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course the drive is a long one, and when the Brighton 

 trains stop at Worthing it is often difficult to find a seat. 

 Arundel, Midhurst, and Petworth are within driving distance 

 of Goodwood, but the roads are hilly, and should one decide 

 to stay at any one of the places named, it would be as well 

 to have arrangenients for a carriage completed beforehand. 

 Some years ago the writer drove down from town, stayed 

 in Chichester for the meeting, and drove back again on the 

 Saturday and Sunday, This plan can be recommended for 

 anyone fond of driving, for the route lies through some of 

 the prettiest scenery in the Southern Counties, and the roads, 

 though hilly, are very good. On the occasion referred to 

 the old Portsmouth road, through Esher, Ripley, and Guild- 

 ford, was taken as far as Godalming. Then a divergence 

 to the east was made, and the journey broken at Haslemere, 

 where the night was spent. The second day's drive was 

 through woodland scenes of great beauty to Midhurst, 

 and from thence through Singleton and West Dean to 

 Chichester. On the return journey the road to Petersfield, 

 by way of Up Park — where there used to be racing a 

 hundred years ago — was chosen and Liphook made the 

 stopping-place for the night. From Liphook over Hind 

 Head, and by the Devil's Punch Bowl the views are mag- 

 nificent, and one can either travel to London by Farnham, 

 Bagshot, and Virginia Water, or join the Guildford road 

 near Godalming. A third route is by Dorking, Horsham, 

 and Arundel, and this also is a good road, and less hilly 

 than the others, but not quite so well off for scenery. 



If it can be managed comfortably, undoubtedly Goodwood 

 is best done from a cottage near the course, from which 

 one can see the morning gallops, and enjoy the beautiful 

 scenery before and after racing. Such cottages are not 

 very numerous, but some on the Goodwood estate are 

 available, and the prices demanded are nothing like so 

 ruinous as would be asked for similar accommodation at 

 Ascot. Living in one of those one can avoid the long and 

 dusty drives to and from Chichester, and be independent 

 of trains and waits ; but if the cottage be more than a 

 couple of miles from the course it is as well to take a pony 



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