... The sheet Calendar published on Thursday had a more barren appearance than it usually presents in the second week of the Sew Year, and some days vill elapse ere the Spring Handicap nomina- tions will be fully before Torf speculators and the general followers of horse racing. Except on the Waterloo Cup, upon which a few fresh volumes have been opened, future event betting has been almost a dead ...

... . As was expected when those responsible for the appearance of the Lincolnashire Handicap, Chester Cup, and Liverpool Grand National entries refrained from publishing them nt the proper time, the races named make a very poor show, and the eighty-four in the Carholuie event cuts a particularly small figure beside the hundred and seven in the City and Suburban, the advertised added money to ...

... The return of wintry weather is a most unfortunate matter for spoct at the present jisuctore, and owners and trainers of greyhounds have equal cause of diissatisfaction with those identified with horses. Sundiry coursing arrangements have had to be abandoned this arvesi, and the change is extremely damaging to thej prospects of the Waterloo Cup, which is set for decision a little more than ...

... Sharp frosts have proved a bar to all out of door sports but skating this weelk, and those able to wear the irons have had a rare time of it near the Metropolis. Fish Smart and other notable performers from thle fen country have raced for big prizes at the Welsh H-arp, and while the hard weather lasts there will be other inducemrents to crack skaters to demonstrate grace snd speed over the ...

... A - -- --OTE . It has remained for Carmarthen to break the spell of inaction which has so long deadened the Turf, and with a continuance of the favourable change in the weather something more important than hunt races will be witnessed in the course of the next few days. Kempton should also have come off on Thursday and Friday, but it was determined early in the week to put off the Surrey ...

... PLACING AND COURSING NOTES. Sport has continued in earnest this week, and the lovers of the leash, as well as the followers of the national pastime, have found plenty to attract their attention. Horse-racing has been ?? at Tenby, Kempton, Lincoln, and Birmingham, and hunting men were strongly to the fore on Tuesday and Wed- nesday in the fen country, where the still useful Pock, who was ...

... Except at Doncaster and far-off Carnarvon, at the former of which places Moorhen, Pack, and Broomieknowe followed up their recent successes, and Goldflnder was once more defeated, there has been no horse racing this week, but the Waterloo Cup and the doings at Altoar have led to plenty of excitement amongst the followers of the Turf, and have resulted in plenty of wagering at the Metropolitan ...

... Sandown on Tuesday and Wednesday maintained its cha- racter in a horse racing point of view, for if there was a slight falling off on the first day it was amply atoned for on the second, when the principal event attracted a field of seventeen to the post. The Prince and Princess of W5ales witnessed the whole of the sport, the feature of which on the opening after- noon was the ready victory of ...

... The curtailment of the Croydon Meeting may or may not have been a wise measure on the part of the Lessees, but apparently the fixture would have stretched into Thursday without leading to any loss, and no doubt the sport would have been as good on the day named as it was at Bromley, the revival of which was brought about under somewhat adverse circumstances. There were hints at the beginning ...

... Hunting and military men have had ample opportusities of trying the speed of their nags during the last week of the illegitimate season, and comparatively few open events have been brought to a bead except at Bristol, where the steeple chases and hurdle races did not bring forth anything of a sensational character. The Liberator was scratched for his Western engagement before the Meeting began ...

... RACING_ NOTES. The legitimate season has seldom opened more auspiciously than it did this week at Lincoln and Liverpool, and at the first-named place the principal handicap and the Brocklesby Stakes proved thoroughly successful races, the field for the two year old event being larger than that of a twelvemouth ago, despite the contest with regard to the distance. Ml. Lefevre, who supplied the ...

... The Passion W~eek Meeting at Nottinglitini attracted plenty of horses, but there were not above a dozen really useful animals almong~st them.i oise of the beet being the penalieed. Misenus, who carried his 1411 extra, into the -eccond place for the. Oxton Hurdle I`ace, for which he was beaten by Norseman. Templar followed uip hie Aintree triumphs, and the local colours were carried to thle ...