The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-17 00:00:00

TO TIM EDITOR OF THI WSW.

Sm.—With au entry above the average, a marked
imam in the number of " dark" horses backed, and only
kat out of 145 public Wormers that can boost of never
bavingsoleresi defeat, the Derby of 180 mey be reo-
rdered • more open race even than usual; cud if ever there
more a ehatece of so many as thizty.three again reaching the
starting post (as is MI) it prostate itself now. There are
at 1(.1.4 forty heroes in the market at thiv writing, not
victim:on a host that were one backed, but sub.
asinutly knocked iiet by their performances; and
some of the taints are iodulguig is a dream
the 111111.1. r has yet to "come, which is quits
p 0510.4, it not probable, iu 0.11.1.1l1011C• of the nuke being
so ricer together. After striking out Warmer, Traveller.
nod Venerator, who are disqualified by Um russet death of
Mr. A, limy, there are :;ti eubseribere, sad ibis 'lumber is
EA further reduced by the deaths of Hamden, Glenwhine,
Night Watch, and Sir William Armstrong, it being remark-
able that, elthoih the insualtics are Dot so numerous as
usual, two anies backed for so much mosey as those teat-
imes! should be among them. Night Watch at the time
I. died ems about the best favotrite is the race, and Sir
Witham Armstrong was Irked at keg shots until beaten
the July btakes at Newmarket, which settled biz prates-
aitos Moray of the '3.r.3 really in the nee are, of course,
eutof true um, awl the member that km yet to show is pah7
lie reaches $4, opt Melodies Athlete, Flezmore, sod Lord
Glaegoe'a Barbet= (dam by Orlando) colt, who have swum-
thatisd DO more thee • walk-over each, and will swell the
unknowo" lot to $7 ; for they are " dark," strictly speak.
M.,;:ut of than we have had Star of the West. Argonaut,
wee, Maharajah, the Lady Evelyn colt (by Stock-
well), ilarihabli, Cernse, the Types colt (by Voltigoor), the
Mphontr colt (li, Flatcather). Citadel. Lady Alice Haw-
thorn. and Athlete, In the market for some time, ad they
all VA feu to remain there a little longer ; it is scarcely 4 to
1 against the winner being in the degas, taking their pros
11•11 t .ros as a guide. The heaviest lot consists of the 102
that have been beaten on every mouton of their ap-
pears./ in public, acid only Vaegnerd, Berkeley,
Gamins. aid Nottingham have say triads now,
the letter's having the meet reason for their
towhees from what be really did, so he ran two good se-
coml. ; hut Colleen% and Vaagnied'a doings have been
barel.: respectable. sad Berkeley oily same out to run last
en two meadow is moderate company. The Mame* Old
(Lieber, Moula, and Ensign comeriss the ussouquired lot,
Ike two tart named keying nee may victory each to boast of,
the Marquis five, aid Old Cakhar four ; however the MI
that have both welting and lodes Mendes the fint favou-
rite, Backstono, who is supported by Ace of Clubs, Win-
gums, Caterer, The Knave, Imughisg Stock, Spite,
A I vedistou, Jlalek, Neptune', Hebert, sad Master
Fenton, which will render this by far the
Want formidable, on paper, of the fear tote,
ea the " Caesar" betting is barely 7 to 4 apiest
while it is meanly 4 to I each egusetthe nacouqueredthiat
"dark " cracks, and mere than 10 to 1 agent the for
backed that have Dever woo. But 1 shall make my cake-
letiosti on the strength of performances, a preforms, to
saute' prices, and endeavour to discover the beet of the
different trainers' lots, with • view of showing how many
are really dinning of the support they receive.
Newmarket, as the " metropolis of the Turf," is first
eddied to notice, and it can on this ocaseion supply a
strong Mani of "Derby cracks," however insignificant may
Mee been the parts played by the animals sent to the post
of Lite years. R. Stephenson can well chelleoge
the most formidable of his neighbours, with their
ansnerons ettinie, to rival Sir It. Ballwin*. Old
Calabar, who has easily beeten Wingrave, Abe-
distort, Nottingham, Zetkad, Wandsworth, Hurricane,
Unison:, St. Alexis, Kuightof St. Michael, Coition, lid.
krino. the Coderhand's dam colt (all is the Derby), either
at eve. weights, or with the worst of the impend., ad even
silitetting that Alvediatoo ad Wingrave might not have
been •• right," sod several of the others must improve,
there is nothing to prevent his beating them again, if not
quite 'o Looking at what the shove animals have
all moo;, there is not • better performer in the Derby, and
the hone has done so well during the open winter weather,
that those who fancied his lap were "dicky" are beginning
to find their niittake out. J. Golding has a great number to
lake care of, but only Mr. Naylur's Caterer, with Lord
Uxbridge's Master Fenton and Laughing Stock, are worthy
of mention, arid their performances have not been at all
decisive. Caterer could only beat Alvedistori and Filagree&
who both gave him 51b, by a neck at (loodwood, where the
noplaced lot comprised no better Derby horses than
Kamer. Despot, Bloodhound (31b extra), Antares, Coulee,
laird Clyde, Talurno (511) extra), Xurallo, sod Knight of
the Bath ; and at Turk August. with a 31b penalty, he wts
beaten a had by the l'ilut (Mb allowed), while don up
with the pair was PiCiiihtlol. and Neptunus, Staple Oak and
thrishrook (3lb allowed) among the uuplaced. The position
• Yiceador will show Neptunus's running to be all wrong,
said thi, latter performer:tee of Citerer will then appear a
moderate rise only, while that with Alvedieton and Witt-
graves gives him all the wont of it with the two latter,
sad consequently Old Calabar also. It is my firm opiaMe
see of Lord IJ:bridge's will turn out superior to
Wafer. sail Laughing Stuck must not be measured
been his Asoot running, where he was unplaced to
Alve.li.ton, Lis only other appearance in public being
at York August, where he beat Scandal, a most wretched
performer. Unlike Master Fenton, he stayed at home just
when hie form should have approached perfection, and the
letter, after musing uuplaced to Wingrave at Newmarket
First Spring ad Epsom Summer, au indifferent third to
Loral Bioko at Harpenden, emplaced to Deena del Lego
font in the Derby) at Newmarket July, third to Ace of
Cuts rat itoodwood, and fourth to &listens (not in the
lierhr) at Wel.eilliioooll, so tar improved matten at Oz.
ford as to heat Eieherner, Feigner, Le., while at Lichfield
be f.,l:osseo this up by Mantas two men turning the tables
tie .361 Lego, sad shrug limo of weight to others.
At Doncaster be could sot get placed to Tattoo when
competing with her at oily 131 b for the year; but
at Monmouth he won • race easily, beat* Ethel
and rt.* baby bone Kaiser, and at Newmarket
- October Exchequer, Carietwook, and another
were cut down with the greatest seem Still, be gave us but
little cheers of measuring him with the Derby cracks, as
the best horses he beat were Doom del Lego (by a heal),
Ethel, and Lutheran and the latter only a forteight before
his last defeat had been beateu in a comma maim by Ira-
perstrico, with the boat of the weights, the meet I meld
de whoa handicapplag the crack. Wag to mass him
!Gib. won. than the best of them. He might improve
epos this, and see • short price ; but I am at quite ru-
led he will prove a stayer, sad Laughing Stock might torn
oat the best Derby horse at Gadding's, even admitting his
nosing would Dot bring hies within a stone at some two-
year-olds. Joseph Dawn* tress a magniticeet string, se
he should do wham Lord Stamford gave such a
AtSprit for the makeitv of his youngsters,
tri, Citadel, Unitise, Croke's, and Emma being
all so racisg-likin that it would be dangerous to assert
which is the her 3-yrald. Emits bee beaten Santa Claus
by a mak whim pose ass yearling • and Athlete walked
son for • sweepstakes, is which Lord Clyde and Wimble-
don were MS only opponents ; but the others have Diver
bees out, and the public are quite in the dark concernieg
the real prekestina of either. Easige does sot take my
reticular fancy, sad both Citadel awl Athlete are more to
my liitmg, the latter owning from each • racing stock (Vol-
epee and Ellerdsle) that it will be singular if he is not a
good born, WV suspicion Wog very Arose that he tithe
ben of Led Miamford'e. Another den" lot is that of
T. T .y lor. who train Lord Chesterfield's Types colt (b)
Tole -ear), Jacqueline colt (by Stockwell), sad Canwsdl,
with Lewd Wilton'sEvelyu cult (hy Stockwell), sad
several others. Caswell waged to pt within a neck
of Sardis (71b. extra) at Brigitte*, owing to the severe hill,
bat as Newmarket Snood October an coo of the first
beaten in the Frestlerpat (woo by The Marquis easily, car-
ry* • Sib penity), which sompletely negatived his good
Mae. mil mid bet little fur the dark trio that lied Lae
backed to um the Derby. the Lady Evelyn and Types colts
having hese ospesially warm at times. They are both wall
bred ant the Types silt would less so friends by bang
Pas.' any other three-year-old at limit('
being soot improbable • greet favourite will he coeds of
him. liaybee Lae only Wiegraire that can he expected in
mem,. tense lezou Rothisehill for his King Tout dim
meat of lOU, and detente lee indifferent wiedingmp Tit
*very right to boons, a faventits, for it is rather doubtful
whethir we ever saw the beet of him. Wines beating
hi. nos Nod-twenty oproamis et Newinarket First Spring
he war 111.111.110T1A which will mom than counterbalance
the dmwback Marignan suffered when Orinidiaw derived
kin vrt..p. Cooke, The Cutler. sad Muter Fenton were the I
▪ Iterhy horses he heat ; but at Epsom he won in a emu,
mon o inter from Ceriabrook. Cooks, Astern, Aindistim,
Mau:Ohre, Brighton, Master Fenno, he., over a course
romara.dale fur its severity. It is true Alvedistuo ad
Ma..-r restos were both lockward ; ao.l yet Wingrave did
wonders wise and amiss by running a close ins. with Alva
stun nod Bashatem„ giving the former 51be at Aaron whiter
at Goodwood be nos a bead before Alve'iietoe at eves
weights, and only • mak behind Utterer, who had filhe the
het of him. This sod his Epsom performance I take to be
toe aunt genuine, as he had gone off when the autumn
arrived, and must he excused the easy defeat by Ohl
Calshar at eves weights, when they met in the
Cnter.on. A fortnight previously he hail run •
fur race with this hone, min him 31b. aid I suspect
this Tear's 11111.111ilig Will discover
him very little behind 1114
Calabar, for at Goodwood Alvediston was he even better
form has when he beat Bricksicias easily at Stockbridge.
At Harioek's there Mr. flemiing's Osaka ; at Anthony
Taylor's, Mr, 11. Savile's Harlequin; sod at R. Hopes,
she roguish Carisbrook ; all of them pieeaideg to do nem-
Ming some day—but sot in the Derby, when seek asiemle
ma Athlete, Laughing Stock, Old Oalaber. the Types eolt,
sad Winless) can claim to be heard, and the leer lode-
,..on,lestly of the others as the spot, ass in every way
-worthy to represent Newmarket ii the peat event of the
year 1862.
The Yorkshire stables do not supply so many fa-
enuritee as used, and at Melton there is only J.
bootee string worth sestinas ; the beet that he be. core -
prising Mr. & Hawke's Menem Loed A is nesley's Are &Clubs,
fiesty's Mid* and Mr. T. Valentine's Hurricane.
The Roo at (iao, who was "beaten in his trial" before
heed. res very seederstady at Goodwood a. after allowing
Seethe to beat him very eerily without taking her eel
allowance of weight, he a* Marini off Vi!lettri, who cu-
red a 511, peaty, Fenton being • pea
third, and Orb lsib extra) (earth. The latter w riiir

niog very badly sheet this hum having at Liverpool been I
us plawA to Few de Johe. sad Nader Fenton • foreign alts
Goodwood area umpired le &diverse, when she gave him I
10114 so that we have a right to measure the Ace with
Vilma*. who at Newmarket ATM October was boden eat of
sight by Old Oalaber. Thee dee Wow reads quit a seem
superior to Lewd Awmarler. hewn, sed admitting bs area
very backward. it is hardly fair to aupposs he
will ever cut out the Marquis in the ►ffidtase of
the Whitewall followers. This latter gentleman has testes
• great many Derby horses easily, having settled the pre-
tensions of Gotland (in addition to Johnny Armstrong) at
Beverley, and of Birdhill (with Q.E.D. and Lachesis) at
Pontefract, where he TAO the dead beat with Newtons.
wbeu nothing like At At Doncaster he best Toluene, Cid-
WIWI, Ashford, and Harlequin by many lengths, I mperatrus
making to run him rather claws, nevertheless ; and to wind
up. he carried • 61b penalty, and fairly cantered away from
Carishrook, Brasmose, Brother to King of Dimmed., and
Caswell, at Newmarket Saved October. It is • question
whether this performance wit nut equal that of Old Cala-
bar, and my firm impression is that J. Scott possesses a better
Derby horse in him than were either the Wizard or Klarikuff,
who became such rattling favourites in their days. Malek, like
Ace of Clubs, has yet to show his quality, having been un-
placed to Exactitude at Newmarket Seeped October, sod
only made a dead heat with Spark, giving him 171 b, for the
Nursery • fortnight afterwards, when Mayflower ran • good
third at Mb for sm. Neither of More is in the Derby,
sad the unplugsl lot in this race only oomprised Couloo,
Keane, and Cull:rook, who were doing very badly all
through the autumn, so that Malek must alter materially, he
may makes very useful hone in time—to be included among
the cracks. Hurricane's York defeat of Piocaclor looked
nothing after the latter's Doncaster and Richmond doiep,
sod she never had a chasm with Old Calabar at Newmarket
First October ; but she is too racing-like, nevertheless, to be
thoroughly despised, and in other. eucounters Mr. Wants' h
sure to maks something of her, while it is no certainty she
is not the mooed beet horse to the Marquis at Malice.
Middlehain Moor is graced by at least half-a-dome Derby
hones, and at Oates's there are three boasting good private
reputatioes—Colonel Towneley's Hubert sad Cellulite, and
Mr. Eastwood's Lady Alice Hawthorn. Hubert hoe been
the only vinegar, baying (after being beaten very easily
Lorelei at Goodwood sod by Flytrap at Stocks:a)
7st 10ib, sad bailee Morocco, 7st 71b ; Tom Sayers, 7st 716,
hr., at Newmarket Second October, which gave IBS so
greater insight into hie capabilities than did Collaring's
fourth to The Marquis at Doncaster. The Lady has not
been oat at all, but is said to promise quite as much as
the other two, and the stable is sere to be well repre-
sented ; however, time has yet to discover the
best of the trio, and I dare not venture
yet to suppose the winner will again come from
this quarter. Mr. T. Damien' has all Lord Glasgow's in his
charge, sad the horses beleaging to his old employers are
now supposed to be is the lends of T. 8. Dawson, jun., the
latterhatmg Mr. Jackson's Neptunue, while his lordship'.
best is the Qrirs Belt (hy Berhataw). Neptunus was out
very early. sad es Limped cleverty disposed of lot, the
best of which is &Lk At Chapter he war not C
plaired to
Toluene. which mald wises* be attributed' to the Lib
”weity, for at York earls be carried a 7-peneder, sad
beat • respectable field,- land being among the noplaced.
At Pontefract he ma weed to run • dead heat with the
Moque, and at York August won the Convivial very easily,
neither Zetland. Whitendale, nor Staple Oak being able to
get a place, while Lorelei took suond money.
_This ma-
ttered his two defeats by Silverhair ta 3-yrold) aid
Caterer at the same meeting rather extraordisary, as were
also the triumphs of Zetland and Johnny Arms resg over
him at Stockton and Doncaster, especially as he
carried diet 121 b at Richmond and beat Zetland, get 91b,
Scandal, Net Ilb, fr.c., very °early. I am inclined to look
upon hie defeats with some degree of suspicion, the deed
hest with Marquis and defeat of braid making him oat
very nearly the equal of the former and Old Calabar, sad
there were not many good two-year-old performers that pro-
mised to improve so mach. The Clarissa colt ran fifth to
Moula at Newmarket Second October, and in the Houghton
I week beat Alchymist in a match, which was something to
boast about, and readers him • good "outrider," but oot one
eu formidable as Neptunus, who is the pick of the Middleham
teem, Fobert having Mr. Thomas's Elector for his best, and
J. Osborne nothing approach* Zetland. The former
managed to beat Lord Clyde, Lord Albert, and another,
very easily at Manchester Sommer. and then ran nearly last
to Toluroo at Newmarket July (which latter performance
he must improve upon, however, when trained), and Zet-
land's running has been too much of the "in-and-out" sort
for my taste. ScUI he has certainly beaten two of his con-
querors. Johnny Armstrong and Neptune., and while pre-
ferring the latter I mus: admit his capability for improve-
ment, the head defeat of Picador (who received 10lb) the
day after Neptunue beat him at York saying much in his
favour.

—Dian remaining Yorkshire halms little need be said, for
at Richmond the beat are Lord Zakted'a (trained by Coates)
Piccador and the dark Garibaldi, while Lord Fitewilliam's
Vanguard (trained privately by H. Doyen) is the y other
at all backed. He has started twioe oaly to cod
up in-
differently. and he gives no more preemie than Zetland, a
better performer, who must bni,t safe Piccador from the home
running. Tbere are, aa a matter of course, several Derby
horses in Yorkshire besides those named, ind a few that
meet distinguish themselves—but not in the event under
notice, as OW of Oatimed string, the Marquis, Nepeunus, the
(Macias colt, and Zeeland, should keep all others safe, and
the Marquis and Neptune+ are of a calibre to greatly ',o-
peretta Mischances of the Newmarket cracks.
The subject will be resumed and concluded I. my next
letter. —I an, is., /WHOM.