The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sta.—The time has at length arrived when, after having re-
considered and re-analysed my several initiatory remarks, pre-
paratory to having re-assembled all racing facts of the latest
eduction, to resume the subject of the " blue riband," I
must place the result of all my Epsom undertakings before my
readers, all of whom I hope to satisfy by commenting upon
every probable starter, who may be said to possess the slightest
shadow of a chance of carrying off the palm to-morrow ; at the
same time being as laconic as, under the circumstances, I well
can be. _ .

I shall first submit to their notice as plenary an account as
it is possible to give, of the probable starters and riders, and,
at the same time, begging to assure them that I, like others
on this predicamental point, should have been now " mum,"
were I unable to say that the information was not well
founded: and no complete list having as yet appeared in any
sporting print, I take it that this, at least, may prove acceptable.
List of probable starters for to-morrow's Derby, to which is
appended the names of the trainers and probable riders;—

Horse.
Pharos

Trainer.
Kent

Rider.
Flatman

._.........
Sittingbourne Butler Pettit
Filbert Harlock Norman
Cobnut (d) Harlock Mann
Umbriel Scott Templeman
Vanderdecken Fobert Marlow
Prince Leopold Wadlow W. Sharpe
Barbatus I'Anson Smith
Cheddar Stevenson Sly
Mayor of Hull (d) Scott Simpson
Orestes King Charlton
Spread Eagle (d) King Brown
Ninnyhammer Smith Sharp
Orinoco Taylor Marson
Rataplan J. B. Day Hiett
War-whoop (d) Dilly Dockeray
West Australian Scott Butler
Honeywood Osborne Osborne
Cineas Day Day
Ethelhert Stevens Crickmere
Brocket Jones Thick
Peggy Dawson Cartwright
Jerry Kent Rogers Rogers
Talfourd Wintringham Fenn
Mr. Sykes Marson Bartholomew
Florin ma Coul Wynne Wynne
Beverlac(d) Wintringbam Bumby
Pharos, a Derby horse all over, is of the Touchstone progeny.
I learn that he has very lately beets tried with Chief Baron
Nicholson, (i.e. soon after that horse's return from Newmarket,
where, it will be remembered, he gave considerable weight and
ran a dead heat with NutsliellOand so satisfactorily as to make
Kent —who also trains for Lord H. Lennox's brother (the Earl
of March), as also for the present Master of the Buckhounds,—
as sanguine of winning this as he ever was of winnin., a race
for the good old duke, and, despite the reputation of others, he
has no fear. Pharos has always hitherto had my support. and
I am sure I shall not discard him in the eleventh hour, when I
know his condition to be so super, and that Nat has never be-
fore landed a horse first for this great event.
Sittingbourne.—Wherever in the race the favourite figures,
this horse is sure to be by his side ; but whether or not he can
beat him (the former having somewhat improved upon his 2000
form) were both to be matched to-day, for the same distance,
and on the same course, is for the consideration of your
readers, and respectfully submitted. For my part, I think it
would be a toss up, but there still exists various critical opinions
as to how he won at Newmarket, but I deem this to be the
most correct version : the horse did not wilt easily, for not
only had he but also his jock their work to do, and it is not un-
likely that, had the distance but been extended another half
mile, he would not have won at all.
Filbert cannot possess any pretensions. when we look to his
late caperings ; be is, however, better than Cobnut, who, if he
(the latter) should prove a poster, cannot do more than render
the former a very meagre assistance.
Umbriel's chance we have now to consider; he, like Pharos,
is another Derby horse in tote, has never yet been oil' it, but has
gone on improving daily. His noble owner, who is indeed
sanguine, showed them at Manchester how easily he could win
his two races with Longbow, carrying the top weight in each,
and winning, from no mean fields' his races easily. Let Tem-
pleman's luck but carry him to the Downs, and Lord Derby,
and myself, will each, I warrant, be perfectly satisfied ; the
above performances of Longbow go more to convince me in my
former expressed opinion, that he is the best horse of his year
for his distance.
... _ . . .

Vanderdecken.—All, I think, remember this horse as a two-
yr-old, when he appeared in form so imperfect, and ran so ill,
and on this account (I know not on what other) people will not
entertain him now ; that this horse may yet turn out equal to
the Dutchman is my decided asseveration, and it is hardly ex-
pected that an unmatured two-yr-old like he was last year can
be successful at that age; last year's mystery with respect to
hint was simply this,—that he carried upon two:yr-old legs a
three-yr-old body, and though, I think, he is not likely to show
off much before next year, I certainly. fully expect he will run
forward, anti should not be surprised if he accomplished atill
more; Nut any words, Ul5 4 good outsider,