The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

13110117 DIG INTELLIGENCE.

REVISW OF THZ EPSOM MEETING.

TO TEI eriethe or tIE touranne.
811,—After such an eventful meeting an that at
Epsom much can always be said se written. end more
especially since two or Wee great meals folawing se de:Roll
on to the Derby and Oaks have been milablished, the
Prise of Paris of about 7,0001., and the Pries of Wales's
Sikes of &toot, worth about 2,1001., beteg =Mere to look
forward to that were not dimmed of very few years ago,
end thus theioinp at Space ma be mitered into with •
double object—via, that of reviewing the put and look-
ing forward to the immediate raters, which .m. be
better done now that the excitement has cooled
down. How the public mustered so strongly on the
Deem as to make the ettentisaws on the Derby-day
the largest ea recced—how the ground was herder than
ever, end the result of the great struggle harder than usual
for the million, and how the bipeds west to and from
Epees in both the old said the new styles--it is not my
provisos to narrate, and the details must be pretty stale
now ; but there were may item. requiring my &Ma'am,
and we started with • megrim i ger, although them
was catkin
_very astonishing in 'dream winning
the Crimea etathe, it was not supposed she could beat
Barmy so far, and it was suspected the letter has tented
went, which will explain why the old mare's stable com-
pwwe, Ely, was not more thought of for the Derby
after her performance, as she beat nothing else of
any great 0000000, the thine Duelist— who sever
=recovered from the drawing she got at the
wood last year—whoa pulled out for
• paltry Qualm's Plate • de after her severs race with La
Tatham& for the Cup, • dm, and probably eadi
her auger The Brigham Handicapoo afforded Empire angn
opportunity of displaying what brilliant things he mm ac-
complish when in the humour, and the performance of
&darker in the same race was also a great owe ; mother
heavy weight, Jandootee, winning the Rom Haadirap, to
the aelonishmeat of those who had not watched his recruit
doings on the coatinent, and the disgust of all who kept in
mind his wretched exhibilloo in the City and Suburbia
when turned loose, and a great favourite, the public nata-
-1 ralleocning to the conclusioa they were as closely " dew"
himby
than as they ware by Fills de l'Air is
lam Two Thousand, sad Straddla in the
Cheater Cup of 1863. The Wowleote brought to
light ao Derby 1865 crack, as fillies were first and
second, Gerdevaure who woe her nos so ready here in
the spring, displaying that she could get • disteawi well
by boating the French La Fortune ally. The litter's
dibut, however, angered a good future for her, as she was
two lengths before Puritan, who can a fair hone at Beth
and Northampton, sad there were a goodly body behind, in-
chiding Eltham, Benanair, Pirate, and Lovelace, who had
been out before, sod • North Lincoln filly Blooming
Heather—who was tee big and backward to shine at two
years old. Attraction not getting quite so well off as her
oppowsnts io the Heathoote Plate, she was beaten by both
Lady Curren and La Mialmate—the fastest mare and one
of the best 2-,yrloldefin Imiaing; and this closed the first day's
rosin, which turned oat of • most interesting character,
and decidedly more enjoyable than that of the Derby day,
when the crowds and the dust combined made it
• difficult mattes to see anything. Fortunately,
only the Derby required criticising, and this might
almost be summarily disposed of by the remark !
that the result wasonly a surprise for the uninitiated, ea
of the many favourites I felt compelled, after analysing the
two-yr-olds of last year, to handicap Scottish Chief, Ely,
atd Birch Broom, with Apennine and Prince Arthur, who
were once so strongly &mead, a storm behind tint-ekes
form, and the race proved this estimate to be quite right,
for they received • stone besting from the hands of Blair
Athol. In feet, as Historian had his chance thrown out by
being cannoned against, and (bast Guard was useble tout
on the hard ground, and wither NA. nor Caralithean
seemed to like it when they took their preliminaries, the
Two Thousand winner aid • good " dark • horse were
bound to beat the field, and this conclurioa I was compelled
to arrive at when analysis; the Derby neatly six
month, ego ; for after damming the pretemiom
of every candidate that had bean heard of, my
summing up was as follows :—" I cannot flatter myself on
being smith nearer the winner than whoa 1 beim, for the
cream of the public performees—Ooast Guard, Coup d'Etat,
Paris. Cambuseut, and Historian—are hard enough to
theme between ; sad when the reputations of Bair Athol,
Forager, Fita-Adine, Hrklarwaed, Hollyfor, Harcourt,
Jack Frost, Askworth Count, the Oalista Bolt,and some-
thing of lard Glasgow's, receive their due weight, a aitie,
to be at all honest, man confer himself thoroughly mysti-
fied where trying to find the beet. The early way to get out
of the dilemma, wimps, is to make • bold plunge, sod I
*hall do so by declaring in favour of Blau Athol."
In the same article my opinion of Lord Glasgow's
string of half • doses was that General Peel
must be the best ; and thus the Derby has only
resulted as it was expected to do daring the winter mouths,
sad I can take some credit to myself for adhering pretty well
to these ideas in my last, in the face of the extraordinary
trials that were so industriously put about. There were few
mishap in the nos to account for defeats, the accident to
Historian above noticed, the break down of Surat, and the
Immo= of Dormouse before he had gone half way, being
the only casualties reported ; but it is averred there wee
something wring with Vabaat beforehand, and as be is in
theft Leger, with Historian, Scottish Chief, Onset Guard,
and Ounbeacan, we shall probably hear as much as usual of
the beaten Derby horses in the great September mos, while
if Bair Athol happens to get beaten is the Grand Prize of
Paris on Sunday mixt, several others may also be brought
into the market, for Kaigbt of Snowdon, Banish, Holly-
fox, Strafford, Master Richard, Cathedral, Surat, Planet,
Copenhagen, Auk worth, Outlaw, Ely, Major, Appeals*,
Privateer, and lame Walton are likewise sepia in it, and
J. Scott's many surprises effected at Demister may cause
both Berardi and Hotlyfox to " come" some day. Still, it is
my firm impressioa the two best hones in the Derby were
first and second, the only doubt being whether it would
not have become • " sear thing" if Gomm' Peel had
been ridden more patiently. He is not in the Grand Prise
of Paris, where Blair Athol's most dangerous oppmeet is
Fills de l'Air, who won the French Oaks as well as the
English, for the French Derby winner, Bois Rommel, has no
better "form" to boast of than Scottish Chief, tambrawati,
Paris, or Ely, who wire all beaten in our Derby, and Glen-
desk is another Raglishman who looks • match for Iron.
The result of the Oaks was very near earning a riot, Fills de
winning seemed, —es Whe was bound todo, "with her head
loose," after Sarsgara broke down—that the infuriated mob
would have " mo " her jockey, oa account of the way
she ran in the Two Thousand, which has since bees
looked upon as a "sell," and only required her
Oaks victory to confirm the impression. Bat the mob
showed On igeenuice of all racing tactics by selecting
the unfortunate jockey as • ♦to4m, eves though he rode the
filly in both met, for when a —as a our to get
mousy is invariably celled by the unsophisticated—is In-
tended, it is not entrusted to the rider's accomplishment,
even supposing one in Edwards's position would be willing
to uadersake the job, and he seldom suspects there is any-
thing the matter until he finds his animal unable to move
under him. It is • pity Saragossa did not keep on her lop,
for she might have prevected the intended coup coming off,
and everybody would have been overjoyed to see • thorough
sportsman like Lord Zealand that the buocaneare of the turf
out of one of the richest prizes that can be carried off.
Fills de l'Air is not in the St. Leger, the only "placed"
filly in the Oaks that is being Breeze, who is
gradually training into • splendid mare, and by
the St. Leger-day we shall see Finesse fit to coo-
tact • great race for about the first time ; while La
Game Lades and Masquerade also promise to do better
some day, as does also Madame Wallies, who is not in the
St. Leger. Concerning the other events, it is sufficient to
say that Little Stag wiped away the stain of his York ,
defeat by beating frairwater for the Cap, with other first
dies animals, and that Thursday's two-year-old race
showed us seven' good youngster' in Victorious, Anti- '
Idwasear, ad Bunch, who ran for the first time with
Silverlocka and Le Bearmis, who had been out before, bat
not in • condition to race, and the latter was hardly suited
here in the course, which he would have preferred to find
double the length. 15 e saw, however, no 1865 Derby crack
as the meeting from appearances ; sad Gardevisure
and Victorious are about as superior to the remainiag
two-yearolds seen at the meeting, as are Blair Athol, Gom-
m! Peel, and Fills de l'Air to the threes. Thus everything
went as it should have done, so far as concerns the best
horses winning 41 the principal stakes ; sad yet the Derby
and Oaks results were not satisfactory, for both Blair
Athol and Fills de l'Air had been finessed with until the
uninitiated were made to believe they had 00 thanes, the
absence of anything like enthusiasm after the Derby and
the yells of eximation after the Oaks stowing that neither
event had been won by the gentlearee of the Turf. —I am,
ha

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —On
Saturday • Whezocliffe meeting of this munpany was held
at Manchester. Mr. George Wilson, deputy chamois, pee-
sided. The chairman moved the approval of • bill for
making a railway from the Lancashire and Yorkshire line at
Chadbura to the like North-Western lisle at Settle, to be
called the Hibblesdale Railway, and for other parposes.
Mr. Samuel Fielden seocaided the motion. In amine to a
question the chairman said the line was to be made without
this company subscribing to the capital. The resolutica
pumped unanimously. The chairman then moved the ap-
proval of a bill for making a continuation of as embankment,
docks, and other woi ka, and for the reclataistiou and acquisi-
tion of lands at kleetwood. Mr. Ratcliffe seconded the
motion. In answer to Mr. Joshua Fields., the chairman
mid this company had agreed to subscribe 51.0001., but the
London and North Western Compaay hatt.eg agreed to OM-
tribute 17,0001., the subscription of the ire and
Yorksh ire would be reduced to 34,0001. The notice passed,
and the misting; adjourned to 18th Jam
GRAAF NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-WAD,
Isumoros.—Number of patients for the Took owl*
Ma, 24 656, of which 221 were now mom
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