The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-24 00:00:00

(BTAMPICD, ]4. ADDITIONAL.]

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE MEETING AT GOODWOOD.
TO THU MIAS OV TSB mum
ika,—The anticipated re-appearance of France's
idol. Gladiatear, with the ill-used Bnadathans sad tudneirr
Wild Charley, invests the Goodwood masks( with more
than ordiaary important ; and if the two-year-old fields do
sot prove very street. the sousing out of A Prima*
and others, to meet Mr. Pitt, Stadant,greste' speniais, and
Bedsit, all first-rate performers, will create a vast amount
of laterest. The Cup looks like attradag kluge, number
of runners than anal. The Stakes is • peruse age* with
more than two " livened; " going to start this time;
and the two handicap Caps, with the Nursery, wil
be earambled fee by as many " potted* good thiap
as ever • coesequently, ohs if the half the thirty-
seven items In the programme prove failures we shall
still bath as exciting time of it from Tuesday to Friday,
and only the presence of royalty co dot grind dril
waatiog to give every lustre to the proceedings. Ou 'sto-
dgy there will be eight ream, the three minor affairs
having Wed it they obtained bad salsa To make up for
their oomparstave failure, however, some thirty or lathy
flyers will mutest the Stewards' Cop, as the distance is
only six furlongs, and owiag to the dimailty of getting•
fair dark it is sot always too beet home Vent with. The
best speed of the day is eaters& of COWIN J. Day bsTAt
Master Richard, Orytheia, Tibia, and John Davis in ; W.
Day, Historian, Searbormiab, awl smother or two ; Mr:
Merry, Crisis, Pilgrim, and the Maatiarna filly ; W.
Goatee, Marigold and Cobweb ; Mr. Ten Brack, Paris,
Reinfri4, Ste. ; and Gadding, Gana Lades sad Bioadina ;
but what will do tattle oat of Owe respective iota it is
impossible to say, aid I out oely urge that the Day family,
Mr. Ten Brooch, W. Goatees stable, and Mr. Merry, have
received the moat limiest triathlon, Paris and Crisis *snag
better chalices, on paper, than anything ciao in the rasa.
The speedy Warrior is far from oat of it, with all
the weight, and be should fight sioglisbended far Goodwin's
division just segallantly as Castle Bill should for Drewitee ;
but what will absolutely win I do not pretend to forad,
owners having to get their weepy m before a " good
thing" can past itself. A form-year-old sweepstakes,
over more than three miles and a half, should be divided by
the owners of Baregah and General Peel, who are both in
see stale; and if Breadalbane is opposed for the Gent.
wicks it will Daly be with an eye to mooed nithey, the
piping Jack o'Lwatern heviog so liking for the rods and a
half, whilst Nigbtwatch and the Mottisaims filly have yet
to show themselves worthy of the privets reputations they
once had. The Ham, a rich two-year-old stake, has sot a
good performer in it, Stoto having the beat character of the
few emmged, end it most he left for the " dark" lot (of
which the Bribery colt, who has loos been talked about for
the Derby, is a doubtful starter) to fight out ; bet the
Levant is not such a certainty for a new comer, eves if
Austria, • Freach colt thought good though to follow I. the
footstep of Glsdiateur at Epsom, should join Primate,Lees
o'Gowrie, sod King Cbration against Mr. Pitt, fialisbury.the
MissLaviniacolt,andLaeifr. The course is half a mile long
only, over which distause Mr. Pitt beat the celebrated Robin
Hood at Newmarket; and this son of Prime !Later sod
Lurie, further displayed such fine speed at Southamptoe
that it will take Auguste all his time, no matter how good
he may be, to beat bun, even whim in receipt of 31b. Os
Wednesday, Auguste has a six folioses race to display his
quality in, he Wag In the hods* with Foitanatus, Ge-
tout, Miritiorough, Wild Briar (to the Hun Stakes),
A psley, sad other dark youngsters of diatioetion • sod be
will have to gallop to get over Student (Alb etas), Jack-
ia.the-Greem Laegliani. Salim (31b extra), Nutrition,
Gretna (31b extre), and Mephistopheles, ewes if be disposes
of the Primate sad Lucifer is the Levant. Should Auguste
will this latter event, he will have to carry the same 51b
penalty as Student, bob even then would have my profor-
ma, as it must take • real clipper to beat Mr. Pitt His
'table companion, Gladiateur, has the Drawing Room
Swim to roe for oe Wednesday, with a 10lb penalty; and
it may depend on how he sequin himself bertha as to
whether ha will start for the Cop. But it is my impression
he will find it no easy matter to give 516 to
LoOgdown, though he mu give the 101 b to Peeress,
Princess of Wales, Scarborough, and Glenne* with 51b
to Audits, without any exm.th n, sad the Lewes hares
should roe a good second to him, besides beat Farewell for
the Goodwood Derby on the same day. A 300 fillies'
Sweepstakes is reduced to a match between White Duck
sod Tibia • one for oohs, however, possesses some interest,
foe Arobiledes is dotage& and if he ea beat Todloben
Rifle, Connection, Teunyano, and Zambesi, as eaticipat:,
he will tale his proper plus &meg the cracks for the
St. Lager. The Goodwood Stakes, two miles and a half, is
not the "cut aid dried" affair it was tut year, the mistake
mule about Thalestries ability to beat the only good horse
that was trying against her having faded to prevent one
of the old games being moored over We event ; cad the
favourite, Claremont. has ahoy pintioe opposes* Red.
mire, Suspicion, Blackdowe, Alabama, Hopper, Sprite,
Sthmandar, Lady Hylda, Sister to The Drake, and
Armagnac all seeming to be alive, though the three last
named have been so long quiet as to slum their backers.
Os the contrary, Scheldt, Harry Breilsford, Swordsums,
Moose, Holly fox. The Guide, Cambia, who have all been
backed, !oak " dead," and not one of them may
run, unless the reshot demonstration in favour of Alabama
was done to throw duet in Rhea's of the hackers of ticheldt,
whom I believe to be much the superior horse at the weights
To remount the outside division we have only Joao sad
Friday as yet ; still, there may be two or three others turn
up at the last moment, such at Real Jam or Brewer, Farce,
and Ethelred (to assist Suspicion) sod the field will probably
muster some sixteen strong. To analyse the pule/manias
of the above is impossible, Suspicion and Lsdy 1414 with
others, having cut up so indifferently this year, after
doing enough last season, to make them look slosh
certainties, that I know not which form to follow;
but Claremont (to be ridden by eh/dither) has always run
a fair horse, and under all the circumstances, is fairly
entitled to the preference over all comera Consequently,
noises Suspicion (J. Grirnsha re) upsets him, be may rue
first to the second and third of Hopper (Hibbard) and Black-
down (Fordhsm).
The Cap, over the same coarse as the Stakes, is more dif-
ficult to touch upon, on account of the tricks played
with Gladiateur io the market raising a doubt whether he
will start or not. Whatever those " working" him may mean.
they have raised up a host of candidates that never showed I
sign, of life while he was in force ; and Ely, General Peel,
' (lambastes, Uoioa Jock, Bieese, Brows Bread, Fathom,
' Wild Charley. and Breadalbane will all fare the Maher
now, I believe, as will also Blackdown Todleton, and
Friday, if their previous performances at the meeting do not
prove them to be hors de corniest. Privateer, Hullyfox, and
Surrey are all doubtful stet-re, still their chances of win-
ning Deem nt/ altogether, audit Gladiateur is to ran and be
beaten we most look for the winner to homes like Union
Jack, Cambusean, Elthata, Wild Charley, and Breeds'.
bane, who meet biro with a 71b advantage in the weights.
Cambuscan is not yet fully up to the mark again, but Wild
Charley, one of the very best looking horses we new in it.
Derby, has bees got round into the best of trim, and 1
should sot be in the lout surprised to see
him win, my greatest doubt being whether he
can beat Union Jack. Gladiateur and Wild Charley
are kith in the three-year old Boathook Memorial,
and probably one of them will decline, leaving the
iron a certainty for the other ; and as Ely rang for the Cop
he may tare over the four, ear-old Memorial to Mr. Bow*
the two-year-old Memorial being an equally good Chios for
Student. in the abuses of the Bribery cola. Strident is
also in the Ilolecomb Stakes, with several others that have
• prior ugsgemeuta at the meeting; but he, or anything
else, mud show in brilliant trim for Roden to be beaten.
Of the five minor tweets in the greed day's list sot one may
produce a raft, ad they do not require the slightest notice.
Friday's four cloned faces are subject to what may be done
previously, cad I can only urge the claims of Drewttes stable
for the Nursery with AC,ZI no Strathlielcheye,
Hodgman's Veaturer and Mr. Graham's Nutrit on alto
lookiag like getting well over the mile, with their imposts.
—1 am, Su., METEOR.