24 MAY 1851, Page 8

EPSOM RACES.

In point of numbers, the attendance on Epsom Downs on Wednesday, the seventy-second anniversary of " The Derby," was the greatest ever seen. The " Exhibition year" at Epsom will in this respect be memor- able in turf chronicles. The weather was beautiful ; just enough rain fell early in the morning to lay the dust, and to enable Cockney beaux to dispense with those veils which are a notable feature of the concourse going and coming, which all Londoners not themselves at the races go to see in the streets of Southwark. The railways, warned by late disasters, organized their plans so fully and effectively that the droves of passengers were conveyed with comparative comfort as well as high velocity ; it is said that the Brighton Railway alone carried nearly twenty thousand per- sons on that double journey, without any sort of accident. Of course there was a great addition of foreigners, bent on seeing how we manage this national sport on our own soil ; but the numbers of English were so prodigious that the foreign faces and garments seemed scattered but sparsely : and perhaps the immense concourse of ordinary vehicles was the reason for the opinion, expressed in one account, that there appeared a less proportion of the brilliant equipages which of yore were so splendid a feature of the great race meetings at Epsom and Ascot. The Police managed everything well; so that, although nothing like so great a mul- titude was ever before seen on the Downs, there was no disorder, and no unwonted spoiling of the innocent or unwary by the raptorial classes of our mixed society.

The Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, and the Prince of Saxe Weimar, were among the distinguished royal visitors : the list of other names comprises an immense array of the Peerage and a vast number of unennobled nota- bilities.

The races commenced on Tuesday, and ended yesterday ; but the in- terest to the general reader is confined to the result of the Derby on Wednesday, and the Oaks yesterday.

The Derby Stakes are formed by subscriptions from each competitor of 50/. • and there were 192 subscribers. Thirty-three horses started—the greatest field on record. The winner was Si John Hawley's Teddington (Marlon) ; Mr. Clark's Marlborough Buck (G. Whitehouse) being second, Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham (J. Holmes) being third, and Lord Enfield's Her- nandez (S. Mann) being fourth.;

Betting at the Start-3 to 1 against Teddington, 7 to 2 against Marlbo- rough Buck, 7 to 1 against Hernandez, 7 to 1 against Prime Minister, 15 to 1 against Constellation, 15 to 1 against Theseus, 15 to 1 against Neasham, 22 to 1 against Black Doctor, 30 to 1 against Lamartine, 30 to 1 against Hippolytus, 40 to 1 against Bonnie Dundee, 50 to 1 against Ariosto ; and 1000 to 15 against any other.

The Race—Buckhound took the lead from the post, and with the Enter- prise colt in his wake ; the latter, waited on by Tedding,ton, Constellation, Neasham, and Ariosto, led the way nearly to the top of the hill. The run- ning was then taken from him by the Enterprise colt, Teddington following Buekhound, in company with Neasham and Ariosto ; next to the latter lying Constellation, Heartbreaker, the Marlborough Buck, and Lord Eglinton's two. This order lasted only to the mile-post ; Teddington then quitted his horses and went on with a decided lead, the Enterprise colt and Buckhound giving way to Hernandez, the Marlborough Buck, Neasham, and Ariosto ; to which lot the race, after making the turn, was confined. Marlborough Buck took the second place at the road, and held it to the distance. There Nea- sham went up, and, by sufferance, got within a neck and shoulder of the favourite, but he was soon disposed of ; while the Marlborough Buck Hernandez kept forward together at about half a length behindte-firite. Teddington had now plainly done what he liked fromt....2.,re.tin3e he made the running ; he left the two horses without an efforat and won in a canter by two lengths. The Marlborough Buck beat NeaAram by a length, and Her- nandez by an additional neck. Prime [ii rater was fifth; and Theseus, Ariosto, and Lamartine were "well up.!,"- f`ni. one : fine weather, immense crowds

The Oaks day was a very brillza: of fashionable people, and goof-spent.

For the Oaks Stakes of aFJL. each there were 131 subscribers. Fourteen horses started. _The race was won by Lord Stanley's Iris (F. Butler) ; Lord J. Scott's Misery' ;Iffa (Whitehouse was second, Mr. Gratwicke's Nesse-

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Betting at the Start—G to 4 against Breba ; 4 to 1 against the winner ; 15 to 1 against Miserrima.

The Race—The favourite got a very good start, but was soon "in trouble" ; Iris won a well-contested race with Miserrima, by three parts of a length.

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