... -- SPORTI N G?F? ( TiE TURF.-Another week's rest from actual racing: but trainers, taking advantage of the continuance of open weather, have been busy enough in all directions with their youngsters and many of the older horses which have been entered for the Spring Handicaps. The prophets and Turf analysts, too, have been busy in comparing the performances of last season's two-year-olds, and ...

... I ' THE TUIRF.--Several minor meetings for cross-country work have been brought off this week, the weather being generally favourable and the going good. Not for many seasons past has there been so little interference with steeple-chasing and hurdle-racing from frost as during the present, or courses so little spoilt by rain and floods. The best gathering of the week was that at Doncaster, ...

... I .IN THE TURF.-Worcester Spring Steeplechases comprise the only meeting of this week, with the exception of the Grand Military and Household Brigade gathering at Sandown Park. At the former the sport was very fair, and some good fields contested several of the events. The first winner was Tuba, in the Licensed Victuallers' Steeplechase, and though not made as good a favourite as Stanley, the ...

... 5pORTINI f' THE TuRF.-A blank week, and nobody the worse for it. In fact, everybody the better. Jockeys have been able to eat their favourite bird, the goose, in peace; starters have had a few days' respite ; clerks of courses and lessees have had no anxieties; judges have not shivered in their boxes ; backers have not lost their money ; and bookmakers have had an opportunity of quietly ...

... * *- /1 ~ ~ ~ - THE TURF.-After some weeks of entire rest to horses anct jockeys, as far as actual racing has been concerned, suburban Streatham has been the scene of a meeting which attracted but a moderate number of moderate horses. The good people of what they still hold to be a Surrey village near London will be anmong those who would rejoice the most at the passing of Mr. Anderson's Bill. ...

... SPORT NG THE TURF.--Though late for the fair, we cannot even in this brief record of Turf matters omit mention of the mixed meeting at Liverpool the latter part of last week. It can hardly be said to have maintained its prestigr, though the Prince of Wales and a whole host of notables patronised it almost as freely as they did Lincoln just before it. The weather was execrable, and the fields, ...

... SPO RT ING THE TURF.--As heretofore Goodwood has sounded the curfew of the London season, which, for the matter of that, has been practically dead weeks ago. Seldom has the meeting in the ducal pack, as it is the fashion to call it, been a more enjoyable one, though many of the events to be contested produced poor fields, at least as regards numbers. Fine weather, abundance of Royal ...

... F?? PORTIN THE TURF.-Once more the heading of this paragraph reverts to its true and legitimate meaning in sporting circlea, as the flat-racing season, according to Jockey Club legislation, commenced at Lincoln on Monday last. But with what fear and trepidation did many interested in coming events pass the hours antecedent to Monday ! The same snowstorm which shrouded the foundering of the ill ...

... Ti;E START FROMI CAMrP.-Sportsmen who love to start at daylight, or even before, find that, when the sport is at its best, their men are getting sulky with hunger and fatigue, and that, when the cards are dealt for the rubber after dinner, it is a hard matter to keep their eves open. The gentlemen before us have breakfasted comfortably ; have given the elephants time to bring in their ...

... * PO RT IN THE TURF.--The wise king said, Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Not so think the large majority of those interested in Turf affairs. They long for the beginning of the new year, as it seems a definite step towards the opening of the legitimate racing season, and there is the imme- diate prospect of a little more life in cross-country affairs. The impatience ...

... ( ?? ?? TiiE TUtRF.-The Liverpool Meeting, which on many previous anniversaries has shown great vitality, has this week been unusually dull. If this be a sign of the decadence of late autumn or-rather winter flat--race-meetings, which have been all the rage of late years, so much the better. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the gathering was the appearance for the first tihe on the turf ...

... IT would be curious to ascertain, by the aid of some fairy's wand, how many of all the people who, within the last few weeks, have been disporting themselves at Gpunty Balls, enjoyed themselves at the entertainment. If the first originator of these provincial gatherings, could be interrogated as to his design in doing so, we might be pretty sure what answer he would give, and still more ...