ENGLISH SPORTING NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 3794, 22 April 1875, Page 2

ENGLISH SPORTING NOTES.

Tho annual return of the number of winning mounts of jockeys in England has just been published. F. Archer heads the list with 147 wins against 180, lost on a grand total of 327 mounts. H Constable comes second with 89 wins, T. Glover comes third with 63 wins, and George Pordham fourth, with 57 wins. During this famous horseman’s career—about tweni.y-two years—ho has ridden no less than 2,118 winners, a feat which has nerer been equalled. In 1862 and ’65 he had 165 and 154 winning mounts respectively, though, strange to sav, he never yet won a Derby or a St. Leger. Mr T. Spence is at the head of the gentlemen and non-professionals, with a total of 35 wins and 31 lost.

, The popular red and white >pots of Lord Zetland are once more to bo seen on the turf, the present Earl intending to keep a few racehorses in addition to the valuable brood mares retained at the time of the late Earl’s sale. Mr T. Marshall, the well known racing official, who has been before the British public as starter, clerk of the course, clerk of the scales, and Judge for considerably more than a quarter of a century, is dead. His health had been failing for some two years, but until about 18 months ago ho performed' his duties regularly. Every sporting paper in England and Ireland has paid a just tribute to bis memory. '1 he Jockey Club at Home seem determined to pub down malpractices on the turf. Two jockeys, last summer, Wyatt and Soutos, were suspended for pulling eertain horses; now a boy, named Stamshaw, who was apprenticed to the Stevens, went to Mr Chaplin, and confessed that he had been pulling horses all over the country by the orders of bis masters, but more especially blamed T Stevens, junior. Mr Chaplin, Lord Falmouth, and Lord Calthorpe (for Admiral Rous), diligently inquired into all the circumstances of the case, and gave their decision: that the gravest suspicion attaches to Stevens, sen., and \V. G. Stevens, and as to T. Stevens, juu., they had no other alternative excep4 to inflot th e severest penalties in their power. They therefore decided that T. Stevens jun., be warned off Newmarket Heath, and that no horses hia or nominated or trained by him, or in any way under his care, joint care > or superintendence, be allowed to run for any race, at any meeting where the rules of racing as established at Newmarket are in force. Mr T. Stevens, jun., has written to the papers affirming his innocence, and asks the public to suspend judgment until his case is decided in a Court of law, where he intends to bring it at the earliest possible moment Ireland seems to be winning all the best Hurdle Races and Steeplechases at Home this year, Clonmel having won the Grand National Handicap Hurdle Race, ami the Gteat Metropofftan Dteepiechase of 25 so vs each, and LBQO added.