The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

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,l b 1 INTELLIGENCE.

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THE CURRENT WEEK'S MEETINGS AND
GREAT EVENTS. • • •
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TO TUE =ROA 07 7112 1111111111111.
Silt,—With the Lewes meeting dooms the holidi
tins, of the professional repegoer, who must
• himself to hard work for the remainder of the mesi
The St. Leger is close at bend with the many otherint
tent affairs of the Doncaster week, though Mrs ie pleat
, of beelness to be done balers that emoting time tief
round, the "fixtures" being numerous and im
enough to prevent the Cesarewitch and Canibri
attracting undue attention until the weights areupper-
. timed. The "outside public," howeves, are already
-sharply involved in these events, having in their ,sagensese
•aaessddss three Ur lota favourites even before the nonunatioa
lists closed, so that one of the chief commission agenta
compelled by the pressure. put upon him to advertise
Eastby at 33 to 1 and Romping Girl at 40 to 1 teethe long
race, with its 166 entries. These odds are taken. too, as
Alt 010 the thousands to twenty or fifteen about the inevi-
table Stradhroke, the Special (owa-brother to " tie to I". ),
the Honesty .o nicely managed last year by the financial
scent to the Young Rapid family. old Beeswing, and
Achievrinent; and I am curious to discover how Admiral
Rom b eats this perplexing little let. Not one of the AUDl-
ber Ilse this year shown the form it ono° possessed, or was
supposed to possess ; and the Flying Mare has thrice been
Maly disgraced, Julius at Bath, Mandrake at Asoot, and
Knight of the Garter at Stockbridge, making her sing
very small. The falling off eshibited cannot be attributed
to a lose Of her staying powers, for she has been noon-
eon d for the Cerarewitch and not the Cambridgeshire,
tike King Victor, The Palmer, and others whose forte is
unmistakably speed. The fleet Charnwond, Fripounier,
Grimston, Lady Coventry, Parson, Satyr, Vespaman, and
Vale Royal are in bothevents; and the otherculebrities eu-
gaged are Blue Gown, Cap4-Pie The Earl, Fortunin, Fer-
vaceues, Green Sleeve, Goodwood, Hermt, Ilium, Julius,
Marksman (in the Co•arewit,h only), Mandrake, Paul
J nsr, Patrician, Itestituton, Suffolk, Socrates, Seeeaw,

Speculum, The Spy, St. Ronan, Tarahan, the mysterious
Tom Cringle, Mahound, Tyndale, Wertwiek, Athena,
King Alfred, Lady Elizabeth, Lord Ronald, Linnet,
Typherua. Uncas, Van Amburgh, arid Vauban. Tne last
n:ne on this list confine their attentions to the shorter race,
wherein there is nearly all the best speed of the day, the
pimp< els of the final grand goof the season beingcertainly
improved by the long drought that has kept so many good
hones in e!ovr r all the summer. There is »itterid enough
in the above mentioned few, in fact, for two great races;
Formosa, Orion, and Moslem being about the only. great
three-year-old performers whore names are missing,
and it is almost a pity the we ghts are to be
shown before the Doncaater meeting, for The
Earl. King Alfred. Green Sleeve. Cap-ii-Pie, See'aw,
Paul Jones, Restitution, Thiess, St. Ronan. Socrates, The
Spy, Athena, The Sawyer. and Eastby comprise
about all the probable iellinger starters, excepting
Formosa, Orion. and lilueskin. The Admiral, neverthe-
less, cannot make any great mistake with these; and
anyhow it will he a good hie for barkers and prophete
Win n they discover bow ho measures the foregoing bath
with thartiwood. Grimston, Vale Royal, Lady Elizabeth,
Blue Gown. and Tabouret, albeit it matters little what he
puts on Lady Elizabeth's back. for she may never perform
again. Previously we shall see many of these in the
iipht-for-ugc races at York, tiro two-mile Biennial
boasting the names of St. Ronan, The Sawyer,
lilueskin, Clairon, and Vale Royal ; whilst in
the Great Yorkshire Stakes come The Spy,
'I he Sawyer. Orion. Micas, Cap-a-Pie, Blueskin and
ChainwoOd. with Mr. Merry's Parson and Sunstroke.
The Cap7i-Pie party are quite sanguine about winning this
latter prize, and then calmly reposing on velvet until the
St. Leger, arguing that to beat Orion and Charnwood just
now must be good form ; but even if he can accomplish
this feat it will only strengthen the supposition that
an ither of the pair can stay, and his chance of following
in the footsteps of his illustrious relatives Lord Lyon and
Ailiievement on the Doncaster Town Moor can only be
fairly estimated by the way he disposes of The Spy and
Blu?kin. To be in the hunt at all, he must give the latter

a 211 b beating, and there is no proof he can give him as
many ounces yet, for the best measure obtained of the
two has been with Thorndyke, who was about 71b
behind Cap-a-Pie at Ascot, and qute 101 b inferior to
BlueFkin last Tuesday. It is a pity that both
Thonnlyke and Glengarnock should both fall lame in
running for the Lewes Handicap on Saturday, as thereby
a most important key is lost, for a fair fight between the
pair would have shown in some degree what Blueskin can
do with The Spy, and consequently with Tabonret, Ilium,
de. It may be presumed that Glengarnock would have
won, judging from Choral's close proximity to the win-
ner, Birdseeker, who ran a fair horse, considering the
weight be was giving away, and one that might have been
worth saving for a great coup. albeit Mr. "J. B." got his
money on at a nice price, and is quite satisfied with what
the horse has done for him. It is not necessary for me to
dwell upon any other performance at the Lewes meeting,
excellent as was that of Leonie in the De \Varrenne, when,
thanks to Forams, she just bowled over my selected out-
sider, Reindeer, by a head—a disappointment the Scout
fairly recompensed me for next day. as he justified my pre-
diction by wmuiug the Railway Nunery at the liberal odds
of 10 und 12 to 1. The di-grace of Abstinence in the
County Cup cannot well be made out, for notwithstanding
the. brilliant form King Victor is in. it is impossible to
believe lee is so much her superior, or what is to become
of the character of the two-year-old cracks. one of which
body. Ryehworth, could ouly beat Abstinence a neck in
the July?
Yt t this is a problem that will have to be solved at
Dtlicarter and Newmarket, and attention must now be
directed to eve uts wore immediately at hand, the Elm
Ilanditup having to be disposed of yet. It is still doubt-
fat whether The Spy or Taraban for Mr. Bowe,. or
Tobemet or Mandrake (orsomething else) for Mr. J. John-
atone will hare to do battle ; nevertheless, when
this is determined it will not be difficult to
select a lot to " beat the field," Ilium, Fer-
yacques, Honesty, Fairwind, Stmthconan, and Three
ter Cent., ecmprueng about all the others that will find a
place in the market. Ilium may be pulled out for the
place
Stakes to-morrow, and then he will be
Lulf way out of court, for the victory that looks so pro-
bable puts 101 b extra on his back (Tubouret then receiv-
ing 61b from him), and a reverse would be almost a "set-
tler " when there is such a moderate lot to beat. Bird-
seeker is out of it, and the absence of Ilium would leave

the issue to such as Fidelia, Alicia, and Ecte;t7, thepre-
ference of these being due to Fidelia, with all her weight.
The minor events are delicate ground to tread upon,
two or three stables monopolising nearly all of them, and
I eapeet to see Cliff and Wadlow very busy in the Nursery,
the Enville Plate, the Holyoake, de. However, Maggie
and Iron Duke will be worth listening to if they threaten
in the first-named, and care mud be taken of Goodfellow
should he travel into the black country. Melody has only
to fear Bedworth's corning for the Tenth Biennial, and
there is lees for her to be afraid of in the Chillington, the
other "Rood thinge," with a start, being Runc for the
Cup, and Speculum for the Ninth Biennial.
I have no ambition to speculate about the Bromley
events set for Tuesday and Wednesday, attractive as Douro
may be in two handicaps; but the Stockton meeting
claims particular notice, the programme embracing some
interesting items. Strathconan, my Ebor outsider, is in
the Tradesmen's Plate,with Three per Cent., Honesty, and
Mies Osborne, also in the York race ; dill heresy not allow,
and then Fortunio will Lave his most awkward-looking
opponent out of the way. Apollo has been on the shelf ever
since he bowled over Cock-of-the-Walk and Socrates at
Salisbury, or I should book him to beat The Spy for the
Eleve.nthZetland Biennial, with his 71b. advantage in the
weights ; and the old form of La Moines entitles has to
the Harry Fowler Plate, Donaldbain being another enemy
to Watson, with all his string of four. As we are not likely
to get a peep at the great Thorwaldeen yet, the Cleveland
had better be left to the lEbrean and Agrippa, the unlucky
Dryad having surely had enough of it lately. If the
.&gean should be in good behaviour. he will also do for
the Bardwicke un Thursday. his 81b allowance being a
fair inducement to reserve him, though Lord Hawthorn
can lay claim to a 61b advantage, and the penalties on the
brit of the other public horses, Lades, and Minaret, make
him alincet the best to follow. Minaret has a better oppor-
tunity of distinguishing herself in the Lambton Plate, for
ahe once beat Voltz, and may only have to bow to Lady
Dewhurst— presuming, of course, Tharwaldsen will not
see Stockton at all, and also that there. is no food
•' darkie" in the field. One of this description of animal
could nick up all the two-yr old moue on the banks of the
Ten, for there is the ame form" in the Twelfth Bien-
nial on Friday as in the foregoing events, Consternation
being the Ned of the fresh names, and hemay net perform.
Tomos& will probably leave The Spy to beat the Sawyer
for the Great Northern Leger , end I shall let previous
ntimiug any what might win Thursday's and Friday's
p, handica. your reader, being able to ledge for themselves
that Mandrake has only to beat Taraban again to win the
Claret Stakes.
Tate in the week we have meetings at Paisley, Wen-
lock, and Windsor, and the latter shall be noticed in due
course by METEOR.

LEWES MEETING.- SaTunDAT.
The Fluiaex fortnight was concluded to-,ley at Lewes with an
into neticg and exciting day's =on, in the presence of a large
and influential company, and with weather very favourable to
the enjoyment of the . There was a numerous field
for the opening event, TtLe Plate, the excellence of the han-
dicap beugg apparrnt by the most of the runners being backed,
but the hackers were =easeful enough to spot Mini Frances, who
was entrusted with almost as much moneyas Sir Oliver, for whom
the weight proved too much, bring able to get no nearer than
fifth. The Juvenile Stakes ended in a walk over, but amen of
the tea redound went to the poet for the County osp, for which
Yin( VI tor, who has repeatedly shown Wined, a great horse at
three-quarters of a mile, was made the favourite, the Duke of
bleweeellif e two Lear old Abstinence being the moot fancied of
" tie rostainder. The eld borer wen My tinily from Gannon and
tfantmineter,
.Atetinereennialred fifth, but could have been nearer,
baylame eased her when punnet was hopelese Guinea
Landed
he the in the ZOO like very easily. Eleven of the al-
ters coloured on the card fee the T,,cwor Handicap CM-
toted that event. Glensinmelt, the fourth in the Goodwood
Makes, staretner .with the calf of Therodyke ; lindeeeker Wee
resg ""11l at nto 1, nl4 lltdespied the advantages of
hic • mania's ike Zeit in 1. new line having
w' for thc bandies track, a repetition of last
leer' le =a obviated. Therntite made the most of the
limeedni he Uttar dews aft
WWI Win hind legs that he will
never run again. The Vixen gelding appeared to have the nee
at Iti mercy, tut he swerved all over the comae from mambo.
and the liniah am left to lbreheeker and the horny-traine
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Choral j but_ the tatter failed to quite get up, sad was beaten
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