The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

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ASCOT RACES.—TnuasbAt

tl=. SWEEPSTAKES of 100 sovs, h ft, 9 subs, was woh by
Col. Peel's Murit, beating the Duke of Richmond's Elysium
and Mr. Theobahl's Highlander.
ER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas, was won by Lord
Lou tecr's c by Bay Middleton, beating Mr. J. Day's c b
Emilins, and two others.
The MICK LEH AM H ALL SI A KES of 200 sovs each, 3 subs,
was won by Lord Chesterfield's New Brighton, beating Lord
G. Bentinek's Gaper.- _

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THE GOLD Cup, value 300 sovs, with 200 added, was won
by Lord Albematic's Ralph, beating St. Francis, Robert de
Gorham, and Vulcan.
The NEW STA_KES of 10 sovs each, 35 subs, was woo by
Mr. Crockfo;d's c by Buzzard, beating Mr. Copeland's
Assay, and six others.
The GRAND STAND PLATE of 100 soya. was won by Lord
Exeter's Albion, beating Mr. Scott's Mosque, and nine
others.

The BUCKINGHAM PALACE STAKES of 200 sovs each,
h ft, 5 subs, was won by Colonel Anson's Napier, beating
Lord Westminster's Languish colt.
The WlNnson FOREST STAKES of 50 sovs each, h ft, won
by Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, beating Mr. Thornhill's Extem-
pore

FRIDAY.
The DINNER STAKES of 100 sovs each, h ft, 12 subs, was
walked over for by Mr. Wreford's c by Bay 'Middleton.
The WOKINGHAM STAKES of 5 sovs each, 15 subs, was
won by Lord Chesterfield's Dilbar, beating Lord Exeter's
Albion, and seven others.

The \Visnsor. PLATE, of £5O, added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs each, 7 subs, was won by Mr. Braithwaite's Gaiety,
beating Lord Exeter's Antidote, and four others.
The WOKINGHAM STAKES, (first class,) 5 soya each, 15
subs, was won by Mr. Garrard's Dromedary, beating Lord
Exeter's Wee Pet, and seven others.
The SWEEPSTAKES, of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, 5 subs,
won by Mr. Stephenson's t by Gladiator, heating Mr. Meg-
son's Vitellius, and three others.
The SELLING STAKES Of 5 sovs each, 9 subs, won by Mr.
Scott's Windsor, beating Mr. Pettit's Odds and Ends, and
five others.

A circumstance occurred at Ascot on the first day of the
races t: at deserves to be mentioned, as showing the deter-
urination of tl-e higher powers of the turf to punish default-
ers for bets. A gentleman who has not vet made good his
engagements on the Derby for 1842 entered the weighing
stand for the purpose of seeing Gorhambury's jockey weigh
for the vase. On its being represented to Lord Roslyn, his
lordship immediately gave orders for his exclusion. A rule
of this kind will be strictly enforced at the next Liverpool
races.

The course swarmed with thimbleriggers and other sharp-
ers, and, notwithstanding the warnings from the press. many
silly people were fleeced. On Thursday evening a desperate
affray took place between a large mob of these scoundrels and
a body of soldiers belonging to the 2d Grenadier Guards and
the 2d Life Guards. It appears, that some time ago, some
soldiers of the 45th regiment who were assaulted by a• crew
of the thimblerig vagabonds, gave them a sound drubbing.
Since then the fellows have cherished a spitv against the red
coats in general. They lost no opportunity, during the re-
cent Ascot meeting, of quarrelling with and assaulting any
party of soldiers whom they met, frequently surrounding
them in gangs and grievously maltreating them, at the same
time pursuing the more congenial calling of knocking down
and robbing any respectable but too curious spectator within
their reach. At length a regular onslaught of some five or
six hundred sharpers god gypsies was made on some soldiers.
The red coats, from all quarters, ran to the rescue, and a
desperate affray ensued. The soldiers, being unharmed,
while their assailants were provided with with bludgeons,
came off at first with the worst of it, but, ultimately, having
obtained edge stakes and wrenched weapons from opponents,
they, by acting in concert, beat off their antagonists. Num-
bers on both sides suffered severe injuries, many having their
limbs fractured.