The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-18 00:00:00

WORCESTER STEEPLE CHASE

On Monday this affair came off. About two o'clock, (the
appointed hour,) Mr. Tolley and his `• javelin men," cleared
the lines of the dense masses of lookers-on ; but a full hour
was then frittred away, and it was not till after three that the
bell rang for saddling ; the following nine appeared before
the stand ; and just previous to the start, Lottery (the
favourite), and Anonymous were declared not to. run, Mr.
Elmore seeming inclined to win by Gay Lad—alas for human
calculations !

The Royal Birthday Stakes, of 25 sove. each, 15 forfeit,
and 5 only if declared, &c., with 150 added.
M r. Quartermaine's b h lioderick Random.. A. M`Donough 1
Mr. Elmore's b g Gay Lad
Mr. Langham's b g Merchant....
Mr. Vevers's ch h Little Tommy Oliver 4

Betting : 5 to 2 about Gay Lad ; 6 to 1 against Roderick
(taken) ;10to 1 against Tally-ho (taken in considerable
amounts); 10 to 1 against Forty-two, who had also been a
good deal backed ; 5 4on Elmore's lot against the field
(taken several times and to great amounts); 6 to 1 against
Peter Simple; and 7 to 1 against Sam Weller.
This race (four miles, as before stated,) was accomplished
in eleven minutes.

An interval of an hour and a-half having taken place,
during which we observed an extensive assortment of long
faces, the next race came, ofl.
The Worcestershire Hunt Stakes, of 5 sovs. each, p.p.,
with 50 sows. added.

Mr. Pullen's ch g £lO-no-object, 4 yrs
Mr. E. Herbert s b g Tommy
Mr. Candler's nas b m Spring Flower

Goddard 1
. Walker 2
.. Powell 3

Mr. Hooton nas b g

Oliver 4

The lot were broUght up by Ludlow to the first fence,
which was refused by Bob Acres, and Railroad having come
in contact with him at the fencing, Bobby was floored, and
thenceforward lost all chance ; Spring Flower then took up
the running ; Railroad's station was in the rear throughout,
and it was quite clear that his " steam was not up ; ' the
lead was maintained by Spring• Flower, uninterruptedly as
we could perceive, " by flood and field," till within 200 yards
of the winning-post, up to which point she had looked ex-
tremely like a winner ; here however she refused the gorse
(the last fence), and was passed by Tommy ; Tommy how-
ever was speedily collared by Ten-pound-no-object, who hi-
therto bad certainly been considered no object in the least.
An extremely exciting and beautiful race ensued, the chesnut
being the winner by about a length. Railroad (the favourite)
was non est, and it appeared by sundry unmistakeable marks
when they did come in, that both Railroad and Ludlow had
" kissed mother earth" in some pulpy part of the Moors.
This race was done in 13 minutes.

Betting : 2 to 1, freely offered, on Railroad; 5 to 1 against
Bob Acres ; 5 to 1 against Charles the Twelfth ; 10 to 1
against Tommy ; 10 to 1 against Spring Flower ; and long
odds against Bravo. But the grand peculiarity was that the
winner had scarcely been mentioned. Oh, the " glorious
uncertainty" of favouritism !
Thus terminated the stirring events of the field, which had
excited an uncommon interest throughout.

,M)ipping

TUESDAY, MARCH 15.—Wind %V., variable

ArtRIVED. —Princess Royal, Robinson, from Calcutta—Canton,
Gray, from Mobile. On the 2d instant, in lat 52, long 41, fell in
with the Quebec Packet, from Halifax for Cork, waterlogged, and
took off the crew—Cora, Miller, from Bahia, in 50 days. The Lydia
and Westmoreland were to sail in about ten days, for this port; the
Lady Flora Hastings, for London, sailed four days previously—
Diana, from Leghorn—Hoppelt, from Genoa—Lucy, Wright, from
Santonia--South, Thomas, from Rouen—Charles Carter, Brown,
from London—Victoria, Bannister, from Belfast—Agnes, Patten,
from Tralee

SAILED.—Lydia. Hartley, for Antigua—Ann Bridson, Blackstone,
for Rio Janeiro—Thomas Worthington, Valentine, for Lima—Dal-
matia, Howes, and Hanover, Drummond, for New Orleans—Equity,
Jordan, for Dardt