The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

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two-year-old plate at Mgmen Prom this time forth the
two colts became great rivals, mad their "tone could
Not be quarrelled with, while they left a team like the
Lady Melbourne filly, the Henthrseeeit (who had beaten
Vestminster, theeinaquesor of dearke, Melody,
Juanita, flt. 11 ,int ra deld that MI at
the meeting), Ths and 11 derma Isr
behind, corryng their 6111. penalties The Orphan mars-
(meetly debated the gams et the north, LadyDewearet,
in addition to Typhus; ad bet Is thew bed good the
two-year-olds were, De Vera lmat Noels three irkeths at
211 b. in the Fernhill. But this mud have been wrong. or
De Vero would become the equal of Wild Data; and the
gayest feather placed in the cap of Belladrum and Rysh-
worth at Ascot was the respectable second run by
Martyrdom over the New Mile, againd a bores
like Lanes* who had all the best of the im-
posts, and was enabled to give nearly as much
weight to three-year-olds that could win races, even in
the Doncaster September week, as Martyrdom was receiv-
ing. However, the "two-year-old form' had a sea of
cold water thrown over it as we got further on into the
summer season, and before Doncaster was over the talent
were on the qui rice for a good " dark " one to back for
the Derby, for reasons that shall be shown in my next.
I can scarcely find courage to enter into the pro-
of sport to come off at Bromley on Tuesday and
re
Wednesday, for it is shuddering to think of fiat races
within a'week of Cluietmaa and there 111 little "quality"
in the jumping events provided. Besides, the frith
Fortune played with the poor prophets over the principal
event at Kingsbury is very depressing; for the winner
was "scratched," the mood had not "arrived," and the
thinl the most wide-awake had never been heard of be-
forehand ! My pet, Pensioner, took it into hie head not to
fump when he reached his first fence, and it is to be
eared other favourites were not "trying," so that all
things considered, the Bromley sports are best left alone,
unless it should be discovered Taw Vale is in the same
vein as he was when running over the same ground in
October, or Lawrence has retained the form he showed
last winter, for Flatcatcher and Roving Maid,
who look so tempting on
_their Kingsbury running,
are only fairly i.nspped. No eleventh hour
arrival game will be played with Lawrence, as there was
with that good horse, The Lamb, en Wednesday last, if he
is to start. I cannot help thinking that the victory of
Lord Poulett's hone lad Wednesday would have been as
deplorable an occurrence for the public not on the spot
as was that of The Nun, about whose mistaken scratching
so much noise has been made. lie could not be included
among the published list of arrivals—even on Wright's
Wed tissue"—because he was not brought on to the
ground in time and consequently be was as much out of
the race, in the eyes of punters, as anything that
was struck cant. There may not la so much
cause to blame the parties comer:lel, though
the fact of his not being forwarded from Ascot with
Denslet and Juryman is viewed in the light of a rev to
deceive by some people ; but, after all, the **spurious
etching :itching of The Nun," according to the evidence brought
forward. was nothing more than a stupid mistake on the
pert of a temporary clerk to Mr. Tophnm, the clerk of the
course, and it can only be the more deplored because the
meeting was otherwise got over so successfully and
smoothly, without a solitary objection after the washers
had pseud the post—a most refreshing novelty nos-I'-
days, to Fay the least of it.--I ans.