The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

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ths,—ln such times as the preesna4ridtitiere of
eteepteehming la he iategrik, live lia, it b teamed
to webs bow meek wee does far the sprat by melt of
bet WedneelaybOrend Noticed meet, which ansompltehed
almost as mush towards regaining its preeNge se the 'time-
ems effort. daring the last two or three yes.' of the sew
Grand National Host Committee. It wee a treat to me
aentlenna's Yarssa, sad fathom riders, oenteedisg is the
lest struggle—amid web • struggle--a hundred yards shoed
of all those that bed bees bottled up so keg for the pur-
ples of effeellas • peed map; sad the jedge's list being
in favour of almost the worse haadiespped bores io the race,
no one coo insinuate the weigh!s were ustairly distributed, or
twee that the "Mee managed to deceive the haedicapper.
It might have Melted better, perhaps. Sad Alcisiede been
bred • hunter, instead of may bens pot to Pimping aft"
eating • somewhat indiffereet Scare on the flat ; but he
severtbeleek been legitimately schooled is the bunting
Add, sad below to one of tb• dumbest Manisa steeple.
ebsoing„ a geathum who did much to bring about the
meet reforms in eeeoezioe with ft The triumph of Bell
Court—and bad be bees pitied as well as the einem yes
weld itudoubtedly have hod to ehrosiole it—would, how.
ewer, have been greeted by hunting mu with • greater de-
pot of delight. for there is so doubt about hie befog •
gums. steepleeheaer, es he is • demesdent of the groat
B Peter Lurie, and was sever beard of tn the miss
world. Alibied. is • sag of • Derby winner, Amok, bet
we sired in Frame (where be mover ran), sad me out first
at Lincoln is 1463, I. which year he ran emend times,
bet without mimes' more than • Bening rem at Broom
and the Brighten Club Stakes. He beat Gamma
Hem on the latter amnion, with his thee owner, Major
'Weedowell, is the meddle, who irreetually disposed of him
Mr. Angell at what assessed, at the time, t stiff figure,
4001. But improved quite • gold.' egg, sad to reedit his w-
e/saw the tint time of asking with • 1,1001. stake, besides a
respectable tutus in bets, was • rare stroke of lock. Leek
bed undoubtedly • great deal to do with the matter, for
Geptala Templet (who looks little mote thee an 84 nue)
hiestoble of calling on Hall Court, or mu
vs(l together, after pimping the last hurdle, the
hems zuebbig so meek riding that be took all the steel
est of Mr. Tempest lag before the pinch mom The
" ineidents" of the event were rather exciting, the *oddest
to L'Af nun ea route to Liverpool, and the mishaps that
betel other fuming in Wind reoe—to wit, Joe Haley,
Staaten, and Arbary—affording plenty_ to Milk about after all
wee over. Whether the welt wonW have been diligent
bed all the "stood up" is a cpuietioo, of coons ; but
there is no doubt about the competiten geoarally Melo(
been a moderate let, and it Is only reasonable to suppose
that, had • septet bone like L'African bees is the bald,
be would bus, barring accidents," roe awry trout the
whole geld. It is • sterilise fun that the French training
makes better steeplechasers this the English, the horse'
met over from the Miter side of the Channel baying sow
amd then put us quits is the shade ; end had Artery kept
so his lee Let Weimeday he might ban takes another
prise to France, for beady all the kekeys allow he was
gate'
tby far the best wheal be fell, sod so toll of "go" was
Some auk" mot burnt him rushing to the fault
Bower, it was not for the toe "clever ones" to de just
se they plessed with our Grind National this year,
sad the L'Africein party fairly overreached tbseneelvea,
it being jut possible that, had they not takes the bone to
Derby, ad pulled him about in the race them, he would
lave gess quietly to Aintree. The " legitimate" mess at
Liverpool we tidy remerkable for showing Geossia, Dr.
Syntax. sad Aerobia to be an yet reedy for scuba, sad
for briogiog to light the unsling) of • fusels of useful
threicyouselds, Team sad No, and the loar.yearold, Idle
Girl. Terror, if hie legs stand, ought to make • good bores ;
smiths twice detested Filbert may cut a good ague some
day, iudwithstimadieg that the short priors taken about
hiss for each 111118 would betoken we mew the beet of him.
There ware one or two at the meeting routing merely
with an eye to future efigagements, as is invariably the
one m early in the year • but soiling eon be gained by
unifying Om natal the Market operations show what
gum im to be played.
The comet week will be m very busy one with
neepleshasers, Bell aneounant fewer than eight
ping ' fixture'," besides the Demister Meeting, which
boats the Great North of Fuglited Steeplechase is one of
its features. This end the Spring Handicap have large
essepeamose, mad emeralother mean hen snob good unties
that the meekeig should hum out one of the beet ever held
in the These are • doses in the Trial Stakes, see
smile, Gems& being the beet of them, bet peoalimd toe
heavily to hope tor 'seams if Huntsman's Daughter (allowed
141 b) is to give es • lute of her qaality before Northamp-
ton, or Hartley billowed Ilk) is wanted. Ming the sp-
witrred fisher of the two last named, the Freeness.
iflushe or Doge) will only have Dourly brook to beat,
sad the letter may set be at his best behaviour until the
City and Suburban day. The Hopeful Stakes are worth
3401. clear, sad Chapel Royal Wog penalised 71b.,
there is oothisg to prevent • large field opus.
Wig him. The best of the six other publis beeves
an Ingham (who lost stem both at Lincoln amid
Nottingham) and Valentioe, and although defeated by a
moderate one at Lincoln, the latter is not to be despised.
The WiIIINTS of the "bunters'" (!) races at Nottingham
mid Liverpool, Little Goy and the Abbot, are in the same
lieterest, it appears ; and only one of them will be required
to beet that "Undid hone, Vandal, whom very few of the
genuine bunting class eta cope with at fair ruing weights.
The Spring Handicap Is as open • race as wee the great
went at Lintels, now that Gaily, Nu, and Idle Girl- are
emit penalised 101 b. The mill other that bee performed
will this yen is Wooden' klinetrel. who meets her on 51b
UWE torus for the head Meat at Liverpool, but has none
the beet of Idle Girl, who beat Nit a long way oe Thunday,
se piper. The pair beige so forward, must rue well, but may
net prove capable of giving the weight to such me Privateer
mad Henley, if they an ready. Sasebo, Friday, Doge, Mol-
davia, and Lord Waldegrave, too, are very promising MIMS
=ors ; sad with East Lasicashire, Oldmineter, sad
amain of the ranks the old War, there should be
am lutereetiag race. At prawn, however, I 'now of within(
better than Idle Obi, who may have most to fear from Mr.
Purr's Hartley or Friday ; sad Idle Girl, Qum of Trumps,
lilkeary, and My Nary are thresemiag in the Loader
borough Cup, the result of which may show the incur of
the Chesterfield Handicap at the seooed day. whs. the
Bettiag-room Stakes and Dom Stakes (also liable to be
seriously influenced by previous running) have to be decided.
Of the Steeplechase, all that can be maid is that Acrobat,
Artery, and Siantoo, who came to grief at Liverpool, have
• fair chime of besting Alibied. at the &flame. of weight,
sad me the shorter course is is favour of Striates, he may
win, the Rogue and Mudingos bong the best of the others.
—I am, ho., METEOR.