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hopes of fresh fares. The natural idea of anyone 

 attending for the first time is that there will be an 

 awful crush ; but such is the excellence of New- 

 market as a racecourse that there is none whatever, 

 and every one, either on foot or in the stand, can 

 see every race from start to finish, with the excep- 

 tion of those run on the Cesarewitch course, and 

 then no one can see the horses until they come 

 into the straight, with the exception of a bare sight 

 of the start, and a glimpse of them as they pass 

 the Gap, which may be caught by keen-eyed people 

 in the stand. It is really extraordinary to see how 

 the immense crowd that you behold coming seems 

 to dissipate, so that there does not appear to be 

 any very great multitude of people until the races 

 are over, and you turn home ; then you see how 

 enormous the numbers have been, there being a 

 complete block of people from the course right 

 through the town, and even up to the station. 



The stand is, as usual, divided into three por- 

 tions — one for members of the Jockey Club, the 

 second Tattersall's, and the third for the general 

 public ; the two last named are generally full, as 

 all the principal bookmakers assemble here. There 

 is comparative quiet until the numbers for the first 

 race are put up — the only noise to be remarked is 

 the voice of some bookmaker offering to bet on 



