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SIR MARTIN AND MIN0RU MAY MEET. Although flat racing never ceases in England between ihe opening of the Lincoln meeting ami the close at Manchester, in November, the meetings following the Liverpool Spring and up to t.:e Kpsoni Spring meeting are of comparatively slight importance. With the coming of the Kpsoni Spring aaeetiag comes also a signal Increase In interest and the decision of events of high rank follow in rapid and interesting succession. Racing at Knsoin begins April P.ยป with the long-established Croat Metropolitan ami City and Suburban Handicap as the main features. The Creat MetropoUta* is at two miles and a qaarter and has no American horses nominated, but Sir Martin and Minoru are in the City and Suburban, with the former set to carry 125 pounds and the hitter 12: . There is a chance thai both will go to tlie post in t.is famous race, in which Pa I as II met one of his few defeats as a three-year-old. If they do there may be some light drown in the vexed nuestion of whether Sir Mania w.-iilil have won the Derby last year hut for his unlucky fall at Tattenham Corner.
