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BIG ENGLISH RACES THIS WEEK. One of the most Important of. the early English race meetings comes off at Epsom i uesilay and Wednesday of this week. Two of the great handicaps of the year, the Great Metropolitan at two miles and ■ smarter and the City and Suburban at a mile and I smarter, arc the spatial features. Only one American horse, Dinaa Ken. is in the Great Metropolitan and jointly with the English horse. Glacis, has been given the top weight of 12.8 pounds.- He is not likely to start. The City ami Suburban presents a different ;e peel in respect to possible interest for Americans. Ballot is top weight at 131 pounds ami since be has been backed to some extent, mav now be considered ■ probable starter. Other Americans in the race are the unbeaten Priscillian. 120 pounds: the Two Thousand winner. Norman III.. 117 pounds, and Mr Whitneys Delirium, llo pounds. Last year In ii Swift won tin- City and Suburban, carrying 122 pounds. This year he was given 128 pounds and at latest advices was faTOrite in the ante-iiost betting al 7 to 1. Considering that lie is eight years old. it would be a wonderful thing if he should oven be plan .1. other stake races of the meeting in which niencan horses are entered are the Westminster Plate, Great Surrey Handicap, Nark Plate and Hyde Park Plate. Messrs. Kis-ne. Belmont and Whitley are all well represented and the many American lovers of ruing now in London are likely to have t! ■ Ir iiatrletlam ardently appealed to and. let us to t Uiit- financial betterment. The latest available betting, that of April fi, presented the following quotations agalnal the earliest fancied candidates, witii the probability thai radical changes may hive taken place by this time: The City and Suburban. Distance, about one and one-quarter miles. To be nin Wednesday. April 21. i Horse, Age. Weight and Trainer. Odds. Dean Swift. 8, 128 Morton loo I I Primer, I 103 W. W ugh MM Monitor. 4. Ill ic. p.cki UMis Sinionson fi. 08 iff. Niglitingall 1«xi s Mountain Apple. 1. 112 is. Darling 1"* 7 ll Black. "•. ION Brewer Umi i White Eagle. 4. 119 Fergusson 10»-7 |.|,..r 4 in7 Captain Dewhnrst Phi 7 Ballot ■-. 131 is Darling loo ti Kniglitlight. 4. SO F. Pratt 100:1
