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ENGLANDS FLAT RACING SEASON OPENS Lincolnshire Handicap and Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase This Weeks Features The Knglish flat racing season restored to its prewar status opened at Lincoln yesterday and the meeting thus will come to au end tomorrow In these days of restricted cable service it may be some time before we on this side learn of re ¬ sults although the first of the great handicaps of the year the Lincolnshire is to be decided to ¬ morrow The Lincoln meeting will be followed by the Liverpool spring meeting which takes up the 1 remaining three days of the week It Jias some important stake races on the flat on its program but its star race is the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase the most important and famous jump Ing race in the world Its gross value this year is 20000 afternoonThe and it will be run Friday afternoon The latest advices in regard to speculation on the two big races of the two meetings appeared in London Sportsman of March when it said saidThe The Lincolnshire favorite Hainault which it transpired covered fiveeighths yesterday remained at the head of affairs at 6 to 1 a price again of ¬ fered Itoyal Bucks was in request at 100 to 9 but there was little desire to lay that rate and 10 to 1 was subsequently taken and offered Anion advanced from 1000 to GO to 100 to 7 and he was sent a mile yesterday morning Another quotable at 100 to 7 was Boideur after 500 to 30 had been booked about Persses colt Somme Kiss although he was at exercise going a mile was treated In hostile fashion being sent back to 20 to 1 and then to 25 to 1 the last rate being again offered Athdara on the other hand advanced from 1000 to 30 to 25 to 1 1For For a time 8 to 1 was offered on the field for the Grand National with both Poethlyn and Waver tree backed at the rate for fair sums but Poethlyn subsequently became favorite again at 15 to 2 while against Wavertree 100 to 12 was booked and offered Ally Sloper too was in some demand at 100 to 12 Bar the three it Avas a case of 20 to 1 bar one with Waterbed the only one noticed at the price which was offered against sucli others as Sliaun Spadah Pollen and the Irish Leopardstown winner Ballyboggan Of the rest Ballymacad which at the first callover three weeks ago fig ¬ ured at 100 to 7 and more recently dropped back to 1C to 1 was now laid against at 1000 to 30 and then recovered to 28 to 1 Against Sunloch the fancy of many sinirtsmen in the Shires 1000 to 30 was offered without response
