The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENOg.
CRACK TWO-YEAR OLDS AND DERBY
HORP,iIB.—No. I.

TO MO Storm OF Till KILPOON.
811..—Lct the world squabble as it may over the
peat whether the Derby or Oaks of ISM will really be
run for, the 2-Yr-old Poffonolums of the past SOSSOBI
.„..___ will b;—,,i.„t
become none the less interesting. seen,
employment before Belladnes, Pero Omer, and
Beir
Oats Brigantine, Scottish Queen, sad Heather
sees if Judge ('lark's certificate that the new course will
" do" should result in the From directors simmers
their fingers at Mr. Rudd and bringing out their
play minus the two principal characters. Pero d,Fhe
w net in the Two Thousand, it is true, but
ebanipiou alike are all in the One Thousand, and the
Prince of Wales's Stakes. at Ascot would not be a bad
I sli to fall back upon in the event of the great guns finding
Beir occupation gone in the month of May. However.
" all may yet be well," as they have observed onee or
is ice at the abode of Value in the New-cut, and I shall take
the liberty of commenting on the past season's two-year-
said " form " as though we are to have a contest for the
Blue &band in 'O. It cannot be denied that thine at the
topof the tree are a more level lot thanusuat and the
very aisle pace either suffered defeat or gone through
same fearful tussles for su . Pero Gomez only
half won his second race, and Wild Oats cannotbe
medited with more than half of the throe
stakes he battled for; Belladrum has been twice de-
feated. Pretender, worse still, gaining but one " bracket"
in four races. and 'Thorwaldsen, Ethur, and Martyrdom
can boast of nothing particularly good, notwithstanding
they are all that can be found out of the SO-to-I division,
beyond the four taken against the field for the Derby and
Lades. The latter is the solitary member of the picked
eight that has carried all before him, and very nearly the
only one of his year; for, had not Candidate won his 501.
plate, and Cicely her match, at Newmarket, we should
not hare one other of the ti 44 two-year-olds set
down as having started In the present year without
sustaiiiingl some reverse. Lades is not in a fashionable
stable, but soon nay be, his owner advertisiug him
to be sold by auction on Monday neat, at
Tattersall'lc with the rest of his horses. lie will doubtless
be sought after by one or two gentlemen who, with all
their large studs, are without a " Derby hone " to repre-
sent them next season: and he would be an acquisition to
Mr. Chaplin if he meant to keep on, or to Mr. W. Graham,
for whom, by-the-bye, The Duke was not purchased at
Tattersall's last Monday, as erroneously stated in my last,
the gallant Stockwell being booked for the dames of
Yardley. Whilst Lades has been winning his three races
off the reel, some live hundred juveniles have been unable
to win a race of any description, and it will be no loss if
the majority arc never heard of more, for the credit they
are to the turf, though I may safely say that they com-
prise the winners of several Important rants still to come.
Others, again, that have been so successful hitherto,
will go to the wall, having been run clean off their legs ;
and I suppers it is only out of politeness to the sec that
the best fillies have received something like merciful treat-
ment. Crocus, Melody. and Chanoinerse tam certainly
exception*: hilt the two lart-nanwil are - sprint" runners
it were best to run out over half-mile and five-furl
courses while there were rich plums to be picked: and
Brigantine. Morns, Scottish Queen. Heather Bell, Mar-
tinique, and the Maid of Mash am filly, have not been
overdone by any mean.. Reshworth has taken part in
thirteen encounters. exclusive of walks over, awl
Be liar= is credited with ten actual races, or
he would not do Stockwell the honour of hauling
the juvenile winners with 7.000 and odd pounds
',tared to his account. Pero Gomez. assisting t ) install Sir
Jueeph Bawler at the head of the year's winning owners
(but for him. Sir. Graham would have beaten the lucky.
Forsaker of Blue Gown, and the plebeian is "close up
in it is, thanks to Formosa), carried away over 5.0001. in
his race and a hall, and he is a good third on the list to
the second of Tendon, with tty.hworth fourth. However,
these figures hare nothing to do with the relative
" form • • displayed by the best of the host we saw out
between the lath of February and the 20th of November
last. numbering 92 more than appeared in '67, according
to the Gahm/air s statement of figures.
In the very first two-year-old contest of the season,
the Brocklesby at Lincoln, there were more performers
than nauaL and various were the opinions as to their
quality. Some insisted that the twenty-one behind
Curiense were only moderate, because she ran so clean
away from them, whilst others went so far a- to believe
Mounseer had got a female Gladiateur for us: but neither '
wide was right, for when all were prepared alike it was dis-
covered there were animals as good as the French lady in
the field, though she maintained her apparent superiority
long after the legitimate season commenced. It was more
the nature of the ground, perhaps, and the start J. Grim-
thaw got, that enabled her to cut down Hilda, Electricity,
and DeVere. in the style she di d over the Carholme, and Ctn.
sus. Ventnor. and Alpenstock were certainly not "ready"
so early. Next day both De Vere and Electricity got
before Calton in a weight-for-age encounter, and Glen-
hvat and King of the Rovers ran a ding-dong finish for
the second-best twieyearadil race ; but there was no great
merit here vet to glorify Curiae's°, any more than there
was in Hilda's overthrow of another foreigner, Amadou,
at Nottingham, where Captain Machell was bold enough
to run Carlotta in a au/. selling race, and fortunate
enough at the same time to get her back for only 2115/.
over the entered. price. Hilda and Amadeu were first
and second again at Derby; and after Hilda had
carried home her penalty at Liverpool, Amadou per-
formed the like feat at Liverpool, as did Hilda
again at Warwick. Curiae,. IMF thus the queen
eri far; and it was readily believed Jennings had a
'clinker" when, after vowing Musaniello was better than
the filly, the fisherman won a six-furlong race at Epsom
Spring from lie Vere, Electricity, Millie. de Fligny,
Robespierre, and half a score of others. De Vek had
beaten Trompette, Crocus, Mdlle. de Fligny. Bonny
Katie, Electricity, and Badsworth the day lireviously, and
carried a 711, penalty, but received a good 10lb beating,
and thus early we had a great Derby favourite made out
of the Epsom running. Crocus, all behind in her work
still, was compelled to succumb to Lure for the Walton
Stakes; and in this •ame race Antias was absolutely
beaten off, though before the year was nearly out she could
Five many pounds to her comiueror; and it would scarcely
have been thought at this time that Crocus would win her
3,0h0 guineas durintethe season. and Lure finish in a sell-
ing zinc for which she bad no price. The speedy Fleet-
sing began in a selling affair at Epsom, but was bought
in for 440 guineas; and another treasure was found at
Nortliampten it was supposed, wheu Vermicelli did the
Carlottatrick. But she was never in the same street as
Flower Girt or Carlotta. both minor winners during the
meeting. whereat Curieuse drove the believers in Masa-
niello wild with delight, by carrying her 71b. penalty
home hi triumph before Director, Chanoinesse. and Me-
lody for the Althorp-park Stakes. It wee not to be denied
that the Frenchmen were looking awfully dangerous just
bow, for they had got over Northampton without
anything haring tuned up to rival their Cunene* or
Masanietlo, apparently; and they had beaten some highly-
tried "foam, too. But new star. came upon the scene
at Newmarket; and after Cocoa Nut beat Carlotta,
Hinton, Storm King, lee., at the Craven meeting, and
Bailsworth and Chaeoinece had proven their previous
bad form behind Curieuse to be all wrong by their run-
ning away from Flower Girl and Bagpipes, a Brigantine
came to the rescue in the Guineas week. This filly, one
of the first to make us regret the !moot Buccaneer, caused
a lineation by running all over the course and then get-
ting two lengths the best of Director, who
finished at the neck of Curieuse at Northamp-
ton ; and in a fuer., important engagement
she " cut to ribands " seventeen opponents, in
the list of which were Martyrdom, llythworth, Trom-
pette, Mr. Crawford's Juanita, mid the liermione colt.
The two first named were not ready, we will say, and this
must also he the excuse for Ryshworth, when he failed to
get plated behind Bleak Flag (another Bueaneer) in a
=bier Plate. The filly, however, was no better off as
regards condition, sad it really began to appear on the
casts that for the third year in succession the mare was to
prove the better horse among the juveniles. 'rho early
Yorkshire meetings brought forth no dyer, any:more
than did the minor gatherings down south; but we saw
enough of Perfume at Chester to ignore her Chelmsford
performance behind Amadeu ; and liadsworth must have
Leen in full bloom en the banks of the Dec for the lint
time to cut down the good-looking Agrippa so summarily.
At I"ei k sprieg, the northerri stables were allowed to
hive all their can way, and Watson made a big mark
with Lis Duly DcwhurPt, who, in defeating T. Dawcon's
pair. Lord Ilawilieru and Fitzwilliam, war credited with
haying done '• wonders," for the Wet-named, by his style
of win,. ing a little ram at Think earlier on, had won
gold, n opoinhois, aud was considered the champion of the '
north 1.0 far. But Sussex supplied the winner of the
Hopeful at Demister, wherein the first mistake was
male by the followers of Jennings's stable, who
gammbed themselves somehow that BOON/ was
PI/11 tier to Curiesise awl would warmly believe
thbeettisrndeiren
Wholl saw 'IOU roll home lengths
Memento and .hider —loo winner barely in the
second etas., at the best of times. More than one Nursery member was believed to have performed at Winchester
and Salisbury ; but the principal winners, Mira Foote
and Antis, with Blucher, will always prove the beet of
the lot that were out. The paper form „ was also
mined at Bally with Miss Foote, the Vent, and Juanita,
the first three one day, and Baba, &lad
Chanothessi another, though I nanny i
whne,' and
shall see the bent of Wain Mel& Perfume amid not
be stopped by a heavy penalty at Harpendsa, any more
than amid Mannino' over a short OW at E
ING
Reekniciaa's eider, Monis, was not __—__r2ol
smith fur the mister to Hermit yes, andWabt:
wen expressed as to whether the would train
on so long as her brother did, notwilluitanding whe
did get home before Memento and Hannione colt. The
Litter had ran pretty forward in the Woodoote, width
wen not oosiddered a bad mfortssools, looking at the
eseapany, which included wee Gip Atonement (the
Crodlision Juanita, I. Saphir, om, Tens-
dee, sad Aetna, babies the vittoriows and the
Stockwell Wellington, loathed at a ousaparatively short
price for the Derby beforehand. Tenedos and Martyr-
dom also ran forward ; but Belladrum bad palpably won
so far from home that the two Dewsbury Allis wore given
the second and third please. Comperisraw were now drawn
between Brigantine anal the RUOdOy crack, and Martyrdom
bad got so much closer to the one than the other that la-
drugs was eniversally 'riven the palm, tat the muse time that
hewn voted the lest-leekaue ef the meet racing-like kite!