The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

TO THE /LOTTO& OF THE ILIPEIMIE.

tutu,--Only fourteen days off, and the favourite
doing nothing stronger than a canter or a walk for four
(lap! What kind of Bellinger are we to have in '6B ? It
all very well to believe the rest will benefit a horse
that has hitherto done his work so well as The Earl ; but
after the exhibition made by Lady Elizabeth in the Derby
when excuses were made for her "doing no work," it
is easy to be suspicious, and the market movements just
before his lordship was Mopped were not such as to make
nervous people quite confident all is right.
There Is not much cause for alarm yet, per-
haps ; still, should The Earl not be rattled
along from now till the eventful day, a bril-
liant opportunity will be afforded for another St.
Leger surprise, the second best performers to the Dane-
bury crack, King Alfred and Formosa, also going as badly
in the market as their rival does at Stockhndge. A most
unaccountable opposition has sot in against The King,
with whom the most lynx-eyed horse watcher can dis-
cover nothing wrong, and all Newmarket is surprised
and aghast at the turn things have taken. It was
at first supposed that the movement slew from some mis-
take, as at the clubs, both yesterday and this morning,
his Majesty was almost as good a favourite as ever, ha
old adherents rallying round him in the most confident
manner; but he was almost "knocked out" at Wey-
mouth, where the followers of The Earl were in
eudi strong force ; and the Tykes may well be
cock.a.hoop about their Viscount, when such strange
'eying', end doings are rife with regard to his most
formidable-looking rivals. The friends of Sea-saw and
Typhoeus, too, have good grounds for thu investments
they have recently made, to which they are pretty certain
to had good " hedging," as are also the supporters of St.
Bonen and Restitution, whilst if an outsider is to will it
no doubt will be one of them. It will be timeenongh, how-
ever, to think of wind will actually win when the market is
more settled down, and '• punters" will do well to let the
question lie on the table until they can see their way
more clearly, there being plenty to employ their minds in
the meantime in the shape of the Leamington Stakes and
the Great Yorkshire Handicap. The former is not the
great event it was of old. 14 acceptances, and Vortigern,
Bandmaster, and Tertullus the best class horses among
them, after the top-weight, appearing very like a failure ;
but the Doncaster race quite maintains its prestige, and will
create a stir that mar put even the Cesarewitch and Cam-
bridgerlii e in the shade when the weights for them are issued
a week hence. A host of good-class animals are in the
three-year-olds, including Tabouret, Mercury. Paul Jones,
Cap-a.pie, Blueekin, and. The Spy—the three latter of
which are handicapped as cloeely. by Mr. Johnson as they
were by me before they met in the Great Yorkshire
Stakes at York; and if the first-named is "stopped"
in the Cmarewitch and Cambridgeshire, he
will doubtless be a good favourite, the stable
looking well, with Minster Bell also representing their in-
terests. Fairwind at 7et 81bisnot severely dealt with, con-
sidering how he won the Ebor, albeit there is mettle more
attractive in Lord Glasgow's four-year-oldie or even Fer-
vacques, Silenne being another tempting bait if he can
only stay. Such turned loose things as Deceit and Bel-tab
are always dangerous, and yet they are not so reliable
as some of the five-year-olds, the best of
which, supposing Caithness and Corsair, as well as
Dalmatian and R estwick, to be on the shelf, must be the
luckless Thalia and Auguste. This pair are suite as
" well in " as Christmas Carol—another old one nicely in ;
and should they be backed, I have an idea that they will
prove worth standing against all comers.
Alter the succession of walks over at Derby, and the
strange performances that have occurred at the many
other meetings just held, my beet course will be to pass
over the programmes mined for Ipswich, Lichfield, and
Oxford, the only course to pursue with them by intending
backers being to "follow the money." It is not the best
horse "on paper" that will win small fry, or even start,
while the autumn handicaps are brewing.
Wednesday. METEOR.

(BY TELDOILLPH.)
DERBY MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

RAWDON HANDICAP.
Victreas beat Miseallych.
NURSERY PLATE. Half a mile.
Master Tam, Jove, Maggie, Masquer, Prevention f,
Blackbird c, and Woful are here.

BEAUFORT CUP. Six furlongs.
Problem, Cornet, and Dulcet are hem.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Three-quarters of a mile.
Cornet, Cheddington, Lucy, Susan, and Woful are
here.