THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 69, 11 July 1876, Page 3

THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.

(fh irne pn.fi^r.) Tlio first great gathering of tin; year at huful-iiaiutars has passed (.If with about L u3u:U amount of excitement p.H-liafM little than move—and it* iwmvll " V v,'l The Guineas has been a pmvok|V iliiliontt race this* year to handle. I i«iki!*l 'U" ,u throughout the wmtvr a* bout tin: greatest certainty f»»c Petrarch ' . known, it became when that horse M.med a* iis " ,ifc of iC ' a l: ' m " Lion in " which backers and analysts Liiilyw-niflit fop a dll °- When *»»»«* ' »«iUto-xtsfch-r." as the phrase goes, then ncarlv cv. rything that « « to nm has hwi*" i""l r »e»n beaten by everythintf «!«<'• VV(: a »t ' ftn d.' individnat fancies becofti© ottr titles. " Tii'-' book " telb os nothing, L fch'J form of "no week is upset by that ( ,ffcliu followiti" one, so we are perforce i!(i.iipt'llt:d to li»te» *> rumors of how 'l, t( x in horse has improved ami that one nmu back, and do the best our judgment tolls "M. been the state of thin its this How Kaleidoscope had batten Father Claret and been twice BHiitan by him : how the 'second favofifty (\r£fc:Jlfc hiict bo Gill ttcEcifcliQw ©BE jiiul'i occasion that he has run, and how jharon, Julius Ciusar, King Death,. Coltluss, Ac., ran in the fashion that is called ' in' and out " h;is already been shown, ud need not now be repeated. When 'otrarch changed hands for the targe sunt f £.1:2,000 some two months since, the renlt was to send hitn back in the Two Ihousand market, a belief being then jetty generally expressed that his new wner wottld seek to win the_ race with a owe already ftis profxerty—Krffeidoscope. 'etrarch, however, recovered his position, D lose it again a few weeks ago, on being ioppml in his work while his " trial w in ia Craven week appeared to have cffecinlly settled his chance. On May 2, waver, Lord Dupplin backed both his urges, taking 1,500 to 500 about Kateidoiope, and 2,000 to 100 about Petrarch, reaction then set iu in the quondam vourite's favour, and people began to y that as he won the Middle Park Plate lien only half tit, why should he not win 0 Guineas in similar circumstances i' lien eun in the paddock, too, he 9ketl so- immeasurably superior to anying- there—the very b«<tu idt.td of a firstracehorse—that there was something iv rush to get on him, though by the ijority his chance was still condemned, Iho started at 100 to ft ; while Kaleiicope was a hot favourite at 3 to J. era was a slight delay at the post, and )or two breaks away, but Mr.Ui'Oeorge ipped his Sag to a good start", CamemItand Julius Csesar being the first to ivr, but they had not gone far before tench, in the centre of the course, took the rnrmtOiC, pulling Lttke out of the Eo, and it may with truth be said that ,viw uotlxitv,-; <»fse in the race front

I mini. < tUcw ami Father Claret were tho t'u-Ht two beaten, anel at the an &«•> fjri'vitj wad evidently in lc. It. .(iit .Fttlitts Cresacgo on rsuit i'f Pwtoiihv who had not even <wkmi bo gallop, and one of thy easiest ever seen for m Two. Thousand was tied ra Petrarch's favour by three ha—a great performance and a very horse. As he won the Middle Park so he has won the Two Thotisand, 11 a manner that wo ale I seem to show totby a mere question of health for Du'ticUy they passed the post the »rinn voice of a leading bookmaker heard: offering !f r OOO to 1,000 against for the Epsom met', and we believe pvicu uouUl vint be obtained soon after-