The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

NEWMARKET FIRRT OCTOBER NOTES.

TO THE ZDITOI or TU 11711218.

SlR,—Relieved slightly front the state of " hard-
uriolintee " trainers have for mouths been complaining of
downfalls of rain having •• mime off " ever since ?relay
sod more being promised as I write—Newmarket is alive
again. Hones long stumped up have been put into strong
work, so that the training grounds are again sWerfulti4
II nthplaters and md crocks, juvenile and aged oelebrities ;
and the heath looked pordavely green this afternoon, Rio
running track aboidiug such " going • as to rather as-
touirn thole who iropi aid it only hie or slz days ago.
"'Lett were just us many normals jierforeiiiig, too. a,
could hare be n exp. cted, the livid for the ;mat }:a.tern
mirdering a dorm n and a half strong, and an intere•ting
race resulting, wherein Lamm ran a great filly, showing
Hail just cat this time three-year-olds when well, me at
their very beet. Tao of last year's dyers, Bismarck and
borineraway, ran about a stone worse, with the
(atm year upon theory and but for Hoodwin'a
carefully kept •• good thing," linowdrop, wo should
have Lad to hail the three-years-old Leunio, the winner.
with all her let ;lb. The malt, it it., lays little coll-
ections the future, though the winner is in the Cam-
tridgeshire. penali-ed ;lb; but coming great events were
isitluenired materially by some of the other contests.
Veepasiaa, Ly his style of •• walking in" for the Trial.
mace Blue tiown look better than ever for the Cesare-
witch, and an end plate now in the old bums' division
may make a noise yet in the Cambndgeshire market.
all the second-rate three-year olds were depreciated
more than ever in the Grand Duke Michael, when Athena
ran away how such as Seesaw, the Spy, anal the lusty
Dertitutire. This trio also finished behind Mortemer, a
•• likely" Cambridgeshire hems, and they must improve
many rounds to be really." in" the t Marewitch, for
which flwainGlyndwr erne dispomed of by his inability to
even gallop the Ditch-in against a plater like Ravioli, tons
behind Blueskin at home, the man in the High-street
says. To make the two-year old of the mason a
little more complicated Belladrum beats t Doke of Beau-
fort almoet in a canter for the Beckenham Stakes, and
Lis ( humpagne conqueror, Mania, plays a most Norm part
in the Hopeful. The cry was at orrice raised that it was
a (aloe run race at Doncaster ; and so it may have been
with the two (rocks; but then, is no gutting over the
fact that Mama finished many lengths before Mingle-
rault, who at the Newmarket July inesuisred to beat
Abstinence, and the diffeleme of we.ghts would hardly
allow for the latter to beat the cherry jacket at all. How-
ever, more light may be thrown on the subject as the
weak advane, e : and for the present mv conjecturer% shall
1. iontinel to to-morrow's events, which may result as
ander:

1%1 WIT•111116T TRIEKNIAL :—ThrilDdrOUl, or Crocus in
hi► 0.4 nee.
FIADI 51: - The Ilerntione colt

H•NDICAP SMLLPSTAIZII :—Furious.

Kteping many in the far north who might otherwise
have mine to Newmarket. the Lothians' Racing Club and
Edinhurgh Meeting is held at Muieolburgh ou Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday, and there is one great race to be
id. .1 on the first day in the Lothians' Hainlimp. Here
Newland reads the best of the north-country horses; awl
he has only Russian Bear to beat to win. The welter
laces, with gentlemen Aden, are quite out of my latitude.
awl the acceptances for the Sportsmen's Nursery are not
yet declared. The Edinburgh Handicap should he won
by Paganiui, though this and the Tradesmen's Plate are
both subject to Low the Lothians Haudiciqi re.sulta.—
I am, ke.. METEOR.
Newmarket, Tuesday night.