A Bay Mare, by Bay Middleton, out of Apollonia, with a filly foal by Chanticleer, and covered by him again..... Skulda, by Old England, out of Destiny, with a filly foal by Chanticleer, and covered by him again The Sheltie, by Irish Birdcatcher, dam by Bay Middleton.. A Yearling Filly, by The Cure, dam by Bay Middleton, out of Apollonia ......... THE PROPERTY OF CAPT. ARCHDALL. GS. 59 26 20 20 16 Mogulistan, by Venison, out of Muliana, covered by The Flying Dutchman.. 150 Margaret, by Margrave, out of sister to Memnon, covered by Chanticleer ... 100 Galaxy, sister to Planet, by Bay Middleton, with a filly foal by Chanticleer, and covered by him again 60 .... Ohio, by Jerry, out of Whizgig, with a filly foal by Chanticleer, and covered by Alabama, a brown yearling filly, by Van Tromp, out of Ohio, engaged in the 50 22 The sale was well attended, but nearly all the lots were bought in by a newly formed breeding company, who have taken the whole of the establishment of Mr. Thompson, at Fairfield, and recently purchased Hetman Platoff for a stallion. It is expected that Cossack and one or two other stallions will be added to the number. Pyrrhus the First has been bought to re-place The Libel at the Willesden Paddocks. By Mr. Robert Johnson, at York : Lucy Neale (the steeple chaser), by Sheet Anchor (Mr. Whitfield) A Brown Yearling Filly, by Van Tromp, out of Miss Martin, by Voltaire (Mr. .. A Bay Yearling Filly, by Touchstone, out of Lady Emily (Mr. Henderson) GS. 115 105 52 50 25 Mr. Martinson has sold Nancy to Mr. J. Brown for 1,000 gs., and Bell Tinker and Annie to Mr. Batson; Mr. J. Osborn, Lambton, to Mr. Merry, for 400 gs.; it is also reported that Mr. Osborn has disposed of his clipping filly, Exact, for 1,200 guineas, though she is not to be delivered until the close of the season. Hart, by Kremlin, knocked down by Messrs. Swann, of Cambridge, to Mr. Smith, of Warrington, for 278 gs. Captain Rowley has become the owner of Bordeaux, and the horse has left the Bedford stables. Lord Exeter has purchased the brood mare Pocahontas, the dam of Stockwell; and Lord Glasgow the Maid of Masham-the latter in foal to Irish Birdcatcher. Garforth and Sharavogue, claimed at Brighton, have gone into Rogers's stable; Gold Dust into Smith's; Apostate into Goodwin's; Rataplan and the yearling General Breeze into John Day's; the two-year-old by Annandale, out of Fair Jane, into Winteringham's, at Richmond. DECISION OF DISPUTED RACES.-The Hunters' Stake, at Lincoln Spring Meeting, in favour of Loddington, who was placed third; the Match at Beverley between Bell Tinker and Charming Woman declared off, the mare who came in first not having carried her proper weight, and Bell Tinker's stake having been paid with a dishonoured cheque. We have to record the death of Major Yarburgh, at an advanced age. The Major was long a supporter of the northern turf, and, in his time, possessed some very good horses, including the Leger winner, Charles XII. The stud-never a very extensive one generally received their education at the hands of John Scott. We have further to notice the death of Mr. R. Bell, of Bridlington, for many years a breeder of thorough-bred stock; as well as of Mr. T. Walter, the trainer, who drowned himself during a fit of insanity. Lord Jersey, the Master of the horse, has presented Nat with a whip, "in token of his lordship's admiration of the manner in which he rode Kingston for the Goodwood Cup." The whip, very handsomely mounted in silver, has the Middleton colours entwined round the handle. The Leger betting would now seem to make the race entirely be. tween Stockwell and Scott's pair, while the running of the month puts it as something like a question of health only for Lord Exeter's horse. A few recent precedents, however, induce the public to believe that the great northern stable may be, in reality, more formidable than it just now threatens. At any rate, despite the murmured illness of Songstress, and the shameful defeat of Daniel O'Rourke, both continue to be backed for a great deal of money, the party" and the world at large being equally ready to get on. Beyond these, Harbinger is the only other horse in the race at all fancied, two other well known and canvassed ones-Augur and King of Trumps, that looked a short time since very like coming again-being now completely out of it. The former, in fact, is scratched-so far back as the seventeenth, and, to make the record quite correct, between five and six in the afternoon." 66 The Derby betting-next-door to a dead-letter-quotes Orestes at 12 to 1, and makes him, by comparison, in good request. This may be accounted for from his having left Hertfordshire, and joined Scott's ranks. Cineas reaches 20 to 1. 1,000 to 30 has been taken about Brother to Shylock, while 20 to 1 may be had about The Reiver winning the Derby and the Champagne, or rather, by date, the Champagne and the Derby. These prices are taken from the Corner; but the close of the Goodwood week enables us further to mention Pharos and Elmsthorpe at 25 to 1 each, and The Friar at 30 to 1. The York averages give a thousand even between The Reiver and Orestes, the same between Cineas and Elmsthorpe, 25 to 1 each against Sittingbourne and Pharos, and 30 to 1 against West Australian. The Autumn Handicaps are scarcely forward enough to quote on, though Scarecrow, so far, looks like the fancy for the Cesarewitch. EMBELLISHMENTS. MARGARETTA. THE FINE OLD ENGLISH CRICKETERS BY C. B. RED DEER HUNTING IN THE NEW FOREST; OR, HALF-AN- HOUR WITH CAPTAIN WILLIAMS'S BLOOD-HOUNDS-BY THE AUTHOR OF SCENES AND SPORTS IN FOREIGN LANDS," "WILD SPORTS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA," &c. . 257 EXTRACTS FROM RABY'S NOTE-BOOK- -THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE UNSUCCESSFUL MAN; OR, PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF M. W. Last Quar., 6th day, at 36 min. past 10 morning. OCCURRENCES. 1 F Pheasant Shooting begins. 2 S Birkenhead Model Y. C. Match. s 5 3419 7 35 h. m. h. m. 3 45 4 0 4 10 4 25 7 25 8 0 845 9 35 7 T Southport Cour. M. Wrexham R.r 6 132411 18 8 F 9 S St. Benys. 10 Morning. s 5 21 25 Eighteenth Sunday af.Trinity.'s 5 1627 1 52 11 40 No tide 11 M Newmarket Second October M. r 6 2028 3 16 08035 12 T Cesarewitch Stakes Day. 13 W Northumberland Coursing M. r 6 23 N SETS. 14 T Coombes v. Cole Champ. from s 5 7 Nineteenth Sunday af. Trinityr 6 30 18 M Wiltshire Champion C. Meeting. 19 T Holywell Hunt Races. 22 F Lanark Races. 23 S Morning. 24 Twentieth Sunday af, Trinity,'s 4 4711 2 24 No tide 0 5 25 M Newmarket Houghton Meeting. 26 T Cambridgeshire Stakes Day. 27 W 28 T St. Simon and St. Jude. 31 S Twenty-first$und.aft.Trinityr 6 5418 6 35 3 45 4 () Ο RACES IN OCTOBER. Handsworth.......... 4 & 5 Newmarket..11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 | Down Royal 20 22 6 Curragh......12, 13, 14, & 15 Stretford ................................ 21 & 24 20 & 21 .... 18 Lytham.............20 & 21 ... 18 & 19 Champion .... 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, & 23 Thirsk .............. 26 & 27 26, 27, & 28 THE RACING IN SEPTEMBER, BY CRAVEN. "Difficile est proprie communia dicere...."-HORAT. It is the twentieth anniversary of my connexion with racing-in the capacity of a literary essayist, an office I accepted as one who enters upon a labour of love. For no sport of the modern world was ever more nobly "mounted" than the English Turf at the commencement of the nineteenth century. Good Stoic logic is in the philosophy which teaches us to "let by-gones be by-gones;" but it is a theory more easily propounded than practised. "The Pleasures of Memory," as Byron inscribed upon the page of Rogers, are for the few; not for the many. For the majority, retrospection is among "the worst of ills that wait on life." "And slight, withal, may be the things that bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling A flower, the wind, the ocean, which shall wound Striking the electric chain wherewith we're darkly bound." My fate is fashioned after the rule-not as an exception. I travel faster than Eclipse could "finish :" I dine for eighteen-pence at my club-better boarded and lodged than my progenitor was wont to be at his hotel for as many shillings. A railway levels all before it: a club elevates, both morally and materially-it even condescends to give the 'gent" a lift. Moses makes the gentleman-as manners did-at a discount, for cash, of ten thousand per cent. His service of garmentscomplete for three guineas-represents what used to be the result of the Grand Tour. Nevertheless I am not ashamed to write myself— laudator temporis acti. I like four horses better than coke, to my drag: I don't wish "home" to be as foreign to English liking as to the French language. I have a taste for rural villages rather than for "stations" in wood or red brick: I relish the breath of morn more than the odour of water-quenched cinders. For the traveller the poetry of motion is no more, and the picturesque but a passage of the past. His mission is like the electric message, which begins on Cornhill and finishes-simultaneously-at Cairo. His career has no intervals: from Dan to Beersheba all is barren—or, at least, consists of atmosphere, merely. For such as journey from Dover to London, Canterbury has as completely disappeared from the face of the earth as Catania or Carthage. What does the wayfarer now glean, in his progress, of the rural life of England (or any other), of her antique architecture, her sylvan scenery, her stately homes: her husbandry and husbandmen: her pleasant nooks and corners: her" pride, pomp, and circumstance" of woodland and champaign of hill and valley of lake and river? What comes of taking a sight," at a speed of seventy miles an hour, from 66 a point" on the Bridgewater Level, in a Great Western express train, for instance? A study of Uncle Tom's |