The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-22 00:00:00

SPORTING.
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TO Tllll EDITOR OF TEIR
Simi—What with the half-dozen Free Handicaps
advertised in the last Calendar, and eight private matches,
them will be nothing to complain of is the quantity of sport
during Use Houghton week, and the probabdity of at least a
doses conteets per diem is far from a remote one, as the
acceptances for the Nursery Handicap are sure to be suts-
- numerous to produce two mom instead of one, while
none of the forty-seven minor events yet to close ar• likely
to prove failures, to judge by the number of q
already et Newmarket for them. Then uirtbUtit
eleven items already complete, neither of which
will be compromised, from present appearances, although
there are two very heavy sweepstakes, so that the
most enthusiastic twits will be pretty tired be-
fore the week is out, and It Is to he hoped the weather
will not put a damper on the proceedtags, the one wet day
w hut Wit testing being quite aidlicient to prove the full
enlist el themieriesef Newmarket racing when the elements
am ant propitious. Tuesday is a bed day for the All-aged
weightforageStakes,ou the last three-quartersof the Rowley
Mile, as the Cambridgeshire is so table to interfere with
he sacues, and on this occasion four of the alum left in
are ALIO in the great event- -M. Philippe, 6 yr., 9st 51b,
Man Friday, age 4 Stet Mb, The Bever, 4 yrs, 9st Sib, and
Thunderbolt, 3 yrs, vet 41b. Another obstacle is kitty to
eland in the way of the liner's running, sad Thunderbolt's
appearance being myth* bet a oermiuty, Brown Duchess.
yrs, :st :llb, looks all over the ensue, it being doubt-
ful whether " the bolt's" starting would rest=
dim her prospect'. In the 2100 son. In
Ab.M., Lord suntan is pretty certain to have •
cut at Brumley (the recently-imated Phony colt) if
Ire doss not l.nug out bipedal:due ; but I moot see his
prospect of suceee.as Canto • Denuder form was very bed,
and Pagoda is no" dyer.* In the two matches, one over
the Wet, and the other em the last half of Ab. M., Plum,
2 yrs, Tst 4b., hes the best of the weights with Bees Mid-
dleton, 3 yes, cast 1216 ; and Deedemoods, 6 yrs, is only
worth an ounce of lead it she cannot give Ladylike 71b sad •
beating.
The Cambridgeshire has mourned quite a different com•
plezion since my last letter, for Dukiballa, Gridiron, Stum-
ped°, Seclusion, Optimist, Container. sad Sutton, have
been knocked about severely, and the four lest mentioned
• nou.starters, it is feared, their place' being now occu-
pied by Weatberbound, Golden Pippin, Maggiore, and Pre-
lude, who with Thunderbolt, Sir William, Serino, Roma,
acid Ripon, comprise all that are really backed in
earnest. J. Osborne, with his hie of alight, '
not one firm ia the market, altliong‘
of the Mist and Feedorowee, in addition to flatten, have
been nibbled at for a week ; but whether one of three,
'sorer, lady Traipses. Mooroock, Moorhen, or Miss Digby
will eventually carry the money a quite a mystery—which,
however, might be aolval to-morrow, alter a " that, and it
mar then be daccvered that Sutton is the Simon Pere, after
all the pepper he hen received. Areaterdain, Promised
Land, The Rev.,, bldg.. de Chantilly Quinn Wisner,
tViutoa, hunch, Benbow, Rising gun, Tkket-of•Lean„
Introits, Dartmouth, Braesey, Carries, Australia Maid.
heirs, Little Dick, and Furious, represent the "outside
division that threaten to start ; but I sea me nothing dan-
gerous in anything beyond Little Dick sad Pravda,
the latter being a moat dangerous oppareas to the
favourite, if aim can but get the Mauna Weather-
bound has had an estramlimuy "trial," and the
party make no secret of her having molly galloped away
it ma the Cuarewite.h wiener, Dulcabella, which a such a
great feat to perform that it appears on the cards for a
Cambridgeshire favourite to prove victorious, which has not
hue the ems shies the den of loadigreve and Baby.
Wintheebrari senile nee money, perhaps, than Duki-
belle did Is the Oeuerwwitch, and always having run well
whin "wanted,' and myth* like it, there is a peat
chum el the ring bong eon heavily hit by her cheer
party. Inds& bee aka done weeders, having easily settled
the - prelamine el hips Ilyearey at even weights, which
aunt air dNage^ 1 In maw believe in it, ea the
ynahes wee net Male • deer at • geed 3- old
env her ewe illetrage at and
tidier:m=le wired at York whin meths Daman at a
Mae eisly fix the mane kr mkt dun behind a lilt.
ere.mime and Weribiebeemfe_ parties are
genseelly:modes preenesed hi an ae On the
ar forward
poems. in gm nerbes ME SO= Immarrea, the GRIM
weigh .41=414w la. boa et j, what-
mar any be tack ad lir. Opines. mainly
Bunten hie Me of If his rvaa bet true,
for the &nen is jest net,
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: only the weight she it mil Med he aim Thatiederbott
: will rue geed leti to • anon gets% and were the
distance ggi yar tim, imeteml ef over, • mile, he
meld be a real " good :* yet his =....dpobi irlw*
Um they can ensure hie the fel up wash
a enure bill, and his pipes may be out of Was
wheel they are meet required to he a order. Remo
has been backed for a little nosey kir • very talented
partg, while Ripon, Sir William ea lib wane terms
for the head defeat helattlnion Cop at ihiariener, Ira •
few friends ; and be a Dirty entitled is their mays* tar