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Mr. Allen's ch. c. Belgrade, by Belshazzar. out of Alice (J. Marson) Col. Craufurd's br. f. Ermengardis, by Langar-Ermine (J. Holmes) Gen. Yates's br. c. Simoon, brother to Siroc, by Camel (Nat.) Mr. Wrather's gr. f. Miss Lydia, by Belshazzar-Hackfall's dam (Oates) Lord Westminster's b. c. Satirist, by Pantaloon-Sarcasm (W. Scott) Mr. Bell's b. c. Thirsk, by Voltaire, dam by Whisker (Heseltine) Betting: 6 to 4 agst. Satirist, 4 to 1 agst. Ermengardis, 5 to 1 agst. Thirsk, 5 to 1 agst. Belgrade, and 10 to 1 agst. Simoon. A good start got the lot under way, but at poor speed; Simoon in front, with the lot close at his heels. At the distance Simoon dropped astern; Belgrade and Ermengardis went together with the lead, and, after a slashing set-to, the filly was defeated by half a head. The favourite was a middling fourth.

The Three-year-old Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft.; colts, 8 st. 7 lb.; fillies, 8 st. 2lb.; Leger Course (thirteen subscribers).

Mr. Bowes's br. c. Black Beck, by Mulatto, out of Emma, by Whisker (W. Scott)
Lord Chesterfield's br. c. Molineux, by Mulatto-Arcot Lass (Nat.)

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Betting: 4 and 5 to 1 on Black Beck, who won by four or five lengths.

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The Cup, value 350 gs., given by the Stewards, with 50 sovs. (in specie) added by the Corporation; three-year-olds, 7 st.; four, 8 st. 3 lb. ; five, 8 st. 10 lb.; six and aged, 9 st.; the winner of the then St. Leger 3 lb. extra; to start at the Red House, and run once round to the ending post, about two miles and five furlongs.

Mr. Orde's b. m. Beeswing, by Dr. Syntax, aged (Cartwright)

Col. Cradock's br. c. The Provost. by The Saddler, four-years old (S. Templeman)
Mr. Johnstone's br. c. Charles XII., by Voltaire, four-years old (W. Day)
Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto, three-years old (Nat.)
Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Sampson, by Cetus, four-years old (J. Day)
Mr. Thompson's ch. f. Vermillion, by Bedlamite, three-years old (Oates)

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The betting (which had undergone all sorts of changes) finished, when the horses appeared, at 5 to 4 agst. Maroon, 7 to 2 agst. Charles XII., 5 to 1 agst. The Provost, 7 to 1 agst. Sampson, and 9 to 1 agst. Beeswing. Vermillion, a miserable weed, ridden by a lad in trowsers, started to make play for Charles, and led the first time passed the stand, when her bolt was shot. The running was then taken up by Charles himself, followed by Sampson, Beeswing third, The Provost fourth, and the favourite last. In this way they reached the distance, where Sampson stopped, having hurt his suspicious leg, and Beeswing went to the front, followed by The Provost, who toiled in vain to catch the old mare, being beaten with all ease by a couple of lengths. The running of Maroon and Charles XII. was perfectly in keeping with the line afforded by their former performance together the young one being defeated by three parts of a length.

FRIDAY, 18th.-The Scarborough Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft., for three-year old colts, 8 st. 7 lb. fillies, 8 st. 4 lb.; the winner of the St. Leger to have carried 7 lb. extra; one mile (sixteen subscribers).

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Gen. Yates's Gibraltar, brother to Tarick (Nat.) Mr. Bowes's Black Beck, by Mulatto (Scott) Betting: 9 to 4 on Gibraltar, who made the running all the way, and won in a canter by four or five lengths.

The Hornby-Castle Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 added by the Corporation; for three-yearolds, 7 st.; four, 8 st. 1 lb. : five, 8 st. 10lb.; six and aged, 9 st.; three-year-old fillies allowed 3lb. and the beaten horses of the then race-week allowed 3 lb.; the winner of the St. Leger to have carried 5 lb. extra; two miles (three subscribers).

Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto, three-years old (Nat.)

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Duke of Cleveland's ch. c., by Langar-Emigrant's dam, three-years old (Benson) 2 Betting: 15 and 20 to 1 on Maroon. This was a burlesque on a race;-the Langar colt was pulled up a long way from home.

The Park-Hill Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three-year-old fillies, 8 st. 4 lb. each; the second to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes; St. Leger Course (twenty-four subscribers).

Mr. St. Paul's Calypso, by Liverpool (Templeman)

Mr. Orde's Queen Bee, by Liverpool (Cartwright)

Lord G. Bentinck's Rosabianca, by Augustus (J. Day)

Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph, by Belshazzar (Macdonald)
Lord Chesterfield's f., by Priam, out of Rowton's dam (Nat.)
Mr. Bell's La Femme Sage, by Gainsborough (Heseltine)

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Betting: Even on Calypso, 3 to 1 agst. Rosabianca, and 3 to 1 agst Priam filly. After one false start Rosabianca went off in front with a strong lead, Calypso next her, and a long string, at the end of which was the Mountain Sylph. As they reached the hill, Calypso was at Rosabianca's side, beat her in the fall, led thence home, and won in a canter by two or three lengths. A good race for second place, which was won by a short length; the tailing was very great.

The Town Plate of £100, for three-year-olds, 7 st. 5 lb.; four, 8 st. 7 lb.; five, 9 st.; six and aged, 9 st. 3 lb.; maiden colts allowed 2ĺb., and maiden fillies allowed 3 lb.; second to receive 39 guineas; two mile heats.

Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Gambia, by the Colonel, three-years old (Nat.)

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Col. Synge's b. c. Polydorus, by Priam, three years old (G. Francis)

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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr. Brown's communications are left for him at the publisher's. The Editor will give his attention to the subject on which Mr. Richardson has addressed him.

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Aurigarius" is thanked. We had some idea of adopting the plan before we were favoured with his suggestion.

We received, as we were going to press, a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated July, and signed "A Bengallee." The statements it contains, no doubt, are true to the letter; but the writer will see that, were we to publish it, we should in fact be advertising a work which he describes as "tottering from the weakness of inanition." We think our correspondent is a sportsman, and one not unfamiliar with the grey-goose quill. Let him give us something in another vein, and we will immortalise it in long primer; and let him allow our contemporary to "totter on to inanition" in peace: he is, we are sure, too gallant a hunter to soil his boar-spear on a bandy coote.

The communication from Worksop, on the subject of " Hydrophobia in Dogs," came too late for the present number: it shall not be lost sight of.

"A Subscriber" reminds us that, in our paper on "The Brighton Road," we omitted among the gentlemen-dragsmen the name of Mr. Hanbury, who drives one side of the Era. We are much obliged for the politeness which thus enables us to remedy the omission.

Linking together the leaders' bars in four-horse teems is a bad custom; and our friend at Warminster evinces his anxiety for the good cause in calling the attention of all coachmen, amateurs as well as professionals, to the mischief of the practice.

Several articles have been received, which shall have early attention; as also such works for review as reached us too late for notice in the present number.

Proof Impressions of all the Plates that have appeared in this Work are on sale at the Publisher's, 33 Old Bond Street, at 2s. each; or, beautifully coloured, at 2s. 6d.

NEWMARKET FIRST AND SECOND OCTOBER

MEETINGS.

BY THE EDITOR.

ONE perpetually hears it urged, disparagingly and as a reproach, that Racing is made a matter of business in our days; and comparisons are drawn wherein its present state is scurvily contrasted with that which people are pleased to call its palmy condition in "the good old times." That the turf is not what it was, needs not that one arise from the dead to assure us, neither to supply arguments wherefore the fashions of the course should not remain in statu quo when all other customs, practices, and usages were undergoing a revolution. It is true, on that renowned heath, where whilom our grandsires contested their ten-mile heats, we are especially prone to settle such differences over the T. Y. C.; and equally certain is it that in those halls, where, a century ago, their grandames slept through a minuet to the measure of a dead march, the maidens of this era do incontinently gallope to the demi-semi-quavers of Weippert or Collinet. The fact is, that Racing has simply been effected by that principle of "going a-head," whose influence governs the entire social economy of the civilised world. It is positively astonishing what a quantity of nonsense is spoken and written about that item of "the affairs of men." The public voice appears to have elected it, by acclamation, pons asinorum for logicians of all schools. Without meddling with the hotch-potch of cause and effect cooked up by those who prognosticate the destruction of our breed of horses, because heavy weights and long distances are no more the order of the day, leaving out of sight the cant of the would-be utilitarian, I put one plain question to the harpers on lang syne,-to the trumpeters of the praises of the turf in "the good old times: " Is it to be expected that Christian men will journey to Newmarket to see the Beacon Course done at a speed inferior to that achieved by raw cotton bound for conversion into calico shirts, or Welsh mutton destined for transmutation into an alderman of the city of London ?

With the progress of improvement in all the details of life, the science of horse-racing has advanced; though not pari passu. The English thoroughbred horse is an animal whose properties, generically regarded, are without a parallel in nature: that these qualities are still progressive, I am perfectly convinced-as certain as I am that such horses as Plenipotentiary and Bay Middleton had never their equals. But the art and mystery of adapting these rare powers to the present complicated scheme known as "the Turf," is either less understood, or less adroitly managed than the excellence of the material employed would warrant us to expect. Whether it be a matter of regret as a source of contingent injury to the cause involved or not, we have passed the period when the course was the arena of triumph to the best horse in emphatic phrase, the race is no longer always to the swift. As a spirit for betting became more active and more general;

when Tattersall's grew into a fashionable exchange, and the business of the Ring into a profession; there arose a desire for something more exciting than the ordinary system by which Plates and Stakes were regulated. From time to time various penalties, allowances, and stipulations were added to the ordinary conditions of many of the leading events, which finally produced the present popular Handicap. A main feature in the review of the Racing Season, in the next number of this work, will be an analysis of the principle and agency of that remarkable innovation—a scheme more obnoxious to abuse, and to be looked upon with more suspicion, than any ever introduced into the practice of racing. As far, however, as its relation to the matter now before us, it has been most judiciously applied. Indeed, the prevalence of public training made something of the kind absolutely necessary to give zest to the closing meetings of the year, when the line of nine horses out of ten has been ascertained, almost to a mathematical demonstration. Some idea of the accuracy of this knowledge may be formed from the following instances. In the First October Meeting the favourites won without one solitary exception. In the Second, a match was made between Lord Exeter and Mr. Greville: on the morning previous to its coming off, the noble lord had a conversation with his trainer as to the probable result: the opinion given was, that two pounds on either side would decide it. This was the match between Amurath and Perseus, and it ended in a dead heat: "a dead heat," as the judge described it to me, "from the time the horses entered the ropes till they were clear of them." To secure sport, then, it was essential that things should be done in a businesslike way. Unless art interfered, horse-racing, towards the close of the season, would be little better than a foregone conclusion. If all excitement were to perish, would it not be "folly to be wise ?" The voice of the many shouted an affirmative, and they hailed the appearance of the Handicap, whose device is "Ignorance is bliss."

THE FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, with every promise of proving a dull business, sustained its augury to a shade. The opening day had fair weather to recommend it, but nothing more. Wahab won the Buckenham produce in a canter; but his opponent was, as the old chronicles have it, "in a bad form." The Hopeful was a smarter affair-won very easily, however, by Benedetta, a fine slapping mare of Fulwar Craven's, not in the Oaks. I cannot help here bearing testimony to the admirable condition in which Treen brings his horses to the post: if he were less fond of riding them, his "per contra Cr.” account would fare better. The Grand Duke Michael produced a dead heat (after a splendid "set-to") between Amurath and Muley Ishmael; in which dead heat the "Ángelica colt," the champion of Newmarket, that was to win the Derby "safe as the bank," ran as miserable a cur as ever was kicked. The only event of any interest on the Wednesday was the St. Leger, won by Gibraltar, by half a length-beating Fitzroy with the utmost difficulty. The pace was, no doubt, good; but, looking at Fitzroy's place, I cannot regard the result as at all affecting the question of the Doncaster St. Leger. Gibraltar the next day was also a winner-carrying off the Queen's Plate, R. C., from Stamboul and Barbakin. I close my brief notice of this meeting in the words I used to a friend, who asked my opinion

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