... To chronicle a horse race of any kind duringthe Christmas week goes utterly against our grain. Whether therefore the steeple- chases advertised to come off on Boxing Day, and the day after at Edgeware actually took place, or whether they were post- poned in consequence of the course being under water or having become a Slough of DIsspond,'we shall not even inquire. Racing ill accords with the ...

... THE present week has been one of the very few absolute blank weeks in the whole year as far as racing is concerned, not a steeplechase, or even pony-trotting match in some provincial publican's ground giving an opportunity for record. Our spo ting contemporaries *vould be at their wits' end to fill up their columns, if Messrs. Weatherby had not come to their assistance with the Racing Calendar ...

... SPOR TING NOTES STEErLEC1IASING on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thusday over the pleasant pastures of Kingsbury drew a large attendance. Several first-class horses put in an appearance, but not with much success, the terribly holding nature of the course upsetting all calculations. If thc: e had been much ploughed land, instead of the whole track being sound grass, it would have been almost ...

... SUBURBAN and semi-mu'urban steeplechases have secured a re- cognised position among professional and semi-professional sport- ing men of the metropolis during the month of December. They attract fair fields of horses, and some animals who after- wards distinguish themselves at more important steeplechase meetings later in the season. Not a few are supposed to be sent by their owners to these ...