Day's stable for 400 guineas; and another yearling, The Grand Secret, by Teddington, for 300 guineas. Worcester has changed hands, at 71 guineas; and Tug of War has been sold, to go to Italy. Lord Zetland's Derby colt, Sharpshooter, has died of inflammation. Altogether a harmless settling has followed an uninteresting Leger, chiefly to be remembered for the extraordinary faith shown by the public towards so shifty a performer as Ellington. Had Lord Derby's horse kept well, he must have won ; as it was, John Scott again saved his favourite race with the least fancied of his stable-hence the comparative easiness with which accounts have been adjusted. A long list for the Derby still shows no great run on "anything particular.' The two now leading favourites, as vide Doncaster, are in stables which hitherto have seldom had that honour: Blink Bonny in I'Anson's, and Tournament in Drewitt's. The two next on our list date from Malton; while in addition to Schiedam, Mr. Howard promises to replace Goldfinch with the Laird Duff, who has often been enquired after at the price. It is not improbable, however, that the Goldfinch mistake may be explained. The party cannot take it as his true form. Up to this the Findon "lot" read better than anything. The Cesarewitch acceptances range from Mr. Sykes, 6 yrs., at 8st. 12lb., to the Alice colt, 3 yrs., at 5st. 1lb. The Cambridgeshire begins with Typee, 6 yrs., 9st. 5lb., and finishes with Eloquence, 3 yrs., at 4st. 121b. We give the latest betting on both-not as yet sufficiently ship-shape to work into a table. THE CESAREWITCH STAKES (run Oct. 14).-Latest Betting: 20 to 1 each against Middleton, 3 yrs., 5st. 11lb.; Fulbeck, 4 yrs., 7st. 8lb.; Alice Wentworth, 3 yrs., 6st. 3lb.; Polestar. 4 yrs., 8st. 2lb; Merlin, 3 yrs., 6st. 8lb.; and Homily, 4 yrs., 7st. 1lb. 25 to 1 each against Cerva, 3 yrs, 6st. 91b.; Falstaff, 3 yrs, 6st. 61b.; Mary, 4 yrs., 7st. 11lb.; and Cotswold, 3 yrs., 7st. 5lb. 30 to 1 against Peter Wilkins, 3 yrs., 5st. 81b. 33 to 1 against Quince, 5 yrs., 7st. 91b.; and 40 to 1 against Comedy, 3 yrs., 6st. 5lb. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES (run Oct. 28).-20 to 1 each against Poacher, 6 yrs., 6st. 12lb.; Polmoodie, 3 yrs,, 6st. 7lb., and Lance, 3 yrs., 7st. 9lb. 25 to 1 against Bessie, 4 yrs., 6st. 4lb.; and 33 to 1 against Vengeance, 4 yrs., 7st. 91b. THE ST. LEGER RACE; A BRIEF HISTORY.-BY REVELLER "OWNING A YACHT."- -BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX TURF REGISTER :--LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING-DOWNHAM -ISLE OF SHEPPEY CANTERBURY RIPON Y 18 T Shrewsbury Races 19 W Shrewsbury Steeple Chases r 7 282211 25 6 50 7 25 20 T Mid-Annandale Coursing Meetings 4 223 Morning. 7 55 8 35 THE OMNIBUS. "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBRIDGE HALL. After a somewhat dull interlude of a week, and the easiest of St. Leger settlements, the ring once more met under a fine clear sky at Newmarket. The Champagne running was quite overset in the Hopeful Stakes, which fell by a neck to the 600-guinea Ayacanora, while Lambourne, who had been a head in front of Vanity at Doncaster, gave her 6lbs. more, and beat her three lengths for second money. Sopp, in order, we conclude, to save the £3, was on Lambourne with nearly two stone of saddle and saddle-cloths, while Rogers and Job Marson watched the finish from their hacks. Owing to this parsimony, Alfred Day fairly rode Mr. Parr out of £500. Lambourne seems quite a Yellow Jack or Indian Warrior in his way, as he has now been six times second for races, amounting to £2,760. Blue Rock and The Poacher made the finest of finishes at 9lbs. for the three years in the Eastern Counties Handicap (will this continue to be given, now that the bold "Waddy" is gone?), and Pyrrhus the First once more reminded us of his existence in the Triennial, in the shape of Moestissima, who promises to be much better looking than her dam ever was. She is very powerful, and well-proportioned; and reminds us not a little of General Anson's Oaks winner, The Princess. His lordship has rare luck; it only seems yesterday since we were looking at Dusty Miller and this filly, as they stood within a few paces of old Phryne in the Cawston Paddocks, and now they are both winners; while Lady Hawthorne, too, who was hired for three years, purely out of love for Windhound, keeps up the charter of the white jacket, Kendall, who seems to have quite got his lordship's riding vice Whitehouse, rode the filly with his usual verve. Jessie, the Hampton-bred sister to Adine, was among the whippers-in; but her day has to come, whereas we fancy that Ayacanora has had hers. The latter received 3lbs. from The Chevalier, and beat him, with Wells up again, by a head; but as she was not persevered with at Goodwood, we cannot draw any comparison between the first and second encounters of these chesnuts. Sam Rogers kept Walmer, whose temper is sadly shifty, wide of his horses in the Grand Duke Michael; and as the Chatham blood can generally just get across the flat, he won a length. Homily then led Fandango a serious no mistake dance, over at least four miles of the Beacon Course; but nature could do no more in the last quarter of a mile, and even Fandango did not like his up-hill and down-dale work, which cannot have taken much more than eight-and-a-half minutes. The pace at which Kingston brought Teddington along, was a mere trifle to it. Fandango's saddling for a mere £50 plate next day caused not a little comment; but all the leg-weariness had disappeared with a night's rest, and he soon showed Winkfield over the D.I. that it would have been "all Walker" with his chance, if they had met at Ascot. Marson had the pleasantest of rides on Melissa, who fairly ran away from Pitapat and Aleppo, when the Abingdon Mile Bottom was once reached, and Job no doubt gave some sage advice when he found the form she was in, which effectually decided Lord Zetland not to meet her on the morrow, over the teazing 3 m. 4 fur. 182 yds. of the Round Course. Disappointed spectators pointed to the fact that the horse had 10lbs. the best of the weights as compared with Doncaster, and vaunted loudly of the thrashing the bay would get when they meet next year. We are anything but convinced that the result would have been in favour of the mare even on this day; but if he had been beaten, it would have been not very pleasant for Lord Zetland to have heard every one turning round, and saying that his horse was stale, and would infallibly have won but for his two other races. We trust his lordship will never be tempted into anything like a match, as Fandango would be obliged to make his own running; and in all our great matches, whether it be Priam and Lucetta, or Priam and Augustus, or Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur, or Charles XII. and Hyllus, or Teddington and Mountain Deer, the horse which makes the running infallibly "losses." The rule is so invariable, that it ought to be a stipulation in every notable match, that something should be allowed to make running. The greatest mistake in tactics that has been made this year, was the not keeping Melissa dark after her Epsom and Liverpool defeats, and getting her in at perhaps 7st. 4lbs. for the Cæsarewitch and Cambridgeshire. It is quite on the cards, seeing how good her speed and bottom are, that even with the 7lbs. penalty, she would have swept both. As it is, we must wait to see her and Fandango meet at 12lbs. in the Ascot Cup next year; and over that course, at all events, we should go for the horse. Fandango has won £3,380, and three cups, so far, in seventeen races, five of which have been walks over. Out of his nine defeats, he has finished second six times, twice to Rifleman, who was always 3lbs. better at anything from one mile to l miles. In fact, we doubt if any one year has ever produced two better horses than these bay rivals. "Fan stands barely fifteen-and-a-half hands, and has rare quarters and back, and ribs well hooped and deep, and with fair, but not great girth. His shoulders are a little upright and coarse, and his head is good, but not very expressive and bloodlike. Perhaps his best points are the knitting of his quarters into his ribs, and his great muscular development about those parts; the inside of his thighs and gaskins are immense, and his action so low to the ground, that he gives nothing away. He seems to steal along without an effort, which is, no doubt, the secret of his staying as he does. A picture of him, after Harry Hall, is likely to be out soon; and very beautiful it is, quite in the old style-nothing but the horse, with "Job" up, and a view of a course in the distance. But we are forgetting the First October, which also favoured us with a specimen of one of Alfred Day's best bits on the Bishop of Osnaburg, with Fordham on Inspiration as his antagonist. The General is quietly stealing onto the Heath again, with the "purple and orange cap,' and Lord Exeter (whose private railway will, we trust, soon be completed) gave us a winning taste of Norman on a young Nutwith in the Rutland Stakes. Chesterfield was not a great success, as the heats produced a regular |