... Commoner, Baslii Bazonk ami three otlicis, c wound the year up sneccssfnlly at Richmond by winning by Stakes, a race named after his breeder, Mr. Jacques s why Abbey, in Yorkshire, having rim altogether seventeen n 1857, the handsome Yorkshire black ...

... or rear or either side, to follow, in such places as are open to the public, the course of a well-contested race, and to name, after a neck-and-neck straggle, the absolute winner, will acknowledge that such eye-witness is extremely delusive, ami will come ...

... known as Mrs. Stirling while scarcely half the ae we have known some ladies attain while still retaining their maiden name after marriage. We have thought this part of our sketch sufficiently forward to be able to go 011 from the point where we broke ...

... up hand-over hand in the final rush from the distance, and defeated Lord Derby's long deferred hopes of landing the race named after his House and wearing the Blue Riband of the Turf blended with that of the Premier of England in the same year. His Stockbridge ...

... Park Hurdle Plate, the racing on the second day at Eltham was even tamer than on the first but the struggle for the Plate named after Mr. Blenkiron's stud farm, made ample amends for all other short comings. Ten were weighed out, and soon the speculation ...

... may have been Lord Yarborough's connection with the turf, we fancy that the two-year-old race at Lincoln, which takes its name after the Hunt of which he was master, will form the chief connecting link between his hunting and racing proclivities. Among ...

... race for the Ascot Wednesday which should cast into the shade the ancient glories of its Stakes and take rank with those named after Royalty and the famous Gold Cup itself. Without incurring the imputation of invidiousness by pausing to particularise the ...

... winners. Ii eland has also recently lost a good sportsman in Mr. T. M. Naghten, owner of the celebrated Thomas- town (who was named after his seat in the county of Roscommon), The Youth, aud many other good performers across countrj- and on the flat. A jovial ...

... member of the Nightingull family appeared in the pigskin for the first time. The lad, who can ride a feather-weight, is named after his father, John Nightingall, and sported the colours of Mr. Ellerton on Rrossey, in the Great Welcomes Handicap. Packing-ton ...

... and pantomime like it has hits in it-- here's one. Annie is in Cole land and has won favour of the old Icing it has been named after, and having been bewildered by a deluge of comical questions from King Cole and his courtiers, says How can I answer so ...

... with the name of his Earldom in 1787. Lord Derby won it with Sir Peter Teazle, the rider being S. Arnould. The Oaks are named after the Villa of Lambert's Oaks, Lord Derby's racing resi dence at Banstead, Surrey. The Villa was anyhow of great repute, ...

... crows. One pleasing feature in Messrs. Weatlierbys' roll-call we note with pleasure, and that is the insertion of real names after assumed ones, so that another blow has been directed against the men with iron masks, who come and go so mysteriously, ...