xii CONTENTS 



CHAPTER III 

 ASCOT AND GOODWOOD 



Ascot the most important meeting of the year Star performers The course 

 The best and worst of it State of going Suggestions for improving 

 the run-in Analysis of programme The gradients The Cup Course 

 Old and new miles The stands badly placed Value of the stakes The 

 Goodwood Course Comparison with Newmarket Straight miles None 

 at Goodwood Date of fixture Low charges Two-year-old racing 

 Panorama from stands and paddock Birdless Grove Distance from 

 London Chichester Neighbouring villages Places available for visitors 

 to meeting Drive from London Cabs and vans Road from Chichester 

 Chain-horses Queen's Plate Course Cup Course Other courses used 

 Goodwood Programme Value of stakes Analysis of programme 

 Stabling dear Two trainers' bills for meeting Goodwood Cup Winners 

 thereof . ; " ." . - .'^ . Pages 63-87 



CHAPTER IV 

 EPSOM 



Importance of Epsom Size of crowd Derby winner as best of his year 

 Some recent winners Galtee More Persimmon Sir Visto Isinglass 

 Ladas Sir Hugo Common Sainfoin Ayrshire Donovan Jeddah 

 Flying Fox His pedigree and ancestors Performances Defeats and 

 victories Three-year-old career of Flying Fox The great sale at Kings- 

 clere Description of Flying Fox Prince of Wales' second Derby 

 Diamond Jubilee His singular two-year-old career Comes out an im- 

 proved three-year-old How he won the Guineas What happened on 

 the Newmarket Stakes day Race for the Derby Poor Forfarshire 

 Description of Epsom Course Scene on the hill National carnival 

 Epsom stands Advantage of horses sometimes running on steep gradients 

 Other Epsom courses The Metropolitan Course The Epsom pro- 

 gramme Value of stakes Two-year-old events The City and Suburban 

 Railway arrangements Special trains Charges . . Pages 8&-nS 



CHAPTER V 

 THE YORKSHIRE MEETINGS 



Yorkshire as a home of racing Old Yorkshire meetings Durham Races 

 Curious accident Scarborough Races Raid on the stands Yorkshire 

 owners Malton and Middleham Supply of horses South-country platers 

 at Northern meetings Lord Durham astonished Doncaster Races Run 

 by the Corporation Appearance of course St. Leger Course Cup Course 

 Spring Meeting Attendances at September Meeting Doncaster crowd 

 compared with that of Epsom Cheap transit to course Too much 

 butter-scotch Excursionists Yorkshire critics Northern opinion Don- 

 caster programme Distance of races Value of stakes York Races 

 Retrospective "Cross and jostle" Story of Archer and Snowden Dates 

 of meetings August fixture Its importance Ebor Handicap Some of its 

 winners. Luncheon to huntsmen John Osborne chaffed The jockey gets 

 the best of it Great Yorkshire Stakes St. Leger winners beaten therein 

 Tom Cannon's riding of Ossory The Gimcrack Stakes Gimcrack's 

 defeats Minor Yorkshire meetings Stockton and its programme Redcar 

 Races A capital course Proposal to alter fixture list Saltburn-on- 

 the-Sea and Redcar as health resorts Pontefract Beverley Ripon 

 Catterick Bridge The real Goodwood of the North . Pages 119-148 



