The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

SPORTING IN TEL LI GENCB

SIR TATTON SYKES THE WINNER OF THE FASTEST
LEGER UPON RECORD.—The Doncaster St. Leger '46,
is lost and won, The best horse in the race has fairly
earned his laurels, and Sir Tatton Sykes has won the
fastest Leger upon record. Twelve started. Tom Tulloch
making play for his stable, went off with the lead as fast
as his most questionable legs would carry him, Sir Tatton
lying second, well up with him, and the others in a
cluster close behind. Before they had gone half a mile
Poynton was beaten, and wasvirtually—almost literally—
dropped. The others went on in the same positions to
the T.Y.C. post, where Sir Tatton, finding Tulloch's
wind begin to fail, pushed the pace a bit, and at the Red
House came up with, and passed him. From this point
all the race was over. Sir Tatton kept his lead, defeating
each horse that challenged him—first Fancy Boy, then
Traverser, thirdly Brocardo, and lastly lago, who strug-
gled on as game as heart of horse could struggle, but
never reached Sir Tatton, who went in a clever winner by
a good half length.
On Thursday the GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP, of
25 sm. each, were won by Cranebrook, beating Mor-
peth, fby Elis, out of Morella, and eleven others. Won
by a neck. Hemp jumped off with a lead, and was never
approached until near the Red House. The running
was then taken up by Ennui, followed by the Morella
filly and Canebrook, and this trio held the leading places
to the distance, where Cauebrook took a slight lead of
the Morella filly, and they raced together to the stand.
Morpeth then came up, and the three made a glorious
finish, Morpeth in the last two strides beating the filly
by a head, but never quite reaching Canebrook, who was
landed the winner by a neck. Ennui was a bad fourth,
Morocco lost start, and never caught his horses. Run in
three minutes eighteen secs.
In reply to the acceptance by the London watermen of
the challenge to row for £3OO, Henry Clasper says, that
the present state of his health will not permit him to un-
dertake the task for the present.
A match, in which Mr. Giddins undertook to drive his
pony (under twelve bands high) eighty miles, in harness,
within ten hours, has been decided, at Sunbury Common,
and the distance performed in nine hours and forty
minutes trotting, winning the match easy.
The following sale of blood stock took place on Tues-
day, at Doncaster, by Messrs. Tattersall :—A two-year-
old colt, by Sheet Anchor, out of Speedwell, 50 gs. ;
Wynyard, 4 yrs, 95 gs. ; a grey mare, by young Phan-
tom, dam by Sorceror, 20 gs., her foal by The Provost,
30 gs. • Romaika, by Rowton, 130 gs. ; and bay colt by
Jereed, out of Charlotte West, 130 gs.
STEEPLE CHASE MATCH FOR ONE THOUSAND
GUINEAS ASIDE.—A match exciting much interest in the
sporting circles, and 'upon which heavy bets are pending,
has lately been made between Captain William Peel and
Mr. Hope Johnstone, for 1,000 guineas a side, 12 stone
each, three miles, over a sporting country to be selected
by Lord Maidstone. Worcester has been fixed on, and
the event will come off there on the 4th of November.
Captain Peel will ride Mr. Onsley Higgin's Pioneer, and
Mr. Hope Johnstone will be mounted on one of Lord
Waterford's celebrated steeple-chase horses.
THE HARDEST HIT ON RECORD.—Our readers may
have noticed a paragraph in which it was stated that Mr.
S. Burgess, a well-known cricketer in Bedfordshire, in a
match on Dunstable-downs, from one bit made fifteen
runs, the ball requiring six men to throw it in. Some
doubted the possibility of such a hit. Bentley, however,
said it was nothing to a hit lie was once fortunate enough
to see. To wit ; lie says he saw a ball " sent" four mires
by a cricketer named Turner, in a match played on Ripley-
green, Surrey. " Use prix excessif I it was remarked.
The fact was—just at the time Turner struck the ball the
Portsmouth coach was passing, and it dropped among the
luggage. The coachman, doubtless with the intention of
giving Turner " a good run," did not stop the ball till it
arrived at Cobham.