SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



*' Well, Tom Sayers, how are you going ? " 

 I append the Cale7idar return of the race : 



THE WELTER HANDICAP. 

 Mr. Priestley's Tom Sayers, by King Tom, 3 yrs., lOst. 31b. 



_, ^ , G. Fordham 1 



Mr. Barber's Abron, aged, 11 8t. lib. . . . Palmer 2 



Mr. Dunne's Zora, 4 yrs., 12 st. (car. 12 st. 3 lb.) . Mr. Dixon 3 



Mr. Hodgman's Sheerness, 3 yrs., 9 St. 10 lb. . . Perry 4 



Mr.AngeirsAstarte,4yrs., lOst. 12 1b.. . . Mr. Edwards 5 



Evens on Tom Sayers. Won by three-quarters of a 

 length, a neck each between second, third, and fourth. 



Close on twenty years have sped their way since 

 the racehorse speeded along the Egham turf, the 

 meeting finding its termination in 1884. A better 

 track for the purposes of racing none could have 

 desired, but at times visitors possessed of portables 

 had reason for wishing they had left them at home. 

 One who on an occasion so wished was the late 

 Mr. James Weatherby, in the day of which I am 

 speaking head of the now world-famous Old Bur- 

 lington Street firm. Mr. Weatherby was a perfect 

 type of the "fine old English gentleman." He 

 could crack a joke or a bottle with the best, and 

 was fond of reciting in the morning the dishes of 

 the feast of the evening. 



Hodgy," he would say, " I did myself weU last 

 night— very well indeed." 



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