The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CURRENT TOPICS AN DALEXANDRA-PARK

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MEETING
Tlig EDITOR 01, Tlti. WCPIW.S.,
fieft,-• Surely the devs of yilintein g are won-
bared, awl we of the horse, world are on the real to that
kappy quiet state which all speculative 11OM must antici-
pate after a pent panic. Look at the doings of the
past few days from whatever point of ve's•ty one may
theme there is no disputing the fact that the turf is
getting "slow," note brekVirrS and sellers of yeirlinga
actually finding their eecupation almost cone f a Lick
of Purelasee, whilst the Bibury flab and Stockbrideo
riesling wets nether toa select for the in.. 4 n Ilifi lovers
of excliteivens,.. The menet 'Derby les:m.lA of /sers;
kept away porno few who wet.• disgusted with,
er Tad taken a side against, Danebury,
the 1:::1,ant Admiral was not to be deterred
front seoeing in the enemy's waters, from which it was
1..1 ..test that the threatened battle liiitween him and
He nest John is tied to omite off. Probably something like
a truce was negotiated. and from the •• fetching and ear-
rvittg " going on. theme plinelderitag to think what slaughter
there need be if they do fight were in hopes preenhe match
would after all fall through; but, if they are eture,
thew in plenty of time between now and February next to
me to terms. and. tinder any eirceieustances, perhaps the
painful matter will he allowed to drop for a time. For-
tunately tattler. found ennething else to wonder at
before the, meeting was over. the Hurtsbourne Cup,
for whi.-ti thenera and Ifirdseeker were started
simply to make up a field, and not to seriously
°proof. Julius, resulting in one of those extrannlin Iry
siderite we only see now and then. The Duke of New-
earth• did not think it necessary to declare to win with
the four-year-old- and the Duke of Beaufort wee, hesidm,
entitled to some portion of the Cup if Gomera won, a. the
mere was sold by him, after entry, under Lord Exeter's
condit iens ; but ft wens plain the jockeys riding the pair,
French toed Daley, did not understand each other. the
ware
r thinking his
er bretheir of the pigskin vonthl let the
ranter honie aft the had leul am good breather, and
only discovering his error too dote, OM when he called on
the horre Gomm hid ten much left to be overhauled in so
short a distance as they had to run. As us 50 to I
was at tualle laid against the winner in running by one of
the profereirmals, who fortunately bad what little betting
the re was almost to themselves, though it was an unfortu-
nate hueinem altogether, for Julius—never ono of
the most enviable tempers ryas spurred in a
mar Tier which he may not forget for some time,
whilst getting on the mare for the Goodwcxxl Stakes
became hard work. However, a cool thousand was in-
vested on Satunlay by one commissioner, at odds ranging,
between S to I and 11 so that it is only a matter of
health for her early backers to get a run for their money.
She is evidently coming bark to the great form lost so
suddenly at Warwick last September. and it will take
Penn thing better thin we know of yet to prevent her
again Foramina the tioodwood Stakes, est 61b being a com-
parative feather to the fat 311. she carried into a "good
third" place for the View Handicap. Them she was
giving 4211. te Matielneke and 17lb to Beeswing. and the
pith mane far excels that of Romping Girl in the
Cesarewiteb, kis the latter was about two stone be-
hind Julius. lint for Gomera'n coming the Good-
wood Stakes would no doubt have been a great betting
rate; and as it is there are several candidates in the mar-
ket, though for what purpose deponent knoweth not.
S.-me heavy lee.ks" arc open. and a regular flyer might
yet be in the barkeround. Lord St. Vincent and Mr. Bevil!
are threatening with nil theirthrec--Lucifer, Cannon Bath
mid 17surper. Mr. Johnstone, again, has as strong a trio
in lyneetale. Minster Bell. and 'rebound. as the market in-
dicates Mr. Green to have in Eyesore (second to Gomera
last year). Venom. and Pest. The other •' lots" are the
Blese'sßlinkhoolie rind Lewes; J. Scott' Taraban and
Spy; M. Schickler'e Frederick Charles and France; W.
Day's Selpitectes and Our Mary Anne; Mr. Hughes's
Toineg liapiel (who rune have been trawrferred into an Old
SI. weeach during the holiday he has had Sues
1864. the year wherein he beat Fairwater for her
)Majesty's Vase)) and Powdetham ; Cliff's Kidderminster
amid Ilium ; Mr. Savile's Lady Blanche filly and
Wellow; Watliew's Returned and Fidelia; Drewitt'n
Choral and Elmira; and M. Dawsen'a four—Honesty,
Gomera, Miss Havelock, and Cass' Tke. It was only
just before Ascot that the latter beat Gomera in a "trial,"
but this was a mietake, unless the market lies very much,
beside% which the form of the young one on the royal
ground was very moderate. There are rprobably better
three-year-t Idle to look after in Dar n% Wallow, and Pa-
puffin ; and enough has been seen of the last pair to
convince one they cannot compete with a six-year-old like
Gomera at 311 difference. Romping Girl and such lightly
weighted four-)ear-olds as Stnulbroke and Usurwr, or a
youngster as good as &lute' is reputed to le., will
Mee to bowl her out, if the Litt is performed at
all, for I cannot think much of Talsittret, When
IfFrcury. conceding Illb„ fluiehed within a length of
Lim for the North Derby at Newcastle, after the dies
grateful defeat by Frolicsome • and the race the young
Neat:; lot Cm Tat only a Mile. In fact, through
Meicury, Tabouret is scarcely a pound or two better than
?Jura; and his ruder eompanion, Tyndale, gave her 291 b
and a 101 b beating in the Northumberland Plate, so that
there cannot be much to chooro between the pair at 391 b.
Harking hack be Stockbridge, I cannot find much in the
full retina to dwell upon, for Seesaw's carrying off the
Ninth Biennial was warmly a St. Leger performance,
being inferior to that of Cock-of-the-Walk (" three stone
Deland your Ludy," mill the !grader to the fly) when ho
met the I'ervin. Nor is there aught to say for the bril-
liancy of the creek two year nl4x, when Knight of the
Garter an summarily disposed of Ryshworth in the Stock-
bridge Cup. It was asking too much of him, no doubt, to
run a 4-yr-old like the Knight at 331 b over such a stiff
seven furlongs, notwithstanding that Dundee sailed in
lengths before the 5-yr-old Mentmore at the name rela-
tive weights when he was a young one ; nevertheless, it
was not very encouraging to see Ryshworth. Belladrum,
and the Diornetlia filly come home locked together for the
Troy, the theor being that the beet can be no wonder,
and Mr. Savile'a and Mr. Merry's colts will have to im-
prove to keep pace with one or two that are promised us
very shortly. Robespierre was beaten a long way from
the trio, to the detriment of his three-parts-of-a-length
conqueror in the Eltham Plate, Tenedos, who will, how-
ever, make quite as much progress as either of his rival
Derby favourites, and it is a pity he cannot join issue with
the pair for the July at Newmarket, a rate that may bring
out u veritable Dundee, whose performance in the first
perm-furlongs Cup race at Stockbridge now stands out as
*bruit the last ever accompliahod by a modern 2-yr-old. It
has:certainly not been approached in the sameevent,nookl
one like the Knight having opposed the only other
youngsters that won, Farfalla and Marksman. Rysh-
worth bad "nothing to beat" in his race of the conclud-
ing day, which was such a decided failure as to warrant
the curtailment of the meeting in the future. Where all
the friends of the national pastime had flown to was the
mystery ,• hint the Karim question might have been asked
at East Acton on Satuidsy, where fifty-seven "lots" of
blood stick were put up to auction before an audience
that was poor enough to take all the eloquence out of Mr.
Edmund Tattersall. The excuses of the previous Satur-
day (the gloomy, threatening morning, with the Windsor
review, the grand day at the Gun Club, &c.) could not
be advanced to account for the failure; nor is it that
the pretty repot is difficult of access, as Acton
tan be reacted by metropolitan lines of rail that touch
nearly all parts of London, whilst by road the farm is
" four miles from the Marble Arch, as straight as the
crow flies." Consequently it mud be that there is a tight-
arias of money just now, and the breeder e.f the seventeen
Swaklift yearlings that stood over from the previous sale
day had no other alternative than:to wait another week
with nearly all of them. for they were too good a lot to
give away. By the time the Marionette family were dis-
posed of Levers were very nearly satisfied, and it was for-
tunate for tie, late Mr. Jelinstone's widow that there was
rub an enterprising breeder en the ;{round as Mr. R.
Bell. or Marionette, and Tamara would not have done
nearly so much tewanlie swelling the general average.
'those who w. re WI elepre,ed by the guttered dulness of
things during the, past week have a golden opportunity
presented to rouse themselves again, for the Alexandra
Fmk inaugural meeting takes place on Temolay and Wed-
seem ay. Slid something like a company will muster there.
Stateecieg w:thout a rival of ally description in that list of
" fixtures.- all the tulent will assist at it, no doubt; and
it iv enough that the gathering comes off within about four
miles of the " Attired" at Islington to ensure a tnoweter
ettetelan. e e.f coekney sportsmen. liow the Great
Northern ealicials will get through the task out out for
the in. aabout stove:lig the ordinary traffic between
king's-e mid W.K.11-grkl-n for some h•ollre, is a
iiiy,te my aial the tine out of fast trotting ponies
avid spa y deg-carts will be a sight that the
dwellers ilk the Seven Sisters. Horrisey, And other
north London sands will open their eyes at, though they
do vie a hit of " life," as it is, every tine Sunday. So far
11/• the spoil is concerned ien attractive pro graumie has
been made up, notwithstanding the comparative failure
of the. Palace Handicap, a sweepstakes with 200 *ovs,
added. Only eleven are left in, and same of these will
dwg out if Gomera starts, which there is little cause to
oubt, us the cannot incur inure than a 31b rienalty for
the Goodwood Stakes by the victory. that looks so lake a
certainty. Mr. Johnstone had The Czar in bath the
Alexandra Flute and Welter Cup, and hut for his penalty
I.e 'night do for ems of them, the fear now being that
Foresight or Amour l'ropre will be too much for him in
the short spin, and Feoelor or Russian Bear in the Welter.
Of the host in the Two-year-old Stakes, the Martyr, He
Vero, and Brigantine may not run, and hence it is a pretty
open race, the Hind, Flower Girl, Miss Nellie Aaiun,
Electricity, Brambridge, and Number Nip being ell knowu
to fame. Antias and Electricity are both Mr. Morgan's,
and the latter being penalised 71b, the two may be wanted.
Any how it will take the best to beat Flower Girl, who
carries no extras. The Grand Prise is not decided until
Wednesday, and need not employ my pen now, for by to-
morrow the strength of the field can probably be correctly
measured.—l am, Ac., METEOR.