Tiiii KAc'iNG sj:a.sun, I84y, 375 



THE RACING SEASON, 1849. 



The Racing Season of 1849 opened with brilliant prospects; 

 the various handicaps were well filled, the betting world in 

 a more healthy state, and several new and influential nanies 

 recorded in the Calendar; added to which, the mild winter 

 had kept the various stables in full employment. 



The opening meetings of the season are a mixture of 

 steeple-chasing and racing, we therefore cast them aside 

 and proceed to Northampton, where the first great handicap 

 of the season came ofi^, the Great Northamptonshire Stakes 

 (worth £1,225), for which nineteen started, won by Fernhill 

 cleverly by a length. The Produce Stakes was reduced to 

 a match between Glauca and Nina, won by the former by 

 three lengths. 



The Newmarket Craven Meeting supplied good sport, 

 but the weather was most wretched. Nina here won the 

 50 sovs. Sweepstakes easily ; as did Sobraon two 100 sovs. 

 Sweepstakes, and likewise carried off the Tuesday's Rid- 

 dlesworth. Canezou won her race, the Newmarket Handi- 

 cap, cleverly, giving Fernhill 25lb. and a beating, eleven 

 others started. Tadmor cantered oft' with the Column, and 

 Nunnykirk won easily by a length the 100 sovs. Sweep- 

 stakes with fifteen subs. 



Bath Meeting was held on a snow-swept course. Pyr- 

 rhus the First won the Lansdown Trial, beating Hotspur 

 by half a length, three others beaten off. The Weston 

 went to the Duke of Richmond, won in a canter by his 

 promising filly Ofticious. Essedarius obtained the iSoniei'- 

 set-^hiie hauuicap, ^or which iiiiic j^tuitcd, hy u length. 



