RACING IN ENGLAND. EPSOM SPRING.

Otago Witness, Issue 1640, 28 April 1883, Page 20

RACING IN ENGLAND. EPSOM SPRING.

April 18, ' •■ • city and suburban handicap, • >' Of 500 soys, added to a sweepstake of 25 sora each. One mile and'a quarter 74 nominations. ", ' Lord RoseberyV br h Roysterer, by Oremorne-V ' ' Caller Ou, 6 j rs. 7at .. .. ;. i Lord E'leßmere's eh h Lowland Chief, by Low-,\ landor -Bathildo, 5 yrs, Battolb .. ..2 Mr Gerard's b h Sweetbread, by Brown Bread—, • Peffar, 4 yrs, Bst 41b .. .. ,-'••. 8 Among the acceptors were Foxhall (9st 41b), Iroquois (9at 21b), Shotover (Bst 91b), Scdbell (Bst 81b), Prestonpans (7st 121b), and Torrans' (7st lib). On the date of our latest files the betting waß as follows : — 9 to 1 agst Shotover, 1 14 to 1 Foxhall, 16 to 1 Sachem, 20 to 1 Hackness, 20 to 1 Hygeia colt, 20tol Goggles, 20 to 1 Silver Bell, 25 to 1 Energy, 33 to 1 Iro. quois. ■ > . t> Roysterer, whose sire won the Derby of 1872, and whose dam won the St. Leger of" 1861, ran five times as a three-year-old without; 1 winning a race, though often pretty forward. ' His best performance was perhaps. his. third in-; the Goodwood Stewards' Cup (6st 91b), behind ' Mazurka (6st 101b) and Moccolo (6sf 61b); twenty-five horses finishing behind them; At four years he won two races out of eight — ', namely, the Edinburgh Handicap of £117 and' 1 the Newmarket Welter Handicap of £207* Lowland Chief at two years ran in four races, making a dead-heat and dividing the Brighton Maiden' Stakes of £102 with the Sylva filly.' At three years he ran twice without winning/ the Epsom Grand Prize of £4652 being one of 1 races he was sent for. At four years he showed to much better advantage, securing four races ■ out of ten. They were the KemptonPark Stewards' Cup (7st) •of £460, beating twelve, others ; Newmarket Visitors' Plate of £150 > (Sat 111b), beating nineteen others ; a Welter Handicap of £157; and the Goodwood Stewards 1 Cup (Bst 81b) of £682, beating eighteon others. ' * Sweatbreadran six times at two years,butvon only the Brighton Maden Plate of £102. ' At three years he made a good start by winning the Ascot Royal Hunt Cup (6st 41b) of £1130 from nineteen competitors, and ran ' second (Bst 51b) ta Triston (9st 101b) in the Hardwicko Stakes of £2778; out could not get a place in the St. Leger or in the two other races which he contested. Lord Roaebery won this race in 1876 with Aldrich (6st 41b). - ■ ;