The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

TO VT6 EDITOR OP TIE ZTPIII6.

s.ll,—Worcester and Chelmsford added little to
Se "information" gained at Alexandra Park concerning
ematog 'erenb, Orion 'imply winning the Worcestershire
Sakes by just about as long • nook as le was entitled to
elo, if we leave his overthrow of Knight of the Garter out
of the question when running through his performances,
and Martyrdom landing the Coventry Stakes bemuse
there was nothing like • Flower Girl against him. At
Chilmdord 'Queen's Plate was the great go, and that
brought out nothing to seriously trouble Locator, though
by 'tome means the lame Beauty was entered, with
Purveyor, too. Mexico, the 'tiro of the handicap
bones hat bad figured en Munrell-hill, wee
the beet opponent of Lord S. Vincent's five-year-
old—now come back to his bed tom, and is by no means
out of the Goodwood Stakes atßst 61b, all that can
his becoming a good favourite being a defeat by
Ball or tarps; when the &nee are " pet Stet* the
mill." It is aaspecled lint Simon Ball is the superior at
the weights, and he is et a shorter price than either of the
others, but any market indhations about this lot must be
scrutinised with caution, ter the tactics of the Prime
Minister have before now deceived the shrewdest of men—
Benham Lem, Claire, and Audrey in the Celarewitch of
1861 to wit. Gapers keeps her plans well, considering
all that is said other i and Ecarte is firm as a rock, he
being about the eleachest hone in the market, for Tyne-
dahl, Sbomet, Somptng Girl, Our Mary Ann, Strad-
broke, Papillm, tee. are up and down in turn, and the only
• ethers really in ebe t are Lord St. Vincent's pair, old
Powderhans, Byceore, We ow, Fidel* and Choral. The
amateur "touting' at Newmarket this week will be
something poeltively alarming to nervous owners, for a
doyen of the•Goodwood Stakes horses are to be seen there
by these whe are industrious_ enough to ran after them,
with two-thirds of the Goodwood Cup candidates too.
Altogether, It erabe • most interesting week, the July
Meeting having this year fairly recovered its ancient re-
nown as a ;great key to the Derby betting, for all the
runainceilaough`the " babies" suffer now-a-days during
May inuel-itme. Ito fewer than five valuable two-year-old
stakes have been added to the programme since last men
met "behind the ditch," so that we have eight of the
twelve events already made up, in addition to matches,
waned to theca, andtheiraven value will reach 1,0001.
The &San unnioeed plates and sweeps will give them
plenty of employment also, for they can participate in
eleven ; enclave shall doubtless see some " form ' that
plenty of reliance cam be placed in.

The July Lakes, Tuesday's feature, never looked more
no the eime fight between Ryshworth, Belladrum, and
at Stockbridge, when the victor (who had pre-
viously bow beaten "in a walk" by
.Knight of the
Garter) war getting 31b. the beet of the weights, affording
plenty °Swum for a new star to come out and eclipse
them all. It is, besides, a matter of grave doubt whether
Belladrum—the best performer of the trio, though Mr.
Simile's cult did beat him—will start, so that there are
only twi-reat public characters to beat. Not that Rysh-
worth end Orphan are the only respectable. that have
been oat, Sister to Hermit, Martyrdom, De Vere,
Yin Nel•ie, Abstinence, and Director having each figured
creditably ; but the half-dozen are decidedly inferior
to either of the pair, and the three first-named of them,
besides, are in the seine swim as the Orphan, whose party
are sanrularly fortunate in finding so many good runners
among their seven engaged, for one of the brothers Blom
has a most promising customer in Ismael. He is not.
howweer, so forward as the Orphan or Martyrdom, and '
the filly will probably cares the money. Mr. Senile, too,
should prefer battling with Ryehworth to the dark brother
to Ravioli and Vanichka, great as is the promise they give ;
and only M. Dawson, of the home school, may have to with-
drew a tried animal in favour of an untried one, Absti-
nence being better off in the stable if Chatelherault is
really the good colt he once promised to make. Mr. Gra-
ham's Eudora and Mr. Naylor's Archduke are the
trangl have heard most favourably of ; but
mladram really is to be an absentee, the
safest policy . will be to row in with the Orphan
party,. my opinion being that this daughter of Dioniedia
will Just turn the tables on Ryshworth, despite
the three defeats she has sustained at his hands. Since
she was so summarily disposed of by him on two occasions
at Ascot a mat improvement has been manifested, seeing
she got within a neck of Belladrum and half a length of
Ityahworth in the Troy at Stockbridge. Virtually giving
the latter 31b. on the last monies, else looks like bootleg
him now at even weights, and under any circumstances I
shall not be disgraced when pinning my faith to the
Orphan—or whatever else the lucky Hermit school may
care to do a "plunge" upon—in preference to Ryshworth.
Two of the new items are styled the Gladiateur and
Achievement Stakes, one being for colts and the other for
fillies. The former would be an easy task for Badsworth
were he up to the mark ; but he has been on the shelf so
long as to render this doubtful, and should he retire the
prize may appropriately fall to the lot of the Frenchmen,
who have Le Saphir and another in. They will also be
handy in the My's race, though it is not a certainty
Curious° will beat Lady Dewhurrt.
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Most of the remauung two-yr-old events are subject to
how the above may result ;still, it is easy to perceive that
Flower Girl and De Vere are " dangerous" for the
Exeter Stales; that the Pocket Sweepstakes is only a
duel betweas the Orphan and Tenedos, the lady for choice;
and that the Sister to Hermit will take some beating fer
the Chesterfield, let the Middleton Maid colt be ever such a
flyer. However, it will be better to leave the latter an open
question until the July is decided, and all it is necessary
to observe of the Beaufort Handicap is that Assmeboine
has only to he " well " and in the humour, to
make short work of whatever may show against him,
The Midsummer Stakes is a walk over for Vale Royal in
the abseux of The Earl ; but the " monkey" sweepstakes
is quite a sealed book, the four youngsters engaged all
being dark, and of about equal repute among Newmarket
horse-watchers.

The time is rapidly approaching when the calendar be-
comes crowded with fixtures, and this week there are four
two-days' meetings to come off, in addition to Newmarket,
and some yeomanry races at Harpenden. They oceupy
from Monday to Staunchly, Radcliffe opening the ball, and
its second day clashing with the first at Carlisle, a misfor-
tune that also happens at Sutton-park (near Birmingham),
and Hungerford on Friday. What with the hard ground.,
thaw to
cannot be expected have a good time of it, though
Carlisle is not exactly dependent on the racing for its suc-
cess, the million being each day entertained by wrestling
—a very old institution here—and other athletic
until the bell rings for the first race. The
Cum-
berland Plate is better supported than usual, and in
an ordinary raminier the entry would have produced
an excellent field. It is too much to expect that many
will muster now; end the fact of Adamant, Buttercup,
and Bracken being amiss, reduces not only the field, but
the prospect of a great race. Feodor, again, may not
travel so far north, with the engagements before him at
Radcliffe, notwithstanding that he appears about good
enough to win ; the most threatening of the others, in the
1 absence of Tabouret, being Flora and Man of
presumed absence of Tabouret, being Flora and Man of
Roes. The other events are of minor importance, and it
is sufficient to note that Honesty and Liberal are worth
looking after in the Grand Stand and Lotter), Handicaps,
with Alicia in the Athletic, and Master Tom in his weight-
for-age engagement'.
Just as though ownemand trainers of horses have not
enough to do during theoweek, many sales of blood stock
are advertised, and the last grand Saturday of the season
comes off on the 11th at Middle Park, where a splendid
batch of yearlings will be sent up by Mr. Bleakiron.
Those who have seen them are in ecstasies about a Saun-
terer, and certain other beauties," for whom gentlemen
are evidently laving their money. to the detriment of rival
studs; and we shall not have many put back for want of
purchasers. ' Lord Portimmtuth could have sold more than
three out of his nine put up at East Acton on Saturday,
had he not placed reserves—seem rather heavy—on them ;
for there was a better class of buyers present than at any
previous sale here this summer, and it almost looked like
old 'times to see the Duke of Newcastle and Captain
Machell bidding spiritedly against each other; still, Mr.
Tattersall could not get half through his list, and when
the Hurstbouthes were done With, the business was slow
as ever—not a brilliant prospect foatbose who sell at New-
market this week.—l am, acc., METEOR.

BETTING Di LONTIGEN—sEartiss•T.
To-day's operetions were centred in the Goodwood Stakes.
Gemara proved in very little repeated and numerous
offer. of 4 to 1 on the tedd going , and the only Menem
ooneluded in the mare's favour were a Iwa Wring trooasethoss at
9to S. Stearn bad several Meads, and Wherever 100 to
9 could be obtained it area snapped up; curried
offers, however, did not exceed 10 to 1, and towards the finials
this price was accepted bpbaekers to some Latent. Papillon wag
quite friendless, °gen of 1000 to 70 In armed qiiaters failing to
tempt investments, and at the close 1/8010 100 was offered with
Abe same remit. At the outset Stradbrahe nes mood times ported at at 100 m f, but the Mara was auhawiriody.deenvqed by
an operator laying 100 to 6 armee elate or ten times, and still
efferuer MO to 60. This last-pasted Aggro was also
alined whist Stomping Girl, met by a asuatar pea coition to
accept 20 to 1; and it is to be acted that, astwi the
downward tooditary of the algae hones lastiatistagard one
apeniletor proposed to Me at one and the mate Cane SO
to about each. Bosse gold bushees was emended In favour
of Oinnt=l, an the 20's ta 1 base cleared out of the market,
and al• ND to 6 woe accepted hardly ; sasaawitUe tie
stable companion .lesdfer come intotevourable sterna, 1,600 to
40 being hytkod_ tone in his has with 300 toe seve-
ral times, and Many JO to 1 Warne the kageat ears naiad
lam. The Wad representative allhe sane interest, Tlearper, was
laid wind ton littlest, AO to 1, but Olthitately elm 01%1000
MID mintunhewied. .fit the same tireerAfr. &rill's hassa•as a
tot, -wage Inponsidetable da.aaad, and Wto I was tabs about
thientoos sough money se could be got on: 8° that, at Um mod,fesiboxes
soma Oat:eel:M warningAl ma offered. One al Oho is iseilapadam‘ose
ilmos ma, the bee-kisOur la
'whose fatowrawliataitial oafiays were mode a tie toN la,
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and Mr
Aires
lost bum unprocurable, the intermediate NWT of 22 t°
IUM ba-tlames or tour instantwit Fabitia and Kidder.
minder ealitemillSavoier at MO to 30„ sad the first named was
willwisturisiaT twalsall /Oct... Wed ass owst at SO to 1 sod!
1. Forty ".Poodas” glom in favour cl Lees s• said the taker
wouldhevegoneanat taaa prise, bat the mast *sit was SS to 1.
There were itioceilto.tieeepasawito to SD sal Sao ta :00 waia
T. Dais's lot without gay mut and es re,ta the
Loral amgik lOU I was takes small meant Mutt Ts-
trunk while 40 to 1 wee offered Treaded% and 1000 to
16 UM against *Water Bell, Powdarham was in moth bad odour
that AO to I wait offered smainet 'him in three or four gamier's,
while one gentleman "b
usy bur lay even money that the hooe
had I:woken down. The wily other noteworthy unident
lathing this Invent Iras the_ tOOO even on seven Muapp
ss,
se indicated in the quotations hawater. Very little wee dace to
comenion with ether everts, protoodinitt for the mod part doe.
ping shaft at *fete, Writ, with the exception of the towers-