... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... By Ashley Courtenay IN adjusting our lives to the new conditions of war, we must bear in mind that French saying Autres temps, autres mœurs. No longer shall we be able to use our cars, except with a rigid eye to our allotted limits of petrol. No longer are we able to run out on winter's evenings to a bacon and egg supper at some wayside inn. Our excursions and diversions will, in consequence ...

... Rosslyn Park just b Hospital too st re -lequins Guys Catford Bridge A CHEERT RE UNION Rugby men in every sort of uniform met on the Old Deer Park last Saturday seme to watch an excellent game, and quite a number to shed their uniform ar take hart in it. Left KINDLY CRITIC Lt. Com mander P. K. Kemp, yachting authority and well-known writer on the Rugby game, was there to watch Rosslyn Park's ...

... AT Carntyne, Glasgow, last Saturday, Jackie Paterson delighted his home town supporters by knocking out Paddy Ryan, of Manchester, in the thirteenth of their scheduled fifteen-round contest for Lons dale flyweight belt. Paterson, who has had a remarkably quick rise to the top of the ladder, always seemed to have the fight safely in his keeping. A BAD MOMENT FOR PATERSON Paddy Ryan in the fifth ...

... LACK of petrol, lovely weather and the need for recreation and exercise have given the horse a new importance in our daily war time life. A number of horses have been purchased by the Army, but the position is nothing like it was in 1914, when there was wholesale requisitioning all over the country. The Institute of the Horse is to continue the examinations for instructors' certificates, and ...

... By A. Croxton Smith AS far as one can judge by personal observa tion, the scare that set in at the outbreak of war has not affected to any appreciable extent the number of dogs kept in ordinary households. In my own particular neighbour hood just outside London I have not come across any people who have had their dogs destroyed, though some of them, who had more than one, have given several ...