The New York herald., 1868-07-12

tnough they Iufnshed good race. The betting at
Tsroban, four years. III lbs. that very clever trick
ster who can run such q great horse when he
TO one eacn against Mr.. Johnstone's Tynedale,
four four years, l2s lbs, very yer n good horse, who,
m sns up
four years, lls lbs the winner Of the Great North
sn Handicap at N.Y. York this spring six
years. 90 lbs; ten to one each against
Lord zetand's geldng, Ell Cid, five years. 100 lbs,
S e. one eaeh against M
Lady Zetand, three years. 92 lbs, and Mr.. T. Mas
termans colt Honestsh four years. ll6 lbs The
Minister Bell four years, 1ol lbs, but he declared to
win with Tynedae. The appearance OF the horses
1% the ans Gnea sys TA aas as
condition were minutely criticised. The
lot were handed over to the starter
at the bottom of the run n they prepared to receive
the orders for their two mile journey. This was,
however delayed 6y TWO false starts oa az
start, and the lot dashed away In compact cluster
and so evenly that for few strides no one OF the
competitors had decided advantage. This could
not be maintained, however and they passed the
distance, Honestsh on the right and Flora on the
made the running, Taroban being close up, followed
by FOrtuniO, who was right in his track and had FL
Cid on one side and Lady Zetland on the other Behind
these three came Tynedale and Miss Osborne running
together, with slight advantage of Minister Bell,
who acted as whipper in: When fairly In the
she 'front.' and at the Plate starting post held
lead Of about length, Flora who was mani
testify In difficulties, lying In the second place,
but with only slight advantage of FOrtuniO, who
had advanced on the retirement Of Honestish and
Lady zetland. Below the distance Flora was thor
oughly beaten and compounding rapidly left ,Taro-
ban with decided lead; but opposite the smaller
stands, FOrtunio IN the centre ridden splendidly by
James snowden and Tynedale outside with John 0s
borne drew to the vorites quarters and at the
enclosure, getting fairly on terms with him, a mag
nihcent race home ensued. When Taraban was
to run shifty, and opposite The stand Tynedae with
whom Osborne made splendid rush. got his head in
Il was not to be- for OF
FOrtaniO with whom SnOwden waited patiently till
within fifty yards from home, was shen called on,
and the horse responding with wonderful gameness,
collared Tynedale, crept up to him inch by inch in
the last few strides, and won by short neck, Tara
ban, who was ridden out, being only beaten by
The two miles were done in three minutes and
forty seconds and the gross value Of the stakes
owner Captain Gray and the trainer tFobert) are
highly respected in the north, and az FOrtunio-who
l almost forgot to mention Is by vOltgeur out OF
FOrtuna-walked in after his second winning per-
formance he was loudly cheered.
word or two only will be sufficient to dispose Of
the other events OF this meeting none OF which
be OF much interest to your readers Fervacques 124
lbs, who won the Grand Prx de Paris last year by
a neck, after dead heat with Patrcien and who
also last year carried Off the Northumberland Plate
was beaten In the Newcastle Handicap lone mile
and a halD by Flora, "a lbs, and Mercury
Derby. This same Mercury, l2S lbs only got third
place in the North Derby. which was won by Mr.. r.
wretchedly in the city, and Suburban for which he
was considered by owner and party real good
thing, who was almost as pad In the Two Thousand
Guineas, and did not show to advantage in the
Great Northern Handicap. The best two year old OF
the meeting was the flly by Newmnster, out of
Lady Melbourne, belonging to Mr.. Johnstone, who
at even money defeated field OF eight others, in
Guiding supposed ''clincher" in Mr. Cornishs colt
Consolation.
The sport at Stockbridge, though good, was hardly
mp to the mark OF former years, and there seems little
doubt that we have not yet seen among the two year
olds real Derby horse, and must look out among the
.biue ribbon" The chief events for the youngsters
and Hamilton Stakesthe former for colts the latter
for fles-the Croome Produce Stakes, the Ethan
Plate and the Troy Stakes.
or all these as bearing on future events, perhaps
the most important was the last mentioned,
which brought out Mr. Merry's Belladrum,
Mr.. saye's Ryshworth, Mr.. Chaplln's Do
media nlly, Captain Machall's Robesplerre
and Count de Lagrange's Curieuse. The importance
of the lay in the meeting OF the two rst who,
it will be remembered in the New Stakes at AS
cot at even weights when Belladrum defeated Rysh-
worth by head. All were now carrying ll9 lbs,
with the exception of Mr. Merry's colt, who was
penalized lbs. for that victory-an extra weight
that proved the accuracy OF The handcappng, for 1t
just turned the scale and Ryshworth beat him by
precisely the same distance-a head. The Diomeda
fllly who had on the previous day in the Champagne
reuse, was beaten 10y a neck for second place, but
the other two OF whom Curieuse was at the begin
ming of the season considered great nlly were no.
where.
The two year old contest OF next importance was
that between the Duke of IIamilton's renedos ami
Mr.. Naylor's Wellington in the bennington Stakes,
which was reduced 70 match between fhen They
were both unnlaced in the Woodcote Stakes NJ
EPSON, won by Beadrum: but the former ran
met al even weights pt the Duke,s colt had no dim,
Gully whatever In iisposnr of his opponent whom
he beat by q length.
The Hamilton Stakes for FLIES brought ont three
the Duke of Newcastle,s Abstinence Mr. Padwicks
LADY Cecilia and Sir Freoerick Johnetone's CarIta-
aII m Iaa lhs The race was n mnch more eycitino
AFFAIR than the former for they All ran together nj q
rafting pace until approaching the stand when
LADY I,ecllia appeared 10 have N alI her own
way: but thonph she can run what i'm the slang of
the turf IL called a chopper IL ia evident sbe can
NOT s'stayv she compounded in the last half dozen
strides and Abstinence. heading her. won in the
pamest manner by half n length
The relative merits of the DUKES pair were shown
In the Eltham plate where boh were nenaized seven
pounds for their Victories the seven other youno-
sters who ran carrving their ordinary sex weiohts