4 HUNTING AND SPOBTING NOTES. 



Feniey Hall opening Meet. The United are by all 

 accoiinis in good form, and shall not be forgotten 

 hereafter. 



Shrewsbury Races will engross attention this w'eek, and 

 intending visitors to them will be struct with the new 

 broom that has been at work there The Racecourse 

 Company have indeed not been idle, and I think it will be 

 universally admitted that their expenditure has been 

 judicious. To prophesy is dangerous, and yet I cannot 

 but prognosticate success, so ample are the capabilities of 

 the ground, and so willing are its new proprietors 'Jio 

 develop them. 



SECOND WEEK, November 2nd to 7th. 



Not all the foresight or new brooms can ensure fine- 

 days in November, and so the directors and managers of 

 Shrewsbury Racecourse Company had to contend with 

 alternate sunshine and storm of no ordinary kind on 

 Thursday. It was pitiable to see the poor little jockey 

 boys at the post for the Bradford Nursery in a blinding 

 hailstorm. The ladies of Shropshire, however, showed 

 splendid pluck, for they were there, notwithstanding the 

 elements ; and if youth, beauty, birth, and munificence 

 were not well represented on the Stewards' Stand 

 Borderer's judgment must have been greatly at fault. 

 Hospitality, too, seemed boundless ; for no less than 250 

 dined at one table, in relays. The officers of the 

 vShropshire Regiment came out right loyally, and so did 

 Leaton, Berwick, Chirk Castle, and Acton Reynald. 

 Unfortunately, Thursday's Steeplechase did not fill, and 

 so the new course had to wait another day before being 

 christened. Boundary, Mirth, Cohort, and Caradoc 

 were names appropriate and of good omen among. 

 Thursday's winners ; w-hile, on Friday, one of our oldest 

 and best patrons of sport in all its branches, the Duke of 

 Beaufort, w^on the Cup with the Eastern Emperor, in a 

 grandly run race. Many a knowing one's head shook 

 ominously when Eastern Emperor was not started for the 

 Shropshire HandicaxD, and kept for the Cup instead, 



