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SPORTING.

(PROM h.wT.S )

in Ireland, I will not have, because Irish horses never run well
immediately on their crossing the Channel—Harkaway to wit. The
remarks I applied to Godfrey will serve also for Little Hampton.
Nereus, 1 hear, will not go. Extravaganza, from pedigree, I should
imagine could not stay the distance. None but an April Noddy, I
should think, would back the horse of that name ; and Ambition's,
Duke of Kent's, and the Albemarle filly's chance, I should pro-
nounce hopeless.
After a careful consideration of the merits of all the horses en-
eaged in this great race, I fix my faith either on Lothario or Milton,
with a slight preference for the former.

To the Derby Handicap there are 52 subscribers, and as nothing
is got by not running, we are sure to have a large field for it. It
would be absurd, without the slightest knowledge of what will
run, to pick out the winner; but presuming Semiseria, Sweetmeat,
The Pride of Kildare,Sir Abstrupus, and Best Bower to go, I should
think they would compose the front rank at the finish, and that out
of that small lot I anticipate for once seeing Semiseria first.
The Free Handicap will afford a nice race between Sir Abstrupus
and Beaumont; and if the former does not go for the Derby Han-
dicAp, I think he can just win—at all events, it is sure to be a good
race between the two.

On Friday we have the Liverpool St. Leger, which will be de-
prived of a great deal of its interest by the withdrawal of Mentor.
I never had an idea that this horse would start here, as enough of
his capabilities has been disclosed at Newcastle. Certain it is, his
defeat would materially alter the St. Leger betting, and his not
running will have the effect of keeping him firm in the market.
For this race I expect to see at the post Miss Elis, Pantasa, Ly-
curgus, or Vaudeville, Fitzallen, Ould Ireland, and The Baron.
At Tattersall's yesterday they took as little as 6 to I about Pan-
tasa, whose chance, judging from his position in the Derby, I
should think was a first-rate one. And I fancy myself he will be
found the winner. But for the objection I have previously wade
against Irish horses running on their arrival in England, I should
have thought Ould Ireland a dangerous animal to be against. The
Baron, at the last Curragh meeting, won the second class of the
Madrid from Highwayman, a colt that has a good deal of running
about him, but I fancy he will find the distance too far for him on
this occasion.

The Grosvenor Stakes has fourteen subscribers, and I have no
hesitation in awarding them to Sweetmeat, with the pleasant weight
of 7st 11b on her. The Cure and Fitzallen will no doubt run
forward, but can never catch Mr. Hills mare.

The Stanley and the Bentinck Testimonial Stakes I say nothing
about, not having the entries for the former or the weights for the
latter by me.

At the Corner yesterday there was some spirited Derby betting,
and the "Squire" created no little sensation by taking 15,000 to
225 about his colt King Charles, for the Derby, and consoled him-
self by saying that if he did not win he could always get 300/. for
him as a hunter. That the " Merry Monarch " may not be so de.
graded is the wish of TELEGRAPH.
London, July 15, 1845.

CRICKET.
KENT V. ALL ENGLAND.
Yesterday the match between these two elevens was com-
menced at "Lord's," in the presence of nearly 4,000 specta-
tors; and a finer exhibition of play, taken as a whole, has
probably at no period been witnessed. Every inch of ad-
vantage was strongly contested by each party.
Amongst the company on the !,round were Sir Augustus
D'Este, the Earl of Verulam and Lady Jane Grimston, Vis-
count Grimston, Viscount Guernsey, Lord Stratford, Lord
Marcus Hill, the Hon. General Upton, the Hon. S. Ponsonby,
the Hon. R. Grimston, the Hon. F. Grimston, the Hon.
Tuftiell, the Hon. Captain Liddell, Sir J. Bayley, Bart.,
Sir F. thitliurst, Bart., Captain Baillie, Captain 0. Baillie,
Mr. C. Ikaticlerk and lady, Mr. H. Beauclerk and lady,
Mr. and Miss Powell, Mr. W. Ward, Mr. 0. Nethercote,
Mr. C. Ilarenc, Mr. IL Everett, Mr. C. Morse, Mr. C. Taylor,
Mr. E. M. Levying., &c.
At the termination of the game for the day, the score stood
thus

ENGLAND.
Lillywhite, c Hillyer, b IDakin, b Hillyer
Mynn ..
Bnrlcer. b Billyer.
Guy, c Felix, b ditto ... 3 ton, by Myrna
15
Sewell, b Mynn .. 16 Dean, b Hillyer 0
Box, b ditto ... ........... ... 0 Byes. 14 ; wide, Mynn 4

Bushby, b ditto
C. Taylor, Esq., c Harem,
b Ilillyer

-,
Adams, 1, 5 ............ 19

IV.Wynn, Esq., c Bathurst,

b Dean
A.Mynn, Esq., c Lillywhite,
b Martingell
Adams. b Dean 3
Pilch, c Martingell, b ditto 14
The match was resumed thi:

114

E. Swann, Esq., not out... 0
Byes, 6; wide—Martin-
gel! 2, Dean 1,3; no
balls—Martingell I ... 10

is morning at 11 o'clock.

ITOME CIRCUIT—CHELmSFORD.—The Commission
for the county of Essex was opened here yesterday by Lord Chief
Justice Tindal. There are 32 prisoners for trial.

The Newmarket July meeting, although a little superior to that
of last year, when only five races were run during the three days,
was a wretchedly dull one. The only remarkable feature in it
was the introduction of the telegraph, which was much needed to
prevent the unwary being " picked up" by those who had the
good luck to ascertain what horses really would start. In the
October meetings I have no doubt that the printer of the lists will
be compelled to prefix numerals to the nominations—as it was the
telegraph was useless to the betting man unless he had both a card
and a list. The announcement that Lord George Bentinck would
be the junior steward of the Jockey Club, in the room of Lord
Stradbroke, whose three years had expired, gave great satisfaction
to all classes of sportsmen. Woe be now to those individuals who
have been of late years so industrious in making favourites safe.
Lord George is armed with treble power, and I think the public
already have a sufficient acquaintance with him not to doubt that
he will make use of it to its fullest extent when required. His
first duty will be of course to examine into the history of the Idas
plot, which seems to have been discovered on purpose to give him
an opportunity of showing his capabilities for the office which has
been conferred upon him. I will now glance at the results cf
the week.
The meeting opened as usual with the T. Y. C. Handicap, which
Paultons won from two wretches that could scarcely beat a donkey.
The betting men laid 3 to 1 against the winner, who may be said to
have won all the way. Then followed the race of the day, the
July Stakes, for which nine were saddled and started. Moonbeam,
the favourite at Tattersall's the day before, was beaten very early
in the race, so soon indeed that her party insist that she must have
been amiss. Smuggler Bill, fur whom I had a slight prediliction
from seeing him backed by reputed good judges, ran very respect-
ably. I think I may take some credit to myself as being the only
sporting writer that recommended the winner to the attention of
the public. I felt convinced she was the only opponent that the
Smuggler had to dread. She is a remarkable fine scare, and re-
sembles her sire in every respect, even in her temper. The pace
was never first-rate nor the race in difficulty after Nat got his mare
through the ruck of horses.
WEDNESDAY.—Nothing could be a more hollow affair than the
match between Science and Blanchie ; the latter, with 7 to 4 on
her, was beaten by four lengths. The sweepstakes that followed
was won by Colonel Peel's Seakale filly, beating three others by a
neck, and the aid of Nat's fine riding. The winner was claimed
for 100 soya., and will, I should think, pay her way.
Panther lost his match with Hartshorn entirely by his temper :
he ran out at last, and was beaten a length.
The result of the 50 Sovs. Plate was a startler to nearly every-
body that saw the race. lonian, said to be better than the winner
of the Derby of 1844, with 3 to 1 on him, was beaten with the
greatest ease by Metal and Keppel, animals of a very different class
from that of Col. Peel's horse. Nat, however, in order to make
some amends to those gentlemen who had so freely backed his fa-
vourite, won for them the Town Plate, beating five others, amongst
them Stamp, a mare much fancied for the Oaks.
On Thursday Lord Exeter surprised the fielders by winning the
newT.Y.C. Sweepstakes withTunick, and Lord Chesterfield, as I anti.
cipated, with his Freelance made sad havoc of the field in the Ches-
terfield Stakes.
The Liverpool Meeting commences on Wednesday, under the
able stewardship of Mr. Mostyn, Lord Sefton, and Lord March.
On Wednesday there are five races down in the list, four of them
only will be run, as the Black Prince will walk over for the Pro.
duce Stakes.
The Croxteth Stakes will be, as usual, the trial race of the
meeting, and afford the public a peep at the schoolmasters of the
different stables. The entries for it, as well as the Maiden Plate,
have not been made public.
The Sefton Stakes has eight subscribers, and the only animal
that in my opinion has the slightest chance with Lord George's lot
is Extravaganza.
To the Mersey Stakes there are 22 subscribers, and in spite of
Princess Alice's defeat at Ascot nothing that has as yet been out,
or talked of in private, can, in my opinion, beat her.
On Thursday the Foal Stakes will be reduced to amatch between
Sowerby and Chertsey, and won by the latter. I now come to the
Cup, upon which there has been some spirited betting. There
were 131 horses named for this race, but only 23 have been left in,
as most of the horses that were nominated for it on the Ist of
January are either out of training, or else have been running so
frequently as to have destroyed any chance they might have had of
winning. lam convinced that if the horses were named three
months later in the year it would materially benefit the race. As
Heseltine has out of his lot only left Winesour in, and the public
being very fond of backing his judgment, Winesour has become
first favourite, with every probability of remaining so to the last.
Up to the week before last he had run no less than fourteen races,
and been beaten in five of them. His best performance was
at Newcastle, for the Cup, where he beat Marian Ramsay and
Pagan, but then it should be borne in mind that Marian Ramsay
had been running all over the country, and consequently was very
stale ; and that Pagan is so uncertain a horse that no line can be
got by him. According to the account in the paper, Winesour
only won by half a length ; now, I think if he is good enough to
win such a race as this, he ought to have disposed of his two op-
ponents much easier. The stable, lam told, mean winning with
him, and it is rumoured that Mr. Bell has told Heseltine that he
should remove his horses from him unless he won the Liverpool
Cup. This may be consolatory to his backers, who are numerous
and fond, but I am not one of them, and do not expect to see him I
follow up his success at Newcastle. Had not Corranna been run-
ning
so at Worcester, I should have thought his chance (with
Bst 61b) by no means to be despised ; as it is, 1 am afraid he has
had too much taken out of him to have a prospect of getting in 11
front here. Mr. Mostyn's Milton, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b, upon the
strength of his running at Chester for the Cup, where, with fist 81b,
he ran third to Intrepid, fist 61b, has been strongly and deservedly
supported. He is a fine, wiry colt, with a good turn of speed, is
very nicely weighted, and will be very near winning. In fact, I see
nothing that should beat him unless it is Lothario. This horse, it
will be recollected, by the assistance of Nat's riding. and with
Bst Ilb, beat Inheritress and a large field for the Ascot Stakes. In-
heritress subsequently won the Northumberland Plate with little
difficulty, thus enhancing the importance of Lothario's victory.
This horse only came into the market on Sunday, when 12 to 1
was taken with avidity about him; he is now at 8 to 1, and will at
starting be a still better favourite. His party are very
sanguine of winning with him, and if jockeyship can do
it, why I think we shall seem him chronicled as the
winner of the Liverpool Cup of 1845. Trueboy, Bst 21b,
is well in, but is too uncertain a horse ever to back ; there are
few horses of the same class as Trueboy finish so badly as he does :
if his temper is not disturbed he will run very forward. Mickey
Free must have vastly improved to be able to win with 7st 12Ib
on his back. The Best of Three's shoulder being put out, has put
his chance for this race out also. However, as his owner has God-
frey, Lightning and Trueboy to run for him, he cannot very much
cry out against Dame Fortune. It is a somewhat singular fact
that when Dawson wins this race, as he has done this last two
years, like Mr. Forth, when he wins the Derby, he always does it
with an outsider. In 1843 Pompey was all the rage, and yet
Aristotle, with 10 to 1 against him, beat him easily.
In 1844 Aristotle was the favourite at 3 to 1, and yet he suc-
cumbed to the Era, about which horse 6to I went begging. This
year, perhaps, the same result may fellow, and Rowena or Light-
ning be found superior to the present favourite of the stable, True-
boy. Godfrey's running: at Worcester was very creditable to him,
but I think has destroyed his chance of this race. He has been
running a great deal lately, and Ido not like a stale horse for a
great race like the Liverpool Cup. Rowena is much fancied in
some quarters, and many have taken long odds about her winning
this and the Goodwood Stakes. I consider her about as
likely to win the former as the latter race. Last year she
won the Cleveland Handicap at Doncaster, with sst 81b on her,
beating by a neck Semiseria, Sst 61b, the PriJe of Kildare,
Est 21b, and the Knight of the Whistle, 9st. This is the only race
she has ever won, and as the distance was only a mile, I do not
consider I should be doing right in recommending my readers to
back her. A good deal of money has been got out of the Iron-
master by parties who were fortunate enough to get the " office "
about him, and I have no doubt Ms withdrawal will give great dis.
satisfaction. He is reserved for Goodwood, where his chance for the
Cup is by no means a bad one. Everton and Brunel Ido not like.
The Dog Billy is only a plater. Warp, in spite of his recent victories