The race was run as hard as all could split, and at the Duke's Stand the crack was done for, and so was the Baron, and in short fourfifths of the field. Event was leading, and looking dangerously, followed by Alarm, going well, with Yardly very handy. At the cords Alarm went up, caught the mare, disposed of her cleverly, and went in first, without being called upon, by a couple of lengths. Some said Whitehouse did not "come" soon enough with Yardly; others, that the Barou was frothing from the mouth-but what won't losers aver? The best won, that I verily believe; but that all ran on their merits I won't assert. Is a great race ever so run? Is it reasonable, rational, to expect it so long as the P.P. system exists; so long as the turf "Holds out two means of profit for the choosing, The one being winning and the other losing?" Refraction, over the D. M., gave Prologue 3lbs. and a beating, in a match; A-la-Mode beat Hawkesbury in another, A. F. In a third, Miss Elis receiving 2st. 6lb., the same course, defeated old Oakley; and, in a sweepstakes for 300 sovs. each, four subscribers, run a match between Lord Glasgow's filly by Retriever out of Emilia, and Mr. Herbert's, by Elis out of Tesane, the former won, and in a canter, that it might be fulfilled when it is written, "it never rains but it pours." : It was a summer day-on Tuesday, and the turning over to it of the Criterion was a wise alteration-all the plums ought not to be on the top of the cake. In the town, things however wore no sunshine the settling on the Cambridgeshire, in short, was very bad -one or two had run away, on account of Alarm; and those who grinned, and stayed where they were, have since left their creditors to do the same-at the wrong sides of their mouths. “Woe is me, Alhama!" The sport opened with a Fifty Sovs. Plate for two year olds and upwards, last three miles of B.C., won by Clumsy; to which succeeded a 10 sovs. Sweepstakes, won by a colt by Montreal, out of a mare by Dr. Syntax, out of Problem: then Caen won a like stake for three year olds and upwards, last half of Ab. M.; and Black Cat beat Anna Bullen, in a Match, T.Y.C., for £50. Terrier giving Miss Whip colt (two years old) 16lbs. and a beating, in a Match, first half of Ab. M., was followed in another, for which Physalis beat Stoker, giving 10lbs., T.Y.C. The roan was backed at 4 to 1; and, when the return of the race was put up, Stoker's number appeared for the winner. This threw a friend of mine who stood to lose 500l. into a fainting fit; and the revulsion of hope, when the figures were changed, making Physalis the winner, nearly turned it into apoplexy. Now, all this was brought about by the necessity for economy in carrying out the details of the Jockey Club's affairs having caused the figures 1 to be painted on one side of the board, and 2 on the reverse, whereby a piece of deal of the value probably of one halfpenny sterling was saved to its accounts. Boarding-school Miss won the Handicap Plate of 200 sovs., D.I.; and then came the Criterion : out of forty-five nominations, ten came to the post, and, truth to tell, they looked a bonnie half-score-more so than they were "better." There was Sting, despite 7lbs. extra, at 6 to 4 on him; Joy-of whom hope told a flattering tale, but not a true; the Crown Prince-the first-born of Coronation; Malt-with so little stuff about him that a more appropriate name had been Swipes; and others-good ones to look at, if of less pretension to go. The favourite won in a canter; being probably a quarter of a hundredweight better than anything in the race. Nevertheless, he is not my caprice for the Derby. He is the most finished animal of his year I ever saw; not "half made up," as two year olds are wont, but a very perfect steed--complete at all points. Herein are my doubts about his form in 1846: your babes of grace rarely reach maturity pari passu. WEDNESDAY opened-so far as related to the heath-with a £50 Handicap, that brought out a large field, A-la-mode the winner. A Match, in which Collingwood gave Astern 10lbs., was won by the horse. Blackbird won a £50 Plate for two and three year olds, T.Y.C.; and a 10 sovs. Sweepstakes, the same course, for three year olds and upwards, Skeleton carried off. This brought us to the Match between Idas and Ould Ireland; the Patlander getting 4lbs. It was the Cambridgeshire course; and either the distance suited the ex-Derby favourite, or the tackle he met was very indifferent; for he won very cleverly. This concluded the racing: one heard no more of the Derby for next year than if its last anniversary had been the occasion of its surrendering the ghost. THURSDAY was a lovely sample of July; and produced probably the most exciting day's sport ever enjoyed at Newmarket. The first event was a 10 sovs. Sweepstakes, for two year olds, which Astern made headway for; winning, and being claimed. A Handicap Sweepstakes, for two year olds, Dexterous--a half-bred, carrying 8st. 10lb.-won cleverly by a length; and was subsequently objected to by Mr. Shelley, the owner of Chandelier, that ran second, on the ground that she was more than the age at which she would be qualified for the race. Upon examination, she was pronounced a two-year-old. I know not who Mr. Godwin may be; but surely it is a monstrous thing that any man-gentle or simple-who adopts the turf for his profit or his pleasure, should be exposed to be stigmatized as a swindler at the humour of another. To enter a horse as two years old which is three, is to all intents and purposes swindling. To infer his proprietor had done so, is to charge him with fraud. Is the turf to be an impunity, behind which the malevolent man may shelter himself when desirous of raising such grave suspicion against the character of those he would assail? I do not of course mean to apply these observations to Mr. Shelley, whose courtesy is as well known as his popularity is general. I would deal with the principle, which, as at present recognized, is one of the most obnoxious to the interest and position of racing of all the legion of evils by which it is besieged, and that call aloud for reform...... A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, A.F., for three year olds and upwards, brought out A-la-mode again as a conqueror. In a Match for 100 sovs. aside, T.Y.C., Secundus, receiving two stones, beat Garry Owen; and, in one across the Flat, Wolf-dog, with a similar bonus of weight, beat Oakley, for 200 sovs. Next came a 10 Sovs. Sweepstakes, T.Y.C., for two and three year olds, won by Chandelier; and then the Glasgow Stakes, 100 sovs. each, for two year old colts; last three quarters of the Rowley Mile. Seven started for this; and three made a dead heat for the finish, namely, Binnacle, Radulphus, and colt by Colwick, out of Mecca; which goes to shew that not one of the lot is anything out of the common. Lord Exeter's "animal" bolted for the final heat, which Binnacle just contrived to get by a head; perhaps indeed it was Nat's head that won. Over the first half of the Ab. M. the Bishop of Romford's Cob beat Mr. Osbaldeston's filly by Stockport, out of Mountain Sylph's dam, giving three stone for his three years: and then came a £50 Handicap Plate, D.I., which resulted in another dead heat between three, namely, Little Hampton, Naworth, and-Alice Hawthorn ! "How are the mighty fallen!" This occurrence of a dead heat with three twice in one day is, I think, without parallel in the annals of the turf. The conquering heat Little Hampton just won on the post-by a nose! Cute handicapping, my masters! Poor, ill-starred Alice was beaten off! To-day, October went out as May ought to come in-it was the weather of Tempé. With the town full of horses, Friday-the penultimate of the season-was more secure of a plentiful list even than Monday. It was replete with sport. As the work of review will be found elsewhere done, I address myself simply to the details of fact. The riding began with a Match for £50, the T.Y.C.; wherein Hartshorn, giving a filly of Lord Glasgow's 15lbs., also gave her a drubbing. Lord George Bentinck's Killie Krankie, won a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two and three year olds, the first half of the Ab. M.; and Mr. Ongley's Queen of the Gipsies did the same, by a Sweepstakes of the like value, for three year olds and upwards, the same course. Next was a £50 Match, D.M., between Everton and Milden, won by the former; and a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, for three year olds and upwards, T.Y.C., won by Secundus, beating seven others. Now succeeded the Nursery Stakes-the great Two-year-old Handicap-for which thirty-six were weighted, and one-half the number accepted, and went. The course is the D.M., and the race was as fine a one as ever was seen, terminating in a dead heat between Dexterous, the half-bred, and Green Pea, the former receiving 2lbs. The deciding course the half-bred won cleverly by a length: we are once more falling upon the days in which the mixed blood can achieve great things. Of some seven or eight matches, three were run-of no account save to the owners of the winners; the last event of the day of any public interest for recapitulation being the Audley End. This was run a quartet, and won by Lord Waterford's Wolf-dog: one is glad to see such a début, for more reasons than one. SATURDAY.-AS October set in glory, so November dawned in splendour; why does not Summer take a lesson from Winter? The list was literally an overflow. I think there were a dozen matches; for I write of them from memory. There was also a Houghton Handicap, with upwards of half-a-score starters, won by Boarding-school Miss; and a Sweepstakes, for two year olds and |