RACING IN ENGLAND.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2105, 22 November 1880, Page 3

RACING IN ENGLAND.

From Home papers to hand by the last mail we have particulars of the Doncaster meeting, and a full account of the LogerFifteen started for this event, Bend Or keeping his pride;of place in the betting up to the last. It would seem that he was unable to stay the longer distance, and Robert the Devil won pretty easily. The Great Yorkshire Handicap fell to the lucky Mr_ Jardine, whose popular blue and silver were first past the post on Reveller, a four-year-old by Brown Bread. In the rich Yorkshire Champagne Stakes Lord Falmouth was again to the fore with that sterling good filly Bal Gal, At the usual sales at Doncaster, prices seem to have been rather better than usual. Royal Blue, a colt by Blue Gown, brought 800 guineas ; a colt by Albert Victor 1150 guineas ; and three yearlings by Brown Bread, 2000,1800 and 700 guineas respectively. Many of the Sterlings brought very satisfactory prices, Transition, by that sire, fetching 1150 guineas. Old Apology, in foal to Wild Oats, was bought by Mr Vyner for 3200 guineas.

Mr Wright’s Blue Gown colt, out of Fairy Queen, was, I see, sold privately for 1300 guineas. “This youngster,” says “Bell’s Life,” •• took the fancy of some of the best judges. He is a very lengthy colt, of fine size and substance, and it would be hard to pick a fault in him.” This should be pleasing to the owner of Russley, as Fairy Queen is own sister to Titania, both being by Orest, out of Queen Mab.

At the time of the mail leaving, it would appear that a very great amount of interest is being taken in aquatics. Big sculling matches seem to be the order of the day, and, in reference to the £IOOO prize given by the Hop Bitters Company, to be rowed for on November 22nd, the “ Sportsman ” gives the following list of competitors : —“Edward Hanlan, Toronto ; Edward Trickott, Sydney, N.S.W.; Elias O. Layoock, Sydney, N.B.W. ; William Elliott, Blvth ; John Higgins, White Hart, High street, Shadwell; Thomas Blackman, Putney ; Joseph Cannon, Kingston-on-Thames ; William Nicholson, Stockton-on-Tees ; John Hawdon, Delaval: Joseph Kempster. Sunderland ; George Tarryer, Bermondsey; Henry Olasper, Wandsworth; John Anderson, Hammersmith. Fred Archer went to the Aquarium to see the “ Ourang ” the other night. “How would you like to take that customer on in a close finish ? ” inquired a pal, “ I should let him have the inside berth on the rails all to himself ; what do you think ? ” replied the Tinman.

St, Louis, by Hermit out of Lady Andley, who cost two thousand two hundred guineas at Mr Cookson’s sale last year, is not unlikely to prove the champion two-year-old of the season. He has never yet appeared in public and although far from fit, was likely to carry Mr Orawfurd’s scarlet jacket in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, Mr Oortis, the English bicyclist, has again eclipsed all previous performances, either amateur or professional, at ten miles. He recently boat the best previous amateur record by 504-5 sec., and the best professional time by 12 sec.

The London “Sportsman’s ” correspondent at Newcastle, in commenting on the Australian oarsmen, Trickett and Layoock, adds—- “ Even after making all allowances for the strange boat and sculls, the display by Trickett and Layoock, the Australian oarsmen, on the Tyne, has been disappointing to the general body of spectators. We heard an offer of SSO that Edward Hanlan will take the lead in the first 100 yards. Elliott has gone into strong training for the international regatta on the Thames and ordered a new boat.”

Mr P. Lorillard offered the Messrs Dwyer Bros, £SOOO for their three-year-old colt Luke Blackburn, by Bonnie Scotland out of Nevada, after his victory in the Champion Stakes at Monmouth Park. Had the bid been accepted Mr Lorillard would have sent the colt to England. A Big Teot.—At the Charlotte, Mich., Driving Park, on the 18th ult,, in the trot for the 3,15 class, purse 300 dol., there were nineteen starters. The race was decided in six heats, the best time made being 2.35. Ten of the nineteen lived out the six heats, five trotted five heats, one, four heats, two three heats, and one distanced in the second heat. The slowest heat was trotted in 2.41 f. The race was won by Mr George Hossack’a bay mare Ida. Taken altogether, this is pro* bably the most remarkable trotting event in the annals of the trotting turf. Mr J. B. Warburton, the well-known long distance runner, has accomplished with ease the task he set himself of running twenty miles under two hours. The distance was actually performed in 1 hour 58min. and 38sec,, which is the quickest on record.

RUNNING IWO-YEAR-OLDS.

Attention is again being called to the running of two-year-olds, anent which the “ Sporting Life ” has the following:—“Sir Joseph Hawley’s lectures of six or seven years ago on the subject of two-year-old racing are again receiving attention, and are being loudly eulogised by a largo and influential section of the British press. At the time they were written the worthy baronet was blamed in that he did not practice what he preached, but had (almost in the preceding season) worked Blue Gown as a two-year-old as hard as any other two-year-old of the season, and had yet won the Derby with him the next year. The reforms proposed were that no two-year-old was to run before July Ist; that no two-year-old was to run for a handicap ; and that the Jockey Club was to give no money from its funds towards two-year-old racing, even for races run after July Ist; that, in fact, all two-year-old races were to be sweepstakes, which owners might, if they liked, arrange among themselves to run after July Ist. These ideas were not carried out, although at the time they had some little effect, for the club passed a rule that no two-year-olds should start before May. has since been repealed, and two-year-olds may be run at the Lincoln Spring Meeting, which is held the second week in March. There can be no shadow of a doubt that in a cold bleak climate like that with which Great Britain is favored, the running of two-year-olds thus early cannot but do them great injury. The last two winters have seen during December and January the ground like iron, and yet untrained youngsters will meet in battle array the first fortnight in March. The leading event at Lincoln Spring Meeting for two-year-olds is the Brookleeby Stakes. This is generally worth £BOO, and last year, after a winter in which frost lasted absolutely almost up to the day fixed for its decision, it was yet contested by no leas than sixteen two-year-olds. The French two year-old Coquette won, and this was doubtless from the advantage which a milder climate had given him, for he started four times afterwards and could not repeat his success. The same remarks would nearly apply to second, third, and fourth ; as far as their subsequent victories go they won nothing of any note. There can be little doubt, then, that early two-year-old racing is most detrimental to the breeding of horses, and more particularly is it so in climates where the winters are so severe. It is probably owing to the severity of the present English winters that the question is being so much taken up and commented on, and however hard the weather may be to bear, there is some consolation in the thought that it may perhaps have the effect of bringing the Jockey Club to cope with the great and ever-increasing evil.