STATE OF THE ODDS AND SALE OF BLOOD STOCK. By Messrs. Tattersall, on Ascot Heath, on Saturday, March 14: THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S HORSES IN TRAINING. Lord Ronald, ch h, 6 yrs, by Stockwell out of Edith (Mr. T. V. Morgan). GS. 1500 200 35 200 400 240 50 520 1000 Sun Dial, br f, 3 yrs, by Wild Dayrell out of Miss Slick (Mr. Blenkiron)....... Bc, 2 yrs, by Birdhill out of Lurley (Mr. Foy) B c, 2 yrs, by Glenmasson out of Figtree (Mr. Hodgman) B c, 2 yrs, by Trumpeter out of Palm (Mr. J. Denman) Ch c, 2 yrs, by Trumpeter out of The Roc (Mr. Padwick) 1050 450 500 155 250 EMBELLISHMENTS. BEFORE; ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY E. CORBET. AND AFTER; ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, R.A, DIARY FOR MAY. CONTENTS. THE OMNIBUS: PAGE. THE WAY BILL.-The late Alderman Copeland and Earl Cordigan-The "HERE'S SPORT INDEED!"-BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX . 309 THE TURF REGISTER.- -Margate Spring-Bishop's Stortford-Warwick SpringPontefract-Gullane Spring-Baldoyle (Ireland) - Newport Pagnell -Epsom Spring-West Somerset (Crewkerne)-Killyleagh-The Cheshire Hunt-Granard Hedon, Hull, and Holderness-Cheltenham-Croxton Park-Southdown Hunt -Cambridge-Kilkenny-Northampton and Pytchley Hunt-Newcastle-uponTyne Spring-Bridgnorth-Down Royal Corporation-The Lothians' Racing Clab and Edinburgh Spring-Bromley Spring-Killmallock-Grand National Hunt-Tadcaster-Durham-Newmarket Craven-Beverley Spring-Kingsbury and Hendon-Lichfield Spring, Y 10S Fourth Sunday after Easter. s 87 30 FRISES afternoon r 4 22 15 8 17 s 7 33 16 9 21 2 57 3 14 r 4 19 1710 18 3 32 3 50 7 361811 10 11 M Cricket-Lord's M.C.C. v. Artillery r 4 16 19 11 12 T York Races. 13 W Old May Day. s 7 3920 4 9 4 27 55 4 46 5 4 5 22 5 41 6 3 6 26 Morning. [Cambridge.r 4 13 21 12 33 14 T Doncaster Races. Cricket- 8 7 4222 1 4 6 50 7 15 15 FCricket-Marlboro' M.C.C. Match.r 4 1023 1 33 7 44 8 18 16 S 17 Kogation Sunday. 18 M Cricket-M.C.C. v. Colts. 19 T Bath Races. s 7 44 24 1 58 8 55 9 31 r 4 725 2 2110 s 7 47 26 2 45 11 r 4 427 3 9 510 38 1011 39 12 6 -- 35 12 28 12 49 229 4 4 1 11 1 32 20 W 8 7 50 28 3 21 T Cricket-Oxford M.C.C. v. U. r 4 22 F Harpenden Races. 23 S 2 31 2 52 24 26 T Epsom Races. 29 F The Oaks Day. Sunday after Ascension. 25 M Cricket-Lord's M.C.C. v. Surrey r 3 57 27 W The Derby Day. 28 T Cricket-Lord's Household Brigades 8 30 S The Islington Horse Show. r 3 55 1 r 3 53 612 26 6 20 6 50 7 22 7 58 31 S Whit Sunday. Paris Races. THE OMNIBUS. "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBRIDGE HALL. WAY BILL:-The late Alderman Copeland and Earl Cardigan-The Boat Race-Races of the Month-Hunting Mems. HE Boat Race, the fate of Typhoeus, the victory of the first Blair Athol, the triumph of "Baq" over "List," and the rival agonies of the Rose, the Green, and the Blue factions have left their mark on April. We have lost a good, genial sportsman in Alderman Copeland, and, in fact, there were not many men on the turf who, in these come-andgo days, had owned horses longer. His colours had been seen for upwards of a third of a century, and as long as the Potteries had a racecourse he stuck by it. His victories with anything there excited as much enthusiasm as those of Isaac at Warwick, Beeswing at Newcastle, or Black and All Black in the "West Countrie." We think it was there that the judge (who was quite beyond reproach) gave a decision against him in a very near thing. The Yorkshire Roughs frightened old Mr. Clark not a little on Knavesmire when he ruled for Mildew (Nat) against Cantab (Job Marson); but their rage was nothing to that of the Pottery men, who were for lynching Mr. White on the spot. Harry Edwards returned to the saddle in '37, and The Alderman gave him some mounts on Prime Warden. He was on hin in that unlucky St. Leger, when Epirus, the first favourite, was pressed into the ditch as they rose the hill, and threw Scott into the middle of the course, and when a greyhound made a dash at the leaders near the Intake turn, and brought John Day and Henriade to grass. The blow which broke Bill Scott's collar-bone was the only thing of historical importance that the Prime Warden's heels ever did, although he became a useful country sire. King Cole was the Alderman's great card, and Marlow, who could then ride 7st. 7lbs., his favourite jockey. The latter was on "the King" in the Chester Cup; but he always maintained that it was a good thing over, and that his victory was solely owing to Tommy Lye on Potentate holding him so very cheap, and only looking after Birdlime. Potentate let King Cole know what o'clock it was when he met him at the Potteries, and the potters kept shouting in vain for "The King," as the pair raced round that curious course. If the Alderman could honour a ward or city office by calling a horse or mare after it, he did. Still, right dearly as he loved the sport, he never took any pains to have a strong lead in it. He would go to no expense to have a number of yearlings to pick from, and if he could win a race occasionally and please his friends in the Midlands, his ambition was quite satisfied. The late Mr. E. Buckley trained in the same stable; they were heroes of very much the same kidney, and they have not long survived each other. It was refreshing to see the Alderman among the turfites of these fast Young England days, with his jolly and yet not corpulent form, his florid healthy face, with the coloured linen tie, |