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... IN the course of five bleak days at Newmarket, some 720-odd thorough breds, chiefly brood mares and foals, were sold for approximately 575,000 gns. Purchases were made for breeders all over the world, some of whom were present in person. Bloodstock sales at Newmarket alone in 1945 have realised well over a million-and-a-half pounds. The future of the industry is brighter than ever before in ...

... By DECEMBER, a month of stock taking, has brought with it its customary end-of-season racing functions. These have in cluded, I am glad to note, the happy reunion of the Gimcrack Club, at which the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club, Sir Humphrey de Trafford, was able to give a fair account of the work done by himself and his colleagues during the difficult war period. He had an awkward balance ...

... BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday, Dec. 3. MEMBERS of all Parties will have many questions to ask the Minister of Agriculture when the House of Commons debates the Government's long term policy announced by Mr. Tom Williams on November 15. The statement was confined to the methods of providing a system of assured markets and guaranteed prices for the principal agricul ...

... Glorious Blooms And Choice Vegetables Reading By Our Horticultural Correspondent A TANGIBLE sign that peace has returned was the brave display of flowers at the recent horticultural show at the Town Hali, Reading. At many wartime shows it has been customary to include a few floral exhibits to encourage competitors who might otherwise have stayed away, but here, at last, were masses of glorious ...

... By A. CROXTON SMITH SOME day, perhaps, a man with more time than I have to spare will gather together the anec dotes about dogs that have led adven turous lives with the soldiers and other branches of the Services. They should make thrilling reading if related in the right manner. From the generals at the top down to the most modest ranker there have been dog-lovers who have taken their ...

... Readers searching our pages this week for j pictures of the latest tractors and the inevitable 1 Cattle Shows may reproach us for any levity they may find on this frontispiece or elsewhere. Yet who, at this season, would not dwell for a moment on memories of the Pin-up Girls of fifty years ago Our grandfathers read this paper from cover to cover, though Sporting and Dramatic' was classed by ...

... TWICKENHAM ROYAL INTEREST The Varsity Rugby match returns to Twickenham after seven long years, and the occasion is honoured by the presence of the King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth. With the Queen is Mr. J. P. London, of Oxford University, and on the Princess's left is Dr. Windsor Lewis, the old Cambridge Plue and Welsh International, who helps to identify the players. THE PERFECT SETTING ...

... Craftsman in Iron A Berkshire Blacksmith's Artistry at the Anvil WORKING at full pressure on horse-shoeing and the nor mal routine repairs inevitably piled on to the resourcefulness of the village smithy, that most versatile tradesman of the countryside the blacksmith has to make time if he wishes to keep in his hand at the highly-skilled ornamental work in wrought iron, of which innumerable ...

... RECIPE FOR A P I E 20 lb. butter, 4 geese, 2 turkeys, 2 rabbits, 2 curlews, 4 wild duck, etc. LATELY I have been talking with some of the old folks of these parts, willing enough raconteurs of the revels and festivities of their younger days, some 50 or more years ago. They have not failed to lay stress on the merriment that they con trived, perforce, to make for themselves when the only ...

... 1 I 0 to dream, 0 to awake and wander There, and with delight to take and render, Through the trance of silence, Quiet breath mS R. L. Stevenson I ,o W u> It WW K^:::^^roai' G^5is,° r^JJ- ,T;io iff.).^ foo-e 000^C- D^d pi* Inver;°>ySab^a- LOCH PYNF, nnrf the surrounding Argyllshire mountains. The car is being driven in the direction of Inveraray and Campbeltown. ,d i i i Aft EXQUISITE ...

... The Shoeing-Smith The Basic Principles of an Ancient Craft HORSES are certainly less numerous on the land than they were, but shops where they can be shod are scarcer still. The trouble is that horse shoeing in itself very rarely provides a full-time living. Records recently kept by ten of the leading farriers in the Home Counties show that the average for September was only seven horses a ...