The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-14 00:00:00

*parting Intelligence.

NOTE`; FROM NEWMARKET AND FUTURE
EVENTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.

Sot,—" Sir Joseph" has ousted " the plucky
Marquis" from his position on the turf as the man of the
slay ; Mr. Chaplin's colours have gone down fifty per cant.
ire tke ietimatiou of those who began to think they were
invincible ; and Fortune's wheel took such a strange turn
altogether at Newmarket last week as to stamp the Seoond
October Meeting one of the most eventful of the year. The
hottest favourite that was ever made for the Cesarewitch
failed to get even a "place," and another " mad".priced
one, Lady Elizabeth. met with a similar fate in the Mid-
dle Park Plate, to the delight of those men of figures who
stuck to their text, and accommodated the Marquis of
Hastings on Mouthy night with the liberal odds of three
to one that Illiukhoolie and his lady did not both bowl
out the large fields of horses opposed to them. Careful
punter),' let alone reckless pluugers, had a dreadful time
of it on the fatal heath ; and if the cold cruel rain that fell
all Wednesday afternoon could have washed out the lines
in a certain few " books" it would have cured many
a heart-ache. Not a favourite won all day, and I should
not like to have to count before breakfast the money
dropped over the ladies, Elizabeth and Coventry, on the
one race alone, except into my own coffers. One gentle-
man lost by the result a sum of money that would pay for
the feeding of 3,000 poor devils for a twelvemonth ; and
Sir Joseph Hawley and his friends are reported, on the
other hand, Sobers landed as much as would have satisfied
a Derby winner in days gone by. The Hermit division
had it dreadfully " hot " over the Cesarewitch, as it must
have cost a mint of mosey to briog Blinkhoolie to li to t,
the highest odds offered at the break-up of the betting
room over night about a colt that, as I remarked in my
Lust, had not " the slightest chance to win a big handicap
with 7st "on public form. My summing up, in fact, wan
singularly aarmsis ; though when writing that if anything
should beat Arnioarer, Blinkhoolie, Honesty, Julius, and
3lontgoubert (the first, fourth, and fifth), it would be a
rank outsider, I must confess that the 1,000 to 5
Westwick, who got second, was not in my thoughts.
Those discarded by me as second-raters Sealskin and
Romping Girl, cut up such, great favourites as they were,
and Julius carried out my expectations that be would
beat all the public horses with a vengeance. Of course.
everybody found out Lothario would have won had he
started, when they saw a 3-yr-old with sat win, and his
backers greatly deplored that Baron Rothschild was so
poor a man, to which misfortune they attributed the
horse's falling lame, as, had " the Baron" not been so
anxious, they say, to find out what the hundred or two he
bad on him was worth, by tering him once too often, all
would have gone well. He may have done no better,
however, than the other Newmarket pets, Blinkhoolie and
Sealskin, if he had been ever so well, the trials of this pair
beating his by many chalks, Mr. Chaplin's colt being
nothing less than the equal of Hermit, according to some
versions. This might be true, and then not good enough,
if the pair were only tried a mile and a quarter, for Hermit
must be " tons" worse now than when he ran at Doncaster,
or Friponnier could not have given him the 141 b beating in
the Select Stakes. The latter is certainly a most extra-
ordinary horse, but not more so than Julius, who proved
those who looked so much at his Julie blood to be quite
out of their reckoning when they supposed speed was his
forte, as he ran the greatest glutton of the whole
year, and did snore in his sixteenth race since
the 22nd of April than on any previous
occasion. lie won farther and easier than the
Baron or Favath-a-Ballagh did with their big weights,
and it would be quite an sweet were he now to meet
Achievement over two miles, as he could do anything with
Hermit now, and it is quite possible that his mishap at the
last turn lost him the St. Leger. Ido not think so much
of him for the Cambridgeshire, after Lady Elizabeth beat-
ing him for speed in their exciting match on Friday,
allowing this defeat should not have occurred, it being the
general opinion that had Daley come along with him down
Bush-hill, as Challoner did in the Cesarewitch, when he
bad all the best of it, he would have won a length. Fri-
ponnier is a more likely horse for the short spin, so far as
capabilities go, the way Hermit ran with my fancied
Longcbamps fur the Newmarket Derby, giving him a stone,
maims the young Chevalier d'lndustrie's performance
with him something wonderful. But his owner has openly
expressed himself doubtful about risking each a valuable
horse in the scrambling crowd that will meet for the last
great handicap (barring the Liverpool Autumn Cup. per.
hapax) of the season, at the same time that his case is not
so hopeless as the market would indicate. His
heavy weight is not a pound too much, and unless there
is a good thing in one of the light or mid-weight brigade,
be can beat all the three-year-olds. Valorous, Honesty,
Dragon, and Wroughton are all supposed to be good, if
wanted," and there is no question that Honesty ran quite
forward enough in the Cesarewitch, lame as he was, to be
worth backing. Should he stand it will take a good horse
to beat him, only La Dauphine and Julius, of the other
performers of Tuesday last, being worthy of much cool-
deration ; but the Cambridgeshire is a very different race
to the " Selzer," and will bring together a superior clam of
horses, Lozenge, once such a flyer, being in at only 11b.
more than La Dauphine, whilst Julius will be giving 21b
and his year to the best-looking four-year-old there is
on Newmszketheath, now the outsider Lancret.
Viridis's triumph and Seville's defeat, and the in-and-
out running of Suffolk, helped to keep the game alive ; but
I have only further to deal with the two-year-old per-
formances, the first of which that caused any com-
motion was Suffolk's defeat of Lennie in a
DOI. plate on Monday, both this and the overthrow
of Inspiration by Clernence just previously giving the gen-
tlemen a severe "facer." These disasters only portended
the more serious one in the Middle Park Plate.
Leamie's disgrace was not encouraging to the followers of
Lady Coventry, although the stable depended more upon
the latter lowing beaten a crack 3-sr-old like Pericles at
even weights. This trial was considered too good to be
true, as were likewise the stories of Lady Elizabeth being
better than any old one John Day had got, including Lord
Ronald, and both Rosicracian and Green Sleeve close to
the 4-yr-old Xi. Nevertheless, when Lady Elizabeth ran
so well with Julius these rumours began to look quite
credible, and there can be no doubt the first flight in the
Middle Perk Plate was composed of real " flyers," and
that Sir Joseph Hawley ha, again got just such a team as
he had a few years ago, when Teddington, Aphrodite, and
the Ban in one season, and Beadsman Ltd Fitz-Roland in
another were great cards. Blue Gown won the Cleerwell
very easily, :sad further curried out my prediction
by leaving the great Plate to his stable-companions
Rosicrucian and Green Sleeve, notwithstanding one of the
pair (and the winner) did stand at 50 to 1 up to the morning
of the race. In endeavouring to show how the contest
might result, a happier hit was made in my last than over
the Cesarewiteh, as I left the Marquis of Hastings, Sir
Joseph Hawley, and the Lady Coventry stable (first,
sseond, third, and fifth) to fight it out, and " Sir Joseph,"
who supplied the first and second, was awarded the pre-
ference. Another Danebury reverse, the overthrow of the
Earl by Ouragan, was also foretold • and it it gratifying to
me to rind, after hackers have had such a bad week, that
my pen did not lead them into their troubles. Green
Sleeve easily won the Prendergast when Virtue, St. Ro-
nan, and Suffolk were the beat she had to beat, the cherry-
jacket thus being victorious in the three principal two-year-
old events of the meeting. The last performanco of
the filly looks almost as well as the first, eonsidering
she beat Suffolk so far ; yet I should be sorry to take any
line from such an erratic gentleman as the latter, although,
through Ouragan being before him, the form might be
right, after the Earl's running with the pair. The latter
did not come so well out of the meeting as he went in, the
Frenchman's defeat on Friday making it bad for bile, and
indirectly for Pace, the long way Court Mantle and Michael
de Basco were beaten in the Middle Park Plate being
another blow to the prestige of the pair. Pace actually
found it bard to beat Athena when they met. and she was
coughing so badly that she had not an effort left in her
when meeting Indian Star on Fridsy. Still, the Marquis
of Haatings's presumed Derby second string, the Earl, will
make a great three•year-nld if he only fulfil the promise he
mguntil he wan run off his legs, and while Lady Eliza-
possesses such a wayward temper, it will be
as well to make safe on the colt for the Derby.
Her ladyship was dreadfully fractious at the
start for both her Tame, one only a match. As
this is a fault it will never do to exhibit on the
Derby day, 6to 1 must be a ridiculous price for her to
stand at now, and alter " Sir Joseph" has won the Two
Thousand, she is bound to recede, if not before. There is
no saying that Resicrueimi and Green Sleeve did not give
her such a beating on Wednesd.y last as would make up
for the weight they were receiving, and had not the eolt
changed his legs close at home, turd by a stumble brought
limitable almost on to his neck, he might have won as
easily as the Rake did a year ago. Should be meet Lady
Elizabeth in the Troy Stakes, it will be aline trial between
them, elicit Rosicrucian has to win the Criterion first,
and when Le los done this, he will have to put up 21b.
more extra weight than the
Before, however, Newmarket will claim my prophetic
thereyth ,
are four lays' racing
tint at
tet through,Cieu
thamand
an
with the steeplechases at Ealing on Thursday and Friday,
forming the chief " fixtures" of the current week. In the
west there are many events to be decided it is out of my
province to dismiss; and I shall confine myself to the
following selection :—Gloucestershire Stakes at Chelten-
ham, Elegance or Steamboat; Hamilton Stakes, Contempt
or Veda; County Cap, the Rescue. Herefordshire Stakes,
Moose or Pearl Driver ; Shobdon Cup, Caithness or the
best of Wallow's. The other items completed are too
much alike in character, or dependent on other matters,
to claim attention. From the Scotch gathering there are
only five stakes made up yet, and these T. Dawson can do
almost as be likes with.

Tbere is another "sporting" event of the week that I
bad almost overluoked, the fight for the championship,
and between two gentlemen one of whom was a hero in
the last grand " no fight" that drove another nail into the
coffin of the P. R.—and I grieve to think, into the coffin
of Cie late lamented Mr. F. L. Dowling, who, as
editor of Bell's Life, bad so often to brave
the roughe.t of the rough when he bad to
give a decision that was not palatable to the noble fol-
lowers of the " win" tie and wrangle principle. It was
mediately after a stormy interview with one of the princi-
le in the coming tourney, and which was attended by a
band of vicious ruffians who talked savagely of murder if
a certain fiat were not given their way (and they were not