THE BOROUGH SWEEP.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1854, 10 September 1874, Page 3

THE BOROUGH SWEEP.

I was lately accosted by a friend with "I say, old fellow, you are having a pretty good innings out of this race. The Star says you get £10 each from Eowe and Anthony for writing them up, and J suppose Kenfian is good for 20 more, the 'Tiser another 10; and I suppose the contributions from other friends will make it up to a cool hundred." (Very like a whale.) " Why they might have bought the Star, body and soul, for half the money," I replied; "yes, and even less than that; half a pound ofMcGowan'sbutterwillgrease the dog-Star's throat any day." Asa general; rule I am quite indifferent about what Star cur' Jf uek,' or any other dog says about me, so long as it is not true. (It is the truth that kills; it is the rod I use in the public service); but in this case I am (for obvious reasons) particularly: anxious that the statement should be correct, and hope the gentleman alluded to will make the Star in the right for' once in its life; they might not have the same chance again. Although the Go II vernment have subsidised that paper (P) I with an ass-suiance agency—the exact | term of its life is extremely problematical—l don't know how suicides fara in the Government Insurance Office, but 1 believe they get a bonus in the Mutual Provident. But we are losing sight of the race. All the brokers are laying it on thick on the double event. Kowe's horse first, the Doctor's last. I said all the brokers. Twinkling Star snarls there is only one broker, and IViuk is his prophet. Let tliera sing his praises from the gutter to the skies, as loud and long as they please, but let the Twiukler refrain from insulting the others, who are brokers de facto, if not do jure. It is mean and cowardly for him to do so, Well, the brokers, one and all, will bo at the sport, and have given permission for " Kunboy" to give them the tip, which he has forwarded to rne as follows:—

The entries areMr William Rowe's b h Centralist, by Provincialism, out of Policy, ridden by Ambition j Mr Arthur Anthony's b h Useful, by Roadster, out of Experience, ridden by Common Sense 2 Mr Quinlivan'a ch h Dandy Dick, by Chance out of Dame Fortune, ridden by Vanity - 3 Mr Duncan Macnab's Man of Straw, by Kirkdoor, out of Self-conceit, ridden by Fatuity 4 Mr William Carpenter's Vegetable Marrow, by Water Melon, out of Fecundity', ridden by Arrogance . 5 Dr. Kilgonr's Self-esteem, byDryboues, oat of Meanness, ridden by Pomposity . 6 The show of candidates on this occasion is not quite so interesting as the last. The performers in the last race have disappeared from the public gaze, with the exception of Mr Sam Young's "Old Sport." Ho ran well last April for a borough sweep, but it proved too much for him, and ho broke down, having sprained his back sinews, and he has been put through a course of firing and blistering by a well-known professor of the veterinary art. .Tho treatment is likely to be successful, and ho will be stabled at the Queen's shortly, where I hope his tendons will recover their wonted elasticity and ho will get into prime, condition onco more. Howe's Ccutralist is the favourite for first place in to-day's race, and, bar accidents, ought to win in a canter. His owner is the only real sporting, publicspirited man we have. Ho is always game to build a church or dedicate a stock exchange, stand treat to the theatre for the whole risiug generation of the Thames, or slate a parson. When he bundled a rev. gentleman out of the Hospital Committee chair I thought he was carrying radicalism a little too far, but from what we have seen lately, I think it would be quite as well if another of the cloth was put to the right about. Anthony's " Useful," although not so strong in the wind as some of his antagonists, has better bottom. He is just cut out to make good work on a bad road, aa somo of his performances in Dunedin and elsewhere will prove. Ho knows his work. Ho is not a pitchor, but will run game as a pebble. Book him as safo. The horse I have spotted for third place is in very bad hands, being trained by his owner, who fancies his condition good enough to win without the usual course of preparation, I have somo

doubts about it; but as he carries the raining interest on his back, I pin my faith on it pulling him through iu spite of bad management. All who have the mining interest at heart must back him and trust to his luck. The horse that will push hardest for third place is Mr Duncan Mc.N T ab's. There is nothing in the animal himself, neither good, bad, or indifferent. His trainers are old hands, and it will not be their fault if the " man of straw " does not pull through. Next on tho " roll of fame" is Mr Carpenter's Vegetable. The progenitors of this stock wero much in favour in tho ancient days —at Jerusalem especially. They were a much better looking breed in those days, and «ere called Edward. According to the oldest stud book extant, in tho time of Balaam they were endowed with the gift of speech, but since they have taken to cropping bucli garbage as nettles and thistles they havejvery much degenerated; their ears have lengthened considerably, and their appendage has become a mere pigtail, their well-toned .voice has become a discordant bray — they are now called Neddie. No member of this family., was,, ever.,.known to win with his owner on. his back, and nstwithslanding his having a..very .good pointer for trainer he is a lost moke.. Tho Doctor's ."elf-esteem came down in atrial canter, and broke his neck. They held a coroner's inquest on the carcase, and ordered it to be cut up into junk and salted.

That's tho tip; don't forget to bade

A. E. K. A Pabty by the iiamg of Johnson.