RACE COURSES 163 



Gosforth Park, and Birmingham has lately started a 

 course marked by special advantages. There is here 

 a straight mile and a quarter, straight actually, not 

 only nominally, and an excellent view of the sport can 

 be had from the stands, the architects having under- 

 stood at what angle to the running ground they should 

 be built. Leicester has a very good course, and the 

 meeting has lately attained a degree of popularity 

 which was for some time denied it. There is here, 

 however, a rather steep descent into a hollow and a 

 trying ascent out of it before the level run in is reached. 

 The season always opens at Lincoln, and one of the 

 last meetings is also held there. The course is 

 (nominally) circular, i mile 6 furlongs 6 yards. The 

 T.Y.C. is about 5 furlongs, to suit the young horses in 

 their earliest public essays. 



