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Therefore have the Grand Stand Company, not unmindful 

 of the profits which arise from Club Stands, undertaken to 

 build one which shall include space for the Royal boxes, for the 

 Jockey Club and for a general body of some seven hundred 

 members, with refreshment-rooms, weighing-room, Messrs. 

 Weatherby's office, press-room, jockeys' dressing-rooms, &c. 

 partly on the site of the present Private Stand, but enlarging 

 its borders very considerably in the direction of the judge's 

 chair, on to the space in front of what has hitherto been known 

 as Barnard's stand. An annual payment of five guineas for old 

 members, with the addition of an entrance fee of a similar 

 amount for the new, will give the right of entree to all parts of 

 the stand, to all the rings, and to the paddock during the whole 

 of each meeting, and 1886 sees the inauguration, or rather the 

 re-introduction, for we believe it is not altogether a novelty, of 

 an autumn meeting. 



Election to the new Epsom Club rests, as heretofore for 

 the Private Stand, with the stewards of Epsom, i.e. the 

 Stewards of the Jockey Club for the time being, plus Lord 

 Rosebery. 



What the Derby is to Epsom, such is the St. Leger to Don- 

 caster ; but here there is less crowding, on the stands at least, 

 one or two of which have been erected by private subscription 

 amongst the county families. The general management of 

 affairs is in the hands of a Race Committee, which acquits 

 itself of the task much to its own, and fairly to its customers' 

 satisfaction. In addition to the Leger, the Champagne Stakes 

 for two-years, the Park Hill for three-year-old fillies, the Don- 

 caster Cup for all ages, and the great Yorkshire and Portland 

 Plate Handicaps are recognised as the principal features of the 

 meeting. 



Goodwood, popular resort as it is of all classes of race- 

 goers, differs from other turf gatherings in this respect, that it 

 is to all intents a private meeting. The course, the stands, the 

 whole mise en scene, belong in their entirety to the House of 

 Richmond, and it rests with the reigning representative of that 



