The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-07 00:00:00

TO TEE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.

Sts,—A glance at the Calendar, published on
Wednesday last, is sufficient to prove that handicappers
have famed plenty of employment emee the close of the past
sesson, Admiral Roes having ootetructed, in addition to the
City and Suburban, Metropolitan, and Newmarket, ten han-
dicaps of the most notable of last year's performers and if
they do not all obt.in • sufficient number of aocept.nces to
make a race, they will be found nwful, If only as en Index to
the opinion of the highest turf authority oonmrning the
relative merits of the " crooks" of the day.
There is one for first-claw four-year-olds on the Rowl.y
Mil., in which he makes Saunterer give The Fehennan &b,
and unother forthe,isase etas., over the Two Middle Mites,
in which them two easel et level weight., while they are
only conceding Alb to The Brewer sad the American mere
Prioress • end " The Admirers" idea of what are " beat in"
for the &ester Cup can easily be gathered from the follow-
ing comparison of We latter handicap and Yr. Topham's :
Aye 01.1011eap. (acct. DifteMol
et. lb. 01.- lb.
. '.......... ..
......
~. ... . , •"• :7.: U.
•• - . in :. 11 ..*::: iiiiE.` ...
These figures prove Admiral lione's opinion to be that
the Chester Cup favourite., Polestar and Pensioner have
not Boob a right to the bower as three extreme " outsiders,"
Primes., The Brewer, and Thornhill, who an even to be
preferred to asthma* apparently the most leniently treated
of the whole 216 handicapped, at the first glance. With
respect to The Brewer, I menet but think this opinion worth
following, as he la a Chester Cup home all over; but while
the affections of the partisans of Thornhill are centred in
another object he cannot be expected to become a favourite.
There are now but a very few discrepancies in the
Nor thmoptooshir a and Chested:up handimps, and they arenot
so glaring an wore the:a I noticed Ulm° the weeding tech
place. Of the scanty-nine engaged originally is the two
greats Aky-nine have declared forfeit for one or the other,
leaving but twenty now engaged in them both. Most of thew
have but little chance left which they shall go in for, their
imperative weights being as follow:
llertlimplblco. Mlbastic
MP NI be
11/11101 iiii4............ ..
:.... .. ..... 1 i :... 0i
I
Tat
ar
1
• 6 : .." •
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lx
Pio
Mulmoir
Brodkin .... 4 11
.. ..... .... .....
Pm:W=llb= .... 4 10
Thumb
Dods
0 $ .... 4 4
Thilik=“l"are now thee. between Black-
thorn and Tlmaadra end Bavenstonedde, the former having
an advantage of fib. at Northampton (on the principle that
the handicap is 71b. heavier), end the others cc Sib. advan-
tage at Chester. The Orest Northern hes only four of its
38 acceptors sepg4 in the Cheater Cup who are not in at
Northampton else (at shout the same weights), and the fol-
lowing le • comparlaca of their imposts:
Great Northern.

Chaste.

A,. —8i.127 et 10.
.. 9 2
_0

F,ar West 3 .. 11 0

Dehreder
SWIM
There is the same half-Acme difference between these two as
between Northampton and Chester; consequently Brosdbtim,
Precious S'one, and lliirraton should prefer thejournejs to
Northampton or York to awaiting the more exciting struggle
at Chester; while Specral License, Blackthorn, Bevis, and Old
Point should give the preference to Northampton; Saun-
terer and Shuttle to York ; and the Tattler, Royal Sovereign,
Havenstosidee, Pan, Timandra, Far West, and Ddender to
Chester. Thefe ideas are, of course, subject to stable tootles;
but it appr are very probable that we shell see Special License
and Saunterer miming for Mr. Merry at Northampton ant
York, havieg paid forfeit with ell the ethers entered ; and
Bevis being the only acceptor of W. Day's Northampton
lor, he nivat become a favourite for that event if pulled out,thero
being many who cling to him as the best even of his Cheater
Cup lot—and If so, the 1,2001. Northamptonshire Stakes
may prove too tempting • belt for him to despise. He would
prove • formidable opponent to the Middleham teem, which
is very strong—J. Osborne hoeing Little Agnes; T. Dame=
Precious Stone and Harratoo ; and W. Oates, the stropping
Gladiolus. Between these the race apparearly ream,
unless the good looking half-sister to Yellow Jack, Yellow
Rost, improve on her last year's performance, which is not
at all improbable. The Chester Cup acoepttnees have been
quite ea numerous es was anticipated, there not being
err solitary instance of a favourite declining ; and
the nee ill surrounded with em much mystery
as ever, the large stables having struck but •
'mull proportion of their " lots" out. W. Day stands with
half-a-dotes, all of them having been nibbled at in the mar-
ket, and four of them—Wilton, Barometer, Beek, and Rare
Avis—either have been or ace at the present time favourites.
The last movements have been in favour of the latter, who le
decidedly the beet public performer of the lot, and is as
leniently treated us any youngster In the race. T.
Dawson has seven, only two of which, Harraton and
The Herne, have been backed for much money, and
the former, although reputed • "deed 'on," had better
not be flighted, now that he has accepted. J. Os-
borne has • good ally in Raspberry, while J. Dawacm's
strong team supplies two favourites oat of its seven tere-
reetarives In Simpleton and Bankrupt—the former indeed
for ru ,et money. Mr. Merry has nine, without • favourite
: rim them se yet; Dewitt, five, with Roj Soveraimi
very heavily ; the American gentleman, Mr. Ten
Broach, flee, with no favourite; W. Goiter, four, (amens-
town only having partisans sow; and Rodbourn (who suc-
ceeds W. Mizell se traiese to Messrs. Barber end Saxon),
seven, not ome of which has teen In the market. Drogheda
has been "under firs" all this week, but there appesrs to be
no cause for the alarm evinced by Ms beckon; end by this
time next sea It fa more than probable we shall lee another
defiant gentlemen, Physician, in his old p'sce in the market,
despite the broken leg (F). 1 shell stillinclude him among
Pokstar, The Brewer &Ramose, and Compromise, as the
most form' able of the "old'uns" in the race, trod the young-

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stets will have pb.nty to do to get over this lot.
With the forfeits far the City and Suburban, Metropolitan,
and Newmarket Handicaps to bo declarod to-morrow, a
d emission of them would be premature here, and they ehell
supply a subject for my next let•cr.-1 am, &c.
RTEOR.