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does not include the stud-horses, amongst 

 which are Rowlston and Tandem ; and in 

 the government establishment, in the Wood, 

 are Spectre, Cadland, and Sir Benjamin 

 Backbite, and Alterateur by Orville. 



The stud of Lord Henry Seymour con- 

 tains nine brood-mares, twelve one and 

 two-year-old colts and fillies, and fourteen 

 in training ; total thirty-five, exclusive of the 

 stud-horses, amongst which is Royal Oak, 

 purchased by his lordship for six hundred 

 guineas. Also, amongst the horses in 

 training, is Ibrahim, late the property of 

 the Earl of Jersey, winner of the last year's 

 second Riddlesworth stakes, the two thou- 

 sand guinea stakes, the Grand Duke Michael 

 stakes, as well as some other ' good things ' 

 at Newmarket, and once first favourite for 

 the Derby, which, however, he did not win. 



Racing in Germany is considerably on 

 the increase; fresh places for sport having 

 sprung up within the last four years, par- 

 ticularly Hamburg and Berlin, where two 

 thousand pounds of public money is given 

 to be run for. In short, throughout the 

 states of Mecklenburg and Holstein, as 

 well as, indeed, the whole of Germany and 



