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Mr Fddlcstonc’s bk w d Success, beat Mr. Jenner’s bk d Juan. 
Mr Brown'* bk b Bessv (iiwun, beat Mr Seoretun’# bk b Shame, 
Mr Long's r b Lucy Loveless, beat Sir J. Boswell’s f b Caledonia. 
Sccosd Tiss. 
Success beat Bessy Gregson I Skirmisher bent Minerva 
Jalni) beat Deborah I Croxteth best Lucy Loveless 
u Third Ties. 
CroxteiU bent Skinuishor | Success beat Jalap 
Deciding Cot ii*f. 
Mr I ddlestone’s Success, by Senate out of Tiny Trip, beat Mr. Cooks 
’ Croxteth. by Forward out of Jessamine, and won the stakes. 
Thk Bulfoiw Stakrs. 
Mr. Sccretan’s bd h Simplicity, bent Mr. Hope’s f d Herdsman, 
Mr. bandfU’s r b Hustle, beat Mr. Jnrdlnc’s f <1 Mynheer (lato Flying 
Dutchman). . . 
Sir t Boswell’* f b Testatrix, bent Mr Secrctnn’s be b Slut. 
Mr. lteudnU’s bk d P.abbl, beat Mr. Lawrence's fb Ladybird 
Mr. Dobedc’s bk b Dnmietta. beat Cnpt. Wyndbam’s bo b W tags. 
Mr. Ktwall's bk Ethiopia, boat Mr. Drown s r b Birdseye, 
Mr. Brown’s bk b Bedlam Fury beat Mr. Cooke’s wr b. sunflower 
Mr. Tottcridgo’s bd b Little Savage, bent Mr. JordJno’s bk b Mortality 
(lato Doom), 
Second Tim. 
Rabbi beat, Pamletta | Iicdlom Fury beat, Rustlc(l) dr 
Little Savage beat, Simplicity | Fthiopla bent. Testatrix 
Third Tuts. 
Little Savage rnn a byo I Ethiopia beat. Bedlam Fury 
Rabbi Ur ^ I ,, 
DeoidIno COURSE. 
Mr. Ktwall’s Ethiopia by Egypt out of F.stclla, and, Sir. Totterldge’s 
Little Savage by Vrnve Foye, divided the stakes. 
Tiib Bbigmbuston Stakes. 
Mr. .TarOInc’af b Mixture (late Souchong), beat Mr. Miller’s bob 
Mr. King” bik b Rosaline, beat Cnpt. Wyndbam’* bk il Morcury. 
Deciding Cotmsr.. 
Mr Jnrdlne’s Mixture bv Nevlllo out of Bohea, bent, Mr. King’s 
‘ Rosaline by Dormlt out of Regina, and won tho stakes, 
Tub WiNTBttnouNB Stakes. 
Mr Miller’s bk w b Merry Lady, beat Mr. Williams’s r b Thought. 
Mr. Jones’s bk b Joslousy. beat Mr. Jardlnc’s bk t d Moph. 
Deciding Course. 
Mr. Jones's Jealousy beat, Mr. Miller’s Merry .Lady, and won tho 
stakes. ^ _ 
Tint DmniNOTON Stakes. 
Mr Dobede’s bkb Dormouse, beat, Mr. Lodcr's be d Lucky Star. 
Mr. Jordinc's bk b Mathematics ran n bye— Lord Sefton's bk b Sylph 
drawn _ 
Deciding Course. 
Mr. .Tardine’s Mathematics beat Mr. Dobede's Dormouse, and won 
the italics . 
Matchbs. 
Mr. Kendall** bk b Risk beat Mr. Plant's bk b Falsa Girl 
Mr Plant’s ns w f b Vanish beat Mr. RendaH's bk b Raven 
The Championship. 
The deciding match for 50/., and The Championship, was run ott 
Saturday afternoon, and was won, after an undecided course, by Mr. 
Jenner’s r b Impatient (tho winner of the Stonehenge Stakes), S, beat. 
Ing Mr Randall's fw b Rival (the winner of the Druid Stakes), N. 
A return “ contest ” will take place at Lytlium. 
CAUSEWAY HOUSE, BAR ROCK, (CUMBERLAND). 
Feduuaky 8. 
Judge Mr. Swan. Slipper Mr. Knox. 
The Causeway Housh Stakes. 
Mr. Lowthlon'a w and f d President beat Mr. R Nicholson's bd d Lady 
Mr. J Nicbol's w and f d RavenhlU beat Mr. Josoph Coate's f and w b 
Jennie Deans .... , , . . 
Mr. Thomas Coate's w und f d Velox heat Mr. Hlndson s f and w b 
Annie Lnurlo 
Mr Millburn’s bk and w d Harlequin beat Mr. Cowen * 
Mr. 1 Thomlinsou’s bd w d Minstrel Boy beat Mr. J. Beaty's f d Foro- 
Mr. j! Waugh’* f and w d Top Goes the Weasel beat Mr.W. Lancaster's 
f and w h Little Bessie 
Mr. Bowman’s f and w d Cambeck Lad beat Mr. Walker’s bd d Gleu- 
Mr. Berney’s bk b Willing Maid beat Mr. Joseph Brough's rb Lady of 
the Lake 
Second Ties. 
RavenhlU bent President I Pop Goes tho W easel boat 
Harlequin beat Velox | Miustiel Boy 
Willing Maid beat Cambeck Lad 
Third Tuts. 
Ravcnhlll beat Harlequin I Willing Maid beat Pop 
| Goes the Weasel 
Deciding Course. 
Mr. J. Nichols's P.arcnhill, by Cardinal Wiseman, ont of the Widow, 
beat Mr. Hlrney's Willing Maid, by Liddlvsdale, out of Mr. Bilney's 
Willing Maid, and won the stake. 
CounsiNO at Hardwick. — On Monday last, Mr. Bokcr, o 
Hardwick Court, near Gloucester, ngoin threw open his manor to 
the public. At twelve o’clock the sport commenced, ami there 
were present o great many admirers of the sport, and hangers-on. 
The hnros were plentiful und strong for the time of year, and 
tho sport excellent. Mr. Lukcr. ns usual, sent out luncheon for all 
who were inclined to partake of it, ami it may bo imagined these 
were not few. Mr. lleckett, the father of coursing in Gloucester- 
ahirc, was present, nnd his dogs ran well. A few trilling 
accidents occurred to gentlemen who, not being used to fencing, 
put equally inexporicnced horses at small jumps, and now and 
then came down. One horseman, n custom-liouso officer, wo# 
thrown off his steed into u wet ditch, nnd miserably be- 
mudded, to the great amusement of the lookers-on. Alter 
the termination of tho sport, many of tho company dined nt tho 
Pilot, nt Ilurdwick. Such nn example os Mr. Baker shows to 
his brother landowners, we should like to see followed. Not only 
does he allow bis field to bo invaded by a host of people of nil 
Boris, and bis bares to be killed nnd taken away, but ho absolutely 
buvs Imres for his own consumption, rather than thin tho stock 
by "shooting them. So long as ho behaves himself, any man is 
welcome to participate in tho sport, in which Mr. Buker joins 
•with an utter absence of that hauteur which some country squires 
think it right to assume ; and thus, while lie does not lessen the 
proper distance between the gentleman and the labourer, ho 
endears himself to all, nnd i# justly considered a very lino- 
hearted and amiable gentleman. 
Cornsixo at Coton House, the Skat or tub Hon. Charles 
Lennox Butler. — O n Tuesday last, the Hon. C. L. Butler gave 
n day'# coursing, nt Ohurcbover, to Mr. Irens. Tho meet was 
quiet nnd respectable. 51 r. lllieli, of Rugby, attended with 
*■ Steamer,” whowasandlr out offottlc (so the trainer expressed 
it); he also sent three others. Mr. llipwcll, of Swinford, sent 
four dog* ; Sir. Goodman, of Rugby, two; and Sir. It. Cowley, 
or Kilsby, three, 'flic larmers in the neighbourhood, number- 
ing about twenty, camo well mounted, nnd ns some of the runs 
were long ami straight, away they followed in good stylo. 8c von 
hares were killed, the licet course being between Mr. It. Cowley * 
red dog mid while bitch “Crafty” (brother mid sister), who, after 
it long run, camo up with the Weir bare, and h id gctm-ely stronglb 
enough left to finish her. After tho sport was ended, Sir. 1 veils 
invited his friend* to dinner, and a mrge party partook of hi* 
hospitality at the “ Farm House by the Church.” 
Cotmsixo AT Herndon. — )ii Monday last, .1. Beach, Esq., 
pave his annual coursing day to Mr. T. I’.tUington of tho Suffolk 
Arms Inn, Brandon, near Coventry. Nine brace of dogs having 
been conveyed to the rendezvous, oml the preliminaries arranged, 
no time wn« lost in proceeding to the meadows on the banks of 
the Avon which bound the estate of “The Squire.” The following 
gentlemen brought dog*: Sir. Arnold of Comb Fields ; Sir. B. 
Houghton, of the Golden Cross Inn. Coventry ; J. IJraccy, Esq., 
of Ityton; \V. Itoighton, Esq., of Coventry. Besides these gen- 
tlemen, one or two others brought dugs by way of a trial. 
There was a well-mounted Held, and a larger number of pedes- 
trians than had ever attended before. Among those present wero 
Mr. Copson of Brandon-wood; Mr. Burdctt of Brandon; Mr. 
Brenoon of Woolston, Foes; the Messrs. Boddington of llytoo; 
THE FIELD. 
dnnt, consequently tho sport was excellent, nnd, as both hares 
and dogs had a fuir field, the running was flrst-ralo. Somo of 
the company who had attended for many years, expressed their 
opinion that the sport hud never been excelled, if equalled. In 
the lordship, most of the courses exceeded n mile, and two runs 
wero over a mile and a-lmlf. The match wns run between Mr. 
Brncey's '‘Topper” and Mr. Houghton’s “ Topper,” bnt being 
undecided, they hod a second Cour.-c, when Topper number one 
won by two points; but tho speed and skill of Topper number 
two caused him to change owners for a liberal sum. Eight 
hares wero killed and bo mo twolvo or fourteen saved thomsolvca. 
The company afterwurds repaired to the Suffolk Arms, wiioro a 
most substantial dinner wns prepared for them in tho Club-room. 
Corns ! no Mertino at Chippenham, CAMuniDOBsniiiB.— On 
Monday the sixth instant a more glorious day’s coursing never 
look place than on the grounds of Joseph Sidney Tharp, Esq , 
who. with his usual liberality, extended that privilege not onl) 
to Ins tenants, but also to the friends of himsolf nod tenant#. 
Tln-ro was a good supply of greyhounds, and some of first- rot# 
quality, which by no means belied their names. Amongst tho best 
wo must mention First-rate, tho property of Robert I )y la in ore 
Fysi.n, Esq . Farmer, tho property or Robert Knight. K#q.. and 
Fairy nnd Domhv, the property of George Dennis. K*q.. nil of 
which were well up to their work. There was no want of hares, 
but 1 daresay tho tenant* would have no objection Were they not 
quite so plentiful ; nnd|I must not forget to mention that tho 
worthy landlord was present during the whole day, nor did he, 
in one instance, put tho slightest restraint upon any of the sport, 
as, when tho shades of evening began to draw upon them, and tho 
dogs wero wearied, ho proposed os a finish that all should 
l,o liberated, and jolly fun it was. One hare got up here, 
Another there, some ilogfl after one, Home after another, that it 
mode more fun than tho real scientific stylo of coursing. lj>c 
worthy gentleman has promised another day in the course of tho 
season", and I could wish that many more would follow the good 
example ho has set, and join them in tho field in the manner he 
did on that occasion. A Suhsciiihkr. 
Cork South hen Couiisi no Ci.rn.— Sir,— Your report of ibo 
meeting of the Cork Southern Coursing Club, on the 31st ult., 
wns not quite correct. It was not, os you say, “the second 
meeting for the season of this club,” but tho fifth meeting. On 
the second day the hares wero not “ scarce.” but were all un foot 
from tho change of weather, and it wns with great difficulty that 
wo could get sufficiently near for a slip. At one lime > wo could 
sco as many as six go off together. Leash. 
COURSING AT GRANDBOROUGII. 
On Thursday Inst W. Sutton, Esq., of Grandborougli, gave a 
day's coursing to Mr. T. Kelsey, on which occasion flic friends 
of Mr. Kelsey mustered in great force. Tho day was anticipated 
with pleasure, from the fact being known that Mr. Hay ton, of 
Kilsby, and Mr. Blick, hail promised to send some of their best 
dogs. In addition to these were Mr. Coinborough'e, Captain 
Rounds's, nnd others, who wished to try their dogs in company 
with the crack ones of tho neighbourhood. The hares wore very 
Bcarco; not more than eight courses in tho whole, and only 
three killed. The most remarkable one was between Captain 
Rounds’s Scotch dog, Rough Moey, nnd Mr.Colnborough’s Black 
Diamond, which lasted for upwards of ten minutes-, and if 
there had not been some woll-mountod sportsmen, who saw it 
from first to last, it would not lmve boon credited that the game 
Imre could lmve lived so long. The next best trial of speed wns 
between Mr. Hnyton’s white bitch, Fleet, and Mr. H.'s blank dog, 
Cnsious. who ran more th/in a milo and u-lialf, when tin* hart* 
succumbed. On the company wending their way to tho village 
of Grandborougli, towards the finish, hares were more plentiful ; 
but owing to a variety of causes, they all got nwav. At four 
o’clock the Compnnv repaired to the Shoulder of Mutton Inn, 
whero a sumptuous dinner awaited them. 
[Saturday, 
COURSING (FIXTURES. 
(WEATBKlt I*LBSUTI1S0.) 
FEBRUARY. 
Tlace. 
Date. 
Judge. 
Newmarket Champion 
13 
IS 11 
Mr. McGcorgc 
It. Duggan, F.sq. 
14 15 lt> 
Mr. A Bennett 
IMggar Open 
15 
If, 17 
Mr. Niehtlngalo 
Mr. Miller 
Cnquefciuie, Northumberland .. 
20 21 
21 
Mr. McQeorgo 
Mr. Dulzell 
Newcastle, Northumberland, and 
23 
Mr. Tlbbctt 
23 24 
Mr R. Swim 
Mr. Nightingale 
Mr. McUoorgo 
MARCH. 
Cork Southern (Upton) 
Champion Meeting (Cork) 
Ridgwoy Cluh (LvlUam) 
7 
7 
9 10 
14 15 
H. Duggan, Esq. 
Mr. Watson 
Caledonian Open 
10 
10 17 
Mr. Nightingale 
22 23 
U. Duggan, Esq. 
Scorton 
not fixed 
Mr. McGcorgo 
NOVEMBER. 
Caledonian St. Leger 
1 1G 
1 
TURF TALK, 
“The chosen eport of n greet and a free people." 
Oub Sailor Kixo. 
The Defiance nnd Royal George dead boat, with which 
tho 1854 racing season opened at Newton, was u rare omen ; 
and to judge from tiie acceptances and entries for stakes so 
lur, tho game is likely to be kept up with no ordinary spirit. 
Even the steepleeha-o world seems to be prospering after a 
long seoson of adversity. Of lato years they liuvo worshipped 
their tutelary bird, tho “Dorlo,” to such un extent, that 
they have been almost brought to a dead-lock, for lack of 
meetings to practise at. Mr. Tophnm has, however, dealt 
out justice upon sundry offenders with no sparing hand, and 
un enormous acceptance at Liverpool ha* been the result; 
while Mr. Johnson’s Lincoln efforts have been equally 
honoured. Both these steeplechases are likely to bring out 
very largo fields, u* the unfortunates have hud no chanco as 
yet of getting tho lengths of each other's, horses, und '‘ar- 
ranging’’ accordingly, and thus have really no resource but 
to go straight. Lord George's day must bo quilo over. 
• < \ ton used” in old times'” to bu his game,” und, therefore, 
if ho had been in imy form ut ull, list 4 lbs would nor have 
frightened him. Only 7 ont of 38 have said “non-content ” 
nt Doncaster in tho steeplechase, and 32 out ol 78 in tho 
Doncaster Hiindlcap; nnd between the two rare meetings 
which “ loom in the future,” tlio race moor is to bo turned 
into u Cboblum for the militia. 
The York men have good reason to be proud of the 
stake which they have 6et on foot this year. The list of 
acceptances is good, but it would have been still larger in 
proportion to the entries, if this bad not been the first yeur 
of the stake. Hence, an enormous number ot the entries 
were taken merely to give the thing a lift, by Turfites 
totally unconnected with the horses they nominated, mid 
which were of course scratched at once, if tho owners did 
not think them exuctly well enough in, to run the whole 
15 sovs. responsibility. We expect to see it grow into a 
very popular “ event,” as tho old two mile course is so 
especially suited for a great struggle. It is u dead straight- 
away flat without u pull, und the race is ulways run Irom 
end to end at such pace, that many horses are unable to 
“ live ” after the first 300 yards, or keep gradually dying 
away, and letting others up who liuvo not got off so well. 
Wo believe that fifty to sixty horses could start over 
Kn&vesmlre, and every one of them have a chance. Tho 
Cup Race, on tho contrary, ut Chester, is quite a burlesque, 
as, if a horse docs not get well oft', it is 100 to 1 against 
him reaching the front runic, ns hosts of beaten competitors 
arc ulways “ stopping on ” to him at the turns. Tho owners 
of horses know this, and therefore if they arc heavy against 
a first-class favourite, it is quite worth their while to go to 
the expenco of three fivers or so, to start an horse, in tlio 
hopes of swelling the field, and shutting it out. It wus, in 
fact, universally believed at Chester, in 1852, nnd we havo 
heard the opinion confirmed by trainers since, that scarcely 
30 out of the 43 auimols would have started if their owners 
had not thought that the chances of shutting out Stilton 
would not liuvo been greatly increased thereby. Tho race 
will this year no doubt be better managed, with Mr. Hihburd 
at one end of it, nod Mr. Richard Johnson at tlio other. 
Still, people very naturally say, why docs not Mr. Tophnm 
ndapt liis mode of running it to tho unfortunaioly crumped 
piece of ground which ho lias to doal with, lie cannot 
conquer nature, so why not humour her ? For instunce, 
every owner might declare his animal not to start tlu* DlgJit 
before, or havo to pay the full stake, and the horses led m 
should run in clmscs of not more than 1G at a time, and the 
two or three winners, as the case might be, might then 
finally settle tlio matter over the l£ mile Grosvonor course, 
with liberal secood or third money. Wo should thus see 
three or four really fluo Cup races in the afternoon, instead 
of one groat unsatisfactory lottery, which causes more di>- 
appointment and grumbling than any event in the year. 
As the highest weight in the Chester Cup is only 8st. 4lb<., 
we seem likely to have a cloud of feathers engaged in 
deciding it. It seems to us that the great blot on handicaps 
in the present day, is the fact tlmt after the acceptances are 
declared, the list of horses ubove 8st. 4lb.«. i# no small. that 
really first-chiss jockeys hardly ever got a mount in them. 
There cunnot ho u greater anomaly, than to see handicaps, 
on which the greatest efforts of brain and oye-sight havo 
been expended, left generally for decision in the hands of 
the most inexperienced portion of the jockey world. Why 
not luindicup on u much higher scale to begin with, or d 
tho highest ucccptunce is under Slst. 71bs., raise it to that at 
once, and the rest in proportion? 
As it is at lust officially announced that tho Duke of 
Richmond is really going to quit tho Turf, it may not be 
amiss to glance over his connection with it for the last ihrce- 
and-thirty years. In 1820, we find only one horse, 
Roncosvalles, by Skidilaw, entered under his name in tlio 
Racing Calendar, and winning two racos out of the six, which 
then composed the two-day Goodwood meeting. The 
return 1 1 that meeting is quite a curiosity. One of the races 
won by ltoiicesvalles was only for “ horses hunted with 
Colonel Wyndbum's hounds.” For the Chichester plate 
there were’ “no horses entered;” another ended in a 
walk over, and a third with a contest between three. In 
fuct, with tlm exception of the hor«cs entered for tlio Farmei s 
plate, only six others were present on the two days. Hence- 
forward the dukt’s racing stud und Ins pet mooting advanced 
at a steady pace. Carlumuro won him u couple of Queen s 
plate* : and in 1823 we find honourable m-ution of him as 
a winner with Fiiicushion, in tlm First Spring, Jiin Robinson 
officiating in the yellow und red cap. The Whalebone und 
Cattail blood abo stood him in good stead this year, as ho 
won thirteen races with Duudizctic und Swap— the former 
achieving the first of the Goodwood stakes, which wu* then ol 
20 *ovs. "each ; llio winner to be sold for 250 gs. Only tw" 
horses Started, und tho Duke gave Dibs, away to secure thfl 
This jockey, along with 
King Tom, by T. II. Wilson, after a Sketch by Harry 
Hall, ol Newinarkcr. — This Derby favourite is by Harku- 
wuy, out of Pocahontas, anil thereforo half-brother to 
Stockwell and Rataplan. He is a rich-bay colt, with many 
very Him racing points about him, und stuuds about 1G 
hands Speaking rather more critically, we should say 
that ho hud a fine, clean, but slightly short shoulder, which 
seems to put his fore logs u little out of place, llis ribs aro 
immense, and his buck is very good, but he is rather narrow 
in his quarters, droops towards his tuil, and is short from the . 
hip to i .«• round bom-, which give* him ” .t slightly squeezed- scrviccsof Frank Hoy re, at M I lb. i lusjuCKcy, «no«B "7" 
up” look. His gask.n* und thigh* are very powerful, and | An.ull, Paris, It. Hoy. nd Buckle, junior, did nearly ' 
his hocks and knee* aro strictly to mutch ; but his ft, rebuild ! riding h r the smblo lor the next N years, bum Hogcr* . 
is decidedly plain, hi* bond being very hu ge, and placed on bad a seven years’ lea.-c of iho .-it Idle, and was succceueu . 
a somewhat own neck. Tukintr him altogether, he i* un | h:s turn by Nut Flutmmi ; Job Murson, lorn plenum, ( 
ms. I., liis two-vear old season, he started three times, with F. Boyce „n her buck, beat a field ot J» . 
won twice, or 980f. in all lie is at present engaged I The Goodwood Stakes, which hod now reached Its p es 
io Derby and St. Lcgcr, as well as several other Makes shape, fell beloro the prowess of h» Mi-a Craven in t> *“ v# , 
* several oim-i ...v i .... , .. ,.,u «•>)* 
in 1854-55, and bids fair to cam out that -cries of turf year, and Lu.kboy aud Alderman joined hlft stud, L'*.,JL r it 
, 0 victories which have already, by tho agenev of llungcrford ( swelled in 1828-21) to 15 horns, about tho big he gtu |u>« 
Lueaiq < I u'ttori gc^BeronT BottorbiVl' d C The 'ii^ci’w^re'jast' us ' bi« 1 Leopold, placed somo'uoble Engrui.'turf trophies on has ever reached. Tho maiden race for tho Lav an ^ 
plentiful as could be desired, being neither source nor over-ubun- j the sideboard of Mcotmoro. i »»bs.) ulso Icll to tho lot ol his Couc , 
