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ACCEPTANCES FOR ENGLISH HANBICAPS. Tiie acceptances all round for tlie Spring Handicaps can only be regarded as splendid. From the Lincolnshire ten retired, Liverixxd Cup seven, Queen s Piizc ten. Great Metropolitan twelve. City and Sun-urban seven. .lubilee Handicap eight, and Grand National seventeen. As regards the first big race of the season Long Sets owner is apparently satis-tied witli l."l pounds, but Light Brigades 111 pounds lias Iccii considered too heavy a burden. A like remark applies to Voung Pegasus, which was allotted 107 pounds, while Sun Vat. Radiant, Lord An-nandale. Cheerful, Moscato. Dunholm, Ormaclms, and St. Gall have also retired. Sir Martin, which won the Kljesmere Handicap, Manchester November, under 140 pounds, appears one of the pick of the handicap with 112 potiuds. lialscadden, Lorenzo, .mil Light Brigade hold their places at the head if the Liverpool Cup, in which Harry of Hereford, witlt !K pounds, is the sort of horse to create a surprise. Dalmatian. Voung Pegasus. Blue Stone, Ralblair, Dutch Lady, Solomons Mine, and Orebi arc the malcontents. Sailaway. which defeated a useful Held for the Ayrshire Handicap last September, has bottom weight, SO pounds. There is nothing vcrv surprising about the seventeen withdrawals from the Grand National. A few of them may be useful over fences in moderate company, hut they could have no pretensions to winning over the Liver-nil jumps. Sir C. Assheton-Sniitli appears content with Covertcoats 175 pounds, and Mr. .Tames Ilen-mssv witli one pound less for the hero of live years ago; in fact, all the top-weights are satisfied, the highest impost of those who have gone out being 151 pounds. Lord Derbys Axle Pin. with 144 pounds. 14 pounds less than when the gelding refused in: 1013, is looked upon as a very likely candidate for nroiiiiuent honors, Whitaker also having under his charge ills Majestys Twelfth Lancer, Rory OMoore, Lord Derbvs Carrigrue, Lord Rivers, Great Cross, and Ilugoinart. The top-weights did not accept for the Queens Prize and Great Metropolitan; conscqucntlv the imposts have been raised by four pounds and "nine pounds respectively. London Sports-limn
