The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-06 00:00:00

TO TEN EDITOR 07 TED lIXPIZIO.

tioaut as are a great number of the
sweepstakes already completed in the programme of the
Ant meeting at heed-quarters in 1863, we shall have an
abundance of sport during the Craven week, the thirteen
plating races that have yet to be made rep being sure of re.
coivitig support, while about one-third of the closed items
will Resume the utmost importance, and create a vast
amount of excitement, especially to those interested in the
Two Thousand Guineas. Derby, and other great recce
coming otf during the next six weeks. The Newmarket
Handicap, Sale Stakes, Derby Trial Stakes, and Claret
Stakes hare especially good entries, prominent favourites
for all the forthcoming important races that are now specu-
lated Jpois being engaged in them ; and the two Biennials
are petty certain to being some fresh material into the
market for them, as are also one or two other events.

Monday's card will be about the weakest of the five—
&amender in the Ridillesworth, with Game and Water
Kelpie in their respective sweepstakes, reading very like
" walks over ;" for it is said Mr. Saxon's promising Derby
colt, Jerry, will not oppose the last named, • and her other
mooniest, Crookshank, is returned an out of training. A
T.Y.C. Sweepstakes with seven entries might create some
little stir, as the Beet Fantastic and Livingstone are likely
to meet again, and some of the others (all maidens, with
71b allowances) may cut in also, one of them (Lightning)
being bred to shine over short distances ; nevertheless,
we saw Fantastic give plenty of weight away and
win his six furlong raze easily enough at North-
ampton, and his moat troublesome antagonist may
again prove to be Livingstone. The R.M. Sweepstakes
may not afford no a peep at Lord Stamford'. dark Avenger,
onos such • " pot" for the Derby ; and the Beau's Milt is
not a certainty, although the horse is under orders for New-
market. However, whatever the field may comprise, the
event reduces itself to a match between the Giraffe colt and
Fianc6e, and I rather incline to the first-named. Both the
juveniles matched over the last half of the Ab.lL are dark.
On Tuesday the Newmarket Handicap, one mile and
three quarter., will amuse more than its ordinary import-
ance, as one of the thne.year-olda engaged is thought good
enough at home to be backed for the Derby to win a dozes
fortunes, and should he ran here, the style in which he
perform. will be watched with the greatest anxiety. I
allude to Lord Glasgow's colt by Y Melbourne, dam by
Gameboy out of Ansel* that nut no in the Cham-
pagne and Criterion last year, who took my fancy greatly at
Newmarket, and has got handicapped here most favourably,
considering how forward he ran there when not in anything
like the same fettle as the winner, Hospodar. He has bees
too long in the market, in my opinion, for his noble *weer
to dream of withdrawing him, even admitting it would be
better policy not to risk the bone's being knocked about, se
a lad at let rib might not be able to take care of him, and
thus his appearance at the post may frighten such animals
as Oakbrook, Harlington, Brown Duthie., Sappho, Bar-
leys* Lapidist, Amasonian, Fantail, and Falcon, whose
owes* if they thought them able to make him gallop—and
the assuredly *mild do so if in their old forma—would be
ty aortae to keep them a little longer. Bedouin (4 yrs,
71b), Colleen Ethos (3 yrs, let 71b), Monst-Arms (6 yes,
84 51b), Paste (Fyn, 8A 51b), Cape Flyaway (let, Set 101 b),
Fairwater (5 yrs, Sit 31b), Watchman (4 64 bib),
Magnum Beam (4 yrs, Est 71b), • d'Ea-
Ansi (5 yrs, lit 131 b), and Battolda (5 yrs, Set),
will probably ocnelitate themselves the real oppo-
sition, although! the for bat-named have not been
brought into the market yet ; and its nay to perceive a
Derby colt at let 7lb should have no disculty in settling
the preteosions of this 14, as only Badman, -Watchman,
sad Magnum Boaum—moderate horses at the beet of times
—have any advantage in the weights with him, and their
pull is but from ayes to ten pounds. Should any unfore-
seen circumetance provost his triumph, Colleen Rhos will
have a fair chance of carrying the stake to Lewes, cad next
to her cornea Bedouin, who has likewise been wall tried.
The Fifth Newmarket Biennial Stakes, for 3-yr-olds, R.N. '
with its 75 sulk, wlf bring together • respectable lot of
=edemas, even in the alkeisoe of Blue Mantle and
meta ;• for the brother to Scoot, Omeander,
Newsmonger, Tajo, sad Escape, are all fair perfr l
and with something like the OWLS numberoof
dark horses that have been talked about is I
connexion with the Derby in the field, there is no calculating
bow startling the result may become. Tajo and Goseander
are the best performers of the above, it is easy to pensive,
ad the pair will take some beating ; but Lord Coventry's
Newsmooger streak me last autumn as a most promising
two-yr-old. and there would be nothing surprising in hie
bowling over the pair. The &math Sale Stakes, for threw
yr-olds, A.F., will be a harder task for Dankeld thaa was
his race at Northampton, far he meets Weatherbow,
Equinox, Cachuca, and Charlemagne at fair racing weights,
and Cacho= might give him some trouble. Still I think the
severe mile and a quarter so well suited to his pen
_were that he
should again pull through. Coriolis, Brightaood, Muessin,
and Canace, in the D.M. Sweepstakes, are almost evenly
matched, as the first-named filly gave sites last year of never
getting a mile. She would have no &fficulty in beating berths.*
opponent. over a T. Y.C. ; but here it may be safer to put
faith in Bright Cloud, who has often been backed at outside
prime for the Derby.. The Tuesday Riddlesworth has two
toped that have never been seen, and may not be is
training ; Cassidia is the best of the lot in the D.M. 100
son. Sweepstakes, Lord Stamford having also the "wooed-
beet, Rana ; and the Free Handicap, last half of KM.,
Good-for-Nothing, 4 yrs, let lllb, ooald not lose, if oaly I.
the is... form se she exhibited here last season.

Wednesday has its feature in the Darby Trial Stakes for
3 and 4.yr olds, lad mile and a hall of 8.C., for which
there is an sultry of thirty, at 50 son. gash, k ft, with 100
added, the following comprising their present imposts :

At* 12 111 Age et PO
Argonaut
Plum 4 847110,4
Buckenham 4
Buekstone 4 locoing.
Fen de Joie
Clarissimue
Investment
Harlequin
Sono 4 1 The Ramps 3 1
LaughingStotk 4 1 The Acrobat can— $ 1
Imperatore
King of Hearts 4 Leotard
•,eals
Talendre 4 71.4.44
Nottingham • 4 Velaptai
They hare not ben able to pall out Nottingham sine his
breakdown in last ear's Derby, sad thus Stradella and
Sappho may bee as the beet of the light weight
4.yr.olds, and Backstone of the heavy weights, this trio
having only to go to the post for the chances of the remain-
ing old horses to be ail. Of the 3-yr-olds Dunkeld,
Escape, and Plana will probably be seen out on Monday
and 'Tuesday. and the best of them, with the selected of W.
Day's trio—Voluptas, Dr. Syntax, and the Acrobat colt—will
canonse all that is to be feared from the 3-yr-olds. Their
pretensions are not so formidable, for If Volnptaa and
Fiona* should both have trained into the good animals they
last year promised, they will have to meet at the wont of
the weights a first-class mare like Stradolla, who has no
business in the Chester Cap quotations if she can-
not win this event pretty cleverly, which I think
she will be able to aeoomplish. There as, two
Sweepstakes in the third day's list at the mercy of Lord
Stamford, ()wadi& es the T.Y.C., and Hesper on the lest
half of Ab.M., having little to fear ; but Rosin can beat
Oscar over the R.M., with her pull in the weights—se ad-
vantage the Pan filly ought to make good use of in the last
half of the R. M. Free Haa&oap, although she has never
shown any form, mod may Sod a troublesome customer in
Merry Hart despise the wide difference in their imposts.
On Thursday, there is a rich prize in stove for Backstop*
in the Claret Stakes, for four year olds. D.L, for there is
I,ooof. to be woo if only Zealand and Clarissiseu oppose
him. and the latter will assuredly do so nukes his running
with Kr. Merry's borne should show such a course to be
utterly useless. The two miles is very severe, and but that
there are rumours of all not being right in Zetland's stable,
it would be a closeng thi between Lord St. Vincent's bone
Buckstone, not withdanding the latter 'midways the superior
whenever they nat. The Fourth Bawds/, for focr.year-
, olds, DI., witnessed but year the defeat of Cuactecue by
Duke Rollo, now called Marro • but neither may Snit
among the starters on Ibis occekoo, as the latter was sold
out of Lord Stamford's stable for 105 guineas last autumn,
and must have lost all form not to fetch five times that
figure. Welcome (got 716), Sappho (7st 101 b), Earl of Sur-
rey (Sat 71b), Toluroo (3st 71b), Harlequin (Set 31b), and
lanellan (at 31b), are the best of the remainder, over the
two miles, and unless Harlequin has retained some of the
form be displayed when beating Cerbioeer last enema
week, which be certainly never showed afterwards, Sappho
will have only Welcome to fear, it being not improbable she
will do something for her *weer this season, especially with
a man on her buck. Le Mancha' haa two Sweepstakes
engagements to-day, but in op* of them, on the T.Y.C.,
Oscar can repreeeet Lord Stamford just as well, sad the
Frenchman will probably do battle, instead of 13arebettina,
against Valentin, the Giraffe colt, and Macaroni over the
R.M. The /tee Produce Stakes may be left to Flying Fish,
the Two-Year-old Sweepstakes to Midnight Mass, and the
Free Handicap to Dirdhill.
Friday's Port Stakes, for 4-yr-olds. T.M.M., will create
as much interest as the Claret, should Strada& face The
Marquis, as, although it is scarcely on the cards for bar to
beat 'him. the result may prove how good she really is. The
T.Y.O. Sweepstakes is reduced to a match between Old
Dwane Oirl and Clerintha, the former for choir" mein she
is in receipt of 71b ,• sod Dwindle may be just good enough
to beet Rasps and lisauvale for the alt. Sweepstakes.
Should Woidga not show for the Iteenington it will not be
worth noticing ; as the match beeweeo the moderate Jeillinlll
illy and Water Kelpie certainly is em, hc.,
1111110 R.

NEWMARK= CRAVEN MEETING.
NEWMARKET. Bus!DAT MOM
Tbe fellow* bones bays arrived. in addition to those
already liaised hero Cotalpa colt 13 rob s
Nonehureb. Collative, Mantic*, Sea King. Jw*T_
Brown lit Blanton. Travois, Cheri Aenie. Bast. Tod
of Surrey. Mies Emma, Reserve, Cheerful, priest Cloud.
Raegor, Harlequin. Collie@ Mule. Black rnar, Libellous,
Jessie, Albert, Royal Navarre, Souchamp, Beam:,
04/6•41011k. Bateman, Umpire. Amv. Curia, Tared*, Eels*,
Vaulter, &dunk% Baninienido Rubicoe, Beetbal. Ceps
Flweay, Bosun* Saporito colt (3 yrs), liaipat-Artes.
"Ames, lairwabir, Lkuidaff, ficarersder, Omperiewa,