sidering the succession of successful "pots" they have had to contend with, 'tis but a turn they well deserve. The best Merry Monarch man was Mr. Irwin, who got on his majesty by mistake, and could not get off again, despite a most disloyal attempt at it. The betting of the month, interrupted and small as it was, requires no comment beyond the plain statement of facts. Betting, since the declaration of acceptances for the Goodwood Stakes: 15-1 against Pine Apple, 17-1 Libel, 20-1 Nottingham, 20-1 Boarding School Miss, 20-1 Queen Mab, 20-1 John O'Gaunt, 20-1 Lightning, 25-1 Vates, 25-1 Milden, 20-1 Winesour, 20-1 Bob Peel ;-58 have accepted out of 133 nominations. Goodwood cup: 3-1 against Faugh-a-Ballagh, 5-1 Iron Master. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY PAWLEY. THE RACES AND REGATTAS OF JULY.-BY CRAVEN THE FIELD AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS.-BY AN OLD ENGLANDER TROLLING AND TRIMMERING.-BY CHARLES WILLOWDALE 79 83 85 ON THE GAME LAWS, SHOOTING, ETC.-BY CECIL ON TRAINING THE RACE-HORSE.-BY COTHERSTONE A FRAGMENT FROM A CREEL LEDGER EARLY RACING.-BY SARON NIMROD'S ANALYSIS OF THE DIARY OF A HUNTSMAN. 100 108 111 117 120 THOMAS SMITH, ESQ., LATE MASTER OF THE CRAVEN LITERATURE AND DEVONPORT (SPRING MEETING)-CHESTER-EAST SURREY (AT PECKHAM) - NEWMARKET SECOND 2m45 0 47 1 9 [Badge.s 7 4529 3 46 sets 7a39 r 4 21 2 8 0 1 29 1 50 210 2 28 2 45 3 1 3 18 3 33 1 3 8 21 3 48 4 2 4 8 43 4 19 4 35 5 9 8 4 52 5 11 9 35 5 31 5 49 1F BOAT RACE for Doggett's Coat &r 4 25 28 2 S Bridgnorth Fair. 3S Elebenth Sunday af. Trinity.r 4 28 N 4 M ROYAL VICTORIA REG. at Ryde. s 7 42 1 5 T NEWPORT RACES. 6 W BRIGHTON RACES. Ilsley Fair.s 7 38 7T Gent. of Kent v. Gent. of Eng.r 4 35 8F Ruthin Fair. [CRICKT. at CANT.S 7 35 9 S Isaac Walton born 1593. 10 Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.s 7 31 11 M LAM. AN. REG. WLVER. RACES. r 4 41 12 T Grouse Shoot beg. R. Y. S. REG. S 7 27 911 43 13 W WORCESTER REGATTA. r 4 44 10 morn. 9 2 9 44 14 T READING RACES. Banbury Fair. s 7 2311 0 4610 2611 11 15 F Worcester Fair. Oswestry Fair.r 4 4712 2 011 50 16 S Thetford Fair. s 7 1913 3 20 0 24 0 53 Thirteenth Sun. af. Trinity.r 4 50 14 18 M BROMS. RACES. RIPON RACES. 8 7 15 15 19 T NORWICH REG. St. Asaph Fair.r 4 53 16 20 W YORK RACES. DEV. & Ex. RACES. s 7 1117 8 5 21 T CRICK. M. C.C. v. Hants, atr 4 22 FTEIGN. REG. [Southampton. s 7 23 S Belford Fair. Wainfleet Fair.r 5 24 Fourteenth Sun. af. Trinity.s 7 25 M CRICK. M.C.C. Nor. C. at Not.r 5 26 T EGHAM RACES. PLY. REGATTA. S 6 27 W HER. RACES. New. Pagnell Fair.r 5 28 T STOCK. RACES. SALIS. RACES. s 6 29 F Watford Fair. Uckfield Fair. r 5 30 S Spalding Fair. 31 719 9 1 020 9 33 321 10 9 6 20 6 42 32210 53 7 3 7 31 59 2311 42 7 58 8 35 624 morn. 9 13 9 54 5425 0 37 10 33 11 13 926 1 3611 48 s 6 5027 2 40 0 16 0 44 Fifteenth Sunday af. Trinity.r 5 1328 3 45 1 4 1 24 Banbury RACES IN AUGUST. 5 Reading.. ..14 | Tunbridge Wells 5 Lewes............ .....13 or 14 Paisley.... Horwich....................................... 6 Ripon. .18 Stourbridge ....18 Egham. Brighton.... Aberystwith.... 6 Ashton and Staley bridge. .18 Hooley Hill .. Great Marlow........................................ в Bloxwich....................18 Huntingdon E gware........................................... 7 Barnet.... .........................................19 | Weymouth..........about 27 7 Marlborough ................19 Hereford Wolverhampton.............11 Hoy ake....................19 Tiverton ............. Hatcham Park..............11 York.. ...20 | Stockton Plymouth.........................................12 | Devon and Exeter. ..........20 | Stirling Boulogne.. ......12 Rochdale..................................... ..20 THE RACES AND REGATTAS OF JULY. BY CRAVEN. "The air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself MACBETH. As yet, all who affect the turf do not look upon horse-racing as a business, and the noble amusement of yachting is eminently one of those sports whose labour, as Shakspeare has it, "delight in them sets off." For those who regard our national pastimes and manly recreations in the spirit befitting them, the past was a pleasant month -for the most part rife with that healthful elixir which, as the Thane of Cawdor says, recommends itself unto our gentle senses;" and cheered by full many a jocund merry-making, albeit in sporting importance they might have stood "more for number than account." The first of its race meetings was the Newmarket July. This was, as usual, a melancholy and gentlemanlike affair, distinguished in no way from its predecessors, save by the attempt to move the economy of the turf a little in the direction of its quick march elsewhere. Woe is me! that so laudable an effort should not have been essayed towards a more worthy end. Why are the souls and imaginations of turfites leagued and confederated for the purpose of aggravating the facilities and contrivances for betting? The telegraph, for the first time set up on Newmarket heath three weeks ago, was one of those great encouragements of the ring for which the present epoch has a bad pre-eminence. It informed--or was meant to inform-the gentlemen of that circle what horses were weighed for, and, consequently, those likely to come to the post. The contrivance would work better were the ground somewhat darker; but, no doubt, all this will be better ordered anon. The July, or Middle Meeting, as it is called by the natives, is wholly divest of interest, save that attaching to the form of the twoyear-old stock which it brings out. The chief races between animals of that tender age are the July and Chesterfield Stakes. The former of these was won in a field of nine by one of Col. Peel's Slane fillies. The gallant officer is hard to beat at the two-year-old game. She is a fine slapping lass, and ought not to be lost sight of for the Oaksas a hedging investment at all events. Lord Chesterfield won the Stakes for which he stands godfather, with a most promising son of Jereed, hight Free Lance. He is one of his lordship's Derby halfscore, and not the worst of the lot, I should think, by a considerable deal. The three days were remarkable for the "turn" they gave the field'smen: out of nine races the favourites were beaten in six. Next in claim for notice in these pages was the Liverpool July Meeting, as it is called, probably to proclaim that the Autumn Meeting is no more. One hears it reproach fully said the gentry of the district are not prone to the turf; but really one cannot expect that taste to be uppermost among them. By situation they are naturally led to incline for the sea service, and the establishment of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club has latterly given great éclat to the sports of the wave. Still your Lancashire sportsman is fond of a race, anything hereinbefore said to the contrary notwithstanding; and although the Mersey sent a whole fleet of pleasure craft to Douglas Regatta, contemporary with the meeting on the tapis, there was a fair sprinkling of the neighbouring gentry on the course at Aintree. The first day--the 16th ult. (slow everywhere)-was far from fast here. The list was a fair average one, with but one event of any general interest, however, and that was the Mersey Stakes for two-year-olds. The winner was Luminary-a filly without any other engagement except for the Prince of Wales's Stakes at York, for which she will have to carry 2lbs. extra. Her victory over Princess Alice was a good trial, and it is to be regretted she is not more profitably engaged. Thursday-the Cup-day ("Coop" of the natives) brought a monstrous mob to the course, and withal the most respectable rabble that can be conceived. To be sure they did not demean themselves quite so orderly at the railway station when seeking to return to their homes in the evening. But the wine-or swipes-was in, and the wit (the trifle that ever did book itself for the inside) out. A horrid row they kicked up; and can we wonder at it? A thousand "Manchester men, "Bowton fellies" (Bolton fellows), and Bullock Smithy blackguards, pent up in a room sufficient for the scanty accommodation of five-and-twenty, and at the point of suffocation, bolted through the windows and were about proceeding to acts of violence, when the means of proceeding to the bosoms of their families were fortunately substituted for their choice. Had they pulled the building about the ears of the management, it would have been a just retribution. I saw a score of vinous villains force themselves into a carriage constructed for half-a-dozen, and already occupied by six young damsels. How many survived to come out I cannot say; but if the company took the young ladies' money (as, no doubt, they did) under a compact to accommodate them with a passage to somewhere or other, that it was obtaining money under false pretences is mathematically demonstrable: but to the sport. The Cup-day is so called after the Tradesman's Handicap for a piece of plate with which the tradespeople have nothing whatever to do, which is a fair sample of the lucus a non lucendo. From the commencement of the month it was the principal market race, with two prominent favourites always some clear lengths before anything else; these were Winesour and Trueboy. The former was backed freely at 3 to 1 on the Monday before the meeting; in some instances at 5 to 2. Is there nobody that wants money in these times? The echo of the Stock Exchange answers, "nobody;" and so might the coy nymph of the Corner, or would a horse ever be at 5 to 2 in fields mustering their scores? What pretty pickings the layers against the |