THE TURF. 
Warwick, Manchester, Liverpool, Cheltenham, Bath, 
and Wolverhampton are now among our principal 
country race-meetings, and all of these have wonder- 
fully increased within the last few years ; particularly 
Liverpool a very young meeting, but which bids fair 
to catch the forfeited honours of Doncaster. Stock- 
bridge also is now in repute, owing to the Bibury 
Club being held there a renewal of the Burford 
Meeting, one of the oldest in England. Bath and 
Liverpool have races twice in the year, and the valuable 
produce stakes which all these young meetings have 
instituted are likely to ensure their continuance ; as to 
the ever princely-hearted Liverpool, at all events, there 
can be little fear. Speaking generally, however, nothing 
fluctuates more than the scene of country racing. 
Newton, in Lancashire, still keeps its place ; but 
Knutsford and Preston decline ; and Oxford, once so 
good, we may consider gone. At the latter place, 
indeed, it has been Dilly, Sadler, and Day then Day, 
Sadler, and Dilly winning everything till country 
gentlemen became tired of the changes being rung 
upon them. 
It was high time that a change, to a certain extent, 
should be made in country racing but in some respects 
it has gone too far we allude to the value of the prizes. 
A hundred years ago, breeding and training of race- 
horses costing comparatively little, running for fifty- 
pound plates might have paid. Eclipse, indeed, was 
nothing but a plate-horse, having, in all his running, 
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