Till' ll.U'IiNG .REASON, lJi4(i. 331 



THE EACING SEASON, 1846. 



The Racing Season of 1846 was one of the most brilliant 

 in the annals of the Turf. The exclusion of the black 

 sheep that had been enforced for the two or three preceding 

 seasons, and the accession of several new names of undoubted 

 promise, had produced their beneficial influence. The mild 

 and genial winter was likewise fully felt in the various 

 stables ; the horses being brought out in better condition 

 than they had been for years previously. 



The racing year commences with the Coventry Meeting, 

 but which, as well as Warwick, produced nothing to detain 

 us. At Epsom Spring Meeting the first opportunity was 

 given to the public of forming an opinion of the great im- 

 provements made by the new lessee, Mr Henry Dorling; 

 and they were viewed with general satisfaction. The Great 

 Metropolitan Handicap, a new race, brought together a large 

 field, won by Chamois. 



The Newmarket Craven was fashionably attended, and 

 favoured with fine weathei' and good sport. The Tuesday's 

 Riddlesworth went to Lord Exeter, who richly deserves 

 better' luck than he has met with lately, his Galata colt was 

 the winner. lago won his two races in gallant style, a 200 

 sovs. Sweepstakes, beating the winner of the Riddlesworth, 

 and the Column, thereby raising himself in the Derby 

 market. 



Bath goes on improving, and is rapidly gaining popu- 

 larity. Burlesque carried off the Trial Stakes, and Queen 

 of Tyne ran a dead heat with Lord Saltoun for the Somer- 

 setshire Stakes, and afterwards beat him. 



