ENGLISH SPORTING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2338, 30 September 1881, Page 4

ENGLISH SPORTING.

The English sporting correspondent of the Melbourne “ Loader ” thus writes of the Goodwood meeting : . , I now tackle Goodwood—ones glorious and still glittering, but with more of Dutch metal than gold about its lustre. Goodwood is certainly not the Goodwood of yore, with the Oup and Stakes shorn of their attractions. For days and days have market manipulations and King Scratch been working hand in hand, and it really appeared at one time as if npne would bo left in the land of the living. O wnera seem bent on imitating the Elizabethan dramatists of old, who killed to many of their characters that they scarcely left sufficient alive to carry off the dead bodies. Omy fanov Goodwood without a race for the Oup and a walk-over for the Stakes. Yet at one time both seemed imminent. Bend Or and Robert the Devil both scratched, and still continuing to do good work at home. What does that indicate ? Eor the Stakes the pen going through the names of favourite after favourite, like a train through a tunnel. Reveller, Incendiary, Windsor, Edelweiss, Zealot, &c., what of them and their poor infatuated backers? Make hay while the sun shines, you gentlemen who pull the strings, for yenr game cannot last long, and the bolder you become the sooner it will be at an end. It is all nonsense to speak of hard ground and dry influenza. They have caused the elimination of one or two, but that is no reason why they should be made responsible for twenty or thirty. Aye, on the eve of the once famous carnival, the prospects of Goodwood in the present year of grace did not seem particularly promising. Yot two days’ racing have come and gone, and strange to say (with the exception of the Stakes), Goodwood has been up to the average of former years. Such a state of affairs was as pleasing as unexpected, and I verily believe Goodwood would still be Goodwood wore donkeys to take the place of thoroughbreds. The Prince and Princess of Wales were present, and it is only a pity that royal weather did not accompany them. I shall only cursorily allude to the events of the two first days, deferring a critical review of the meeting till my next communication. The Stakes was jrun in a blinding storm. Exeter, a hot favorite, was never dangerous, and Brown Bess, the Metropolitan winner, and reported scratched, won very oleverly from six opponents. The Two-Tear-Old Richmond Stakes was well worthy of a day’s journey to see. The July Stokes celebrities, Eermesse, St. Marguerite and Dutch Oven, had the finish to themselves —and such a finish—the last named winning by a short bead, while the other two wore a dead heat for second. Archer rode _ the winner, who has gone on improving since, figuring behind the ditch, but I fear she will never turn out a Falmouth diamond of the first water. On the second day the Steward’s Oup was the chief contest, and a rare gambling sprint it proved. One of the favorites got second, but first and third places were occupied by two comparative outsiders. Mazurka first, Moooolo second and Boysterer third. The bookmakers had the best of it, as they had in the majority of the other races during the day. A number of important meetings have been held since the arrival of the last mail. At Birmingham the Midsummer Welter Handicap of 500 sots was won by Dreamland, by Doncaster, out of Fairy Land, The Groat .Lancashire Yearling Stakes of 1000 eovs was won by Lord Falmouth’s brown filly Dutch Oven, by Dutch Skater, out of Oantiniere, This filly, as will be seen above, won the July stakes at Goodwood. Her younger brother has been called The Tinman, after Fred, Archer, the jockey. Talking of Archer, I see by the English files that he has been credited with an extraordinary number of wins. The Liverpool Oup of 1000 sove was won by the four-year-old colt Dominic, by the Palmer, out of .Kilbride, Dreamland, mentioned above, being second. A three-year-old filly Musketry, by Musket, dam by Young Melbourne, won a Selling Welter Handicap at the Great Yarmouth meeting. Beaudesort is in the private sale list, and advertised as a stud horse. Bertram, the sire of Robert the Devil, is to be let for next season. The nominations for the Derby and Oaks of 1883 are published in the “Sportsman.” The average number is well maintained, as will be seen from the following 1881. 1882. 1883. Derby 247 210 242 Oaks 185 159 163

Fred, Webb is about to start as a Newmarket trainer—the right man in the right place. William Brown, the well-known American trainer, is dead. Originally he visited England in charge of Mr Ten Broeok’s horses, but subsequently had Parole, Wallenstein and others under his care ; he also brought out Iroquois when he won the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket. Brown believed in training by the “ watch,” and amongst his pals was familiarly known as the “ Watchdog.” The Great Kingston Two-year Plate of 500 sovs at the Sandown Park meeting was won by Mr J. Jackson’s filly Isabean, by Ooernliua out of Isabel.

Bomria Boon (4 yrs.), by Adventurer out of Bonnie Leith, the winner of the Great Newton Oup and Northumberland Plate, broke his off hind leg while at exercise, and was subsequently shot. A two-yoar-old brother to Bond Or, Garb Or, was shot at Eussley recently, th e oolt haying been found useless for rasing pur' poses. The Duke of Westminster has now given the name of Garb Or to a foal by Doncaster out of Kouge Ease, another brother of tha famous Derby winner. Lord Falmouth has presented the following horses to F. Archer: Filly (2 yrs) by Queen’s Messenger out of Mavis, and yearling oolt by Skylark, Andred, or Queen’s Messenger out of Hurricane; yearling filly by Oremorne out of Atlantis ; and yearling oolt by Oremorne out of Kitty Sprightly. The two yearling oolts have been added to the list.

Recently, by the National Line steamer Erin, which sailed from New York with a full complement of passengers, Mr Pierre Lorillard despatched another consignment of American bred horses to join his racing stable at Newmarket. The lot comprised a throe-year-old filly, Aranza, by Bonnie Scotland out of Arizona ; a couple of two-year-olds named respectively Gerald, by Saxon out Girl of the Period, and Saohem, by War Dance out of Sly Boots, and a number of good looking yearlings aa follows : —Fillies : Touch Me Not, by Great Tom out of Woodbine ; Winonah, by Gienlyn out of Pussy ; and Clare, by Glenlyon out of Fanny Ludlow. Colts : Ma*sasait. by Glenlyon out of Marie Miohon j Winniebago, by Glenlyon out of Opponent j and Oamanohe, by Virgil or Glenlyon out of China.