The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR Of THE KIPRESB.

Sta,—Much as the fate this year of the Metropo-
- flamenetahire Stokes, Northumberlaad Plate, Liven
pa cup, Goodwood Sakes, and Leauliagton males, may
Wee peeved aiocerning the gradual decline of two-mile handy.
eap races, or...atonal loannina ars afforded their vitality.
The coming Cesaiewitch supplies one of them, for it pro-
misee a most ieterening contest, a large field, and an issue
istiefactory to the haoilicapper, who from the betting indi-
gnities has made even fewer mistakes then usual whea ad-
joining the weights. Greet as wea the number of four-par-
ade sod upwards he turned loose, there are only two of
that class m favour now, and the postai:4i of fret favourite
is I old by a youngster, who rung nearly 111 his opponents
mita the wont of the weirOta, whii..t the majority of those
Imbed for " good money" are not among the • throws in"
let by any means, the following compriong those to whom
paha support, apparently, will to the last be congcegeded :
Age b
Illsekdown 8 st
l 51 Beat=Beat=i s 16
Aoltworth
lady Whin
Nan Train 3 6 10 Ttialestrls
Onset 3 6 7 (indite&
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Among those that have been backed during the betting,
hat whose starting is now considered doubtful, are 1.01.'
meat (3 yri, Sit 411,), the Brewer (aged 11 yrs. 7st), Tattoo
ps, fet 101 b), Dr. Syntax (4 yrs, tiet 91b), Myrtle (6 yrs.
71b), Fanfrcluche (4 yrs, 6ai 71b), the lady Franca
My 14 yn, list), Holy Poly (4 yrs, Bet 934, and Alabama
{tyre, amt 71b) ; but I have reason to believe that Dr. Syntax,
the evergreen Brewer, and the Lady Frances filly
givesoli : their backers at least a "run for their
Yealliay • and supposing Cariebrook (5 yrs, 7st 111 b),
Dime beano (5 yrs, 7st 61b), Tomato (3 yrs, 7st 21b),
Holly-
(3yra, let), Beaver (3 P/1, 7st), Charting Woman (5 yin
L?lb). Beatrice (4 re, Est 101 b), Mrs. Somerville (4 711,
21b), Wandering l (3 yrs, 6st 611 a), Arvind& (3 yrs,
tat 71b), and Speculation (3 rie, tat 71b) to swell the field,
with, doubtless, one or two others also, some two dozen
=ma may be almost safely speculated upon. Some hopes
might he indulged in concerning Doane Cane if any de-
mortratioa were made in his favour, his party being as
Simi as they are patient ; and there is no saying what the
geed-looking Anaemia may have improved into by this time;
Mr pair, at any rate, are good simnel to run for the fielders,
who will cling to the most forlorn hope, end they
esie safely depend on the Exeter blue and white
&sing them fall justice. However, the dome above
asaineratol to whom the clever people give their
allegiance include several highly tried light-weights
ahem pretensions are certainly stronger • and a peat mis-
take must have been made with Gratitude, for instance, if
ales manot beat all the second class three.year-olds. Her
prformaaose, it is true, would not warrant her beating
myth* over two miles and a quarter, as after five attempt'
me a three-year-old she had to retire into winter quarters
without having obtained the honours of a situation ; but
she always looked worked to death. After poseemlng such
pad looks in the spring as to be backed for the Oaks, and
isviag been so highly tried for this event as to caw
aneerel "parties" with good hones of their own in the
race to row in with her, the ought not only to start
first favourite, but to win when longing nearly
every candidate in the above list, except Thalestris
sad Cteronan, with au advantage of from 20th to
331 b--leaving sex out of the question—in the weights. Black.
deers, of her own year, carrion the highest impost, and
dens 31b more than is enough for the year to Ackworth,
the threoyear-old at the top of the tree ; and, good hone
se be is, it is ally fair to appose soothing but defeat is in
More for him. His last exhibition in public, nearly a year
ego, will make him bat litus " better "her Dam °sow,
Mho beat him at Shrewsbury ; and after what we maw Tho
leans do the other day with Early Purl, it us hard to be-
lieve be can give her anything like 3111 a, eves if Gratitude's
eigistation should prove to be undeserved. Ackworth I
have so opinion of, after the Deasy times be ham bees beanie
wine backed ; and it is bard to believe in Lady Hylda's
sables improvement, that seemed to strike everybody who
she best East Lsooashire at Bedford. At the beet, Lord St.
Visosat'shorseiaan uncertain on, that anything could have
beano at Doncaster ; and those who saw Bares Rothachild's
Happolyta canter away from her ladyship on three amnions
lea June cannot but believe the Canna colt, who is mid to
be as good a three-year-old as there is in the stable, will
=Der • fourth time behind the blue and yellow of the
Mail Train is the nest on the list that looks like a
wiener, and his weight is not too heavy an one, seeing how '
Dulcibella carried the sane 031011711 home four years ago.
His " performaaoes" axe particularly nioommendatory, as
done who know the party will admit when reading the
knowing history of them. As • two-yeer-old be ran four
times, only on one occasion getting a " place,' and then his
jockey could not help it, being unable to pull him up in time
te prevent such a fluke in Juno this year be ran twice at
Ascot, in large fields and for " 'hat cute," and got through
without either the judge or "the Admiral" getting his
seasuie. In the latter part of August, aural the thou-
sends to tea, fifteen, and twisty for the rue that could be
got were booked by somebody, a report was forwarded (by the
"highest authority," no doubt, or it would never have ob-
tained credence) to the sporting papers to the effect that he
had been sold, and left the stable ; and in the brat week of
September another report was neat to the aforesaid papers,
that the "sell" was not—or orse—a "all," inasmuch
as the hone, heist discovered unsound, was returned on
pear W. Day's hands. His " performances" were thus
limed nicely for the Cearewitch, as in the second
week of September the weights wen published; and
The moue_y has been piled ca so persistently ever aeon as
to prove Was
did not consider the weight allotted
too mach for their unsound Mail Train to be freighted with.
13thiple-minded people in the first blush thought otherwise ;
hat having called to mind the antecedent' of Duleibelle,
(latch-'em-Alive, Petra, and other " good things" from the
11■0311 quarter, they have become convinced at last that this is
another case of Cancle-'em-Alive, How they have tried the
hone Eaters not ; it is sufficient to know that Wood sates
sue esafidsat, stead to wt' "a mint of moon," sad have
see of the beet hearing hones of his year to represent their
tolerate. There is, of coarse, the fear of their bean an-
other Petra, who only rewarded their patience by running
wood four yearn ago for the Chester Cup, alter " per-
forming" so well for twelve mouths as to be turned loom
by the handicapper ; but a St. Alban's does not some to
light every day, and Mail Train is certain to rue
the good hone en this occasion the market indicates him to
be. Planet hails from the stable that would not have the
unsound one, and it would be very extraordinary wen be to
upset the whole concern, for there are many who deem him
a fiesteleas horse, and he looks very like one. He is backed
alio, ran likewise two Wien equally dangerous—Sesames
and &atria ; but if one of this trio can win the Oesarewitch,
the oracle has been worked for them more cleverly than far
Mail Train, fur they have run moderately well, and Dot
aponisatically bad. The Suspicion poly wee always •
clever one, and won the Cmarewitch 'out of the fire"
twice, still I cannot but hick that if • three-yen-old is to
upset the "pot," it must be Cathedral or the Celina colt ;
the last-named is particularly formidable, union Hippolyta
has gone off very auddealy. The American-bred Charmiaa,
too, must not be despised, if she is better than Myrtle
at the weights; and if Gratitude and Tbaleatris
an as good ma they look on paper, there is nothing
Ike a " certainty" to look forward to. There is no doubt
that Gratitude wfil endeavour to run the Train off the
; sod sash" 001111 be but • second-clam filly to accom-
plish that task, I shall look for her triumph.
There are more than two dozes other clued events in the
programme, if I include thOjatchee ; but the majority are
of the most unimportant character, and some can be reduced
to certainties already, so that it would be a waste of words
to notice more than the prinapil items. Second in impor-
tance to the Croarewitch is the Prendergast Stakes, a two-
year old race, also decided on Tuesday ; and (Bed-
minster, Joker, and Kate Hampton, although de-
feated. have run sufficiently forward to be din-
VIM ci,pocieuta of the penalised Longdown (tUb
extra), Gardevisure (9lb extra', Maid Marian (3lb extra),
Beginella (31b extra), Vest colt (31b extra), and Shrapnel
(31b extra), who are the best of the winning hones engaged.
There are nineteen in the list that have never beau out,
including Gladiateur, The Wizard's dam colt, and Archi-
Rides—all Derby horses ; but 1 doubt whether th& best of

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them is tit enough to wiu, if even to start, and while pm.
miming on the absence of Longdowa shall leave the straggle
to Joker, Kate Hampton, and Maid Marian, the formrZfo
choice. The result .ill influence several minor affairs that
follow, and also the Prendergast. run for on Ftiday over lb.
same T. Y.C., which it is almost certain to herald the

einem of— perhaps in Maid Marian. To atzeiiii; the
list of two-year-old noes, the Ttoy Stakes, rua for first
the Stockbridge Meeting, is premed
into Wedar-
day's programme ; but the attempt is sot • " decided
hit," for the previous result render the victory of Romig
alosest • certainty with his 7lb allowance ; and the 41b
allowed to the beaten horses should have been given only
lethal implored lot, as the einem is penalised Mb. The
met tot! worthy additions to the bill of fare are the New.
trearbto. Derby and Oaks Ssakea, sod the want of Inch an
eremtion he: long boas fait, for Of MN the tto7el Stakes
iW dwitaled down to nothing, lotil n'.!!!,ou the
Whet Steles wee the only three year old feature. For
next Wednesday's anniversary there is a truly "select"
sotry and if Coop d Etat, Ely (Mb extra), Union
Jack, Camtmamn, and Bel Demmer, meet, it will be
quite en event. Union Jack sod Coup d' Etst
are mid to be rapidly mending, and if so
lgoion Jack will sorely trouble Camboacen, who has Ely
safe enough at their pr, sent weights. The Newmarket
Oaks, decided on Thursday, is a two-mile race, sod the iit.t
and second for the Epsom Oaks—Fills de )'Air (7lb extra)
sad Breeze (:tlb extra)— look like fighting • second terms
battle, uulesa their respective owners try conclusions with
and Evelina instead, owing to their being impanel.
led, whoa it would still be reduced to a match between
Berets Rothschild sod Count F. de Laraine. Fills de
)Air might possibly be reserved for Fnday's Newmarket
Derby, as her penalty would not tell so much over the mile
sad • half ; but there's, however, she would have to meet
Claremont, Planet, and Mester Richard, with 71b, end
Nail Train with • lilb. disadvantage, and one of the los
should beat her, Mail Train basin only to obtain • " plaice "
Is the Coos:switch to herald himself the winner.-1 am, &a.,
METEOR.