86 THE ENGLISH TURF 



From the above it will be seen that there are eleven races 

 of a mile and upwards, and sixteen of five and six furlongs. 

 Amongst the latter class are several overnight Selling Stakes, 

 and unfortunately selling races at Goodwood seem to fare 

 worse than at any other place. This no doubt is due to 

 the fact that the charges for stabling are very high, and that 

 the place is not easily reached. It is easy to imagine an 

 owner of a selling plater coming to the conclusion that there 

 is little use running his horse at Goodwood when he can do 

 so at half the cost elsewhere, and that " elsewhere " there 

 will probably be a much larger field, and consequently 

 a better price obtainable. Wherever a plater is run an 

 entrance fee and a jockey's fee have to be paid. The former 

 is usually ;^3, and the latter nominally £^ ^s. for a winning, 

 and i^3 ^s, for a losing mount. It is the fact, however, that 

 much higher fees are paid to the best jockeys, even in 

 Selling Plates, especially by those who make a study of the 

 game, and lay themselves out for Selling Plate coups. For 

 the sake of argument, however, let us suppose that the 

 owner pays the regulation jockey's fee only. In that case 

 his lowest liability for running in a Selling Plate is £6 3J"., 

 with an additional £2 2s. contingent upon his horse's 

 winning. Then if he elects to run at a modern enclosure 

 he may spend £2 more in railway fare for his horse and 

 stabling, and to give a fair margin he may incur a total 

 outlay of £\o. 



Now, at Goodwood stabling is scarce and dear, and from 

 £"] to £\o used to be the charge for a box a few years ago, 

 whether used for one night only or for the whole meeting. 

 The year that Philomel won the Cup for Colonel North that 

 gentleman's trainer was charged upwards of ^100 for the 

 expense of taking some six or seven horses to the meeting, 

 this being the amount of the bill tendered by an inhabitant 

 of the village of Charlton, who put up the trainer, his son, 

 the half-dozen horses, and their boys. On the same 

 occasion a Newmarket trainer brought two horses on the 

 Monday and sent them back on the Wednesday, he himself 

 staying on until the end of the meeting. For his own board 

 and lodging, for the two boxes, for forage, and for the boys 



