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Chapter III 



ASCOT AND GOODWOOD 



Ascot the most important meeting of the year — Star performers — The course 

 — The best and worst of it — State of going — Suggestions for improving 

 the run-in — Analysis of programme — The gradients — The Cup Course — 

 Old and new miles — The stands badly placed — Value of the stakes — The 

 Goodwood Course — Comparison with Newmarket — Straight miles — None 

 at Goodwood — Date of fixture — Low charges — Two-year-old racing — 

 Panorama from stands and paddock — Birdless Grove — Distance from 

 London — Chichester— Neighbouring villages — Places available for visitors 

 to meeting — Drive from London — Cabs and vans — Road from Chichester 

 — Chain-horses — Queen's Plate Course — Cup Course — Other courses used 



— Goodwood Programme — Value of stakes — Analysis of programme — 

 Stabling dear — Two trainers' bills for meeting — Goodwood Cup — Winners 

 thereof ...... Pages 63-87 



Chapter IV 



EPSOM 



Importance of Epsom — Size of crowd — Derby winner as best of his year 

 — Some recent winners — Galtee More — Persimmon — Sir Visto — Isinglass — 

 Ladas — Sir Hugo — Common — Sainfoin — Ayrshire—Donovan — ^Jeddah — 

 Flying Fox — His pedigree and ancestors — Performances — Defeats and 

 victories — Three-year-old career of Flying Fox — The great sale at Kings- 

 clere — Description of Flying Fox — Prince of Wales' second Derby — 

 Diamond Jubilee — His singular two-year-old career — Comes out an im- 

 proved three-year-old — How he won the Guineas — What happened on 

 the Newmarket Stakes day — Race for the Derby — -Poor Forfarshire — 

 Description of Epsom Course — Scene on the hill — National carnival — 

 Epsom stands — Advantage of horses sometimes running on steep gradients 



— Other Epsom courses — The Metropolitan Course — The Epsom pro- 

 gramme — Value of stakes — Two-year-old events — The City and Suburban 



— Railway arrangements — Special trains — Charges . . Pages %'i-\\% 



Chapter V 



THE YORKSHIRE MEETINGS 



Yorkshire as a home of racing — Old Yorkshire meetings — Durham Races — 

 Curious accident — Scarborough Races — Raid on the stands — Yorkshire 

 owners — Malton and Middleham — Supply of horses — South-country platers 

 at Northern meetings — Lord Durham astonished — Doncaster Races — Run 

 by the Corporation — Appearance of course — St. Leger Course — Cup Course 

 — Spring Meeting— Attendances at September Meeting — Doncaster crowd 

 compared with that of Epsom — Cheap transit to course — Too much 

 butter-scotch — Excursionists — Yorkshire critics — Northern opinion — Don- 

 caster programme — Distance of races — Value of stakes — York Races — 

 Retrospective — "Cross and jostle" — Story of Archer and Snowden — Dates 

 of meetings — August fixture — Its importance— -Ebor Handicap — Some of its 

 winners — Luncheon to huntsmen — John Osborne chaffed — The jockey gets 

 the best of it — Great Yorkshire Stakes — St. Leger winners beaten therein 

 — Tom Cannon's riding of Ossory — The Gimcrack Stakes — Gimcrack's 

 defeats — Minor Yorkshire meetings — Stockton and its programme — -Redcar 

 Races — A capital course — Proposal to alter fixture list — Saltburn-on- 

 the-Sea and Redcar as health resorts — Pontefract — Beverley — Ripon — 

 Catterick Bridge— The real Goodwood of the North . Pages \\(^\a^% 



