The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

SPORTING nem Luu PNOL

TIM CHESTER CUP HANDICAP.
To TUC EDTWit Or TUE EXIIITIef.
&L—Turf =Agra arc I,w fairly starte.l :..r
Use emses, as the meow Can was completed se ree.....y
=llmd the NerUmeaphsewhire *ekes will follow suit this
when we shall s!ao have the three Jockey 49ub 111t0-
41nape pabliebed. mord to the Ontario prise. Mr.
Tatham has ....Slimily lakzataitiS to dieplay whet reefec•
tine haaticapping eau be t to, for the leans he . enl
last veer has not been (equates. the threeyr-olds bees mere
tenderly 1111111 II WI, while thew are sot au umuy old
hones " tuned loose," ruby Heim that ern knows—
not mortly •• suspected --to be moderate being
handicapped as such. I hit of the In 7 bones
rated, there wen softy do. o.yr.olds, the same 111.1111.14 e
of ftlY(.1.1,11014, eel forti .eu toe and upwards ; and
the het of those left to stiow. the °mina of the last-named
to be the roost satisfied, for only 17 (or 36 per mat ) de-
clared Relent, again. T) ref per cent.) thne-yr-otds, and
29 (tit per mot 1 four-, eihohla The heaviest weighted
four-yr-o - the Lawyer -- stood his ground et .Ist Ml., a.
be es. mole it receive I%lb for the year from the best of
the Min the Wit tot and Hsi. being 7112 more thin
weights for age, we tenet nut he surprised at both the
W Havel cal W Arai declining, for the latter, with 3lb ley
than the top weight, was meeting the beet mare of their
year Celler lou and Brown Duchies—at fjb worse
than weight for age, besides giving them 31b for sex.
The top weight three-yr olds - Mader Feston and
the K seve —both accept their imposts. having re-
ceived 71b nine then the weight for the two )ear.
from the Wesel, sad being at even Wins with the
Dwyer, so that they have a shade ties beet of the two
mares ; but with the live-yr-old socepton that an at the
top of the tree rester and Parmelee they both here Mlh
the worst of the weights, as does also the Lawyer. Caller
Os, Brown Inchon, rod I )Wattmeter la gelding, entitled to
the moat allowance se a mare) meet the tive.yr-obl But-
Seedy et the like dieedventage, site in turn having a little
the wont of it at only Ilh fur ma with Crater rod Perm..
sea. Cotter does trot strike me as having the deuce Huey
sop pier. foe at Stoeklewhie rainwater but him in a canter
at weights for age t2eth fee the year and sea) over two
milea. eel the mare is virtually giving him but tilb for the
twat mg, who they poet et %lb to May next, fur she is only
eutitie.l t.. sib for • year mud 3th foe sex. Ni.. manned a
ling detain.. before 1...1111011141 in the Ascot Odd Cup—
tem miles soil a hen it ooly 221 b illfereme, which we.
sot enough be Ills ; hut Thurneaby beat than both so
early that it is inmeseilde to tell whether she
woolii hare olitoosed snood place had Heiress been per-
severed with. he haves MOOG the wiener ewe trouble to
shake bin, ,41: and reit, hoer seedy he beat Silvana&
(within two lengths of Ferwster is the Oaks) fee her Ma-
jesty'. I.oki % one, with out; blithe beet of ream weights.
mi,,tht Ise trusted to beet Fairerater, et eel; Nib (instead
et lllbi fee a yearend Mi. Consequently, as °Ater Os,
hoes leteline I edruinsu r. the Lawyer, Caner, mid Pair-
water see wn4bed toe 1.111.141 f Ob last year's raajoiag, pantie.
in. Omagh the la. rosined, 'oust be reckoned the beat of
the heavy weights, Rottenly harm( been fro the lame list
nearly all la. year ; but I Minn like to trust is Parmesan
bodies Umpire again,. echen he ran away froni this hone
over the two middle natl., at Newmarket last coring the
‘',,iikee wee very short of limps:soon. Had this sot beets the
case the 7lb different terms ea which they meet could
s..r.ly turn the tables, and with bona hones well at the
pint it ought become a " sear thing" between them. They
could beat a greet litany in the race, and of the retnainteg
old bones. s.'hisrn. Folkodom, Elaine Princes.. Bevis,
Wild Rose, Rennin', Simla, Zahn, Penne, Reheat,
Prime of Deurnaik, hens., Pagoda, and Astarte, COINI•
prise all 1 can nivont. even if they cars he brought to their
best forms, wMo6 there in 11,4110 doubt about with regard
to Wild Rom sod Sonde. Berle Schiele, and Precise re.
mutest the same rests, as do also Eastern Princess sad
Prince of Denmark, t faverzi and Pagoda, and Rubione
Umpire ; so that, when the flay of the nes arrives the old
home 1 shall moaner danger is may be reduced to eight,
even supremos %V. lien doe. nut find • better than Sehism
acid Co. in one of the 3-yr-olds, or the Frenchmen one
super or b Ihryallieu. The juveniles are, as a hotly, of a
pretty good clue , still, when the range of weights between
so many as 37 cooly 141 b, it omit be expected the majority
have not the remotest chance, the following comprising the
lot:—Master Fenton, „t; The Knave. 7st ; Spite, Johnny
Armstrong, The Pilot, and Neptuem, list 121 b each ; Tins
Wittier, fiat Illh : Ethel, lit Illb ; Allea-y-Itoodemente
get 10th ; cinema of Spain, fist 91b ; My Mary, 6. 711) ; Be-
verley, Earl of Surrey, Watchman, Wathieworth, Ellen-
gowns, and Tommy donee, fiat :,lb each ; Ilercubmeuni,
Caractiteus, Badinage colt. Vest colt, Keane, Sillugune,
Batmen's, iladji-Shivrai. bah:emu. line tleryn, sad Vie-
trix, fist 31b each; Brighton, Victor, Knight id the
Bath, Sappho, ('olives, the Sister to Stafford illy,
Agog,Lady Deed., and Jung Frau, list each. All
but Bryn (;wyu and Ellirogowan have been in pub-
lic, and taking last year's running se a made
moon oing the others, no one in his senses could Monate
about gnu( the preference to the Knave, Neptune., end
Victrix ; while if their trainen cannot bud something bet-
ter in the stable they will be very hard to beat. At the
woe time Agog and Dalwaista are averred to be real
"clippers," despite their bed performances, mid may, with
Ellangowan, make a noise in the market ; Dalesman is a
oolopthiin of Schism Rodeo., eel The Knave of Folkeetone,
which will reduce the number I have soy greet idea of to a
very few, whet, " stable money" ts font into the market,
and if the winner is nut committed in Parmesan, Umpire,
Folkestom, Royalheu, Prince of Denmark, Bevis,
Zodiac, Pagoda, Astarte, Neptune, Ellangoiesn, Victris,
and Agog, it may oaly be On account of some
" party" dienvering something better in their in-
terests than the candidate I suppose they will
have to depend cis. flee or two might receive batter treat-
ment is the City cud Suburban, Metropolitan, or New-
market Haedierip, all of which noma ott before the Chester
Cup ; yet this is hardly possible, to my thinking, and any
discrepancies that may be discovered when the acceptances
for all the spiing bambinos aro de.dared ere more likely to
show theabove bakers' dozen to be well treated. Besides
the Chester Cup the Liverpool Steeplechase, is the only
great spring contest in which speculators take an interest
yet ; and it is a remarkable fact that, good se the Itendicap
appears at first eight, there should be as great a range
between the highest and lowest weights as there was in the
Chester Cup, where double the auniberof horses, and of all
ages, were haedicapped. The prince of " mikes" on the flat,
Cosmopolite, is at the had of the poll, giving fillb to King
William, of the same year ; and all the-light-weights being
of full age. it shows what • lot of rank weeds have entered
the lists ; foe, unlike the Chester Cup, there is ao occasion
for some to bring the beet of the oldest sad youngest
together at weight for age, ea between brat doss five-year.
ol,ds and aged hones a stone is quite enough, even at steeple-
chasiog. In the last number of Soup'. emellent Mace-
rine, however, this matter is too well argued by the talented
" tisetleman in Black " for any farther comment to be
necessary. I coo only hope that the mainly he suggests for
web en evil (to the alert itaell) as old horses being allowed
to carry a " feather" like Sot nb across country will be
adopted some duty. -I amt, he., BECEOR.