TURF CHAT.

Evening Star, Issue 8267, 12 July 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

TURF CHAT.

[From Our Special Correspondent.] London, May 23. Three years ago Lord Rodney's good luck was proverbial. For a season everything he touched turned to gold. Then the tide suddenly turned. Things were not, however, very bad till the young peer purchased Kilwarlin's brother, Danbydale. This impostor commenced a long series of tragedies by beiDg left at tho post for the Hunt Cup at Ascot last year. Lord Rodney chose to believe the accident was not wholly accidental, and presently removed the horse from Jewitt's stables at Newmarket to Weever's at Bourton. Danbydale's new trainer then tried the son of Arbitrator with Veracity, and found him (as Captain Machell had done) a wonder. Time after time the beast was backed for big races and lost them through running piggishly. At last owner aiid stable resolved to waste no more money on tho horse. Danbydale was sent to Derby to run for a LI.OOO stake, and unbacked. This time the wretch won easily. Danbydale's laßt appearance was in the Jubilee Stakes at Kempton on Saturday week. The following day the poor animal fell down dead in its stall. The great event of the present week has been tho Newmarket Stakes, of 6,000 3ova, for threo-year-olds, won last year by Donovan. With Surefoot not engaged, and Riviera and Right Away still on the sick list, the way seemed to bo clear for Baron Rothschild's Le Nord, which appeared to have most to fear from the Duke of Portland's pair of fillies Semolina and Memoir and the Craven Stakes winner Morion. Semolina and Morion, however, did not start, so that the Baron's crack had only Memoir, Blue Green, and a mob of ragged outsiders, such as Garter, Ponza, Kirkham, Martagon, Loup, and Bull's Eye to beat. Odds of 7 to 4, 2 to 1, and finally 85 to 40, were freely laid on Le Nord, 6 to 1 being offered against Memoir, 100 to 7 Blue Green, 25 to 1 each Garter and Ponza, 33 to 1 against Riviera (all to pieces), 6G to 1 Kirkham, 100 to 1 others. Memoir and Blue Green made the running to the distance, where the favorite was expected to assurno command. Instead, the uncertain son of Tristan and La Noce compounded, and Memoir, managing to retain a slight lead of Blue Green from the Abingdon mile bottom, just won a grand race home by a short head. Value of stakes, L 6.500. Memoir, a bay filly by St. Simon out of Quiver, belongs to Hi 3 Grace of Portland, who thus, for the second year in succession, wins this rich stake. The Duke writes that St. Serf wiil not start for the Derby. The Payne Stakes, for three-year-olds, on Thursday resulted in another" turn-up, as Blue Green, on whom 7 to 4 was laid, could make no sort of fight with Lord Hartington's Craven winner Morion (by Barcaldine out of Chaplet). Unfortunately Morion is not in the Derby. The principal two-year-old stake of the meeting fell to Lord Durham by the aid cf Peter Flower, a son of Petrarch and Florida, which beat Bumptious, Crinolmc, and two others easily. May 30. Backers experienced a " bitter bad time " (as Bp.nzon used to say) at Newmarket last week. One metalliciaa won over L 5,000 on three races. Riviera, the beautiful sister to Seabreeze, with which the Duchess of Montrose (or rather Mr Henry Milner) hoped to win the Oaks, has broken down irretrievably, and has been destroyed. By way of consolation, however, the " all scarlet " was to tho fore at Windsor, both on Friday and Saturday, in the principal two-year-old races. Mr seems, indeed, to have a highlypromising team of youugeters. Already Bonnie Snood (by Macheath—Twiuie t!;'o Plaidcu), Gavotte (hy Isonomy Polonaise), and March Past (by Machtnth Caulinierc-) have won valuable stakes from smart fields, and in the background (waiting for Ascot) are Valauris (a brother to < Seabreeze) and a sister to Thebias. Up to the present, though Surefoot is a thoroughly firm favorite for the Derby, there has been no disposition to plunge on it. For one thing there is the recollection of the t.-rilblo oolUpuo of tKo c.r,xoU' u rolct;,-o ( M , lo I gregor) in the same race to deter folks, and ! for another the 8..P. love Kingselero and John Porter, and have to a man declared on Sainfoin much as they did on Blue Gown. Simon Magus (by St. Simon, out of Wheel of Fortuuo)) made his dtLiil in 1,000 bovs stake at Windsor, won by Gavotte, on Friday, but never showed prominently. The two-year-old crack from Kiugselere Romance—also ran indifferently, though well backed. In the Whitsuntide Handicap, of 500 sovs, which was run at Kempton Park on Monday, Mr De La Rue's Ascot winner Shille- I lagh, though weighted with lOst, made ' mincemeat of a fair field. The old horse j was favorite at 5 to 4, 7 to i being laid Ormuz, S to 1 Eucalyptus, 100 to 12 >bnbasaador, 100 to 7 each tho others. At tho distance the race seemed likely to lie between Eucalyptus (3 yrs, Gst '7lb) and tho Duke of Westminster's four-year-old (Sst 101b) ; but Shillelagh bearing down on them with a wet sheet won in a cantor by four lengths from Eucalyptus, second only on Buticranee, as Ormua was pulling up. In the North of England the Manchester Cup, of 2,000 sova, run over a mile and threequarters, has to a great extent taken the place of the once famous Chester "Moon." Owners like it because not only is the staka itself worth winning, but the books oiea on ' the race are exceptionally large, and enable the possessor of an outside chaace to back it for a few thousands at a comparativ<lv cheap rate. ' J For to-day's race theve will ba a ecore or so of runners, and tho favoiites at present are the two kempton failures, Vasiatas and Theophilus, and Mr Lowther's Hounsditch On tho_ opening afternoon at Manchester J. he Kejeeted won the principal handicap of the day, beating a fair field, and Lord Hastings b Jessamy carried off a rich twovearold stake. J A Fyrield outsider named The tbv Macheath out of Petition) h aa bco,T intro-

duced into the Derby betting at 40 to 1, and remembering the eleventh hour bids for the Blue Riband made by Alec Taylor with Pall Mall and Severnake, speculators are carefully watching the market.