The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

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usetinge from the dry sod hard veremer, Deneaster had
es be rot over without any of those •• tremendous" fickle
M bow that are thought so unaware to the mimeo of d
tree-Gam race gathering; and yet there woe plenty of in-
cident to interest the lover el estatemeat. To
these who were set euleras thereby. tee surprises were
sajoeed very mush; and we had such • member of them
Autism the four days that it became • mistier of surprise
et last when • favourite wee. Out of the 26 Waal eons
that same off, there were einle nine wherein the selected
one wail victorious, end then in three cues odde hee to
be laid GO the e good thi" whilst, pereeneeneysem
Wereiellf of the "entainties " bowled over in addition to
Ilolladrtaa and a " fielder " risking 1/, "ponyody
against each first favourite would have net Ukprly NW.
unit during the meeting. Two or three evernsel
backers of bosses are spoken of an baring sums each
that would Week many • pnvate bank, and some of the
gentlemen have suffered to much that **Wag day is
looked forward to most anxiously. Long before the
note of preparation" was sounded far Doncaster, thus
were many thousands lest over the scratched sari, and the
growls of the sufferers were so toed that toe parties most
immediately caucused thought it "unwary, to Gear
themselves, to bare the colt *unused by a vet," who
errUbed that it wee ha opinion the bores sauterne, owing
toe. trails of the stupentory ligament of his neer foreleg. and
Muse unfit to run. To give things • mere wholesome
appearance, Mr. Failwiek, whose name baa been so mixed
up with The Earl beams ever since he was made " safe"
for the Derby. has sent a letter to the Jockey Club, re-
questing • strict investigation into the doings regarding
the horse, and be has actually taken his team away from
John Day's, thereby casting all the blame. inferentially,
on U. trainer. flu prayer has been granted, or will be
to-day, and thin is little doubt about the matter being
tborovghly sifted, if General Pied is to be in the commie.
Pend up the inquiry, it would be unfair to offer any fur-
ther remarks, and 1 can only =mese what • cutainty
The Earl, "well and wanted," would have been
in the St. Leger field of 1868. There wee
really only one to best, Formosa, the best of
license eleven opponents were all more or lam
in Queer-street, or we should have had no Paul Jones
second, or Mercury third. What the talent think of the
field may easily be guessed, when Blue Gown is first
favourite for the Cease ewitch with list 111 b, at the same
time that long aide are laid against Paul Jones with
let 116, Mercury with let 41b, sod the Spy .with 6st 10lb,
the second, third, and fourth, to Mr. Ureham's file
Thorn behind the trio may be at once dismissed for both
the autumn handicaps, See-eaw having anything but the
best of legs to train on, and St. Roam growing so ugly
that it is no weeder they gave Cureance up to ride the
savage Viscount- Ring eared, again, will have to be
thrown ep for a time, if not Typhoeus, who
may be kept going with an ere to the
Newmarket of. Leger and Derby. Neither the
Buseneer nor Mercury put in a claim for the Douai-der
Cap; end Formosa being an absentee deo, it was for
Clanivrood end Vie ount to represent the three-year-olds.
The letter ran no better than in the tit Leger, and Lord
Oliunford's luckless colt came to grid just when victory
seemed within his grasp. He Mopped so suddenly, and
. stood en has legs with so much ddiculty when pulled up
'epee its the chair, that it was believed he led broken
liwn bed y ; but he at peered strong enough on his legs
before the last race was over, and whether he ricked his
back, or merely bad an attack of staggers, he may not be
quite dose with yet. However, Lord Stamford will
barely care to run him on a long course again, this
being the seemed time something has ha
'ben he wee put beyond the supposed lengireol
his tether, and he is cult • resolute, game bit of stud that
.be would possibly run on till he dropped. No doubt need
be entertained now that he would have beaten Viscount in
the Great Yorkshire Stakes but for bursting • blood-yes-
eel, and it a surprising bow Bluestein and Mum keep their
places in the Owareentoh betting attar the running of
Tabouret and Jets Scott's two on Friday, for when the
Marquis's eon beat Blueskin two lengths on the Knaves-
=The Spy was " upsides " with him, and the latter
not get over (leant des Batailles in the Doncaster
stakes. True, the yetureentative of the "spots" had
shown by his surprising Victory in the Doncaster Plate
that to was ad such a had horse, and The Sawyer and 'Pa-
lmate were beaten far away; but this last-mentioned pair
are at least very uncertain, and I can only urge that the
Giaat would not be a favourite for the Cesarewitch at the
spy's or Blueekin's weight, close as he may be to the pair
en °Dilater& running. Had Blue Gown run for the (up,
is only fair to suppose he would have won milky. de-
spite his 71b penalty, as it was evidenced Julius is stall out
of form. or Mandrake could not have beaten him. Still,
there was no - certainty'' about the Derby winner, who
due Ascot has not been taking long gallops ; and if he
does not immediately commence his two-mile journey%
there will be no Cesarewitch for him. If be can win over
the severe two miles and a quarter at Newmarket, then he
wet be • wonder indeed, as the teak would be • harder
ear than sacking the Cambridgeshire with Pat—not at all
itneossiblc, looking at the way he gave Sib in the Fitz-
team to Eveliea, who neat day gave 311) and a
7lb beating to Master Willie, so that the latter is
at kart 'eleb and hie year behind the Gown'. Had the
match Leen made as proposed between the two Derby
wieners the lies saw at the meeting, it would have
caused • temation, and there will be 60111! excitement
ever the Hermit and Palmer's match across the Hat in the
Houghton week. Prom the fact of Hr. Chaplin wanting
an easy male over which to ran his chestnut against Blue
Gown at the weights stipulated (the latter to receive tilb),
it may be inferred that he can only get short coulees now,
eipacedly alter the way in which be was backed for the
Portland Plate, and if this is the ease he will not be able
to give the 31b to The Palmer; nevertheless Vespasian took
the measure of the Sir Joseph's horse in the Clumber
Plate host Tuesday, and as the match was mete
afterwards, the role jacket ought to have the best
it. The Hermit is not fit just now, and should the
admiral give him a few pounds leas in the Eastern Coun-
ties or October handicaps than he has in the Cesarewitch
or Cambridgnhire, be may be •• heard of" again before
he meets The Palmer for the GOO rove. In addition to
the horses mentioned in the foregoing remarks, Donald-
Lain, Etoile Filaute, The Laird, Rel-tub, Romping Girl,
Hermitage, Landscape, Hymen, Python, end Snowdrop,
ed the host engaged in the handicaps that are now pro-
lading such heavy speculation, performed et Doncaster ;
and not one did suMtient to make itself a favourite,
Romping Girl incurring • 71b penalty for her victory in
the Great Yorkshire Handicap, the credit of which was
detracted from by her inability to fairly beat Lord Pal-
merston nest day for the Queen's Plate. Had his
lordship kept on kis legs when they were running their
heat, it is quite on the cards he would have done
talirithrlili; and then we should have bad • second edition
of last year's St. Leger-day, when Clialloner, after win-
ning the great event, drove the poor backers wild by
carrying off her ejesty's gift on the greatest outsider in
the race. He would have received quite as loud cheers
from the playmen (who can shout when they "skin the
lamb ") as he did from the general public when winning
his fourth St. Leger on Formosa—a rare slice of
hick for him, as Fordham only gave up the
mount when Paul Jones was tried so well for
the race. Not that he must necessarily have pre-
ferred the colt's chance to the filly's; but, as rumour
will have it Fordham has an interest in the Chester Cup
winner, nasty things might have been said had he ridden
Formosa, and just got hasten by Paul Jones. Ho seems
fated to be kept out of the highest honours by Chaloner,
who hag now Jett beaten him three times in the St. Leger
and Derby, though anybody could have won on Formosa,
who bad a far easier task before her than another Oaks
winner—Queen of Trumps—that became the heroine of
the great northern race.
Further complications came out of the two-year
old running subsequent to the Champagne, another
idol being overthrown on Thursday, when Reeh-
werth could only get third for the mile Sweep-
stakes. Here was confirmation, apparently, of the
idea that Pelladrum had been overrate), the two
colts having hitherto been so clo-e together. Never-
theless, tLeie wee Crocus before Ryshworth, and if Bella-
drum is not a stone better than her, they have male a
dreadful mistake at Ru'eley. Be ides, the young Skit-
=abet was only sent for in a hurry, when Mr. Savile dis-
covered ltelledium would not start, and he wan decidedly
not fit enough to undertake such a long journey
against
the improved Thorwaldsen' whose stable will make • noise
over the Derby, for if he is not big enough himself to
end followers, there is plenty of Pretender, quite
" baby" at present. It is singular that the two best
'evade performers of the meeting, Horns and Lumley,
should both have been left out of the Derby, the question
being whether the latter is not • long way the beet we
have seen out during the season. His new owner must
think so, or he would not have stood 2,400 guineas for •
horse with scarcely an engagement before him that can
get back a tithe of the money, and he will be fortunate
if he can find a dark one ie bin stable to beat him.
Norma has been matched to doe pretty good thing, giving'
equal to a atone to Amager being no jobtLespeoially if it
should be true that Sir Joseph has a yoter in
Pero Gomes—a long way the best hive/smut Leann see
for the blue nband now, an Sir Joseph is certain to have a
great favourite, and he looks Lb the pick of the buit.
Siderolite is not in, or be would have found
favour before the Nursery, wherein he
did as
had a start as St. Menge, the winner, in
the Donington. The latter's misfortune fully' accounted
for his running nowhere to Lumley. and he is no doubt
• very fair colt ; but the sante can hardly be said of the
hot Nursery favourite, the Allington colt, good as be may
have been tried with Lades, and I must confess myself
sue,aPpoin at his performance. My other
too, Wahnar, was stopped, owi g to those
who saw what he wee made of in Thorwalndesn's race
making him such • favourite ; but it is not for me to com-
plain at the way the wheel of fortune turned during the
meeting, nearly all the events advised upon, great and
man, and whether won by outaiders or favourites, having
metalled in accordance with my predictions, whilst for the
lift year fa ireeceadou I have now
wirer of the Rt. Leger with only stringPign "'jested
the
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. .gmd so much on the ::t'ing at the pose and it quithingteencLgh so touch upon the Pr in'iPal events. Honey people will be at it "in India 14e;tland. and Wake, in addition to
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