DONCASTER RACES commenced on Monday. The company was very numerous,
and the betting men in great force, the stables being full of excellent horses. Scroggins and Wedge, two of the favourites for the St. Leger, were very highly spoken of. The first race was for the Fitzwilliam Stakes—
Sir J. Item; ell's General Chasse, S year; 0 Hon. E. Most y n's Birdlime, 5 years. 0
The following also started, but acre not placed by the judge t 51r. W Lonsdale's Gipsy, 4 years : Lord Chesterfield's Weightun, 3 years; Mr. S. Fox's Miss Law, 3 years; and the Duke of Cleveland's Maley !Moloch, 6 years.
This was a capital race. Mr. Mostyn and Sir J. Boswell divided the stakes.
The King's plate of 100 guineas also produced some excellent run. ming, and added to the high reputation of the winner.
Mr. J. Day's Venison,3 years
Mr. Bowes's Mundig, 4 years 2
lion. T. O. Pow lett's Wentworth. 3 years 3
Mr. Osbaldeston's Whitefoot, 5 years. 4 Tire betting, which was very brisk, opened at 5 to 4 on Mundig, and 6 to 4 against Venison. Venison was then backed freely at 5 to 4, Mundig declining to evens, and 6 to 5 on him, at which he closed, 6 to 4 being laid against Veni- Son at the finish. Mundig took the lead, followed by Wentworth, Venison lying third, and Whitefoot last, where she remained to the end. Exactly in this order they ran to the distance in the last round, when Venison went in front, and won in a canter ; being the eleventh race he has carried off since the Derby, without sustaining defeats, although he has travelled all over the country.
The race for the Great St. Leger Stakes came off on Tuesday. It was won by Lord Lichfield's Elis (rode by J. Day), beating Mr. Scott's Scroggins, and twelve others.
"The race was run in about three minutes and twenty seconds. Value of the stakes. after the usual deductions, 20751., independent of which the noble Earl and a few of his friends have won an immense sum in bets. Scott's party and nearly all the betting men having lost considerably. It is now the turn of the South country to triumph over the North, their favourite having been trained by a Newmarket groom and ridden by a Newmarket jockey. We subjoin his pedigree : he was got by LanJwr out of Olympia, (bred in 1815 by Lord Stamford), by Sir Oliver. her dam Scotilla, by Anvil, out of Scutt' by Eclipse—Harmony by Herod, out of Rutilia. After this race and the Herby, who shall deny that public running is the surest criterion, and who shall say that a caravan is not as good a conveyance for a race horse as it is for an elephant ? "
The hackers of the favourite, Scroggins, were heavy losers.
The Gold Cup was won, on Wednesday, by the Marquis of West- minster's Touchstone, beating Lord Chesterfield's Caress', Mr. DisP,
Venison, Mr. Orde's Beeswing, and two others.
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