... 11 -spa THE TURF.--The York meeting, keeping up its character for surprises, is still the talk among Turf men in connection with the second victory of Lady Golightly, who on the last, day of the gathering won the Great Yorkshire Stakes in grand style. Lord Falmouth also started Sleipler, and, moreover, declared to win with him; but he was beaten a long way from home, and Lady Golightly, coming ...

... & a s P ?? N THE TURF--All that has been done on the Turf this week has been on paper or in the busy minds of men. The Spring En tries for various handicaps suggest a beginningof thebeginning, and intimate that the early part of the Turf year will not show any want of activity. The City and Suburban entry shows an advance of 2 on the 125 of last year, and it is not a bad sign that for the ...

... IL L _ _ _ _ _ THE TURF.-Though the fine autumn weather broke on the very day the racing began at the Newmarket Second October Meeting, and many bitterly cold hours had to be spent on the famous heath, an unfailing supply of excellent sport during five days caused no one to regret enduring a little bodily discomfort. Seldom, if ever, have more persons been sojourning at Newmarket, or more ...

... 5PO PT ING~ THE TURF.-As was the case last week, so this, and there has been racing and steeplechasing in all directions. The Bristol meeting must, of course, be considered the most impor- tant, though nothing important happened at it. For some reason or other it has not answered the anticipations formed of it a few years ago when inaugurated by the Prince of Wales ; and the West of England, ...

... Illl;? II','11 ?7 PORTIN kI TImE TURt.--A quiet week's racing has succeeded Liver. pool, where the defeat of Petrarch by Snail was one of the sensations of the season. In a field of twelve odds were laid on Petrarch, who was leading, and appeared to be winning in a canter some four strides or so from the chair, when he stumbled, or did something or other, which enabled Lord Rosehery's horse to ...

... ½?\? -? ?? / TIlE TURF.--The death of Admiral Rous is referred to in another column. Suffice it therefore only to say here that by it the Turf has sustained an almost irreparable loss. As on former occasions, the Windsor Meeting has been a kind of supplement to Ascot, many animals, both equine and human, remaining in their Berkshire quarters to take part in it. Though in one sense it is only ...

... .:11- N? 7F- ?? ;Tz- ?? ?? - ,-I z PORTING 4 I TiiE TURF.-Goodwood, as heretofore, has sounded the knell of the departing London season, if, indeed, the Irish Obstructionists intend to allow Parliament to rise at all, and bring the season to a close. The grand meeting amid the sylvan beauties of one of the most glorious parks in England can never be otherwise than enjoyable, and each ...

... I , :1.2. a i TiE TURF.-The racing of the present week has shown a marked improvement on that of last, for both at the Manchester and Bath meetings, though rivals to each other, as being held on the same (lays, the sport has been excellent. The first-named is evidently making great strides, and is probably destined to become one of the most important ?? gatherings. Somnus, notwithstanding the ...

... IPOfTIN THE TURF.-Like Lincoln, which preceded it, the Liver- pool Meeting was a success, though little of real interest attached to any event except the chief race-the Grand National. For this only sixteen animals eventually came to the post, the smallest number since 1863, when Emblem won in a field of exactly the same dimensions. As we noted last week, the race created little anticipatory ...

... TItM TURF.--The meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne has long held a leading position among northern fixtures ; and probably not on any course in the United Kingdom, Doncaster not even excepted, is there to be found so much intense interest in horse- racing as on Newcastle Town Moor. The Northumberland Plate, though only a handicap, has come in the course of years to be looked upon by the masses in ...

... THE TURF.-The Grand National Hunt, which during the week has held high festival on the Cottenham pastures near Cambridge, shows decline rather than progress. When, esta- blished in the year z86o, it held its first meeting at Market Harborough, no less than thirty-one good animals started for the great boond fite Hunters' Race. Twenty-eight horses ran in 1864, and twenty-nine in the year ...

... ?? - x ?, 1-1 - - -- TIME TURF.--Harking back for a moment to Goodwood it should be noted that Hampton's success in the Cup shows him to be about the best stayer on the Turf, and only to think that he has taken part in hurdle, and even selling races ! Still he is by no means the only instance of a horse for a time thought next to nothing developing into one of the best animals of his day. All ...