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SIR MARTINS LINCOLNSHIRE CHANCE. Now that some of the principal fielders have returned from their winter holiday trips, we have a substantial market in connection with the Lincolnshire Handicap. Cuthbert is for the time being the leading public fancy, aud no doubt the good-looking sou of St. Aidan and Meddlesome will hold a prominent place in the quotations as long as he contiuues to progress as satisfactorily as he lias done hitherto. Sir Martin is so well handicapped that it would not require a big outlay on behalf of the connections or the Lordship Stable to place him bang in the Trout rauk, though Mr. Winans himself does very little in the way of wagering. On his best form the American-bred son of Ogden and Lady Sterling would have a splendid chance witli no more than 113 jiounds to carry, and as-suredlv he has never been so leniently handicapped. According to all accounts the horse has wintered well, and is sufficiently forward to go straightaway into hard training, but he is of delicate constitution and, furthermore, his legs have caused his able trainer a lot of trouble and anxiety at various times. It is, of course, much in ids favor that he left otf a winner last year at Manchester and, granted the opposition was not of high class, there is no gain-saving the fact that he shouldered 140 pounds and giving lumps of weight away all around, won the Ellesmere Handicap, six furlongs, in convincing style. Ho will be admirably suited by the Car-holme mile and, bearing in mind the way in which he stuck to Spanish Prince and Hornets Beauty for five of the six furlongs over which the July Cup is contested at Newmarket, he will certainly not lack the speed necessary to place him with the leaders from the start. London Sportsman.
