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... 7,?- ?-a- co ?r ?k K-V?ic ORTIN I THE TuRFa.-Why should not a truce be agreed on, for one week at least in the year, and horses and jockeys have at least a seven days' test? A few years ago the Christmas week was held sacred from hurdle-racing and steeple-chasing, but now enter- prising lessees on the home circuit, bearing in mind that tens of thousands of Londoners really do not know what ...

... THE LAPLANDERS AT THE WESTMINSTER AQUARIUM A RACE between two ponies belonging to and ridden by Burmans took place on the 2nd of November last at Jounghoo, British Burmah. The Burmans are much attached to this form of sport, and bet considerably. In this case the race was held on the Jail Road, the starting place being near the jail, and the course a perfectly straight one of about 250 yards. ...

... ?? Si Tims TURF.-Two days of first-class hurdle-racing and steeplechasing at Sandown have brought us well into the ille- gitimate. racing season, and for the next three months with little intermission we shall carry on con amore the cross-country sport in which Continental sportsmen indulge during the sumnmer months. Here we associate barren fields and leafless trees, mud, rain, wind, and ...

... * PORTINQ (. THER TURF.--The legitimate racing season died last week, as every one interested in the Turf well knows; but now that nine-tenths of the illegitimate business is done by thoroughbreds, which are soon schooled to clear obstacles, the winter of the Turfites' discontent is cheered by an almost con- tinuous supply of hurdleracing and steeplechasing till the flat work ...