The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EIMER&

Su a —Deeember weather, and lifty-seven roan
In prospectj at the Newmarket Second October Meeting we
are just on theeve °Care not a very pleasant state of &flair'
for as lave to the national pastimes to contemplate ; and I
bow all exiles from the sacred ground must laugh in their
sleeve. ;n.t now -t "those who lave not been warned off !"
We suair be out or the way nowever,or, Fenian' revolvers
and other "attributes " of 'London life that are not over
pleasant ; and shall, too, sooner learn than stay-at-hoaxes
why Honesty has been at such • discount at Tattersall's of
late, ii that is any advantage. Since my last the Cesare-
witch movements have been most perplexing, half the
favourites " ping" and nothing " corning " in their places,
the general idea being that the race will prove • very
tame one. Things may alter on Monday, when the
talent are all congregated on the Heath, for they will not
have much to occupy their attention in the card beyond
the gambling plates and handicaps, one of which, being
over the Cesarewitch course, is looked upon as • good
" trial." It informed the Lecturer division what • good
thing they had last year, when Aekworth and Gomm ran
so forward, and may tell a tale this time, but I sin pre-
cluded from discussing any of the first day's open races,
and shall also pass over one of the matches, not knowing
the form of Captain Hawkealey or Lord Westmorland in
the pigskin, as on this depends whether Mrs. Stratton or
the Star will win. Lord Lyon will probably be opposed by
Lord Glasgow's nameless thing over the D. 1., to the benefit
of Mr. Sutton, who will thus get 1,000/. instead of 300/.
more out of the " fine leasehold property" he has made
so much of ; and the Three.yr-old Sweepstakes, with
Arapeile reported amiss, must produce • race, Lady Hester
sad Ravioli being very close together, and the jady Sunny-
locks as trustworthy as either, perhaps, over a mile, which
is beyond the length of their tether. Court Mantle will
walk over foe the October Produce Stakes if Lord Fal-
mouth does not prefer he should retain hie maiden allow-
ance in the Middle Park Plate ; and Athena for the 300
Bova. Sweepstakes, Inspiration for the 100 Sous„ and
Fortuue-teller for the Rectory Stakes, must be my allies.
The Cesatewitch day will be a busy one, whatever may
betide the great event, for which only the following seem
to be " going for the money" at this writing :—Lashario,
ridden by Daley ; licsniander, Griinshaw ; Sealskin, Feed-
lam ; Julius, French ; Blinkhoolie, Jeffrey (?) ; Romping
Girl, Kenyon ; Moutgoubert, Iluxtable ; Etotle /Manta ;
Le Dauphine, Hammond ; Honesty, Covey ; Armourer,
Butler ; King of the Fairies, Cameron ; and Guy of War-
wick. Harry Brailsfurd or Pearl Diver (Marra;), Duke of
York or Tormentor (Mann), Owain Glyndwr, long Victor,
Minster, the Maid of Masham filly, and King's Cross, have
been backed and knocked out again, though their asses
may not be so bad as those of Thalia, Proserpina, and
others once in such great favour, and the majority may
help Success, Planet, King Victor, as outsider of Mr.
Payne's, one of Mr. Thellueson's, km, to swell the field.
The home-trained lot supply all the best favourites,
bi Bliakhoolie, Montgoubert, Honesty? Lothian° Seal-
skin, and Julius ; and only Romping
re
and Areiourer,
of their opponents, are at all fancied now. Tki
bitter bids fair yet to emerge from the cloud that has so
long hung over him, and if he does! fully expect tomes him
become first favourite, as there will be many thousands
to cover by the " nobblers " who may not be able to get
their money back at all. 'What his capabilities are there
in no possibility for any one not in the stable secrets to
judge, all he ever did to mall for notice is " second" in one
of the Nurseries at Newmarket last October, when
Viridis gave him 331 b. This would put • three-year-old
with Get fib out of court at once, but is just as good a cer-
tificate as the favourite, Blinkhoolie, can boast of, neither
of his two winning races giving him the slightest chance
to win a big handicap with 75t. However, he is a clipper
at home, like Armourer ; sod there is another dark gentle-
man, Honesty, whose form is so good, rumour says, that
it is odds on instead of against him, actually—or rather,
it was until he was knocked out by some mysterious
agency that got to work on Thursday, and has " never
left him." It would have been pretty safe to trust
in this Honesty bad he kept his place in the betting,
and retained the confidence of the stable, for the
five-furlong spin at Warwick, the only one he
ever had in public, was no more against than it was for
him, and M. Dawson could not be far wrong it be
tried him to be • " certainty." They say now, neverthe
less, that Julius stands quite as good • chance as he does
at their relative weights, and the market shows the latter
to be as dangerous as his brilliant St. Leger performers°,
does. He may beat all the public horses when Lathed°,
Sealskin, and Romping Girl—all second-rates--are sae.
• to be the best, this trio being inferior on paper to
roll:oohed, who has only to stay the course to become •
rare thorn in the aides of Armourer, Blinkhoolie, Honesty,
and Julius. Should anything beat this latter quartet and
the Frenchmen, it is just as likely to be a rank outsider se
anything else—perhaps some supposed " demPun" like
Minstar or King of the Fairies, though the talent seem to
think La Dauphine (to whom I drew attentiou in my last)
is the only long-priced one with • chance. My confidence
in the favourites is certainly not great now that Honesty
looks so " fishy," Montgoubert being the best to stand on
perhaps unless Armourer should turn up all alive in the
next foety-eight hours.
Tee Royal Stakes will provoke an interesting match
between two old rogues and public favourites—The Palmer
and Taraban, the latter of whom will stay across the that,
and it would be • near thing again if Lecturer and Rama
met for the Whip, as neither is up to the mark, though
Chaplia's colt should be too tit for the little Colas*,
dale to tackle over the Beacon Course. As regards the
matches, I can make nothing out of the Piesnan's oppo-
sent, but brave good grounds for giving Handsome Jack
sad Chivalry the preference over Cuckoo and Paul Jones,
in the wawa they receive. The Cherwell, for which so
many good two-yearelds used to be reserved until the
Middle Park Plate was instituted, may not bring out the
best that are on the list now, Typhceus, Chelsea, and
others supposed to be good, being pretty certain to wait
for the natter stake, wherein they have such an
advantage in the weights. Should the Pace (91b
extra) and Blue Gown (31b extra) stables contain
better things for Wednesday, however, these may perform
on the Tuesday, and then fate would go hard against
Thunderstorm, Iroamsater, Restitution, end horses
of that kidney, as Blue Gown can beat them all and Pace
too. It is hinted that Sir Joseph has • better champion
for the Middle Park Plate than Blue Gown in Rosicruclan,
or the dark Green Sleeve ; and after lady Elisabeth has
been backed at the ruinously short odds of 10 to 1 to win
this and the Derby, they tell us now that The Karl will
very likely carry the scarlet and white hoops in her stead.
What with these statements, coupled with the story of
Lady Coventry being better than Pace or Leonie, we are
bound to expect some tremendous betting, and at the
following weights it is certainly not so easy to choose
between the crack 2-yr-olds of the year :
as lb et lb
race 9 2 Michael ow°
l dB 8

lorsoes lllll Musics B 6
Athena
1017 1:1134643 8 13 Court Mantle
8 13 kettltutlon
8 6
8 13 IroTnaster

Benin ........ Ulsm
In Senseln
TheEa
&Wolkrl fTyphous Girder,
Bel Worse f Vbcoant
Zabican .. 9 Harvester
Blue 001.111 I Betrayal
Nosicruclin
Thrunieestens a Lady Omentry
Inspiration
The last nine in the above list are "dark," and the =Jo-
rity of them are probably too backward even yet to show,
Typhoeus, Lady Coventry, and Green Sleeve comprising all
that look like manias. They have been highly tried, so-
receding to report, and if Green Sleeve is better than Real-
enician and Blue Gown, or Lady Coventry than Leona
sad Pace, the Marquis of Hostage may start both Lady
Elizabeth end The Earl, and then suffer defeat. Sir F.
Johnstone can hardly be called dangerous when his
Michael de Basco runs so cowardly in public, though he
has • most useful team ; and Suffolk ran so badly last
meeting as to be totally untrustworthy again yet, For-
aeosa's weight stopping her, too; but it is impossible to
overlook the danger there is in Rabioan and Court Mantle,
on public form alone, and it is hard to tell how good In-
spiration may not be. The Marquis of Hastings, Sir
Joseph Howler, and the Lady Coventry stable, neverthe-
less, fairly claim the greater share of my respect, with
Typbous, and it would not surprise me to see Sir Joseph
recompensed for his Doncaster ill-luck by finding one to best
both Lady Elizabeth and The Earl. The latter has • lot of
work before him at the meeting, and should he undertake to
do it all be will be fairly on the road to ruin, glutton as he
may be. The Bedford Stakes, ran for on the Middle Park
Plate day, he may leers to Carman or Thunderstorm,
being bunbaned with gat Sib ; and Pace should also de-
slime to carry hisernsher (9et 101 b) here; Pompier ought to
win the 50 siva, Sweepstakes, and Lord Glasgow the
Biennial Post Match, with Vauban amiss ; the Beaufort
oleo appearing very like a walk over for Mr. Merry. It is
hard to say where the Select Stakes will travel, as Julius,
Friponnier (51b extra), Montgoubert or Dragon, and
Wroughton are all good horses, yet the brothers Dawson
might be first and second, allowing that it is Matthew's
turn to win, with Julius receiving 51b from " Frip."
On Thursday Pace has two engagements be ought to get
well through, notwithstanding his owner would not allow
him to meet Athena (opposed to him new in the 300 Sovs.
Sweepstakes) the other day ; and there would be another
oevemity on the card if Europa were able to run for the
Bretby—but which she is not, the event being an open one
in her absence. Parifeather, Adosinda, Myeot, end
Queen of Beau
ers not an easy lot to handicap, the
former having slightly the stronger claims to notice. It
will take Friponn r all his time to beat Hermit for the
500 cove. Sweepstakes, a far more open race, with its half-
dozen subs., than the Newmarket Oaks, for which 65
entered, as herein Seville has only to be allowed to start to
become a great favourite and win. The 200 Post Match
will come to nothing, and it is to be hoped some of the re-
maining matches—all belonging to the last day's pew
gramme, unless the parties making them agree otherwise—
will fall through, as if the Earl dares to meet the Star,
" owners up," be Derby backers would almost be justified
" pelting" him with their betting books. He will get
the engagement against Milton without much
trihorr7teh, this being a far better match for the Marquis of
Hastings than that wherein Athena is made to run Indian
Star over half • mile, and another with Lady Elizabeth
asked to beat a 3-yr-old like Julius, at only 91b, over a
saved three-quarters. My opinion is that both fillies will

be beaten, though it is unfair to discuss the point
pending the doings of the four preceding days—
which can easier show what will win the Prendergast
than the most abstruse calculation, that might be made
uow, as Inspiration, St. Ronan, (:Teen Sleeve, Dungan,
Thunderstorm, Restitution, and Suffolk—all the great
guns, in fact, except Virtue--will be pretty well run
through. The Newmarket Derby ought to remain an open
looking race to the last, with Hermit giving ne each to
Taraban, Blinkhoolie, Jasper, Inagua, Star of India, Man-
drake, Debut, and the "French Derby" winner Patrician,
and 141 b each to Longchamps and the Priest. The distance
is uuiy a mile and a calf, so lust it Lilt lattur is worth
backing to win the Cambridgeshire he must stand a chance
against the best of Mr. Chaplin's, the Cesarewitch having
to determine whether this is Hermit or Blinkhoolis,—
I am, kc. ItfiTEOR.