52 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



owners of race-horses would rather win than an\'^ 

 other race however richly it might be endowed, 

 was founded, in 1 771, by the Duke of Cumberland, 

 the subscription being limited to 5 gs. each. 



VI. 



The rise and progress of the Goodwood Meet- 

 ing may be briefly recorded. Like Ascot, it is 

 one of the fashionable gatherings of the season. 

 The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, on hos- 

 pitable thoughts intent, opens wide the doors 

 of his commodious mansion; but as he can only en- 

 tertain a limited number of his own personal friends, 

 the wonder is that the stands are so crowded with 

 spectators. The distance of Goodwood Park 

 from London is more than twice the distance of 

 Ascot, and yet as many persons seem to frequent 

 the one meeting as the other ; hundreds are con- 

 tributed from Brighton, Portsmouth, and other 

 towns, and hundreds go from and return to London 

 every day of the meeting. All the towns and 

 villages in the vicinity of Goodwood Park are 

 crowded by the strangers who have come to assist 

 at the meeting, Chichester, in particular, being the 

 abiding-place of a host of visitors. The houses 

 and cottages round about fill with lodgers, and 

 country seats are crowded with guests, all eager 

 to take part in the brilliant scene which, in fine 

 weather, is worth making a day's journey to see. 



The annual meeting in the Duke of Richmond's 

 park forms a fine theme for the pen of the de- 

 scriptive reporter, and has been "gushed" over, in 

 certain of the daily newspapers, in "a perfect 

 paroxysm of word-painting phrases " during 



