... SPoRPTI N TIxE TURF.--Like so many weeks in the Turf year the present has been a bye one, many followers of racing taking a rest between Epsom and Ascot. Still, on the Home Circuit Croydon Summer and Sandown Park First Summer meetings have attracted large bodies of spectators, the country contingent, which is always very strong in the metropolis at the end of May and beginning of June, showing ...

... SPORT]NG Tim TURF.--AS the Poet-Laureate's Gentleman and Lady like to like, but like in difference, so is one Derby to another-all the same, but different. The horses the same, but with different names, and a little shifting of colours; the pre- liminaries are the same ; the scene on the course the same; the ' road the same, the same swells, the same snobs, and the same roughs; the train ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...