3i6 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



handicaps as the Cesarewltch, Cambridgeshire, 

 and other struggles of the turf. 



As has been hinted, the future of horse-racing 

 (■'the turf") is in some degree Hkely to take 

 shape from the new departure in the form of gate- 

 money meetings, as developed at Manchester, 

 Kempton, Sandown, and other places. The joint- 

 stock companies who usually inaugurate gate- 

 money races can afford to offer immense induce- 

 ments to the owners of the best horses to run 

 them on their grounds; when the "added 

 money ' (?) to a handicap amounts to four or 

 five or say even two thousand pounds, it is only 

 reasonable to suppose that the owners of race- 

 horses will compete for such prizes. It is shown 

 on another page that to keep a stud of race- 

 horses is an expensive amusement, and as few 

 men are able to do so without looking for some 

 return by which to lighten their heavy training 

 bills, they are more likely to find what they 

 want at the kind of meetings now so much in 

 favour than at smaller gatherings held every now 

 and then in different and distant parts of the 

 country, where, although the stakes are much 

 poorer, the expenses are quite as high, or even 

 higher, than at Kempton, Sandown, Derby, 

 Manchester, or Leicester. 



It is thought by some persons well versed in 

 turf affairs that the success attending gate 

 meetings will lead to each company increasing 

 their number, if they be permitted to do so, in 

 the course of the year. The Jockey Club can, in 

 some degree (and the greater the degree the 

 better), regulate the "quality" of sport; but the 

 stewards find it a work of difticultv to limit the 



