The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

[Stamped, ld. Additional.]

the tint time with Pantaloon, in the minor events;
and in the Houghton week Connection, Kangaroo,
and Pepper's Ghost, followed in their footsteps, a vast
improvement being also displayed by Catalogue. Don
Bulbs, Contract, sad Catalan, for the Doc gave Chow
some trouble to beat him. However, the Criterion was the
great f the week, and was rendered celebrated by
Chattanooga making such an exultant dernif for it, the
held comprising one or two others never seen in public
before that took people's fancy, Monitor rod Tibia getting
third and fourth to Brahma's second, but the Bock and
Regalia, from their lack of training, being unplaced, as were
Karns( (91b. extra), Auden (Sib. extra). Gladiator (Sib.
extra), Le Mandarin, and Kate Hampton. Chattanooga
beat the latter with the greatest ease, though not
half prepared ; and when Brahma afterwards ran a good
second for one of the Nurseries with Set. 10Ib, there
became a question whether Teddiogton had sot found his
equal in the Derby at last. licenig got a beating in a mile
race from a dark King Toni filly, now called Guiniveve,
who thus became first-class at once, as Kinnig bad run very
forward in the Criterion ; and there were other perform-
ances at the last great meeting, where two-year olds find it
worth while to run, to reader it of the utmost importance.
The four "illegitimate*" that wound up the season are soon
rue through, the main features of them being the improve.
meat shown by Leoville and Cedric at Worcester, and by
Lavinia (the Imogene filly), and Purity at Liverpool, where
the Lion came out in something like his old York colours
and woo the Nursery, and the sterling ability betrayed
by Catalogue and AttachC at Shrewsbury, for
they both won races in capital style against
the beet of company. Sidewind, Bella, and Hope
at the latter plus were also in their best form ; and the
" finish up" of Catalogue at Warwick was splendid, it
being a (mulles whether there were half a dozen two-year-
olds superior to her at the end of the year.
A perusal of the above remarks will prove the last three
mouths of the racing season to have been most eventful, as
far as concerns the history of the juveniles, for during that
period quite a host of our light. came no the .ceoe—to wit,
My Fancy. The Lion, Fair Melrose, Bedmioster, Joker,
Brahma, Kate HAraptoo, Kamiaron, Chanty, Glarliateur.
Dos Builio, Chattanooga, Moaner, Tibia, Troubadour, and
Guiniveve--and we had some brilliaut displays. besides, from
the improved Wild Agnes, Opposer, Catalogue. Olraar,
Goutraa, Attache, Audits, Zephyr, fx lo the improved ca-
tegory St. Magnus, Wings of theWid.L)ubiety,tirdmonton,
the Moistissima filly, Iliondios, Brown Brend, Viola, Furze
Chat, the Whiteboy filly, Pantaloon, Verderer, Celenima,
Hanstead, Teems, Klarioska, Mirlidor, Sasebo,
Sister to Asclam, Proviso', Pepper's Ghost. Leoville,Cedric,
Laviaia, Bella, and Sid/wind likewise included themselves ;
and when handicapping the "best form " of the year (a
labour I shall have completed a fortnight hence) there will
be plenty of groomd to go over, above a hundred fair hones
having been enumerated altogether in the above li-t and in
my two previous letters.—l am, Sc., METEOR.