The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE WOLVERHAMPTON AND READING

MEETLNGS.
TO IHI =MOB or Tan EIFIZHS.

Silt,—The Brighton and Lewes meetings had so
little to do with future events, not one St. Leger horse
having performed during the five days, while Durham is the
best of the two engaged ia the Derby that was
seen, that it is unnecessary to enter into the details of them,
and it is sufficient to remark they would have passed off as
plemently as ever but-for the melancholy catastrophe at
Brighton, where en widest occurred to Pellucid 6 is the
second race which caused the death of Drew, the jockey. He
had been engaged in the profession for ten years, but
never met with • mishap before, I believe, although let-
terly he has had no end of mounts. and started
this season with no fewer than nine "retainers," viz. from
the Marquis of Aileebury, Mr. Payne, Mr. Greville, Mr.
Amtley, Sir Joseph Hawley, Lord Portsmouth,ptitin
Lane, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Sutton. He was not
riding Pellucid for either of these gentlemen, but for the
trainer, H. Outer, and had gone to Brighton principally
for the purpose of riding Lord Palmerston's Baldwin in the
Pavilion Plate on Wedneeday.
The chief nee meetings of the correct week are those at
Wolverhampton and Leading, the former occupying Tues-
day and Wednesday, and the bill of fare is one it is knees-
side to pick a fault ia, the eleven items already closed out
of the bakers' dozen to take place being well patronised.
Thug are two weight-for-age moss to come off on the first
day, one of them, the Pidehall Handicap, over three-
quarto.. of • mile, having Lady Clifden, Livingstone, the
Clown, Little Stag, Attraction, and Queen of Trumps in the
list; but Lady Clifden having run into her beet
form aaggaiun, it impossible to believe even Livingstone can
successfully oppose her, for there is only 111 b between
them ; and the style in which she cut down the Clown at
Lewes, giving him 421 b, will not warrant the idea that a twir-
-1 year-old an bowl her over, evert with Attraction in receipt
of SAlb, The Cleveland Cup, about two miles and a half,
is merely • question whether Fairwater will enter the lists,
as she carries no penalty, and only conned..two stone to the
best of the-three-year olds, which is Comet, sod he is far
from • good horse over a distance. The Fifth Stamford
Biennial Stakes, for two year olds, half • mile, ought to go
to Leicester, considering that he carries only Bst 316, as berm
Birch Broom and Durham pretty close at Ascot and Stock-
bridge, even weighte,Und herein Crytbsia has Bst 111 b. Black
Fnar Bst 121 b, Fisherman's Daughter Bst 81b, Lord Adolphus
Bst 61b, Cranbury Bst 121 b, and lady Nichol fist 91b, it beings
question whether the best of these is equal to either Durham
or Birch Broom. The Staffordshire Nursery, also for two-
year-olds, is • half-mile handicap, wherein Garotter at
Bst 1216, Faith at Bst 41b, and Madame Walton at Bst 21b,
have the best of the heavy weight. ; Hymns, at 7st 71b,
holding the middle weights safe, and Geduld, at fist, the
light weights. In the Holyoake Handicap, one mile and •
half, Lord of Linne has to carry the same weight he somas-
fully took home at Lewes, including his penalty ; but the
scale is a very different one, and he may find a dilleulty in
Riving 41b to Bandage, and 271 b to Jack o' Newbury. The
Wolverhampton Stakes, two miles, on the second day, will
bring together but • small proportion of the two dozen so-
gaged, as Jack o'Hearts'a Goodwood Stakes performance will
give him the best of Balham. Magnum Boom, Barchettioa,
Umpire, Polynesia, Isoline, and Brien Boru, who have all
performed during the past fortnight ; and the distance being
out of the comps., of Wyunstay, Suburban, Bandage, and
Liston, he has the best of the weights with everything ex-
cept Change and Joco, only the first named of which is of a
elan good enough to compete with Jack o' Hearts, and the
issue may be between the two, unless Change is kept for the
home meeting. The Fourth Stamford Biennial Stakes, for
three-year olds, one mile and • half, has three dozen entered,
iucluding Lord Chides, Borealis, Trumps, Judea, Tmjanus,
Fluke, Blithfield, Abernethy, Gladstone, Oscar, and Kiog
of Utopia ; and in the probable absence of the
two St. Leger cracks the prize should be carried
off by either Judea or Omar. The Chillington
Stakes, for two-year-olds, half 'a mile, has an equally good
lot to make up • field from, Light (71b extra), The Doctor
(41b extra), Persuasion (71b extra), Cranbury (41b extra),
Leicester (allowed 51b), Faith (41b extra), and Durham (71b
extra), being all of a good class. Leicester has the best of
it at present; but should the win the Biennial on the first
day he will have a 416 penalty instead of the Sib allowance,
and if anything can fairly defeat him therein Light must
give him the weight here, so that he really has so chance
against • lot like Light, Cranbury, and Parmesan, who are
all too fast for Durham over • half-mile course, the trio
having my confidence in the order named. In the Borough
Members' Plate East Sheen will be hard for Lord Stamford
to beat, and Flirtation is the best looking for the Welter
Cup. . . . .

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The Reading meeting having to iminediately follow
Wolverhampton will suffer thereby, ae many of the events
in the bill of fare will have too strong a light thrown upon
them for the fields to be great ; and yet tbere is certain to
be an excellent meeting, the Berkshire Handicap, two
miles, being worth between four and five hundred pounde.
Balham, 5 yrs, Set Sib, Bandage, 4 yrs, Bat 31b, Earl of
Surrey, Sat 21b, Flaah.in.the-Pan, aged, 7st 131 b. Jack o'
Hearts, 3 yrs, feat 13lb, Middlewatch, 3 yrs, fist 91b, and
Change, 3 yr., Gst 71b, are all engaged is either the Wol-
verhampton Stakes or Holyoake Handicap, Balham and
Change being more leniently treated here, however, as
they meet Jack o'Hearts on 11Ib and 61b better terms re-
spectively, and they ought to beat all the Wolver.
hampton horses. Nevertheless. Markdown, 3 yrs, 7st 41b,
is only consisting Balham Glb for the defeat in the Goodwood
Stakes ; and if he can beat Change and Gardener, 5 yrs,
Set 91b, there will not be ninny others to trouble him. It is
doubtful whether he can give the weight to Change; and
on one of the latter's performancee,this season it looks a real
good thing for him, as he ran Spencer to, a neck at Bath at
2lilb difference, and Lord Palmeraton's horse was within
half-a-length of Bl,ckdown in the Brighton Stakes
at 221 b difference, from which line it seems impossible the
Goodwood Stakes winner can give Change 111 b, or even half
the weight. For the Stewards' Plate, one mile and equate,
my present fancy points to Warminster. .1 yrs. let Glib, al-
though it's best left alone anti after Wolverhampton, as is
also the Nursery Plate, for twoyear.olds, seven furlongs,
wherein Mail Train, ;at 111 b, is not the worst treated. TLe
Reading Stakes, for two-year olds, half-a-mile, might not
tempt a Derby horse like Paris, certainty" as he appear',
when Crisis will become the most formidablecandidate, with
Black Friar and Fisherman's I)aughter next. Neither is it
• certainty that the Tippler will cut in for a paltry race like
the Easthempatead Park Stokes, round a course not at all
suited to a horse of bin size, Fontenoy being the best of the
remainder. The Abbey Stakes, for two-year.olda five fur-
longs (second day) it will be hard to get Garotter beaten for,
despite his 7lb penalty, my greatest doubt being whether
he can give a stone to Vanua ; hut Topsy, :lyre, Sit 10Ib,
for the mile Whitby Handicap, is the best thing of the day,
if we can believe in her running with Cheerful at Brighton.
—I am, &c., METEOR.