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Kempton, Hurst Park, Gatwick, and Lingfield, between 

 Ascot and Goodwood, and such races as the Eclipse Stakes 

 and Princess of Wales' Stakes are decided at some of these 

 meetings. Sandown has its two biggest meetings of the 

 year in June and July, the first in the week following Ascot, 

 and the second generally only ten days before Goodwood ; 

 and at Liverpool and other places further away the money 

 value of the stakes has been much increased. It therefore 

 results that not so many of the best -class horses are 

 kept for Goodwood as was formerly the case, and, all 

 things considered, it is wonderful that the meeting main- 

 tains its place so well as it does. 



But one would like to see Goodwood right at the top 

 of the tree again, and I have often thought that the revenue 

 might be considerably increased without causing the attend- 

 ance to be any less than it now is. The charge for admission 

 to the lawn (in which enclosure the Grand Stand is situated) 

 might be doubled and another enclosure added, with a 

 cheap entrance fee which latter would probably draw off 

 a large section of the undesirable visitors who have been 

 conspicuous on the lawn. It is the fact that the place 

 obtained a very unenviable notoriety on the ground that 

 bad characters were allowed admission to the enclosure, but 

 the ruling powers of the meeting are now well aware of 

 what has been going on, and a better permanent state of 

 affairs exists. 



In many ways Goodwood is the most enjoyable meeting 

 of the year. As far as the position of the course goes, and 

 the views discernible therefrom, it is absolutely unrivalled, 

 and from a picnic point of view it has an even greater 

 popularity than Ascot. The two-year-old racing is generally 

 about the most attractive of the year, and if the high 

 standard of the Berkshire Meeting is not maintained 

 throughout, the tit-bits of the Goodwood programme generally 

 draw upon the ranks of the best horses in training, and 

 somehow or other the place is celebrated for close finishes. 



The course lies high on the hills, nearly six miles north- 

 west of Chichester, and about 700 feet above sea-level. 

 Looking to the north, the view travels over miles upon 



