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chapters of accidents to which racing-, like all other mundane 

 matters, is subject ; for the Derby the two champions in its 

 southern namesake met to settle their quality : but the result 

 was that Sir Tatton Sykes and Little Jack Horner fell, and left 

 the triumph to Dolo. Bibury and Stockbridge Meetings 

 furnished nothing worth recording. 



The July Meeting at Newmarket felt the influence of 

 unseasonable weather. The July Stakes, booked as another 

 certainty to Cossack, gave the bookers another lesson, it was 

 won by Miami with ease. But the 91 bs. extra on Miami 

 told in the Chesterfield, as she was beaten by a neck by 

 Nerissa for it. 



The Liverpool Races felt sadly the lack of the sinews of 

 war and of peace — money. Liverpool might become one 

 of our principal places of sport ; its central situation giving 

 it an advantage possessed by few other places ; let them 

 only find money, and the other material will soon be forth- 

 coming. Mendicant was booked as a certainty for the Cup, 

 but proved another failure, she being not so quick as Light- 

 ning. Van Tromp here made his first appearance, winning 

 the Mersey Stakes for two year olds with perfect ease. 



Goodwood this year hardly came up to the mark of former 

 seasons. The Gratwicke — worth considerably over a couple 

 of thousands — was won by Joinville, who subsequently 

 broke down in the Drawing Room Stakes, won by Hum- 

 drum. Epirote, a rising favourite for the Derby, won the 

 Ham Stakes. Weatherbit put the 300 sovs. Sweepstakes 

 into his owner's purse. Van Tromp beat the Cobweb filly 

 by a head for the Lavant Stakes, a good field of two year 

 olds started. Jonathan Wild carried off the Goodwood 

 Stakes, handicap, from a field of twenty-one ; and Lady 

 Wildair the Stewards' Cup, Mathematician and the King 

 of Morven ran a dead heat for a Sweepstakes worth a cou- 

 ple of thousands, which the former won in a canter on the 



