... - - ?? Z, - -- - , - -- 1 ,7 VIIQ Yl-- 1-: 2t? ?? - irl PORTI TtiE TURF.--The further publication of entries and some acceptancies for big events in the first section of the Turf year has put a little spirit into the followers, amateur and professional, of our national pastime, and there is a market at last again, both at home and abroad. Tassel, expected more than once last year to do a good ...

... POR I THE TURF.-The Newmarket Second Spring and the York meetings have been the most prominent ones of the week, but it can hardly be said that at either the sport has been first-rate. Indeed at Newmarket, as is so often the case, it was very poor, small fields being the order of the day, and the weather on the Heath being anything but conducive to enjoyment during the greater part of the ...

... A THE T URF.--The July Meeting at Newmarket is always one of the landmarks in the Turf year, and by many real lovers of racing is enjoyed more than any other gathering. And no wonder, for its attractions are many. The course itself is a delightful one, pleasant shade is to be had beneath the trees, good horses of all ages put in an appearance, the blood-stock sales are most interesting, and ...

... PORTIN THE TURF.--Stockton in the north and Egham and Windsor in the south have been the chief Turf gatherings of the week. At the first named there is invariably good sport, the most influential northern stables giving it their support, while the leading county families generally muster on the Mandale Bottoms in force. Lord Zetland scored the Trial Stakes with Spinster, who started the worst ...

... c\ SPoRTING, TItE TURF.-Though the curtain fell last week on the last scene of the great yearly Turf drama as enacted at Newmarket, and fell too, let it be truly said, with no slight amount of applause, the legitimate racing season is by no means dead; and nowadays the month of November, perhaps, more than any month of the year, evidences the innate vitality of the sport of racing. Years ago ...

... r, ?? TI THE TuRF.-Favoured with true summer weather, though not too hot, with the course in most excellent order from previous rain, which also assisted in composing the dusty sur- roundings of the heath, and with large fields of good horses, and interesting racing from the opening day to the end, Royal Ascot has been an unqualified success. Royalty, as usual, was there, in the shape of ...

... IT may be pretty safely concluded that not one of the long series of Inter-University boat races will have had so much said and written about it as that of Saturday last; and as it was cer- tainly the most remarkable contest ever witnessed between the rival Blues on the London waters it is deserving of a special record in our columns-though we are painfully conscious of being more than a day ...

... SPOFT IN TilE TURF--The first Spring Meeting at Sandown opened well on Tuesday, the gathering being aristocratic as well as numerous. The sport was decidedly good. In the Wolsey Steeplechase Abdallah was, strange to say, little fancied, but he beat easily enough Chilblain (the favourite) and four others. The Maiden Hurdle Race produced a finish between Farnsfield and Pollison, the latter being ...

... r. ?? TIIE TURF.-By an unfortunate arrangement the meetillbn at Warwick and Manchester have clashed, to the detrimllellt doubtless of both, as neither men nor horses could be in tWO places at once. Warwick, perhaps, wvas the greater sufferer, for certainly the winding.up r.Iunio t on the Lamluas Lands seemed shorn of much of its ormler glory, the fields being unusually small, and the calibre ...

... SPo PI c. THE TURF.--From Berwick-on-Tweed almost down to Land's End the saddling bell has been sounding throughout the length and breadth of the land during this Easter week; and few persons except lessees of courses and caterers for refreshments will be found to deny that racing is overdone. Mr. Anderson's Bill, if it passes, will do something to limit the excrescences of the Turf, but the ...