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Goodwood and Jockey Club Cups ; and though I have no 

 wish to hear of those races being done away with, I am 

 nevertheless of opinion that, except in a few particular 

 cases, long handicaps of good value afford better sport than 

 weight-for-age events over a two-mile course. I would also 

 increase the distance of some of the selling races, and let 

 the platers run a mile and a half, and two miles, instead 

 of five and six furlongs, and I should be much inclined to 

 increase the distance of such valuable prizes as the Eclipse 

 Stakes and the two ten -thousand -pounders which are 

 decided at Newmarket in July and September. 



