The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-06 00:00:00

SPORTING.

No one need rise from his grave to tell you, Mr. Editor, that
swindlers and evil-principled men exist in every grade of so-
ciety, and considering the opportunities afforded, and the
temptation offered to gentlemen inclined to trade on their re-
putation, we are annually prepared for the exposure of one or
more black sheep out of the miscellaneous flock that twice a
week herd together at Tattersall's. In my innocence I ima-
gined that Coronation had last year applied the broom with a
right joyous success; then, the odds against that horse a few
days prior to the race was so unnatural that defaulters were as
sure to follow as that horse was sure to win, and defaulters there
were to the tune of twenty or thirty thousand pounds. The
case has been different this year ; Attila stood firmly the attack
of the combination (for such it has been), and never until the
last half hour was the true state of the case apparent ; it was at
last just this : "the game has been well played, now go and bet
every pound any fool will take," Mr. Reales, the person the
main cause of the long laces and the ruined visages on Tuesday,
is a corn-factor, I believe, a respectable mars, living.near Cam-
bridge, and one of the three gentlemen (excuse the application
of the word, Mr. Beaks, as far as you are concerned) µho un-
dertook the manaxement of the viell-remembered " Gurney
affair." Mr. Reales has been a frequenter of Tattersall's live-
and-twenty-years, is the father of a family, and was generally
considered a good man ; some two or three gentlemen, not
exactly approvi• g the assignee business,carefoll avoided him,
and their judgment repays them. What think you, 'sir, of a
man, a respectable man, trading on his character, compro-
mising his most intimate friends, deliberately standing to lose
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND pounds by a horse that had never been
beaten ? Many circumstances may prevent a person from set-
tling his account on the day appointed--that is, four or five
days after the race—but the man who bets a sum of money
(be it only ten pounds), that by no human possibility can he
pay, that he has not the most remote intention of ever trying
to pay, is a rogue and a vagabond, and ought to be dealt with
accordingly. There were two or three other very large ac
counts totally unsettled, but I hear that some arrangement
about them w;11 take place very shortly. In the unlooked for
absence of half a plum, of course twenty shillings in the pound
was quite out of the question ; time was requested by those who
ne'er asked time before, and such a scene, such a settling, is
not remembered by the oldest inhabitant. Having stated the
facts, allow me to explain some of the reasons assigned for this
unprecedented commotion.
In the first. place John Day has much to answer for. "We
know (said the party) we can beat Attila "—" John Day
never trained such a horse in his life "—" John Day never saw
but two good horses in his life, Crucifix and Coldrenick." Such
was the nature of the information kindly communicated to the
public about the clipper Coldrenick, the hone dead beat at
'fattenham Corner ; it was actually thought a terrible sacrifice
to hedge at 6 to 4, and it was equ'al to coining to het 2 to 1 on
Coldrenick against Attila. John Day has certainly given his
friends pepper this time, and he will have reason to remember
it, or lam much mistaken John Scott is such an extraordi-
nary trainer, and has such a powerful stable, that his horses
are naturally backed heavily. The public are exceedingly in-
dustrious in trying to di-cover which is Scott's horse, and
William Scott happening to be an exceedingly shrewd man, is
equally, but more successfully industrious, in leading the public
astray. The result of a trial at Newmarket is generally knowe
all over the town in twenty minutes. Scott's trials are never
known except by those who have a right to know. The ex-
penses of training are serious, and surely those who pay should
receive; the owner of a horse is surely the person who should
benefit. by the earliest possible information about that horse.
Having arrived at this point I would now remark, that the
most is not to be made of a secret by bottling it too long :,take
all the long odds to which you are fairly entitled, keep the
public in the dark while it is necessary, lsist-teS-them know the
truth at last ; let them have a chance of getting out, that a
repetition of the evil consequences adverted to in this letter be
in future avoided, and the ring be enabled to recover its former
healthy reputation.
By a letter I read in your paper on Thursday, it appears that
Mr. Forth is excessively indignant at my speaking of Lucy
Banks as Mr. Dixon's mare. I am very sorry I have been
guilty of so dreadful a crime, and will elo all I can to rectify
the mistake. Lucy Banks is the property of Mr. Forth, that
gentleman having bought that mare of Mr. Dixon some months
ago. Hear this all men.
June 4. JUDEX.