SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



Mr. F. Fisher's New Brighton. 6 yrs., 6 st. 4 lb. 

 Mr. Rigby's Imogene. 4 yrs., 6 st. 4 lb. . 

 Mr. Parker's Aldford. 6 yrs., 6 st. (car. G st. 3 lb.) . 

 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Mishap. 5 yrs., G st. . 



Mr. T. Parr's Fatalist. 4 yrs., 6 st 



Mr. E. Parr's Stork. 3 yrs., 5 st. G lb. 

 Mr. Sidebottom's Aleppo. .^ yrs., 5 st. 5 lb. 

 Mr. Ridley's Hospitality. 3 yrs., 5 st. 3 lb. (inc. 5 lb. 

 extra) ........ .^ 



Mr. Morris' Bubble. 3 jts., 4 st. G lb. (car. 4 st. 10 lb.) 

 Mr. J. Wood's Yine. 3 jts., 4 st. 7 lb. (car. 4 st. 10 lb.) 

 Sir T. Hawley's Redan. 3 }ts., 4 st. 7 lb. . 

 Mr. T. W. Redhead's Van Dunck. 3 yrs., 4 st. 6 lb. . J, 



Hughes 



Quinton 



Alder 



Creswell 



Carroll 



Snowden 



Taylor 



Bullock 



Grimmer 



Britton 



Dwyer 



Snowden 



Mr. Osbaldeston's Rifleman. 4 yrs., 8 st. 7 lb. . Bartholomew 



Mr. E. R. Clark's Mr. Sykes. 6 yrs., 8 st. 2 lb. . . F. Marson 



Mr. Howard's Scythian. 5 yrs., 7 st. 12 lb. . . Wells 



Bai-on Rothschild's Hungerford. Aged, 7 st. 101b. . Charlton 



Mr. Copperthwaite's The Early Bii'd. 5 yrs., 7 st. 10 lb. Aldcroft 



Captain Lane's Epaminondas. 5 yrs., 7 st. 2 lb. . G. Mann 



Won by a head ; a head between the second and third ; two lengths 

 between the third and fourth. 



Of the thirty runners above enumerated twenty- 

 three carried less than 7 st. 



If these considerations do not cause dissatisfaction 

 with the present returns then indeed is one as the 

 voice crying in the wilderness. Of late years the 

 apparently easiest way — the way of raising the 

 weights to suit the jockeys, instead of "raising" 

 the jockeys to suit the weights — has been the 

 popular ; and we are now realising that the chosen 

 was the hardest way, as is not of infrequent oc- 

 currence in politics and letters as well as on the 



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