb colt
and Tunich, and won by the latter.
I shall conclude my comments on the remaining races
to-morrew, as there may be something turn up at Tattersall's
this afternoon calculated to throw a light upon them.
London, June 9, 1845. TELEGRAPH.