... PO RLT I N Tiiz TURF.--The cross-country work at Kempton Park End Enfield this week, though provided mainly for holiday makers, has been of a very fair character, many good animals putting in an appearance, and some very close racing being witnessed. At Kempton Austin Friar took the Sunbury Hurdle Race, and gave additional proof that he is a good animal at his new vocation. Miss Kate ...

... TIIE TURF.--The frost at last having got a firm grip of the earth, training operations must perforce be all-but suspended throughout the kingdom, except where special arrangements have been made to secure for horses what may be called artificially soft gallops. Considerable interest, however, has been infused into Turf circles by the publication of the entries jor the City and Suburban, the ...

... . ,3?? . - , . ?? I - , 1 PO FLT I N THE TurF.-Very little Turf news cam ever be expected at this time of the year, and still less when King Frost reigns supreme ; for though the snow on the training grounds renders some good exercise possible, no substantial training work can be got through with either the tu'o-year.olds, or the animals entered for the Spring Handicaps. ReferVing again for a ...

... ?? PO &I, Tjii TURF.-A few days ago a definite rise in the temperature, as evidenced by the possibility of making hard snowballs, gave hopes that training operations might soon be resumed; but the old god IThor, as a meteorological jokist ventures to remark, after a few hours of gentle exercise of his powers, again gave way to King Frost, who till Thursday reigned supreme. Consequently the ...

... ? - ?? ?? >- ??c PO RT IN TIHE TURF.-The acceptances for the Spring Handicaps, coming to hand within a few days of the decided disappearance of the frost, will put fresh life into Turf matters, and while trainers are hard at work out of doors with these charges, indoors thousands of 'urfites will be comparing the relative weights of different animals in different races, conning over the ...

... SPORTI~c TiUE TURF.-There is but little to record this week in the way of Sports and Pastimes generally, but Turf matters have been a little more lively, at least for Metropolitan race-goers, owing to the Bromley two days 'cross-country meeting having been brought off. Moreover, a market has been opened on some of the Spring Handicaps, Henry George and Alchemist to start with having been ...

... * SPOR.TI NG TilE TURF.-The Kempton Park meeting on Tuesday and- Wednesday last drew a large attendance of those who are fond of the hurdle and 'cross-country business, but the attraction of the Waterloo Cup up Liverpool way caused many of the lchief operators to be absent. Some good class horses put in an appearance for the different events, for instance, iil the Kenipton Steaple Chase, in ...

... TitE TURF.-More miserable weather than that which attended the First Spring Meeting at Sandown Park can hardly be imagined, so bad indeed that on the second day, after three races had been run, the Stewards decided that the next should be postponed de die in diemi, snow having completely covered the ground. There is litl. or nothing to note in reference to the races that did come off w. 1, the ...

... * SPRTING, rim ?? THE TURF. -Last Saturday's racing at Sandown Park evidently suffered from the postponement which took place in the midst of the sport on Wednesday, the scratching of Harbinger for the big Hurdle Race and the disappearance of several other animals being one of the consequences; and there was a good deal of grumbling at the half-a-crown payment for witnessing but a poor day's ...

... SPoaRT! N ?? TUE TURF.-The Grand Military Meeting was brought off after all at Sandown Park last week, and with success too, notwithstanding the absence of so many officers in different parts of the world. There was plenty of hard and injudicious riding, as is usual on such occasions, and plenty of falls, but plenty also of good riding. Mr. Brocklehurst opened the ball with spirit by winning ...

... *SP ORT INQ TiHE TURF.-By way of making up for rather meagre bills of fare for the last few weeks, there have (during the present week been illegitimate meetings in all directions, at Derby for instance, Cheltenham, Crewkerne, and at Four Oaks Park (Birmingham), where also the Grand National Hunt programme will be carried out. The Birminiugham Meeting, the most important of all, we must ...

... S-POPT I N THE TURF.-If racing men persist in commencing the flat- racing season in the month of March, they almost deserve to experience such wretched weather as has befallen them this week at Lincoln. Bitterly cold winds, strong enough at times to whirl the straw out of the ring, snow, sleet, and rain have been the accompaniments of the recent meeting on the Carholme, and no amount of warm ...