The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

SPURTING 121T&LLIWINCR.
THE GOODWOOD MEETING.

TO THZ HDITOIt OP TRH 111/0116.
Silly—With Richmond House open again, the
dahionahle world oat of mourning, sad so many theminds
of strangers in the country anxious to booms acquainted
with all our " institution," the pooped* of Goodwood an
this yearbrilliant as ever, and the madam commode( oft
Tuesday next will probably attract a mere numerous at-
tendanos of all grades and countries than it did end in 1851.
A programme Las boa issued made up of the mud ingre-
dients, every descripdon of ran belonging to the legitimate
sport being comprised therein ; and altogether there are
thirty-one items in the bill of fare—eight each for the
first, third, and fourth days, and seven for the wood.
The old mullioned featured maintain their great
popularity, the usual monster entries being ob-
tained for the Stewards', Goodwood, and Chester-
field Cups, and the Stakes and Nursery ' • and it is
noteworthy bow the rich Gratwicke and Ham Stakes
hold up their kends, them being the only two second-dam
events that can nowodays command a score of entries at •
subecriptiss.
TUZSDLY.—Thap 300 soya sweentMes, for four year olds,
Queen's lista course (three miles and five twinned, is not
certain to produce a ran, as only Imam and the Chrism
colt go to Goodwood for it ; and the mood saving his stake,
it may bethought prudent to divide the 450140'16in If sot,
the race will be an interesting one, for both the horses were
about equal last autumn, Immo being the most trustworthy
on account of having woe at two miles on one ocession.
The Crane Stakes. one mile and • quarter, have a poor
entry as regards numbers. the following comprising the half-
dozen subs:—
Me id lb
Crater
_ Age 9 st it
ide:atone
A
4 9 6

King of Diamonds .. 5 9 9 Reveille
B.n/cutter ..... 4 9 6 Cowboy 1 712
The two last-named are very moderate platers ; buts con-
test between the remaining four would be heavily spec e-
lated upon, es they are all A 1 at the distance, Sam:utter
having the most thee ttening appearance, considering Crater
has been too long on the shelf to be in form. The Ora-
wicks Stakes, for 3-year-olds, one mile and a half, will pro-
bably attract Piemdor, Instructor (or Ashford), Valetta,
Goes; the Type. colt, Lorelei, the Miss Sarah filly, oral
Hubert ; hut the interest will be oentrudin the performances
of the two last-named, they only having done at all re-
spectably, and It must be a near thing between them on
amount of Hubert haring so recently goes into strong
work. The Hain Stakes, for 2-year-olds, T.Y.C. (nearly
six furlongs), will bring out one first-clam performer
in (hoboes, unless Lord Portsmouth should sub-
stitute the " dark" Promises, on accomff of her
mrlying 311) Ise weight, the stable being very sweet
on her. It worth' be better policy, however, to trust the
one so highly tried in public as Cachuca, especially in the
event of the much-talked-of Automaton making his Made,
the reputation of this hone being so great that it is hard to
choose between the two. The Levant Stakes, for two-yeeo
olds, will be contended for on a half-mile course, enders
Soapstone (Jib extra) and Yaje are the best we have seen is
public, the " dark " division should be represented in lona
A stable companion of Soapstone, called Gunnar, pommels
a good reputation, as dose also the Ace of Hearts, and nisi•
tber Tramper, Tornado, Brick, nor Stockbroker have been,
sufficiently forward in preparation whet running in pular-
for their doings to condemn them. Still the Stamford
form of Yaje was good, and unless the stable an and,
something superior to Soapstone in the Gunner, Sir
Henry Dee Vieux may have another throw in. The
Stewards' Cup Handicap has been in a measure spoiled
by the triumph of Humphrey at Stamford simultaneously
with its publication, the horse being remarkably well-in,
considering what he did there ; and the most threatening of
his opponents are Lady Clifden, Volunteer, Alvedistor,
Frailty, and Vancouver, supposing these to represent their
several stables. Fravola ought to secure the half-mile claim-
ing sweepstakes, and Merry Hart is too fast over that same
diatoms ler me to believe Lady Fanny (a sallies plater) can
beat her, even at a difference of 20Ib.
Wzormanar.—The Goodwood Stakes Handicap, two
miles and a half, has undergone a material change in its tom-
plezion since the weights first appeared, as it was booked •
certainty for either the American or W. Day's stables, and
neither can boast& favourite in the market now. Whe-
ther such • result lambs= caused by the public being too
hasty in making their investment& I know not, but the
"scratching" of the Bather High colt and Umpire at the
last moment looks very like it, and we have now nearly one.
fourth of the original acceptance with the pen through
their names, Optimist, Heoham Lam, Ceps Flyaway, Mis-
take, Zodiac, Bryn Gwyn, Fee, Beneventom, and Droner&
having bid adieu to their friends, in addition to the two
cracks above-named. It is also very doubtful whether
either Rubicon, Queen of Spain, Hartington, Earl of West.
moreland, or Daleeman, will perform, although they have
played prominent parts in the betting ; and the naming of
Coronet, Bantam. Conundrum, Fitz-Eva, 'barrage,
Boabdil, Schehallion, Real Jam, Violet, Avongrove,
Confectioner, Schism, and Magnum Booum since
they accepted would give them no chance. Still,
the three last-named might swell the field, and his partisans
cannot believe the world sew the beet of Magnum Baum
at Stamford, an opinion I myself coincide in. itapparee,
Audrey, Sir William, Montebello, Frailty or Freeholder,
West-Sod or the Lady Evelyn colt, Canary, My Partner
(doubtful), Higbfiyer, Physician, Myrtle, Watchfire, Atta-
man, Earl of Surrey (doubtful), and St. Bernard, comprise
all the others that promise to run, as Bash and Lapidiet
may only visit Goodwood for the shorter acs; and accord-
ing to my calculations, the contest „is between Magnum
Bonum, Audrey, Frailty, (hairy, Myrtle, Watcliflre, At-
tamen, and St. Bernard. Canary and Myrtle are
not so steady in the market as their backers
could wish, sad the American mare is now
among the " knocked-out" lot ; but the p• have the best
of the weights, the foreigner being especiallywell in, and if
there is anything the matter with her, Canary may have the
greatest to fear two rank outarders, Magnum Boom and
Watchfire. The Drawing Room Stakes, for 3-yr-olds, one
mile and • quarter, will be worth picking up, Gomm, Free.
holder, Watchfire, Cellarius, Marble Hill, Earl of Surrey,
and Q E.D. being just moderate enough to make the event
an open am. The latter could win if she liked to try ; but
having disappointed her owner more than mice this season, it
may be the safer plan to trust Watchfire. The Goodwood
Derby, for 3-yr-olds,one mile and a-half, has Freeholder and
Earl of Surrey again engaged, and if they prefer the
richer make this most be left to Llandaff,
the Types colt, Ross, Lacydes, and Alvediston,
the latter beir; just good enough to beat all we
have seen in public, and perhaps the "dark" Llandaff to
boot. The Fuidon Stakes, for 2-yr-olde, T.Y.C. will bring
together several that have never shown in public before,
and I should be somewhat sweet on Lurline and Stamped.;
if their day bad arrived. It will be hard ho select the
winner, even after the field is seen, for Tom Fool, the
Brother to Scent and Eloot, Vivid, the Wasp oolt, Stock-
broker, Brick, Amazonian, and Black Knight, are all ex-
tremely good-looking, and report speaks well of Queen
Bertha also. Newfoundland is the bat I can discover in
the Cowdray Stakes ; but the weight. have not yet been
adjusted for the two Handicap Plates.
THUHBDAT.—The Goodwood Cup, two miles and a half,
can be disposed of in a very few words, as only the Wizard,
Audrey, Umpire, Palestro, rainwater, Highwayman, Zet-
land, Tim Whiffler, Dusk, Iluckenham, and hen de Joie,
promise to start, and it is easy to discover that the Maud
and Fairwater are the best of the old hones (at any rate
Audrey must win the Stakes to have a chance with them),
and Tim Whiffler and Zetland of the young ones. l'he last-
named would have the Wizard rate, through_ his running
Asteroid so close for the Ascot Cup, the Whitewall pet
-having only beaten the cherry )jscket • neck at Stockbridge ;
and through Zetland's defeat of Carbineer and Fsirwater
Ascot, he would look like the winner, Tim Whiffler and
Carbineer having run a remarkably close race for the Vase.
But against this there is • strong argument, for the Wizard
ran s good race with Ivanhoff at York Spring, when giving
him 1:ilb more than the orthodox weight for the year ;
and a month following, Ivanhoff, when not quite up to the
mark, beat Tim Whiffler a head with 31b. the worst of the
weights. Thus, as the Ascot running would bring Eastland
and Tim Whiffler together (through Carbineer) at about
bib, I should handicap the four cracks for the Goodwood
Cup (on the Wizerd's York performance) thus :
Age st
The Wizard
7 1
retreat. r
The Wizard, not being up to the mark, Stockbridge will
warrant the above figures being followed in preference to
the Ascot doings • and thus the judge may have to place the
Wizard first and Zetland second. The Tenth Bentiock
Memorial, for 4-yr olds (Queen's Plate course) looks • match
between Camerino and Frailty—the former for choice ; and
Buckenbam has only to beat Bertha in the Eleventh, for
3-yr-olds, one mile and a half ; but the previous perform-
ances of 2-yr olds must decide the Twelfth, unless Nugget
disprove the rumour as to his having turned
a " roarer. The Molecomb, for 2-yr olds, T.Y.C.,
is subject to what Curie, the Wasp colt, Brick,
Stampede), Automaton, Queen Bertha, Black Knight, and
Gunner may do in their previous engagements; and perhaps
Automaton may turn out the only one to lower the oolottra
of the slb penalised Armagnac. The Fifty soya Sweep-
stakes for Syr-olds, one mile and a-half, might fall .to the
lot of Imperatrioe, the struggle promising some excite-
mast. The remaining events are of no invariance. Ash-
ford being likely to walk over for the Racing Stain*, and
the weighta for the Chichester Handicap will not appear
until Tuesday.
FRLDAT.—The Nassau Stakes, for 3-yr-old fillies, one
mile, will not he affected by the remits of the three pre-
ceding days' racing, Bertha, Sappho, and Q.E.D., in the
order named, comprising all that may trouble the judge.
The other events closed, it would be waste of time to
analyse now, so many of the candidates having more then
One engagement to meet beforehand ; gad I can only re-
mark that Sir William, Sappho, and Bosh in the Chester-
field Cup, one mile and • quarter, will prove awkward
customers to whatever the Steward's Cup, Goodwood
Stakes, and other races may bring forth, while the
Nursery, for 2-yr-olds. one mile, will re9uire a flyer to
beat the Calliope Dolt and Netberby, if their parties
pat the money on in earnest, the Buck, Black Knight, and
Mr. Ten Brcack's selected being also worth renzemberinx.—
I am, he., MKTROR.