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THE FIELD 
owiirv’ knowledge. The Leamington Stakes have some on 
subscribers, and Mr. Merry will lmvo to indulge in h brown 
Study "f no ordinary duration, before bo decides upon the 
hamper which Nancy is to carry. Wo ohservo flint she also 
forms one out of the thirty-six in tho Wolverhampton Stake* 
llolpla Inis the care of her now, hut when wo sco onimnl- 
l.t-pl i.ack till August and September, we goncrally concludi 
Hint they enter stakes merely to pay forfeit, ill ordrr to meet 
with more pity from “ Th«“ Admiral*’ when lie tenches up 
the 1 1 . ujh choi'ls of the CefurewitcTi and CntnOH'lgC'diiit' 
wvi-.ht-. We observe that Angelo, who was n tremendous 
favourite for the former of these stakes Inst year, has been 
proving himself quite a d in among tho " sand-fin ker*’’ at 
Snath Sliodds race*. Sweetheart, too, win won the .Inly 
Stakes in 181!), in a stylo quite equal to tho Flying Dutch- 
man the year before, and was made a prime Derby favourite 
on the strength of it, ha* nlso been winning tins Hunters 
Sink, sat Lenhnin ; wliil- Wingoimnd.nonco hea\ ily-eiigngcd 
brother io War Euglo, lin* been beaten nt Redditch. It is 
curious tb note these vicissitudes among “ terribly high-bred 
eattl -,” ail written in the racing records of Inst week alone. 
As vet no great price has born reached for ycurltngs this 
season", although the Royal Paddocks. sale next Monday may 
gi \0 a fillip to such speculations. Owing tocasualtie-, only 14 
of them come to the hummer. LoTd Islington has, we see 
lost his foal by Flying Dutchman out of Bine Bonnet. Hi* 
lordship’s unlucky si nr seems in the ascendant, ns, to balance 
Barbelle’s gooil fortune this year with her young Zuyder 
Zee by Orlando, lie lost a Bocswing filly by Touchstone Ift-t 
year, imd i Beeswing colt by Flying Dutchman thi- ; so lliut 
Iris St. Leger and Derby chances in 1857 are sadly 
diminished. The Blue Bonnet foal was already engaged 
in the Ilom Stake?, Convivial Stakes, and Great Lancashire 
Produce Stake*. Mr. Payne isanotlior of the unlucky ones 
in these matters, os he seems to lose a fine foal or yearling 
every sc i*um 
Stock well, Sittingboiirne, and Andover, thrre of the mo?t 
marke I horses of the 1852-54 seasons, arc all in a poor 
plight ot present. The former pulled up so lame after his 
gaih-p on Saturday, that Mr. Field Whs immediately tele- 
graphed for, and gave his opinion so decidedly that his Ascot 
fate was ul once sealed. They seem, however, to entertain 
some liopos of bringing him to Goodwood. Sittingboiirne 
is ulso quite lame, und, in fact, pulled up in that state after 
the Port Stake*; while Andover is said to have thrown a 
couplo of curbs, which make his re-nppoarancc this year 
most doubtful. The Days may well chuckle at their good 
furl uno iii getting him so comfortably over the great Epsom 
oveut. Allied Day will, we hear, vide Dervish for tho St. 
Leger. John Scott and lus party ure as fond us ever again 
of him, and Frank Butler’s trusty friend Acrobat is once 
more utterly in the shade. It seems that they borrowed 
Defiance laft Thursday week, and gave Dervish a trial with 
him over the Derby course. They aver that Dervish showed 
fn something like lBlbs.nhovo his Derby form, and that lie 
" ought to have come in alono for that race.” The betting 
on Monday shows pretty clearly that they believe what they 
sav. Whether he was frightened at the crowd, or whether 
he wouldn’t stay, or both, tho public cannot forget his exhi- 
bition there; ami we believe that they may, with most per- 
fect safety, stick to the good old maxim, that one good trial 
Sn public is worth fifty in private; and laugh to scorn all 
these Lcatlierhead hallucinations. Tile fact that the St. 
Leger course i> 572 yards longer tliun the Derby will 
make their antagonism all the safer. He is not un- 
like his kinsman, Honeycomb, who was always going po- 
sitively to do something tremendous In his very next race, 
and a pretty expensive bargain he proved to the Clifdcn 
stahl o in consequence. 
As regards Derby two-year olds, the well known 
Juvenal line — 
“Gikeculcs Eiktriens In coelum, jnsscrls, iblt,” 
may now be freely rendered — “At John Scott's bidding, 
TUI* HUNGRY I.ITTLK GREEK BOV will gO aloft ” ill the 
betting at Tattersall’s. It lias oozed out, or at least there 
is every reason to believe, that this son of Epirus and 
Flapper can make a fool of Bonnie Morn in his gallops, 
although the present stable office is said to be, “ back both 
of them.” It is really to be hoped that the favourite will 
have some less heathenish name before the winter, or else 
the ring will make as great a hash of it as tiny did of “ II 
Penseroso," which was transmuted into “ BUI Spencer 
the Grocer," and “ La Fille mal Garde'e,” which soon 
became “The Feminine Guard.” Mr. Bowes must have 
seen him show a more than usual hungry affection for the 
good things which that father of stud grooms, Isaac 
Walker, prepares for the young things at Streatlam Castle, 
or he would hardly have given him such a name. He lias 
21 engagements, and is likely to make his maiden bow 
in the Stockbridge Triennial, or Bentinck Memorial, in 
each of which he lias dibs, allowed. Bonnie Morn is under 
fifteen hands, and hardly so lengthy as his half-brother, 
Daniel O'ltourke, It is not a little odd that Chanticleer 
gets all his stock so small, as he was certainly above 
sixteen hands himself, and with a back broad enough to 
carry the leading heavy weight jockeys en masse. 
However, there is no golden rnlo by which to select a 
Derby or St Leger winner, as it is a" fact, that the great 
Voltigeur himself was swapped away when a yearling by 
his breeder, Mr. Stephenson, for £40 worth of oats ! ! 
This week has been also honoured with the re-appear- 
ance of West Australian, who seems to have grown about 
an inch since last season, and can be very little if any 
short of sixteen hands. He has, moreover, thickened con- 
siderably-; but his exercise has been perpetually inter- 
rupted by the dry weather, and lienee John Scott was far 
from comfortable about him, notwithstanding the poorness 
of the field lie had to meet. It was quite evident, both 
before and after the race, that he had not been “ wound 
u])” lor it, and that a second class foe in form might have 
sorely teazed him. We believe that Lord Londesborough 
renewed his £5,000 offer for him just before Epsom, and 
Mr. Bowes accepted it. Ilis lordship's old jockey, 
Templeman, was to have ridden him, but his knee was so 
stiff after his tumble oft’ Marley Ilill, that he was unable 
to do so, and we did not see him on the course at all. We 
should fancy he will go to Goodwood for the 300 sovs 
Stakes, if possible, but that they will run no risk of hav- 
ing Inin beaten, as his lordship wishes him to go to the stud 
at Grimston, without any more blemishes on his escutcheon 
Ilfjhpihi* tiow nearly forgotten Criterion defeat. Frank 
‘Boiler wftx not present to see his old favourite perform, 
*’ e to hear that he is not quite so well again 
MO'-ohe retwijvl home from Epsom. 
-NaWcasth*, 7 vit, ‘ ,t - fifteen races aud its nearly £000 of 
*aatu jnoiiey,: jfrgsents a very fair broad-sheet. Mcteora, 
to the best of our belief, just escapes the 5 lb. penalty »n 
ihe Northern Derby, as her highest winning la just (to use 
i yuff calculation) £7 below £500. We should fancy the 
distance too for for her and Neville, and should not Wonder 
to see Arriba s beat both of them. Lord Alfred (2 lbs. 
extra) is the best public name in the Tyro, but we are 
told that Saraband has not done all he knows yet. Roe- 
buck is very lightly weighted in the Free Handicap; and 
the eternal Lord Alfred lias no name of note against him 
in the Grand Stand Stakes, though we did not dislike 
Gamekeeper’s form at Doncaster. Orange Blososin and 
Sister of Morey have shown some running this year, anil 
perhaps the latter may heat Midsummer in the Gateshead 
Slakes, and we fancy* in spite of the Manchester line, that 
she w ill last the longest of the two. If Granediot s temper 
w ill only hold out, he ought, not to he far oft’ the Northum- 
berland’ Plate. Still, we do not fancy that Newcastle is a 
course over which weight tells very severely, and hence 
I vpee, with her (lib. penalty, and Kingston, ought to run 
wonderfully well. Till Ascot, however, is quite over 
speculation on these events must be necessarily some- 
what vague. 
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASCOT, 
•• There tramps tho merry gipsy, with her eye of lustrous black, 
While her nutbrown baby slumbereth ’mlct the red foldsat her back; 
She mutters vCual horoscopes, like a sibyl, at comimuul, 
Tells each fair wight of her loving knight, by the blue veins in her 
Jiahd." 
THE VASE DAY. 
Those of the Ascot-bound who had not held communion 
with the Court Newsman, before leaving London, had Llioir 
loyal liopos completely blighted, when they espied that no 
standard waved over the keep of Windsor Castle. Still, 
though the fuct, that Jut Majesty w'ould not do honour to 
the Vase day, must have been pretty well known, the morn- 
ing was so full of promise as to weather that tho attendance 
was not far below the general average. Unluckily, the vain 
came down with but little intermission, from eleven to half 
past one, and then shower and sunshine took it turn about 
till lute in the afternoon. The card presented a list of s von 
events, beginning with tho Trial Stukes, which brought out 
a larger field than it usually does. That eternal coupio of 
antagonists, Orinoco and Filbert, cantered down together to 
the starting post ; the latter looking sleepy as usual, but 
perhaps brighter and firmer than wo have ever scon him, 
while tho former was hardly so clear in the eoat ns he lia-i 
been this year. Snowdon Dunhill is wonderfully 
thickened and improved, but lie looked if anything ejightly 
lusty. YVelhom is slight, hut has an exceedingly pretty 
forehand, and not a very good hack; while Joe Miller 
wemed decidedly stale. Miami filly was rather odd in 
die loir.s; and Paxton wore quite u riding-horse air, 
and bandages on both his front legs. Crosslanes 
was a trifle short in the barrel and plain about 
the head, but remarkably well ribbed up, and flitid for 
tier work. The course was a quarter of u milo too long 
for Orinoco, and too much on tho ascent to suit his weak 
quarters; and Snowdon Dunhill seemed to turn sulky when 
Oates called on him. The Welcome Stakes brought out 
Bribery, who was in a very skittish humour, and looked 
some pounds better than she did on the Oaks day. The pre- 
sence of Paxton in his sheets seemed to soothe Iter a little, 
•md after some trouble she allowed Nat to mount. Malmsey 
went very fairly, hut sho is merely a limiting mare to look at, 
ind walks very wide behind. Weathercock is a good-sized, 
long-necked animal, and reminds us generally of Cnceus; 
but though Rogers made a good rally on him from the dis- 
tance, he could never overhaul the chestnut, who cut uiit 
tho running very strong, soon after she loft tho poit. In 
the 50 bovs stakes, Lord Eglinton quite paid off“ The Con- 
federates” for defeating ins Lamproclcs with Boer, at tho 
lust meeting, as lie hud their Gerald in grief ut the dis- 
tance. At the corner of tho stand, Namur (who is small ami 
not much to look at) seemed to lie winning, but Alfred Day 
soon changed hands to get at his whip, aud without avail, a> 
Coroebus reached his head some 50 yards from lioino, and 
strode in first, without an effort. Tho winner is a great big- 
jninted animal, rather shabby in the quarters, but still very 
racing iu many of his points. It was his second appearance 
this year, his maiden essay at Catterick having been most 
unfortunate. 
It soon transpired that the Cup was virtually reduced to 
a match between Hermit and Rataplan, and speculation was 
very rife as to the style in which each party would try to 
run the race. Rataplan looked as dull about the head, and 
big in the barrel, as he always does; aud to judge from his 
tine, glossy cout, no one would have suspected that lie has 
been travelling about everywhere, between the banks of tho 
Thames and the Firth of the Forth, for full four months. 
Asa working phenomenon of the sporting world, lie ought 
to go down to posterity along with Lord Sefton’s celebrated 
black dog Sackcloth. Hermit, about whose chance Dane- 
bury was very confident., was also in full bloom, but the 
general impression seemed to bo that he was not suited 
to such a severe coiit-s'e, und that as Rataplan hud made 
such light of 9st Bibs in the Manchester Cap, fie would he 
cut down although he had 31bs tho best of ft at weights for 
age. We fully anticipated that (as Charlton did in Leopold*.' 
year) Wells would have gone in front* and endeavoured 
“to stop the pace,” but that Nut would have forced it in 
spite of him from the Swinley post, and trusted %o his chest- 
nut’s well-known bottom to bring him through. However, it 
was settled tliut he was to wait, and run him for speed, und 
as Wells’s orders were of course identical, tho two quietly 
walked off as soon as tho flag was down, and pertina- 
ciously trotted about five miles an hour, tor upwards 
of a mile, amidst u shower of Berkshire plons.inti ics 
us they passed the foot-people. Wells then shook his 
horse up, and eoon urging him to tho top of his stride, 
never gave Rataplan a chance of catching him again. The 
chestnut struggled hard to add a second vaso to his bedo 
roll of victories, but he is deficient in pace, as was seen when 
he was lashed alongside Orestes at Warwick, and u Two 
Thousand Guineas winner like Hermit will hear no trifling 
with in that respect. Nut looked Badly grim as ho returned 
to scale, uml wo are not altogether sure whether he or Mr. 
l’arr proposed to run tho race iu this way. Tho view whs 
iu the shupeof a beautiful silver flagon, with « hm-se group 
on the top, mid was a very pretty contrast to the dull oxi- 
dised silver a ft airs, that did duty last year. It could not 
have fallen into worthier hands than Mr. Gully V, but the 
Jockey Club must have been u littlechagrined that they had 
not u horse to do battle with the luckier commoners. 
1'he 31 left on the card for the Triennial cventuully sunk 
down to nine, and tho advent of the Bonnio Morn was 
looked to with the greatest anxiety. At first, we felt some- 
what disappointed, as lie had such a short pony look about 
him ; slil', without being so big, he is quite us compactly 
built as Autociut, and bus a plain Chanticleer head, and a 
very quiol temper. We li n o seldom seen a horse cut down 
the Ilill in such workmanlike style, and Templeman really 
won pulling double. Three months ago we warned our 
readers what on immemo favourite this colt was with 
John Sotitr, who ha' engaged him (for Mr. Bowes leaves all 
i hose in itn i - entirely n> him) In no less than 82 stakes. 
They compriso the July .Stake*, Newmarket Triennial* 
Hopeful Sinkts (31b extra), Criterion Stakes (31h extra)’ 
Bentinck Memorial Tilonniul, Stockbridge Triennial* 
Convivial Stake* (lib allowed). Champagno Stakes’ 
Doncaster Two-vom- old Stakes (41b extra), Derby, $t! 
Leger, and Great Yorkshire Stakes, 200 BOTs, Craven I H55 
Column (61b allowed), *2* )(>.» g«, St. Janies’* Palace Stakes’ 
300 sovs ut Goodwood 1850, Gateshead Lottery, Doncaster 
Stakes, und Knft'esmirfi Stuko'. Two such colls as Lord 
Allred and Bonnie Morn in Cbantielen’s ft nil season, will 
make him a trump card in the hands of tho Rawcliffa 
Paddock prnprier&is, uml we shall soon wee greys (tor his 
consorts seem to throw nothing else) sown broadcast over 
l he racing h< mi-pheir. O: his ui.ttigoni'G, Shoroliatn is one 
of the h st Sir Tuttons we have seen, and might be a fivc- 
year-oM ns fur as looks go ; while Tho Hind is rather small 
tliick-s i, and with u testy temper like her liulf sister Red 
Hind, who played such mud pranks here two years since. 
Katie Stewart whs a smart daughter of Conyngham, with 
cupil/il hiU-cliinhiiig quarters ; but Churmian was a very 
mild specimen of the Marble-hill blood. Hazel was a 
good-sized, slashing-looking horse ; and Joshua bore strong 
It aces of his “ Huy Anihy ” descent, and was a remarkably 
varmint-looking horse, with one of those tapering muzzles, 
which, like Tnilmor’s, could almost ** drink nut of a pewter 
pot.” Those who expected to sou Dirk Iiuttcrick were sadly 
disappointed, ns Arthur Briggs pulled Corcehus out again. 
Out of u wretched acceptance for Hie Ascot Stakes, a 
capital field, in poiLt of numbers and calibre, made its 
appearance at the post. Rneknpelt looked very bright and 
firm, but he was qhi c nverpneed from tlm start. Sweetness 
was pretty to a degree, but rather lusty; and Ilex was 
quite below his N •riiinmptiui form, and seemed as if he had 
been “off.”. Bracken hud nlso ruthor wasted, and seemed 
dull and very fidgetty ; und Elhelwo'f wus not the plump, 
healthy lmr-c ho was tv lion the Count squared liis dhows 
and got to Bmirton’s shoulder on him at Warwick. Hercules 
is a big and rath v flash animal ; and Veteran bus become 
a complete “ clothes-horse, ” with u perfectly hideous head. 
Gr&pcsiint never looked better, and seemed as if George 
Abdule had sent him merrily along since Iipsom ; while 
Kingston struck' us, If anything, us a little Too big. Veteran 
made the running exceedingly severe, but compounded near 
the Brick Kilns, and soon after that Uusluun moved his 
horse cautiously to the front. Opposite the Stand ho and 
Little Harry wero hard nt it m-xt the rails, and Grnpeshot was 
in the middle of the course, slightly. in advance, and running 
pretty kindly lor him. However, though ho struggled very 
well on, he had uocliHuce with Little H trry, who Imd fairly 
tired Kingston out The winner did not look very well to 
our eye, and not'in such nice form as lie did iu his tliree- 
year-old days. 
The Ascot Derby introduced the wo))d, for the first time, 
to West Ai.'struN ill’s otvn brother Mnrluy Ilill; and when we 
remember tint most. thorough specimen- (‘mi dug his legs) of 
an English rueoliorse that ever looked through u snaffle, ami 
Compared him with this plain, heavy-shouldered animal, 
with one bandage ’and one eye, it was difficult to believe 
that Melbourne and Mower! no could have' been the parents 
in each instance, lie made mutters still worse by In milling 
at the ronrl, dislodging Templeman, who stuck manfully to 
him in tho first edition of the stum'dc, and lumbering in 
alter every thing else. However, “ Simeon" was luckily no 
worse, and was able to walk to the stand without any aiil 
from Mr. Itndston Rend, who at once kindly hurried off 
from tho stand to succour a brother Yorkshircman. Tho 
brute is an old bund a f tumbling, as lie gave his lad a heavy 
fall at exercise in the winter. Bobby is a nice onimnl, bat 
has rather u suspicious oft' kneo ; ami Marble Hill has plenty 
of length and taring style about him, hut a weak sinew in 
the off foot, which, in spite of his bandage, completely failed 
him towards the finish. Brother to Suigupore is a great, 
lengthy creature, and seems to have gone into "local’’ 
hands, and, as is tlm I'u-hion with “ locals,” haft, of course, 
orders to ho in fiOnt some part of the wuy. Phaeton was 
a littlo self-willed, but looked remavkiWy bright und well, 
and i* ft mixture iu his make of Filbert, and Nutshell; 
hot it IS hui'd to say which IfC ts mast like. On I ho 
whole, tho day's sport was ft very (pVftmnt one, in spite of 
three very serious drawbacks, to wit^-Wfe •absence of royalty, 
the presence of wet, and tho sernffehi ngs for the Cup. 
THE HUMT CUP DAY. 
■*=■ the hrmters followed ftiVt, 
Nor pftrtscd till o'er tho stngtltcj- "blew 
A death-proclaiming blnst.” 
This day made ample amends for the down-pour on its 
predecessor, and was pretty nearly one gleam of snnshinc 
throughout. Consequently, there waft a fair average 
amount of compnny to discuss the well-filled seven-event 
card. The presence of Tour runners out of' eighteen made 
the Coronation Stakes a cool thousand for the winner, 
Mishap, who, although slightly built, gave her opponents a 
taste of her Venison blood, and, with a iittle touch of the spur 
to keep her at it, never let them head tier from -end to end. 
Sortie did not look so well ns the winner, — waft Fiaiidagcd on 
the near foot, and Imd, like Delia, a sadly tuckcd-up look. 
It is evident, that true to the fashion of her dam, she has 
a very chicken heart, which is very ill-served nt Ascot. 
The three ended ns they begun, Strutaway contenting her- 
self with a respectful rear-view throughout. Bessie, who 
seems a very springy, well-grown mare, then walked over 
for the Fernliill Stakes; but the Ions of n race was made 
up for by a dead heat in the noxt, owing, it was generally 
thought, to Charlton's not seeing Wells (who crept up oil 
the loft, dose under the judge’s chair) till too late in Ific day. 
John o' Bruges, Hie final winner, is a very fiigli-hved looking 
animal, but short and sadly too high on the leg; while 
Calamus, on the contrary, is low aud lengthy, and we do 
not at all wonder that Mr. Stanley was tempted into 
claiming him at Newmarket for GOO sovs., as although his 
head and forehand are plain and his hind legs very gaudy, 
ho looks useful to a degree, and has “ lots of liberty” > n 
his stride. His old stable companion, Rnby, was the 
centre of attraction, as Mr. Liley saddled him, and was 
scrutinized by nope more keenly than the Earl of Jersey, 
the whiloin owner of his great sire. He had quite lost 
