The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-17 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TURF MEMORANDA ATM COMING EVENTS.

vo Tan gyros or rim izrain.

The,— A plating week is all we weld en=
tin& the Dammam and Newmarket FIR
Meetings, sad wham/kWh any land" Acing' would
have been cot The ems ildefatiCable Ural*
requiem some end i Is sijawsk ryQßsrfut
that Harness shmild e, yfttpret Ufa oboes
usage fa lama •••
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or that the Lathering" at Riehmtead and Kelm
shred both attended, elpecially after
the drowns, the gen= and ths yobbo inistsissi tit
Demcsater, which they will mot forget fer some time.
Beskinakers, again, will sot tarn eat to pert VOA their
Benin
"before they have got tiloaniortheastaling, as I
feared hang camplinned of as a most diseetross one ; and
the betting at Hampton on_ penthig events was mese-
'essay of the Mutest deen). People meta to be
twang themselves roes& and welting for the great
Newniarkft Bliadinffo, twe of which, tole decided next
week. Item just made their ,eppeartinos. One, the Kestera
Omonee, has already provoked some speoulation, the
weights being adjusted in such • • nmeterly style, that
so favourite bas been made yet, whilst I eon only surmise
that the winner may spring from the following lot :
Ag• It TI lb
.. . 4 6b Joseab Alamo 4 14
BOll.lOlOl.MsaN 4.♦ II 0 Benevolent, ...... it 2
Okereile DIJOII . 3 T 4 Trestle 4
Tea . 9 .1/ 4
The Water Handicap it would be Weir to diseam
at it is not defiled until the kat day Of the flat ineetifig ; •
and tsar' is nothing like waiting foe" liomethiag to torn
up" under the circumstances, liming that the day-five
waged may be reduced at least these-fouttha the evening ,
before naming. Many of those strikingly in are limier
reserve for the Cosarewitds and GAmbridgeshare,
so doubt, the betting cm the law ram haw of
ho Iseary • character that it is worth while Wring anythfivs
salable of galloping the course. A trems.unieriai
be m!"*.Ati 91ib!" R-
., !owe IMO, WA, asting there is a
three-Ikkr old tatty dot Met favourite, for there
"suet necessarily a heap of "rubbish" in the race,
when even • Blue Gown could be brought to as low as 7
to I with such • weight on hie back. The question is,
where one to upset him is to some from, it being easy
enough to prove he can beat all the remainingtsgeters
on " paper ; but it may be • very. different • when
the clever divisors bring off their private triabi, much
as I respect the stable, there must, to my thinking, be
two or three before him in both the market and the race.
Not that it is est.', to " t " them, for the two most
tempting baits that PAD be discovered Brewing and the
Ppecial, go very fishily in the market ; but there may be •
fair young among the tight-weights —each as Head
Centre or Gondolier. whose merits are literally dark—and
even if there is not, the heavy brigade comprises • very
aloe brace of tour-year-olds—stayers or non-stayers--in
Priponnier and Hermit, the former of whom has recently
done something to make his party think Blue Gown quite
out et it. The Cambridgeshire is • still greater pamle,
all 1 can urge being that they must back the top-
weights some da. and a great many of the supposed " good
things.- besides' Dolby being one that should afford some
good hedging at hie present price. The autumn betting,
in fact, will be unusually heavy, for the Turf is in • pro-
sperone state. despite the recent excessive gaming, and
consequent turf scandals, or we should not have seen the
who. of the past week go off so well. Fair prices were
et-mined. as a rule, at Doncaster, where an immense
number of lots " were sold each day, and yet upwards
of twenty-four thousand pounds could be found for Mr.
Jackson Fairfield stud, on Saturday, not one-
fourth s.f which came out of the pockets of
the foreign buyers, who were in such strong
tune, the Prince .of Middle Park spending nearly ten
thousand pounds to keep Blair Athol, hie favourite
Touchstone marea &c., on this tight little island. It is
surprising. perhaps. that Richmond and Kelso races were
act better attended, when so many remained in the
Barth after the Doncaster Meeeting for the purpose of
ass sting at the the Fairfield sale nevertheless. as before
*keened. even turfltes must have • brief rest. and I shall
take the liberty of claiming mine now, thereby getting
oat of the perplexing programmes that have to be got
through at Hendon. Monmouth, Manchester, and other
minor meeting) that fill up the current week.
METBOR.