... SINCE the Grand National there has been little actual racing of interest. The meceting at Cottenharn w as, how- ever, signalised by the victory of Primrose ov'er The J)octor, and Rugby by the success of Knock:any. In our hurried account of Liverpool, we noticed that The Doctor received a severe dressing in the tnall struggle home, and that was quite sufficient to account for his defeat at Cot- ...

... 1) -, N. . 1(~ spopI THE TURF.--The steeplechasing of this week has taken place at Bromley, Croydon, and Moreton-in-the-Marsh, but little has transpired to throw much light on coming events of importance, though the sport has been quite up to the average of minor meetings. At Bromley Mr. B. Harvey's Austerlitz took the chief Hurdle Handicap on the Tuesday, and fortune favoured the same owner ...

... SPORT INc~ I ~ L Tins week we have had race meetings at West Drayton (which seems to have almost as many meetings as Newmarket), Nottingham, Abingdon, and Liverpool. At the first-named there was witnessed the usual kind of suburban sport, of which there might be a considerable diminution without any detriment to the Turf. It may be noticed that on the second day's racing, on Tuesday, out of ...

... I POR THE TURF.-Despite somewhat uncongenial weather, the Brighton Meeting ended as it began with first-class sport; and on the last day Captain Machell with Advance added the Stewards' Cup to the Stakes, thus showing that the general idea that horses which have been put to hurdle-racing lose their speed for the legitimate work is by no means well-founded. In the Rous Stakes the unlucky Master ...

... THOSE who sec wrestlers on a London arena of sawdust, whether they represent France against England or Cum- berland against \Westmoreland, gain thereby a very imper- fect idea of this famous athletic sport. It is a country gamc. It belongs aright to wild regions wherc the turf is virgin, and the wrestler, like Ant eus in the old myth, gains fresh strength and spirit by his contact with his ...

... a- r k? ?l BP ORT IN .1 f TuE TURF.--Goodwood has once more sounderd thebreak- up of London Society, and everybody, with the exception of office-holders in Parliament, members who wish to show a good average of attendances, and some few odd millions of permanent inhabitants of the metropolis, is out of town. The majority of the everybodies has, of course, been at the great race- meeting ...

... ) I THE TURF.-A few years ago there was no racing in Passion week, but now the custom is more honoured in the breach than the observance, and lessees endeavour to steal a day or two from the season's programmes, or, as perhaps we should say, intercalate them. Turfites, however, have generally preferred taking a week's rest before the first Newmarket meeting, which will be held next week ...

... a A___ {~~PLT eT1E TURF,--The Croydon N'ovember Meeting concluded 11 even Worse weather than it commenced, and those wvho were p1esent at Woodside to witness the Great Metropolitan Steeple- Clhese wil lo))g remlemnber the day as one of the most wretched It experienced. That several owners did not care to run their liiis- Nvith the ground a very Slough of Despond may account 1artly for the ...

... ALL the wvorld is just beginning to have its usual yearly attack of rowillg fcvca. In each of the daily and weekly prints, generally as unskillcd iw waterside slang as they are in the mysteries of the racecourse, we findd learned disquisitions on catch, and lift, and 'swing ; bath' re and there occurs the inevitable blunder to mark the amateur band as it deals with the paste and ...

... I: -j S oRT THE TURF--The racing of the present week, which many look on as a kind of bye-week, comning, as it does, between the Second October and Houghton Meetings at NeWn :rliet, his been very good, though not sensational. Croydon, Eltham, Coventry, Bromley, Gloucester, andt Newcastle have been the trysting-places, the sport at the latter having the pre-eminence. Whether backers have on the ...

... Now that everyone who can leave town has left it, the race- meetings which take place all over England in the early autumn attract many of the pleasure-seekers, and it is scarcely true any longer that even when town is empty it is fuller than the country. The excellent sport at Stockton was witnessed by large crowds both of natives and visitors, and the meeting concluded at York this week has ...

... P~O TI THE TURF.-The Newmarket Houghton Meeting, which old fashioned Turfites still regard as the last legitimate gathering of the racing season, has been a very successful one, notwithstanding some of the most wretched weather imaginable being experienced tsere, especially on the Cambridgeshire day. The meeting opened on Monday, the most important race being the Criterion Stak~es. This year, ...