... Stallions of the Year No. 3 lV/TR. MARTIN BENSON created a stir in breeding circles when he announced, a year ago, that he had paid the record price of £60,000 for the Italian-bred Grand Prix winner. The transaction was concluded as a result of a 15-minutes' telephone call to Paris. Nearco, who was bred by Signor Tesio, ran fourteen times and was unbeaten. In his thirteen starts in Italy he ...

... The Bicester Meet at Stratton Copse Cub-Hunting with the Camera CUB-HUNTING is still being carried on by the Bicester and Warden Hill, but at this meet at Stratton Copse, the Master, Mr. R. E. Field- Marsham, though out, was not hunting hounds. Quite a good field turned up, but as the pictures on the next pages show, most of the followers were children. They spent a very enjoyable morning in ...

... THE past month of September has found our courses running very fast, and in consequence a greater variety of approach shots has been called for. The ordinary pitch. shot, landing from any angle on to the putting surface, does not almost bury itself as it would on a soft holding green. It is, perhaps, rather futile to tell a beginner to be original in his shots to the pin, when he is trying as ...

... The first of Henry Cotton's exhibition matches in aid of the Red Cross was played at Royal Mid-Surrey last Saturday, where Archie Compston beat Cotton by one hole. Some 1,200 people turned up, and since Cotton and Compston both gave their services, the funds benefited to the extent of about £150. The spectators were delighted with the golf that for two hours made them forget their troubles and ...

... Left: FROM ENG LAND Finland still hopes that the Olympic Games for rgqo will be held at Helsinki and the training of the horses bought from England last May goes on. This is Lieutenant Biitzov on Waldkater, winner of the school riding in a recent competition at the Olympic Stadium. THE COLCHESTER GARRISON Beagles' Whip, Lieutenant D. Stanford, was married at Langham Parish Church to Anne ...

... The British Record Casting Company Less Gramophone and More Flesh and Blood, Please THE B.B.C., as the purveyor of wartime entertainment apart from its news ser vice, has come in for some hard, critical knocks in the past week or two. My only criticism of those knocks is that they have not been hard enough. There seems to be no defence whatever for the feebleness of most of the fare provided, ...

... KING CHARLES THE SECOND lived in troubled times. He had heard the mobs storming up White hall he had seen his father's head roll into a basket of sawdust, and he lived through the most terrible of wars, in which brother fought against brother. But when in 1666 he instituted the Newmarket Town Plate, to be run at noon on the second Thursday in October, he added for ever. This country is at ...

... Where the Police War Reserve Hold Their Own Middlesex Cricketers in the Force Entertain the Regulars THE Police War Reserve invited the Regular Police to Lord's last week for a game of cricket, which was rather cunning. The Regulars, quite naturally, can make rings round the Reserve on the beat, and they are no mean cricketers either, but the Middlesex County team and ground staff have gone ...

... Rapier's Good News We Shall Soon Go Racing Again Newmarket and Newbury Bright National Hunt Prospects A Visit to Lambourn THE racing news is even better than I had hoped it would be. It is, of course, news that there are to be two autumn meetings at Newmarket on October 18 and 19, and November 1 and 2, and two at Newbury on October 25 and 26, and November 15 and 16. The situation as regards ...

... How John Cobb beat the World's Record A Magnificent British Achievement Overshadowed by the War JOHN COBB, the British motor-driver, set up a new world's land- speed record of 350 miles an hour last year. This honour was short-lived, for a few days later Cap tain G. E. T. Eyston had achieved 357 miles an hour. Now Cobb is again the fastest man on earth, and his 36975 m.p.h. looks like remain ...

... On the Home mm Front UNDER your hat, have a practical hairdressing that can stand up to a helmet or a uniform peak. It is not so easy as it sounds, but Vasco, 16, Dover Street, has solved the problem with the short curls shown above under a forage-cap. The hair is, first of all, permanently waved by a new wireless process. It can then be combed out or arranged in Bubbles curls all over the ...

... Women and War On and Off Duty BETTY DIX-PERKIN, who was a V.A.D. in Byfleet's special hospital for evacuees, is now taking a W.R.A.F. training. Her golf this year has been a fine tribute to Cox's coaching. MOLLY GOURLAY, an ex-F.A.N.Y., won the Swedish golf championship in August. How she is working with the Women's Transport at Aldershot, with the rank of quartermaster-sergeant. CECILIA ...