... *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 ...

... I- i -z- ?? ? ?l ;en, THE TURF.-The First October Meeting (held as per usual ' in September) at Newmarket is always welcome, though, as a rule, no very exciting contests are to be witnessed. This week's racing, accompanied by fine weather, and showing some really good sport, has been specially enjoyable. The Trial Stakes, which opened the ball on Tuesday, were productive of a splendid finish ...

... = = TIta Tuz-.-The concluding day at the Newmarket Second Spring Mleeting showed, perhaps, better sport than its predecessors, largish ficldscontesting several of the events. Agneta, with Archer up, and odds on her, took tile Selling Stakes from seven coii- petitors, though at one time Mr. Ten Broeck's North Star looked like winning. Sutler continues in a winning humour, and Valour failed to ...

... ? - ?? ?? >- ??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 ...

... ?? N THE TURF. -As is always the case for some days after the Derby, the merits of the winner have been freely and fully discussed, and on this occasion there has been an unusually marked consensus of opinion that the best horse won. Iroquois was certainly the best horse on the day, and though Peregrine may again beat him, as he did in the Two Thousand for speed over a shorter course, it is ...

... I ?? - THE TURF.-After a very brief interval of rest the ball has been again set rolling in the way of cross-country and timber- topping work at Kempton Park and Birmingham (Four Oaks), the authorities at both these trysting-places knowing well that a large proportion of Boxing-day holiday folks prefer witnessing the per- formances of the gees to any other out-door amusement. And very fair ...

... 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 ...

... '¶ -; - D THE TURF.-The victory of Captain Machell's Valour last week in the Manchester Cup is certainly hitherto the sensational handicap event of the season. Probably not an individual on the Turf credited Valour with being able to get over a course of much more than a mile in good company, and even his owner and trainer could not have sent him to Manchester imagining that he had any more ...

... ?? -- TIME THE TURF.-In all departments of our sports and pastimes beating the record seems to be strongly in vogue. In cricket, in rowing, in running, in athletics proper, the record is constantly being beaten, and now, by the victory of Foxhall in the Cambridgeshire, it has come so to pass in horse-racing. The American horse, as a three-year- cld, carrying 9 st., has done what no three ...

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... ?? 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 ...

... i/SPORTI TnH TURF.-Referring for a moment to the Newmarket Meeting last week, it may be mentioned that the race was a fairly interesting one. Thirteen animals came to the post, and of them Mr. Crawfurd's Thebais was naturally made favourite, in conse- quence of her excellent performances during the latter part of last season. 'l'o the great delight of the prophets and her backers, who had ...