The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-01 00:00:00

have won an immense amount. G. Watts, jun. is said to
have won a large stake. Mr. Merry, the owner of Robbie
Noble, is said to have lost £lO,OOO.
John Scott has won the three great races in succession
with beaten horses ; the Oaks with Iris, after she had
been defeated for the One Thousand Guineas Stakes ;
the St. Leger with Newminster, after losing the Derby
and York St. Leger ; and now the Derby with Daniel
O'Rourke, after three signal defeats.
The Era says that the race for the Derby was the great-
est robbery ever perpetrated, and envies not the feelings
of the trainer or rider of the winner.
This is the first time Frank Butler has won the Derby,
but he has had the rare fortune of winning both the great
races at one meeting, and the Oaks four times in succes-
sion, against the accomplishment of which latter feat, he
says, he was offered the extraordinary odds of £lO,OOO to
£3O, a bet which he declined to take, imagining that such
a piece of good luck could not fall to the lot of man. He
has also won the Oaks six times, namely, in 1843, with
Poison • 1844, with The Princess ; 1849, with Lady Eve-
lyn ; 1850, with Rhedycina ; 1851, with Iris ; and 1852,
Songstress. He also won in succession the Oaks, St.
Leger, Derby, and Oaks. Such a run of luck is, we be-
lieve, unprecedented.
Irish Birdcatcber is the sire of the winner of the Derby
and the first three in the Oaks. His produce is running
remarkably well this season.
The Derby was won entirely by the superior jockeyship
of Frank Butler. Had Barbarian, though as fat as a bul-
lock, been but moderately ridden, he could not have lost.
Such bad riding never was seen in a race before as that
displayed by Hiett, Kitchener, and W. Sharpe.
Butterfly would have started for the Foreign Visitors'
Plate, at Epsom, bad not some parties unconnected with
the stable `• skimmed the lists," so that when the owner
went to back her, he had no chance to get on, except on
very bad terms.
Manchester races will commence to-morrow, with an
excellent bill of fare.
The inhabitants of Cheltenham, last week, presented to
Mr. Holman, the rider and owner of Sir Peter Laurie,
the steeple-chaser, a service of plate, as a mark of their
esteem for his ability and honourable conduct.
The individual whom we stated last week had been
knocked " out of time" at Chester, and " found wanting"
on the settling day, in this town, has had a turn of luck,
having won about £4,000 on the Derby. He took £2,500
to £lOO at one " list shop," in London. Surely he will
now settle his Chester accounts.
DERBY TIME.-1846, Pyrrhus the First, 2 m. 55 s.;
1847, Cossack, 2 in. 52i s. ; 1848, Surplice, 2 m. 48 s. ;
1849, The Flying Dutchman, (in mud), 3 in. ; 1850, Vol-
tigeur, 2 m. 50 s. • 1851, Teddington, 2 ns. 51 s. ; 1852,
Daniel O'Rourke, On mud), 3 M. 2 a.
OARS TIME.-1846, Mendicant, 2 m. 53 s.; 1847,
Miami, 2 in. 54 s. ; 1848, Cymba, 2 in. 48 a. ' • 1849, Lady
Evelyn, 2 m. 56 s ; 1850, Rhedycina, 2 m. 56 s. ; 1851,
Iris, 2 m. 52 s. ; 1852, Songstress, 3m.
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday last, a
horse case, " Tubb v. Parr," a horse-trainer, was tried.
The plaintiff, a jockey, in cross-examination, admitted
that he rode Peter Simple for the Liverpool Grand Na-
tional Steeple-chase in 1851, and on being asked whether
he was put " on" to win by him, he said he was promised
by the owner of the horse that he should receive £25 if he
was first over the first brook, but that be was ordered not
to win on any account, and he accordingly did not win.
Bell's Life says, a grand and novel match, at Lord's, is
already creating much interest in the fashionable world :
it will be the eldest sons of peers against the junior
branches of the same noble families.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.—The match
for £2OO a-side, between Robert Coombes, the champion
of many years standing, and Thomas Cole, of Chelsea,
who aspired to that honour, took place on Monday week.
Cole was a pupil of the veteran's last season, is twenty-
fine years old, and half-a-stone heavier than Coombes.
The distance contended was from Putney-bridge to Mort-
lake. Cole won the race by a clear length, in twenty-five
minutes twelve seconds.

RACING

IXTURES.

Epping Town .... 1
Erith
Lenham
Manchester 2l
Cogglesball ..
Southwell
Dean .. 3,1
Ulverstone .
Ascot .. .
Beverley ~ .
Maidstone ..... ....... 9'
Leith
Lamberton

Hampton l6
Newton ..
Tenbury
Macclesfield ... 2l
Newcastle
Bibury 23
Stockbridge 24
' Knighton 25
IWinchester.. . . .
Carlisle
. 29
Chelmsford . 30
ILud low ... .