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each other much ; at the same time I think that the 

 granting of this date to Kempton was hard lines on Redcar, 

 which is the older meeting. Besides this, the Kempton 

 Meeting has modelled its August programme on the 

 Redcar lines. Thus Redcar has the Great National 

 Breeders' Foal Plate for three-year-olds and the Redcar 

 Two-Year-Old Stakes of ;^500, while Kempton has followed 

 with the International Breeders' Stakes for two-year-olds 

 and the City of London Foal Stakes for three-year-olds. 

 It is invariably the case that many horses are engaged at 

 both places, and if they happen to be trained in the South 

 the temptation to run at Kempton Park in preference to 

 Redcar is of course very great. 



After the conclusion of the Sussex fortnight until the 

 end of the Doncaster week all the best racing, save one 

 meeting at Derby, is held in Yorkshire, and as there is 

 a general outcry to the effect that there are too many 

 meetings in the course of the year, here is a chance for 

 the Stewards of the Jockey Club. They can decline to 

 allow any meetings to be held at the Metropolitan enclosures 

 between the end of the Sussex fortnight and the end of the 

 Doncaster week. Such action would be for the general 

 benefit. Only two two -day meetings of any importance 

 would go, viz. Kempton August and Sandown September. 

 Redcar might have an additional day, and more horses 

 would be reserved, not only for this meeting, but for 

 Stockton, York, and even Doncaster as well. Everyone 

 who attends the two South-country meetings referred to 

 must know that they only fill up half vacant dates, that 

 there is no attendance of the magnates of the racing world, 

 and that a very large majority of the club members and 

 others are away. At Redcar, Stockton, and York, on the 

 other hand, there is all the horse-loving Yorkshire crowd 

 to draw upon, and, what is more, scores of professional 

 racing men — owners, trainers, bookmakers, and what not 

 — come North for Redcar, and stay in the North until 

 after York is over. 



After the heat that, in most years, is experienced at 

 Goodwood, Brighton, and Lewes, the ozone of the German 



