The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-21
E N CLAN D
The Latest Events in the Sporting
World, In Parliament
and at Court.
TEE DERBY AND TIE OAKS
Two PrinceSSeS RecOncilfd How the Prince
Of Wales Money Goes.
LONDON. Lnne q. 1874.

anu TIE HTSC pOftlOn OF my present theme must
be equally horsey. For during the week just over
has taken place the great EPSON summer meeting,
which, to Londoners at least is the carnival OF the
turf Some racing men give the preference to
Newmarket and Doncaster, which are more busi-
ness-like GATHERINGS, attended only by those VINO
have practical interest in the sport but IL is
generally allowed tnar, az sight, there Is nothing
in the world equal to the enormous gathering ON
EPSON Downs as the parti-colored Jockeys
like flock OF BIRDS, come sweeping
round Tattenham Corner. l have seen
a considerable number Of Derbys; for the
last twenty years have only missed twice being
present--once when on q yachting expedition on
the Devonshire coast, and last year. when In the
service Of the HERALD ! was stewing at Versailles
Watching NJ. Theirs being turned out by Marshal
MacMahon have seen the Derby run IN snow
storm and in the thickest rain, but never reco-
lect In my experience OF the Downs such hot day
as last Wednesday. guessed that towards noon
the heat would be terrific, and being an old stager
IN such matters, and not wishing either to be
baked on the outside OF a coach or to be hustled
by the crowd which besets the midday trains,
started Off early in the morning with party OF
friends and quietly 'railedn down to EPSON,
where, in private room OF a snug little tavern
(''The Marquis of CRANKY" name well known to
ali Pickwlckans), we found q comfortable break
u
we were driven up to the course. where we had Sc
cured places and luncheon on friends drag, and
where we found
THE ARIsTOCRATs JUST ARRIVING.
Here, drivng'his team or 1our bays, comes LORD
LondesbOrOugh, and with him distinguished
party. They are in round hats and light over
coats, and have apparently suffered from the dust
OF the road (Which would have been dreadful but
for drenching shower on the previous night, for
on descending from the coach they proceed quite
calmly to change their coats, waistcOats and hats,
Lord Londesborough himself finally appearing in
the cutaway brown coat and gilt buttons OF the
Four-in-hand Club. Here is MIR. Eaton, NJ. p. who
is good whip, as he ought TO be, for rumor has it
that he commenced life as an omnibus driver;
now he sells ribbons and buys pictures ana is i'm
mensely wealthy, but his aspect is not patrlcian,
and he is no more like an aristocrat than waiter
at an oyster stall in Fulton Market Is like
NJ. Constant at Demonicos. Here are Lord Car
rington's drags, the Blues drags and score OF
others; here are the harouches containing the
very full favored ladies', with the beautiful COM
rleXions and the backened eyelids, and the silly
fellows who have brought them :here. Down be-
low in the trply serried rank OF vehicles, close by
the course, where the company is less select they
have begun luncheon already.
THE GRAND STAND.
Stand ind the Prince OF Wales and the Duke OF
bacca like men," as very queer looking customer
standing by remarks.
LUNCH IN THE FIELD.
There Is not much wagering IN the ring, and
though / am pleased to find that Glenalmond. q
horse which / have drawn in q sweepstakes, Is
first favorite, do not go into the paddock. for
/ have to make my way back to the drag
where luncheon will be going on. Pleasant 1t
is to dive into the Strasbonrg pie and to quan
the well iced Perria-Jouet and, looking up, to see
your fellow mortals pushed and harmed by the
police, who are striving to clear the course. Just
as one Is in the midst of delicious chicken salad
there Is q roar of
THEY'RE OFFif
followed by another OF chats offu and, looking at
the grand stand opposite you see that the huge
black mass has now become sea OF living faces
There we're no false starts, and from Tattennam
Corner, where they first came into my range
George Frederick mad 1t all his own way. There
was very little popular excitement about the race
though among the upper ten there was general
regret that Lord Roseberry, who is deservedly
great fav0rte and whose horse Cou-
rome de Fer was second, had not won.
Couronne de Fer was beaten badly In q
small race on the Oaks Day. and some OF Lord
y LII
non.success on the turf may probably decide the
young nobleman to enter the political arena,
where ne will be heartily welcome He would be
a loss to the turf, however for 1t is said that he
ran his horse without having q single bet on it, to
show that racing and gambling are not synony-
nous.
THE OAKS.
the second OF the great features of the EPSON
meeting, the Oaks, was decided yesterday There
old fllies-the One Thousand Guineas, on New
market heath, and the Oaks, ON the Surrey downs
Apology has the former, by half a length,
from N. Leievre's representative, La Coureuse. to
whom Loru Falmouth's Banchefeur was third,
and the question now was whether she could beat
a still better mare In Mr.. Lefevre's stable Miss
Toto. Taking the
CANDIDATES
in the order in which they appear in betting. Miss
Toto. who was made the favorite at to 4, was one
Of the best tWo-yeaTolds Of last season, when she
started for fve Faces and won them all They in
Guided the Two-year-od Plate at the Newmarket
first spring meeting, when she beat, among Others
Napoleon I'LL, Quantock and Tomanawk, the last
OF whom carried OF the Lincolnshire Handicap
shis year; the Fern Hill Stakes, at Newmarket, for
which Spectator afterwards second for the Middle
Park Plate, was defeated three-quarters OF a
length; the Bretby Stakes at the Newmarket
second October meeting, when she easily over
threw Blancheneur; and the Criterion Stakes, at
the Newmarket second October meeting, when
Aquilo who was so great a favorite Tor the Derby.
George Frederick, who won the Derby and Rever-
beration, a dead heater for the Newmarket Bien-
mai lew weeks ago, were all behind. This was
splendid record, and might well entitle her to the
place OF
FIRST PAvORTTE;
while that she was In form seemed to he proyed Inv
the TACT that for the Newmarket Biennial It was
she who ran the dead heat already referred to with
Reverperation VINO had greatly improved in the
meantime. and that In q trial which took Mace