The Archive · 1890

[BY EASTERN EXTENSION 4. AND C. TEL. CE.)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE — (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) — RESULT OF THE 2,000 GUINEAS — London, Ist May — Mr. A. W. Merry's Surefoot.....-1 Baron de Rothschild's Lo Nord...2 — The Duke of Westminster's Blue-

green... 53 position to compete with the cable], Surefout, brown colt, by Wisdom, dam Galopin, out of Miss Foote, won the companies. When the Great Northern foodcote Stakes of 1,000 sovs, at the and the Eastern Extension Companies Epsom Summer Meeting, ran. second to were competing against each other we Semolina in the Ascot biennial Stakes, 7 ad a moderate tariff. They joined won the New Stakes of 10 sovs. each (£1,241) at Ascot, and the Findon Stakes forces and put up the rate to $2 a word of 10 from Shanghai, and the object of the convention is to keep the rate at $2 for La Noce (bred in France), won the Knighalong term of years, and they have ton Plate of 600 sovs. at Leicester, and the 'Molecoinb Stakes at Goodwood, ran second persuaded Sheng Taotai to agree to to Kiviera in the Champagne Stakes at this, by offering his company a subsidy, Doncaster, walked over for the Hopeful estimated at $100,000 a year. 'That Stakes at' the Newmarket First October $100,000 is to come, of course, out of ug, ran second to Siguoriva in the Middle Park Plate at the Second October the pockets of those who use the cables. ing, and won the Dewhurst Plate at If our contemporary is honest in say-ight on Meeting. ing that it does not see the importance Blue-green, brown colt by Coeruleus out of this convention to the mercantile of Angelica, was unplaced in his first race, ran third to Riviera in the Hurstbourn community, we can but wonder what is Stakes st Stockbridge, and second to the cause of this special blindness.

Margarine in the Prince of Wales's Plate at We were glad to notice recently in York, and won the Criterion Stakes and the Hongkong papers that a statement ran a dead heat for first with Vermilion in of the case against the convention was the Houghton Stakes, at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting. being, prepared for the "Hongkong

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