... 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 ...

... I PASTIME 4-, THE TURF.-The Goodwood Meeting concluded with great spirit, and even on the last day, which afforded almost as good racing as any, there was hardly any diminution in the brilliant assemblage, while the weather remained most enjoyably fine. It is, however, almost painful to have to put on record the race for the Cup, which can hardly be described otherwise than as afiasw. Only ...

... I -. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? THE TURF.- Glorious Goodwood this year has been con- siderably shorn of its glories, most of the chief favourites both for the Cup and Stakes having gradually disappeared from the market quotations. The majority of the scratchings for both these events were owing to some mishap or other befalling the animals in their training, while in other cases trainers found it ...

... . , - - _ - - PSTIMES. TnE TURI.-The continuance of most lovely autumn weather and excellent sport made the concluding days of the New- market Meeting, last week, as enjoyable as the opening ones, especially to the general body of backers of favourites, who had a pretty good time of it. Dutch Oven, who has now a long row of brackets to her name, had no difficulty in beating Red Spectre at ...

... . PASTIME. THE TURF.-The meeting at Sandown Park this week, following after Croydon, fairly lands us in the illegitimate season, which every year seems to become more and more popular. From what we have yet seen, however, the supply of genuine jumpers over a country does not appear to be on the increase, but several well-known animals from the flat have already shown themselves over ...

... A DA Y' AND A NIGHT IN WIMBLEDON CAMP THE Reveille sounds at half-past six; and the first time I was roused by its cheery music, I struggled out of my blankets and took a peep out of doors. A pleasant breeze was blowing from the misty blue hills in the distance, and the sun shone laughingly on every. thing. One or two sprightly beings who, like myself, had not pretended that they didn't hear ...

... 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 ...

... I ?? Tl.. Tuib.-The Newmarket Meeting of the present week will long be remembered as one of special mark, the racing from beginning to end having been of high class, and some of the events of a really sensational character. The proceedings opened on Mlonday by Archer effecting one of his surprises by landing Lord Falmouth's Darnaway, a 4 to I chance, in a field of four, for the Produce Stakes, ...

... i~ I S'7'ATIME C\ TiE' TURF.-The Liverpool Meeting concluded last week in the midst of most genial weather, fully deserving the title of i' Indian Summer, after a series of races which, for the large fields they presented, the quality of the animals running, and the exciting finishes witnessed, made up one of the most successful autumn gatherings ever held on Aintree. Bttt sigilt adear ...

... ST Tim TUIRF.-Though nominally this is an off-week, coming as it does between two great Newmarket Meetings, there has been plenty of racing, and that of a fairly good type, at Birmingham, Croydon, and Sandown Park. But after all, perhaps, there has been more real interest in digesting the past running at headquarters and in anticipating the future. Certainly the interest on the classic heath ...

... -POR.TI c THE TURF.-The old-fashioned meeting, as it is called, at Northampton, has been the chief Turf gathering held this week. Notwithstanding the cold east wind the assemblage was perhaps the largest ever seen on the course, and the county families attended, as they did in days of yore, in large numbers. The veteran Elsharn Lad, who seems never tired of winning, opened the ball by taking ...

... -- C-, Z - - LI P~STIMS T'l, TURF.The concluding day at Sundown last week was about as enjoyable in point of weather as could possibly be imagined, the soft air, the bright sunshine, and the strains of the band on the ln beicnug far more suggestive of a seasonable day in May or June thall one well nigh in mid-December. The Great Sandown Steeple Chase was a disappointment as regards the ...