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LATEST SPORTING NEWS FEOH
ENGLAND.
THE EPSOM DEBET.
[BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.]
LONDON, June 3, 3.30 p.h.
tee debbt stakes,
Of 50 bo vs. each, h. ft For three year olds;
colts, 8st 101b.; fillies, 8st 5lb. The
second horse to receive 300 govs., and the
third 150 so vs., ont of the stakes. D£s>
tance, one mile and a half. Two hundred
and sixteen subscribers.
Mr. W. S. Cartwright's ch c George Fre
derick, by Marsyas—Princess of Wales 1
; Lord Boeeoerr's or c Coaronne de Fer^
to —Ml— Agnes 2
Lord Falmouth's ch c Atlantic, by Thor
manby—Hurricane 3
Twenty horses started.
Conronne de Fer was the favourite at
'starting, Aquilo, Atlantic, and George Fre
derick being also bached.
Respecting George Frederick, "Augur," in
-the London Snorting Life of April 4, thus
wrote"My bright particular fancy for the
Derby—George Frederick-—has again been
supported, and on Thursday 1,200 to 100 was !
taken about him. I know for certain that
this handsome scion of Marsyasand Princess
of Wales was not nearly trained last season;
bait in the Criterion, with all tha disadvan
tage, he was fourth, and making: uphis
ground very faBt at the finish. No too year
old that yras out last season possessed to
unsay essential characteristics of a genuine'
Derby horse, and " this it was that induced
Captain Hachell—about the best and most
successful judge of the day—to offer i&OO0
for the . Mother to Albert Victor; but Mr.
jCbrtwright refuged to part wider £10,00u.
Poor mm OUiver, even on his death bed,
«Ounsie31ed his friends never to forget *Fi*
jderick' for the Blue Ribbon, and was amas
jnglf fond of him. If George j-—»-»-»
reaches the poet fit and well, he
nothing to beat him in the D&to>
ibs Aqnllo.a view which I have all
maintained, though the generalityof m
incline to tmnk that he is—tousetheir own
words—*2lh, behind a good-tap/ "
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