THE TURF. 
guineas, two cups, and several plates and stakes. The 
Duke of Buccleugh gives a whip to be run for ; but his 
grace confines his sporting propensities to the amuse- 
ments of flood and field. There are also races at Cupar, 
Dumfries, and Edinburgh where his majesty gives a 
plate, and the Duke of Buccleugh fifty pounds, as well 
as a gold cup by subscription and also at Kelso, where 
there is a stakes, called the Oats stakes, to which each 
subscriber contributes five bolls : Dr. Johnson would 
have pronounced this to have been perfectly charac- 
teristic. 
After the example of England, racing is making 
considerable progress in various parts of the world. In 
the East Indies there are regular meetings in the three 
different presidencies, and there is also the Bengal 
Jockey Club. In the United States, breeding and 
running-horses are advancing with rapid strides ; and 
the grand match at New York, between Henry and 
Eclipse, afforded a specimen of the immense interest 
attached to similar events.* In Germany we find three 
regular places of sport, viz., Gustrow, Dobboran, and 
New Brandenburg; and the Duke of Holstein-Augus- 
tenburg has established a very promising one in his 
country. His serene highness and his brother Prince 
Frederick have each a large stud of horses, from blood 
* There are two " Sporting Magazines" now published in America, one 
at Stockholm and Paris, and one in the East Indies (called the " Oriental 
Sporting Magazine"). A king's plate is also now given by William IV., of 
England, to be rnn over the Three Rivers course, in Canada. 
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