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Fifty Pounds given by the Caledonian Hunt, for 

 all ages ; two mile-heats. 



Two yrs. old Stakes of 25 sovs. each ; 10 ft. ; 

 with 50 added by the Western Meeting ; colts, 8st. 

 31b. ; fillies, 8st. ; three quarters of a mile. 



Fifty Pounds given by the Caledonian Hunt, for 

 all ages ; the winner to be sold for 200 gs. ; one- 

 mile heats. 



Harrier Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for horses not 

 thorough-bred ; 13st. heats ; once round and a 

 distance. 



Dumfries. — Seventy-one miles from Edinburgh, 

 79 from Glasgow, and 341 from London. 



Fifty Pounds given by the Southern Meeting, 

 for horses of all ages ; heats one mile and a 

 half. 



Gold Cup, value 100 sovs., by subscribers of 

 10 sovs. each, the surplus in specie i two miles. 



Fifty Pounds given by his Grace the Duke of 

 Buccleugh, for all ages ; tw^o miles. 



Fifty Pounds given by the Southern Meeting, for 

 horses of all ages. 



Edinburgh. — The capital of Scotland ; 57 miles 

 from Berwick-upon-Tweed, 100 from Carlisle, 71 

 from Dumfries, 76 from Ayr, and 392 from London. 

 In the Gazetteer of Scotland, by Robert Chambers, 

 we find the following, in reference to these races : 

 ** For a long period, Leith was famed for its horse 

 races. They were held during the recess of the 

 tide, upon a flat expanse of sand, in front of the 



