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Otago Witness, Issue 1653, 28 July 1883, Page 20

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bis Royal Highness for his heavy losses by presenting the Prince with the very valuable cup as a gift. To make matters worse, it was alleged that the Prince of Wales accepted the cup, and had it sent home. The story became the talk of the town, and it became a necessity f«r the Prince's friends to make an explanation. The facts came out on the day that the dispatch was sent ; and it has been stated that although his Royal Highness does at present possess tha oup won on the turf by another man, he did not obtain it as a gift, but paid £600 for it in bard cash. This explanation has made matters much worse, and there is some talk of having both Peck and the Prince disciplined according to turf ethics for dealing in prizes. It would be interesting to know what disgrace there is in a man making a present to a Prince,. or on the other hand selling the article to hun.

The Prince of Wales is said to have won £20,000 in wagers at Ascot, to which interesting fact the Yankees add that the Prince "paid some of his debts with the money, and is now quite.popuUr." It is news to us to learn that he was before unpopular. The racing at Stockbridpe began on June 21, when the Cup, valued at 300 soys, was won by Mr Lorillards Iroquois, nominated by the Prince of Wales. The Princess of Wales congratulated Mr Lorillard on his success in winning the Cup.

Cannon, the trainer, has purchased Mr Lorillard's Sachem. The rest of the horses return to America, where Iroquois will go to the stud.

Last week I called attention to tho disqualification of Robert Peck by the English Jockey Club. Since then the sinning trainer has Apologised, and the leading turf tribunal has removed the sentence, as the following from the Calendar will show: — "Notice — Mr R. Peck having addressed to the stewards of the Jockey Club, and to Messrs Weatherby, letters •xpressing his regret that his notice of the 21st •f April last should have given offence, and having disavowed any intention of being discourteous in any way to Messrs. Weatherby, the stewards of the Jeckey Club hereby withdraw the notice referring to Mr R. Peck, which they caused to be inserted in the last Calendar, dated May 24th." The English correspondent of the Town and Country Journal has been on a visit to the Duke of Westminster's stud, and among his motes thereon appears the following : —The late Marquis was so attached to old Touch■tone that he caused a temple to be erected to his memory, inside of which the skeleton of the •Id equine wonder is set up, to give a useful lesson to breeders of the present day, for I venture to say that a search through broad England would not discover in the frame of any living spectmen of the genus racehorse, such a well-rounded set of back ribs. The pity is that men in a position to do so do not oftener take advantage of the death of old favourites and preserve the skeleton, so that posterity might by actual comparison judge whether raceehorses were improving or deteriorating in shape, instead of haying to depend on the written evidence of eye-witnesses, which must always be unreliable without very accurate measurements.

The Leader's English correspondent writes that ' it would seem probable that the jockey Archer is one of the numerous class whose succeßs sadly interferes with the small modi«um_ of manners they may have possessed previous to their change of fortune. It appears that the great gun had broken an engagement with an owner, and was in conseqnenoe very properly reprimanded by the Kp•om stewards. In the paddock the Duke of Portland-expressed the opinion that Archer was to blame, whereupon the celebrated jocksy replied, "And wMb are you?" We are frequently twitted about the license allowed to the 80-called lower classes in Australia, but it would appear that in Conservative England a hoodlum need only show exceptional skill in the saddle to earn - the privilege of airing his ignorance to the annoyance of his superiors, and still be not only tolerated but encouraged.