... 17) ,f.1f/ ?? Tim E TURF. --The Lewes meeting on the Friday and Saturday of last week made another forward stride in popularity, and turned out one of the best gatherings of the year, both in the quantity and quality of its sport. It certainly was a long way ahead of Brighton. The De Warrenne Handicap, which bids fair some day to rival the Hunt Cup at Ascot or the Stewards' at Goodwood, ...

... SPORTzNG NOTES THE late meeting at Newmarket has produced little effect in tlie prospacts of either Cesarewitct or Cambridgeshire. At present ttie first of these great handicaps, which will be run next week, appears likely to turn cut a great success in point of numbers, although the quality of the competitors is by no means first- class. Noyre Tauren, a horse by V~edette, out of the famous ...

... TVIWESrLIA2NA NWE have often wondered why some sports and pastimes become universally popular within a very short time from their first introduction, while others, which seem equallyn to possess all the elements of success, never extend beyond certain districts. Wherever a dozen Englishmen are col- lected together, wickets arc sure to be pitched, and there are few parts of the globe in which ...

... WVEwN the history of this year's Chester Cup shall have been told there will be little of interest left to be said about the re- mainder of the meeting. True it witnessed the first two-year-old racing of the season, but the horses which made their debut at Chester were by no means first class. True the fields were numerically strong, but most of the competitors were of an in- ferior order. The ...

... ?? SPOR.TIa THE TURF.-There has been plenty of racing this week, but not much interest in it; and, therefore, we shall content ourselves, and probably our readers, by merely saying that gatherings have taken place at Sutton Park, Yarmouth, Totnes, Canterbury, Weymouth, and Manchester. The truth is these meetings have chiefly local attraction only, and during the present week, which comes ...

... ATHLETIC meetings at this time of year are colder and more disheartening than even rowing; but still men are found who train vigorously, and just now there are a great many pots to be ran for. At Oxford, Queen's College, Jesus, and Christ- church, as well as the new establishment Keble, held their respective meetings last week. Queen's had but few spectators of their exploits, as the ...

... ,-7- - I ?? ? 0 i?ylA F` El I THE TURF.-Monday, the opening day at Lincoln, was very judiciously apportioned to hurdle and hunters' flat-ramcing and steeplechasing, so that the legitimate season did not really commence till the Tuesday, when Mr. F. Davis was credited with the first flat race of 1879, winning the Batthyany Stakes with Bondsman, the favourite. Backers thus began well, and ...

... ITHERE was no falling off in the quality of the racing in the second and third days at York; indeed the 'whole meeting was thoroughly enjoyable and successful. Tul- libardine has always lain under the imputation of being a non-stayer, but he gave Digby Grand 31b., and such an easy beating over the T.Y.C (upwards of five furlongs), that he leaves Knavesmire without a stain on his character. ...

... * PORTING~ ?? THI-n TURF.-Southerners in general little know the intense interest taken in the North in the Northumberland Plate, which has been known very appropriately for years as the Pitman's Derby. Though a handicap, its associations with the victories of Underhand and Caller On, and the latter's defeat, have invested it with a feeling of enthusiasm unknown in Southern handicaps, ...

... 5pORTINI f' THE TuRF.-A blank week, and nobody the worse for it. In fact, everybody the better. Jockeys have been able to eat their favourite bird, the goose, in peace; starters have had a few days' respite ; clerks of courses and lessees have had no anxieties; judges have not shivered in their boxes ; backers have not lost their money ; and bookmakers have had an opportunity of quietly ...

... - ?? ~ ~ * PORTING I - ?? THE TURF.-Doubtless to the satisfaction-with, perhaps. a tinge of maliciousness in it-of quiet Residents, the inexorable weather has caused more or less of a collapse in the steeplechase arrangements of the suburban circuit. And really there does seem something inappropriate in racing of any kind during the Christmas week, though it may be hard logically to show ...

... *7't ?? THE TuRF.-The frost of last week having given way after a few days' duration, much to the annoyance of the lovers of skating, cross-country sport has been in the ascendant, and deferred meetings and original fixtures have made a busy time of it. Birmingham Steeple Chases take precedence, but they can hardly be considered to have been a success. Postponed meetings seldom are. The ...