The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-20 00:00:00

TO TFIR EDITOR fit TIIR FLIP3Fi•

Hilt,—Enterprising clerks of the. *puree, who eo
owed the calendar with " fixtures" ea the summer pro-
gresses, IWO getting but • poor return for their labours
them fine massy times. The little 'moisture vouchsafed
the thirsty earth in certain quarters—few and far between
—has scarcely lessened the granite-like hardness of the
turf so that day ;liter day the horses able to run arc
further reduced in numbers; and your racing man le
Deeming so weary of the brilliant scorching weather that
&marked falling of in the stand receipts of the most
popular meetings is the consequence. It was quite a relief,
however, to many professionals, compelled to show at
Stamford or Liverpool, that the plethora of racing
promised should be reduced by walks over to something
like tolerable dieseneons • and the weary turf reporter
ever going up and down dimensions;
stem of grand stands to or
from his coign of vantage was probably only saved from
sunstroke or utter prostration by the many delightful
" w. 0." performances that he had to record at the close
of last week. Only eight races came off at Stamford out
of the eighteen threatened ; and the largest field consisted
of the ten attracted by the Clifden Cup—two of the num-
ber, Knight of the Garter and King Victor, be. horses of
quality too, though they were unable to concede the use-
ful Charnwood the weight required. But the three miles
journey stalled off all the quality" in the Stamford Cup,
the report that Gemara and Blinkhoolie had left New-
market on Thursday afternoon to run being groundless,
and arising purely from a mistake in transcribing
• telegram forwarded from head-quarters to the
effect that Gowen, Blinkhoolie, &c., had
gone, instead of " not ' gone. Not even the
good horses on the spot were allowed to gallop over the
severe three miles, and the declining of Speculum leaving
Mr. Savile with the " crack" (Blueskin), he was allowed
a walk over, • ceremony that his Wellow was just as ca-
pable of as the Metropolitan winner. The " performance"
made him no better favourite for the Goodwood Stakes,
the talent taking. such exception to him that he went to
double his old price, albeit the industrious layers were
amusing themselves during the whole two days, for the
want of something better to do, by knocking about all the
public fancies generally. Cannon Ball never recovered
from the onslaught made just before Lucifer's unfortunate
mishapin thellurghleyHandicap, albeitnoone mussy there
is aught the matter with the horse; and Gement, Tabouret,
and Route were all worse, little or much, than they
were before the meeting commenced, in oonsequence of
the favour Kidderminster !was received with. But it

we. iot the mere fact of his winning that brought
the horse to each • short prior, for three of his nine op-
Enents, besides Lucifer, met with mishaps, Moose breaking
Alicia pulling up lame, and The Clown indulging in
• little tumbling during the race. There is nothing to
boast of in beating Distaff, Emigration, Lord Palmerston,
and Armours; the only decent animal of the four being
his lordship, and be bad considerably the worst of the
weight; but it was the vast improvement his appearance
manifested that caused the furore for Kidderminster, and
he a bound to take his own part next Wednesday week.
Emigration tut up almost as badly as at Hampton behind
Distaff, yet she will probably oust the latter out of second
money, for if she were really struck out of the race, as
announced by the Calendar, she must be diequaliffed, and
times unfortunate enough to be on her for • " place " will
not win, even though Claxton did get the beta when hewon
at Huntingdon after being scratched, for subsequent deci-
sions of the committee at Tattersall's override that bad pre-
cedent. Nor have backers of Lord Palmerston, who was un-
mistakeable third if Distaff has to give way, any chance for
their " 1,2, 3" beta, as he was not placed by the judge,
and would still have been "nowhere " even if none of
the homes that were behind him had started.

Liverpool went off smoothly and quietly enough, but
was not altogether uneventful, some hot favourites being
upset, the general success of my predictions notwithstand-
ing. In the first place, Tabouret was bowled out for the
Molyneux Cup, his indifferent third to Honesty and
Sawyer—each giving him a lot of weight—being such a
bad show that as much as 60 to 1 was laid against him for
the Goodwood Stakes subsequently. He cut a very
different figure, nevertheless, in the Liverpool Cup,
where he not only ran second to his stable companion,
but might have won had the money been on him
instead of my friend the Dean. As it was, Iw gave my
second string, Fervacques, a fair beating for second place
at a stone, thus auguring that he is a real good home ;
and were he to run up to the same form at the ducal
gathering, Gomera would require to be in her last Ebor
Handicap form to cope with him at 381bo. In fact, the
money has only to be put down in earnest for him to
become almost as good a favourite as the Duke of New-
castle's mare, who sorely does not look better on paper
than Fervacques would do at something under fist. 101 b. P
Tabouret can also lay claim to having beaten Honestish,
and lett Wild Briar so far behind as to prove himself a
much better animal than Lictor, the Berkshire conqueror
of Mr. Naylor's mare, and it would be a pity if Mr.
Johnstone should be persuaded to throw the Goodwood
Stakes away again by withdrawing him, as he did Tyne-
dale, at the eleventh hour last year. The young Bataplan is
also in the Cup, but receiving considerably lees weight
from well-known first-class horses than he does from Go-
mera in the Stakes, and Tynedale will be the most reli-
able member of the blue and silver firm therein, the pro-
bability being that he will come to a short price some
day—Blinkhoolie, Julius, and Speculum being still the
only horses backed in earnest. Mr. Johnstone's four-
year-old does not appear capable of beating any of these,
but the field will be a small one, in despite of the Duke of
Richmond having volunteered to lot all horses engaged at
Goodwood gallop on his splendid downs from the present
time up to the conclusion of the sleeting ; and Tynedale's
credentials are at least equal to those of Blueskin, Satyr,
Suffolk, or Socrates, the only probable starters besides
the trio above-named. T. Dawson's horses are in pretty
good for'm now, or he would not have been allowed to
take away nearly a dozen prizes from the two meetings
he patronised last week, Pontefract and Liverpool. He
supplied first and second for the Cup at the latter reuaioe,
rather to the astonishment of the knowing ones in London,
who did not dream of Tabouret starting, and knew so
much more than those who were taking 3 and 4 to 1
about The Dean on the spot, according to Wright's
"tissues," that they would lay long odds against him up
the last.

The current week's doings may bring another Kidder-
minster into the Goodwood Stakes market, or cause one
or two to go out, like Lucifer—for at Huntingdon, the very
first meeting held, and allowed to have Tuesday and
Wednesday all to itself, there are many of the candidates
engaged. In the great Handicap, two miles, we have
Kidderminster, .Lessee, Venom, Choral, Ilium, Papillon,
and Pest, and, with the added money, amounting to 230
son., two or three may be tempted, particularly as there
is only Bib extra to fear unless twelve start. Kidder-
minster, however, has Bat 10Ib here, and may leave Ilium
to represent the stable, in the event of which the latter
will be worth taking stock of. Chelsea and the Eva colt
are the beet of the three-year-olds engaged not in the
Goodwood Stakes, and if the first named can only stay,
what a gift the race must be for him ! He beat Tabouret
cleverly at Newcastle, so that Fervacques can have no
pretensions tove him fib, allowing that he will im-
prove on his Saturday's performance over the two miles ;
and really the pull in the weights ought to ensure Chel-
sea's victory, even if he does not like the distance, as
there may be nothing_ better against him than
Fervacques and the Eva colt, with one of Mr.
Lincoln's. The Hincbingbrook two-year-old race is
not quite out of Perfume's compass, Good Hope
having cansiderably the best of the weights when he beat
her in Lancashire ; yet she mil not be quite fast enough
for the 2gge.an and Chanomesee—the former's 101 b.
advantage giving him all the appearance of a winner. It
is wasting time to look at the minor affairs these times,
for the best in may be found quite unable to "go" on the
hard ground when brought out. Hence the Cromwell
Plate, wherein so many flyers are flattered by the handi-
capper, must be over and even the turned-loose
Lady Sophie in the Members' Plate must not be plunged
upon unless she looks fully up to the mark, Goodwin
having one or two useful things in the race. In the Peel
and Apethorpe Scurries, on Wednesday, Russian Bear is
treated as though he never ran °beim to a short heed
and if Glenmore is worth a tithe of the money he was backed
for in the 2001. Plate at Newmarket, won by Brigantine,
Pompeii will not be able to stand against him in the Nursery, ,
wherein Melody—and one or two others / have ho perof WM-
ing A 1 some nicely in, and ready to most Mr. Lin-
coin's unbeaten Vermicelli, if necessary. The Milton Stakes
should be won by Chanoinesee, if she is not disgraced in
the Hinchiogbrook L and I know of nothing better than
Fortuna, in the Huntingdon Cup at present, although
Strathconan (allowed Mb) may be nearly fit to run again.
The meetings at Southampton, Nottingham, Knutsford,
and Kingsbury, on Thursday and Friday, are either de-
pendent on the Huntingdon results or of no Importance,
and it will be quite time to notice the two first named on
Wednesday.—l sin, tte., METEOR.

• LIVERPOOLpaI SUMMER MEL'TING.--SseonasY.
The ' merchant' and tradaprople of Liverpool being
strict of the early closing movement. the attendance at
Aintree to-day was much larger than on Friday, although rein
fell almost without intermission anti the approach of the gra
race, which was set for one o'eleek. The event did not
augur well fee the dare sport, as it retrulted a walk over ;
neecaleleas, the mane eltiest47
.ov.. ad pretty good, and bad
It net been for the palpableof Tahoein the OPa.
everything would have pemed—cif Wellv.
The en thePrln event of the day was not very wagering
fa spirited, except the
iyaeZoneatish, who down to 3 to I had 5 to 2 wee
to win a huge stake, while "Feaacques and The Dean
worse (mounts the mace they were backed. When the numbers
were boated it was man that out at the six runners T. Dayt-
ime's stable furaislred .two—The Dean and Tabouret—ead
55 so declaration wee made it was expected that
both aniniala would ran on their merit. : but the
sequel proved the oentrarr, as a mere palpable and &Menne
cam of " ' wee never witnemed, the rider'of Takouret,
evidently folio his order., having the peanut dirt:ratty in
preventing his horse winning amounts the enclosure. Tabouret
shot out in a most determined manna, and had not the jockey
puikg hie head nearly round, he woukl have won _by
scan al kngthe. As a matter of mune the performance caned
forth general complaint, but as no stewards were present, no
apelliellete was Gem takes of rich affair—whatever may
h'hmatey dose. • The " foam" of Tabouret baying beau
mitered, a general i ads was made to bade Kim for the Good tot beii. the highest price obtainable, after WOO to
Ifo LA In n Look ea several times. The remainder of the racing
calls for no comment.

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