The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-24 00:00:00

81201riNG INTELLIGENCE.
CRACK TWO-YEAR-OLDS AND DEAN
80W3138.—N0. IL

TO TIRE Lerma Or TSP PXYIII3.
811 L—Even Christmas time cannot be kept
lessees and promoters of steepth-
weed by iode
abase eetingstActite iescately a week between now
racing sethon, at Liao°lu,
and the' °ring dal
of
a B t gorse of Ith doing%
tl.st will • left Week by them. •
at Bromley were of a chewier to deter NMI beat ems
el
yet. ate", rats—over the lioleirHeY
trey pdcgramme, as rat la writhe% the ineetekrict ourvaillisam
meet prevent the "lees& I win, tai you lose" game
1,...eg played by certain Worthy genthreen who run horses
at metiopoLtan gatherings. rand an oldeoht"
ens le made as to -Now many Wild Hem
and IFLOcatchers may not be engaged. The
,etneial body of homey-folk care little for such matters
after all. and eve at this dead season they may he vaore
ea. rested in the program of Derby horses and 'fte Derby
difficulty. A " move" las been. made by the promoters
of Epsom Races to get out of their muddle, built is not
es maimed a very good one, for fair as it may'haire seemed
10 make an offer of 7601. per annum, for ninety-nine
years. for Walton Downs. Mr. Stiehl was not the kind of
gentleman to agree for "Ilse lease to be subject to a
power for the lessees to determine the atm at any time
&Berths expiration of the first five years," or to concede
'them '• the right at any and purchase the proprtynt
• *um to be agreed upon, anted in the teem.'
"stokers" of the Roue and Day squabble appeer to
have gone to sleep. and the only Other news for gossip',"
that Mr. Tadwith found himself on too delicate ground to
proceed with the executorship 'of the late Marque of
Hastings's will. He having " renounced." the estate
has now to he wound up in Chancery—rather to the incion-
'relent 0. perhaps, of some of his late lordship's friends
and estelilte..
To pr reed with my analytie of the performances of the
two-year. olds. 1 have to show how the cold water was
thrown ov, r the best " form" from the time that Ryth-
worth and Beladrum ran their close race for the New
Stakes until the latter was beaten in the Chem-
Teen.. The game began at Royal Windsor, for
there Masaniello knocked under to Elethricity, who
went too fast for bon all the way in a half-mile race ;
albeit she was in great feather just now on the bard
ground, or the could not have given the 121 b to Robes-
men e. and brae n him over the same course. Btlll, the
latter had not come to maturity yet, aced hence there was
not so much in Tenedoes defeat of him. conceding nb.
at Stockbridge. notwithstandiog the Duke of Beaufort,
Lady Cecilia. and Ahctiuenre were beaten too, for this
trio we re in anything but their prime. Abstinence hail
made rather a sorry Wier when endeavouring to run old
Xi at eine stone over the T.Y.C. at Ascot, mod she was
heti:nate to just get home before Lady Cerilia
for one of those I.tok wove Sweep•talies I hope
we have seen almost the last of ; but this VMS
not so deer* sing as the overthrow of Ryshworth
ty another old one, Knight of the Garter, for the Stook-
bridre Cup. Allowing that he had all the worst of the
we'obts, the Skirmishes had just the kind of blood in his
yens to get a 2-tr-elt over a -tiff seven furlongs ; and
after his iii lengths beetag, they might well lay 6 to I
are nth him when he met Belladrum and Orphan for the
Too y Stake- next day. Herein. nevertheless, he cone oat a
head winner, thanks to his ab allowance, whereby the cor-
rectness of the New Stakes =mane wo did have been
stn ctly roe died for. had not the Orphan been so close to
the pa:r. She could not have improved so much ta
so sho. t a time as to be the espial of Della-
dome althour.h the had cut down Flower (lid
like chaff en the Bibury Club day, and it
was rows 1111 A before the best juveniles could
be looked upon again with any degree of favour by
three wanting to bud the Derby winner. Robespierre
&We u half a do. en lengths behind Ryshworth, but was
beaten just as easily by Teneslos, taking into ac *ant the
latteis 71b. extra, so that the Duke of Newcathle, Mr.
Simile, and lir. Merry each claimed the dubious honour
of pos=er ng the best two-year-old at the couclusion of
the Stockbridge Meeting, where Curien.se, showing for
tLe first and last time since the early spring. twice bad to
rest content with a hinderm 'at berth. Her vacate I flout
place was taken by the now blooming Crocus, who twice
beat Blucher, and so much easier over six fur-
longs than five that it was ea'y to believe the
home-trained one could make a noise. They were doing
just so badly in the north while the Derby idols were
being thrown down in the south, for the vaeutedConster-
sat on only cisme out at Beverley to succumb to the 71b.
pens ked Hind ; and if he did mend his maimers at New-
castle. by running a close finish with the Lady Melbourne
filly and Agripra for the old Tyro Stakes, be mull nut
come in the same street as Lades, who in a Biennial beat
the Hind (again carrying 71b. extra) four lengths, and in
such • -trle as to be more than talked about for the
Derby. *Another hero on the banks of the Tyne was
Weather Nip. who just beat Minaret and Yalta for the
Beaton Delaval Stakes. but with Snider too those up for
any great merit to attach to the perfermauce. and all
the Tykes could boast was that their moderate Lily
Melbourne filly bad been third to Belladrum an I Rysh-
worth at Ascot, bet still was about a stone behind their
Lodes, through The Hind and Consternation.
Newmarket was anxiously awaited by the friends
of Beiladruns, for he was in the July against Rythworth
at even weight- again, but did net meet hies, though he
had his rept:tat:cm further damaged by Abstinence relining
the son of Skirmisher to a neck. Matthew Dawsoc always
bad the hthest opinion of his filly, and when it was
ecathdered Low far the Orphan was beaten Itythworth
was credited wish having improved lengths on the Sto •k-
-bridge naming. whilst the te,owers of Belladrum took it
as a rounilateut omen that he must have been "off "
when "iota nine his defeat. Still, Mr. Chaplin's filly was
a:WS1111 one of the erratic kind, and as Martynloin pre-
pared us for hi. had show in the July by sue :urnbing
Flower Girl at Alexandra-park, there was little more for
B3shworth to crow co ex than the three lengths' defeat of
Lie Pere, who 24 hours afterwards was behind Flower
Girl and J'Egean. so that the " form " appeared in a
worth light than ever. Abstinence again tailed to carry
he me her 71b. penalty in the Chetherlieldaganith tee mole-
rai• ChatellOaelt, aid the equally moderate North itel
was c!cse to her head, whereby the merit of
deft atir g Cliancenesee and Brigantine (the latter
an isa rend the former unable -to climb the hill)
was .ost. The unties almost began to believe now that
kal,wolth, whirr won the (;ladiateur Stakes, was as good
as an) thing mot, and the large fields run throogli by Cale-
dilate and Carlotta were enough to bring them into uoto-
gety, though the former is credited with being a roarer;
the filly, speedy as she may be, does not move like a
Meyer. IrWilds created some little causation by beating
Llectricity, and afterward' running second to Badsworth
at Leading : and the Duke of Beaufort at Stamford,
}route Katie at Odibam, Acaster and Melody at Han-
tiegdon (where a defeat of Agean was
"crabs" for the Newmarket July heroes),
and a sister to Braden:ante at Southampton,
each showed they could do " something " for
about the first time e • but the going was so
dreadfully bad nearly ell over the country at this period
of the year that few ventured out, and even the rich IMAM
of Goodwood failed to attract large bodies of two-year-
olds. Belladrum, concerning whose legs the most depress-
ing rumours were afloat, ventured to show himself before
the tete, and he got through the week well, seeing bacon-
tered away from Minaret and Chanoineese for the Hain,
next ChatelWrault for the Malecomb, and finally Rysh-
worth for a Triennial. His followers were quite taken
aback at his meeting his old opponent for a paltry 3.501.
the same afternoon that be had picked no 7741., and when
hewou so easily they were delighted as well as surprised, for
theycouklnot expect such goMfortuneas tofind the theories
to the badness of all "form," propounded by tie doings
of Ryshworth, scattered to the winds by his getting rid of
the old bugbear so summarily. To run him twice in one
day, toe, was considered proof positive his legs were not
tau ed for at Hanley, and he was reinstated in the affee-
two et the public without any hesitation. The ilea of
Bads, orth being near the top of the tree was scouted by
the Duke of Ireaufort, and Heather Bell besting him
the e lengths in the Levant; and if Lady Cecilia, Mama,
and Crocus weie beh nd him, so was the latter Wend
Tuudos and the Lady Melbourne for the Findon, which
Tentdos won in capital style, but still beating nothing
that he lead Liherto met, and there were quite
as good performers at the meeting in the Duke of Beau-
fort as d Leather Bell. The Nursery, as we may reaper-
eth now-athieyewasi fought out by a trio. Previous
record. did not say much in femme of Crown Prince's,
Dryad; and Alpenstock. Poor Dryad took her name as
1111.11C.kf one from the very day she " lot by a head"
to the.light weight, for at Brighter' she was shooed of the
Nursery when asked to give the useful Storm two
stone; rind 111 at, inane. of the Club plates she was to get
back allow, in, she were unfortunate enough to meet a
Lumley, mho appeared ao backward in condition that it
was 'retiredly thought Leona having a " day out," or his
gad looks would nut leave let hip start at It* to 3.
ileanoth was another e' mice horse in the field, which
included naiades, who had, however, ,done so badly
against Melody jut previously that it was not surprising
he should run now hme " Melody added to her laurels
at Lewes,. but bore again the youngdore -en, 6 6
back," when Rims Victor cantered home before PlV-
nence, In addition to Vestmiaster cad Amstar far the th tl
furlongs County Cup. -
North countrymen were chuckling at the floc of the
way their gems would settle the southern mucks when
they were brought forth at Stockton, York, and Doatell-
ter, which Anemic' bad all the tool business to a
'elves during ttre eight weein, em-
Bud tritowened
between the flames for fright and the Newmarket autumn
for nub is Dentelle's meow' to Blucher at
rltZoi:th and Begala's surprise at Warwick were the
coma ors afforded in other quarters; but they had ao
twist almost to one stable for their trump emu, mid that
ape scarcely produced ea " ass." At Stockton Mr. John.-
nse and t.-Dawson were busg with nomad. pm,
*eider, and Lord li&Wt110111, shalt the most criik was
warmly "wanted," for when he took part in his two en-
weeders it was in the company of ray Lord in one ores and
Thorwaldres in another. Declarations weremadeto win with
OW Isar in preference, and we had a novelty in the shape of
the three animate running up to the said declarations, so
that Pretender went house twice defeated; not, however, to
the <xseersiosr of his Deasy price, for men with their eyes
cpm begen to " meddle' with the market. He was
She nook el his towfri•res In both races, but Thorwaithas
was somehow' beaten by Minaret for one, and home) he
loon lost the oulown be gained bribe easy defeat of