THE TURF. 
of Tarporley, a very old hunt-meeting in Cheshire, now 
nearly abandoned ; and a Worcester autumn meeting, 
chiefly for hunters and horses of the gentlemen and 
farmers within the hunt. 
At Newmarket, though there were formerly six and 
eight mile races, there are now not more than four 
over the Beacon Course, or B. C. as it is called, which 
is four miles, in all the seven meetings. This is an 
improvement, not only on the score of humanity, but 
as far as regards sport, for horses seldom come in near 
to each other, after having run that course. Indeed, 
so much is the system of a four-mile heat disliked, 
that, when it does occur, the horses often walk the 
first two. Yet it sometimes happens otherwise, as in 
the case of Chateau-Margaux and Mortgage, in one of 
the meetings in 1826 ; but all who remember the 
struggle between those two noble animals the very 
best of their kind', perhaps never exceeded in stoutness, 
and the state in which they appeared at the conclusion, 
can only think of it with disgust. Chateau's dead heat 
with Lamplighter was something like a repetition of the 
scene ; but, to the honour of their owners, they were 
not suffered to run another, and the plate was divided 
between them. 
The Curragh of Kildare is said to be in some respects 
its equal, but nothing can be superior to Newmarket 
heath as a race-course. The nightly workings of the 
earth-worms keep it in that state of elasticity favourable 
to the action of the race-horse, and it is never known 
