ENGLISH RACING NEWS.

The Home sporting correspondent of the Australasian reports that Petrarch (recently sold to Lord Dupplin for £10,500) is still first favourite for the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby. (As will be seen from ouc telegrams, he hua won the Two Thousand Stakes.) Twine the Plaiden, next to Flirt the best favourite for the Uaks, is reported to have given signs of being a roarer. The following was tha betting (in March) on the Two Thousand and Derby s— TWO TIIOUSAKJI GUIJfEAS* 2 to 1 ngst Petrarch 16 to 1 agsfc Maelstrom sto 1 „ Kaleidoscope 20 to 1 „ Julius Cuisav 7to 1 „ M* de Pliguy 20 to 1 „ King Death 11 to 1 „ Father CJaret 20 to 1 „ Fettorlouk DERBVi 5 to 1 agst Petrarch 16 to 1 agst Hardrada Ctol „ Skylark 20tol „ M. deFligny Bto 1 „ Mineral colt 25 to 1 „ Fetterlock Wtol ,h, h All Heart 33 to 1 „ Bay VVyndham 14 to 1 ,i Forerunner 83 to 1 „ Jul'us Ciesar. . i ', From 40 to 1 upwards anything else.