The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,

The Palatine Cup Stakes, weight for age, one mile and a half,
is well patronised on paper, but may not bring out
a dangerous opponent to the Frenchmen, if the Vest
oelts reserved for the great event ; and as Finlande looks
so well for the Stewards' Cup on Ftiday at her present
weight, it is probable Royal-lieu will do battle fer the con-
federacy, Camerino having to concede him too much weight
(151 b) to have a chance. Very few of the two-yeereddi In
the Mostyn Stakes have been in public, and if Valentine or
Bhthefisld cannot win, the task mast be left the dark lot.
The Fourth Biennial being liked) to pinch°, a walk over
ua compromise, the Chester Cup is the only event that
can be touched upon in the second day's programme,
and that is so open a nos as to require the moat care-
ful analysis. Up to the present time Stem_ pedo, Fairwater,
Chere Anne, Wild Rose, Zodiac, Simla, Royallieu, Prince
of Denmark, Reindeer, Tim Whiffler, Cambia's,
the Vest colt, Sappho, Silkatone, Vietrix, Hadji-
Stenos, Jung Frau, and Brighton, have all been supported
with apparent earnestness ; and Brown Duchess, Caller On,
Oldminster, Schism, Vancouver, Astarte, Agog, and the
Suter to Stafford filly, have only seceded in the market on
account of their bad public performances, which, being in
dirt, may not prevent their starting, as there is good money
on them that their parties never had a cheeps of hedging.
However, I cannot see the chances of any that have gone
out of the market beyond Vancouver and baseman, and
the probability is very remote of either having his day,
while it is even doubtful whether W. Day will run either
Bevis or Schism in place of the three-year-old. Cra-
ter, Butterfly, Benham Lama, Springwell,
Dimeflower, The Weasel, and Victor, are all talked
about as likely to swell the field ; and it ma
not be snob a poor one ea is
.generally ex
although I have my doubts concerning many meta
above. The "ragged lot " contains only Benham Lass,
Springwell, and Victor, with the remotest chance
of waning, and they must be basked before they can do the
trick; but if Dam= were really asked, he would hest all
the 3-yr-olds, of which the best, in his absence, will com-
prise the Vest colt, Oulu-tams, &Intone, Victrix, and
Brighton. These have perfortfied remarkably well at times,
and Brighton is lightly weighted, looking at the scale of the
handicap, he and Caractecos being the best I can
discover of their age. Still, they have conside-
rably the worst of the weights, with some of the
old horses, more particularly 7edis---, Simla, and
Wild Rote, that have done great thinp in their
day, and the Prince of Denmark pommel more lien a atone
advantage over the feathered Brighton. fßampedo and
Fairwater, again, have shown themselves to be amore` the
very best horses we have, and only meet Brighton with 916
the worst of racing weights, so that ea the latter has 81b
the beet of Caractacus and the Vest colt, these must be
first class to beat the heavy weights, and Oilstone and
Victrix more than second clam. Wild Rose is best in out
of all the lot backed, as up to her last performance in
public she showed a first-rate form, and is in Li • moderate
horse's weight, owing to having been on the shelf so long ;
another good mare, Simla, comes under the stigma of
patched up, and as it seldom happens that the Cheater Cup Is
won by other than the soundest of animals, it a
really a most open race, the soundest animals I can dLmover
that have easy weights to carry being Brighton and Zodiac,
although something turned loose niay drop from the cloud'
sad beet all the cracks, the moat highly tried of which is
Sißartone.
The Dee Stakes will form the feature of Thursday,
and Hubert's running may tall the world what the Two
Thousand was like, for he will meet several fresh horses ;
however, he ought to be good enough to win, the next best
to himPeing Launder, whohadeoarcely recovered fromPame-
nem when performing at Newmarket. Copernicus is as well
in for the Marquis of Westminster's Plate as Mr. Payne's
other horses in the Wynnetay, and yet it is hardly fair
to deal with either this, the two ;-yrold races,
or Friday's Handicaps, as the running on Tues-
day and Wednesday may invest them with a very dif-
ferent complexion to that they wear sow. The Chester
Cup will also inform us whether Fairwater at fist 71b, the
Vest colt or Caractacue at flat filb, are good enough to op-
pose Finland°, let 31b, in the Steward's Cup, one mile and
seven furlongs, she being the " best thing of the week,"
according to present appearances.—l am, Ere., METEOR.

PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB.
A sailing match for two prizes, the first presented
by Mr. H. Dodd, end the second from the ordinary funds,
took place on Saturday amongst the boats of the Prins of
Wales Yacht Club; but, owing to some unforeseen circem•
stances, there was not nearly so large a fleet as bad been
expected, the following only being those who contended :
Name. Tons. Owner. Mag.
Violet 9 Lord de lion White, Red Cross.
Jessie
Ottilis 7 J. 8urt0n......... Red.
Time for tonnage half.s-minute per toe.
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The distance sailed wee from Erith to the Chapman•hesd
Buoy, and the Meth ste►mer, Captain Wheeler, socom•
pained the race. There was a greet deal of wind out from
the south and west, and the distance was consequently done
in very short time. At starting the whole of the crews
were very active, and immediately after they got under
weigh the Violet took the lead and kept it throughout,
winning by 21 minutia, the Jamie being second.