CONTENTS 



Chapter I 



THE POSITION OF THE TURF 



The sport commanding attention — Press reports in increased demand — 

 Sporting papers — Reporting races — Starting prices — Telegraphing — In- 

 creased number of owners — Demand for yearlings — American importations 

 — Mr. Haggin's consignment — English breeders — Too many short races — 

 Sprinters — The late Duke of Westminster and the sale of Ormonde — 

 Austrian and German buyers of blood-stock — Roaring— Unsoundness — 

 Soundness of Colonial horses — Merman — Newhaven H. — Breeding of 

 Colonial and American horses — Duke of Portland and Carbine — Stamina 

 of foreign-bred horses — Horse of the century — Experts differ — St. Simon 

 and Ormonde — The time test — Grand National times, Manifesto and 

 Cloister — Derby times — Sires put to stud too young — Sire fees — Owners 

 of present day — Millionaires — Professional owners . . Pages 1-23 



Chapter II 



NEWMARKET 



Former meetings now defunct — Changes caused by railway system — Cathedral 

 town fixtures — Number of horses in training — Comparison with former 

 years — Newmarket — Description thereof — Exorbitant charges — " Hang the 

 good gallop" — G.E. Railway specials — Advice to visitors — Cost of potatoes 

 and walking-stick — Countryman visiting London — Londoner visiting Don- 

 caster — Discomforts of country meetings — A hotel experience — Generosity 

 of bookmakers — Newmarket training grounds before breakfast — Road from 

 London to Newmarket — Six Mile Bottom — The " Ditch " — View obtainable 

 therefrom — The racecourse — The stands — The town — Runaway brougham — 

 The "Severals" — Bury Hills — Limekilns — Watching the morning work — 

 "Courses for horses" — Number of meetings held — Craven Meeting — Good 

 and bad years of certain stables — The travelling tout who wished to be 

 cremated — First Spring Meeting — Second Spring Meeting — Newmarket 

 Stakes — First July Meeting — Princess of Wales' Stakes — Second July — 

 First October — Two best meetings of the year — Second October Meeting 

 — The chief prizes — Houghton Meeting — Description of courses — Beacon 

 Course dissected — Turn of the Lands — A.F. — Rowley Mile — Big days — 

 The July Course — Suitable for long-distance races — Newmarket pro- 

 grammes analysed — Five-furlong racing — Disadvantages of — Stewards of 

 the Jockey Club — Setting their house in order . . Pages Zi^-dz 



