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PRAY, WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN WITHOUT HIS RECREATIONS ? ” 
Vol. III.— No. 67.] 
Saturday, April 8, 1854. 
[With Supplement, Price § d . 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
PORTRAIT OF THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.— From tub 
Sketch by Count D'Orsat. 
HUNTING SKETCH — Draws- by H. 1y. Browne. 
ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB HOUSE, RYDE, ISLE OF 
WIGHT.— From a Sketch by A. W. Fowles. 
INITIAL FOR THE MONTH. 
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MONTH. 
VIEW FROM POINT PIPER ESTATE, near SYDNEY. 
TEMPLE OF JUGGURNAUT. 
THE CAR OF JUGGURNAUT. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing.— T urf Talk— Tuttersalls— Race Raturns— Weights— and Sport- 
ing Miscellaneous— Racing in Adelaide Epsom Races. 
Hunting.— F ixtures and Crack Runs.— Letter lYom “ Pink." 
Coursing.— M eetings of the week. 
Yachting.— M eetings of the Several Royal Clubs. 
Rowing — M atches appointed.— Oxford and Cambridge Match. 
Cricket— Angling— Freemasonry. 
Letter-Bag— Books— Theatres — Chess. 
Original Articles :— News of the Week.— A Warning! to Prophets. 
Parliamentary Summary— Field or War -Gold Fields— Foreign 
and Colonial— Police— Metiiocolis, &c. 
Agricultural Talk— Markets, &c. 
CHIEF ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Oxford and Cambridop. University Boat Rack. 
Fancy Pigeons, by Harrison Weir. 
Portrait of Trf.gonwkll Frampton, Esq. 
T1JJ1F TALK. 
“The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Our Sailor King. 
While Autocrat was “looking-up ” in the Subscription 
Rooms Inst Monday, a few Turfites stepped inside to attend 
the sale of Mr. Elwes’s horses. It was a very dull affair, as 
Mr. Tattersall bad received no orders lo sell them without 
their engagements, and no one seemed anxious to take them 
with. Musician, whose capital doings in 1850, when “ a 
company” gave some 1,500 guineas for him on the faith of 
his Gratwicke Stakes engagement, 
wns the first brought out. Ilia pe- 
culiarity as a racer was, that lie 
could manage a mile and a half 
comfortably and no mote, and 
hence on this occasion, Job' Mar- 
6011 led as hard as be could split 
till within two distances from home, 
ami then after letting bimbo 
headed for a couple of hundred 
yards, went at him aguin and just 
brought him through. He boro 
the traces of l lie irons on all fours, 
but he looked bright and well, and 
the very beau-ideal of a clover 
steeple-chaser in his build. Mr. 
Hurry Hill “ put him in at a 
pony,” and after a strong com- 
petition between a gallant captain 
and another gentleman well known 
in the sporting world (who we con- 
clude had a commission), he was 
eventually knocked down to the 
latter for 205 guineas. Young Tom 
Oliver was among the bidders for 
Bullfinch, who began at 25 
gbineos, and arrived at 45 guineas ; 
and Farmer’s Boy, a clover look- 
ing hack, sprung from 30 guineas 
to 78 guineas, and went into Sam 
Rogers’s hands. Tell Tale fetched 
29 guineas ; and a flashy-looking 
three-year-old, Wintonian Coir, 
whose chief recommendation scemr d 
to be a capital tail, fetched 10 
guineas ; and a Buy Middleton 
yearling filly, ]o guineas. The 
competition for Namur, the Salis- 
ur .v winner, wns much more 
spirited, and he began at 20 
guineas and rested at DO guineas, 
n > ) vc believe, Mr. Harry Hill’s 
bands Hu was a pretty but rather 
“ light-timbered colt, nnd from 
■“hat wo have seen of The Hero’s 
«° ( k so far, we strongly doubt his 
success as a sire. Do-ii-again, 
will, her bay colt foal by Blarncv, 
her Hobbie Noble prospects, 
eohsed 55 guineas, or 1 guinea 
™°io than her half-brother, Cun- 
!f s :| y * This horse has, like nearly 
),po| ie ', enison8 > a most beautiful 
t r , and but he is rather 
st i j |’° r L in ,be barrel aud too 
« -rdily built to be very fasl.ion- 
as a race-horse sire. He was, 
nowever, most wonderfully cheap, 
bostilTdemo t0 t 6 *P reSS h , i8 , indi Bn"tion at the fact, by a 
wide jn „ ,™P n i r' a ,0n ’ wb,ch drove his “udience f»r and 
guineas nn, ^ g - , Tbc sa J? on produced 578 
anil n‘ ° nd Joan A,c > Himalaya, Lady Jane, Encore 
balf-^ r omT r and r‘ ir ‘xF!', ief (wh ° W,IS wonderfully like bis 
njainp .1 1 er ’ 1J Joe , M,1,er » about 1,10 heai1 «nd neck) re- 
tke mark?" w'rt» W J f°" clude that lho - v wil1 ^*ortly be in 
* kel without their engagements” which amounted 
crowded as such premature summer weather might have led 
us to expect. Rataplan showed again in good form, with 
his nuine as dishevelled as usual, and a bran new double 
snafHe, which smacked of old times, and never gave Cran- 
bsurne a chance in the Trial Stokes. A capital field wont for 
the Iluilway Piute, and a most beautiful race just ended in 
favour of Orinoco. It is his favourite distanco, aud he 
came down Tattcnham Corner third ; but Charlton 
had (o “ rido him ” so far from home, that we thought 
lus heart would have failed under the double pressure. 
The horse went sadly to pieces after his van accident in 
the middle of last season. It was piteous to see him at 
such a mount. Orpheus looked big and slinky in his 
bandages, and ft very grent contrast to Congreve, who 
was remarkably good-looking. 
The City and Suburban brought to the post no less thnn 
twenty-three competitors out of the thirty on the card \ 
and certainly for size Grimalkin had about tlvo pull of 
everything. Little David is one of the most elegant 
racing-like horses we ever looked over, with an especially 
beautiful forehand, and we should fanev a very tine temper, 
and looks like a thorough cup horse. Virago was a rukmg, 
lengthy marc, plain 
ous to look at. 
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in m 
TnE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. — From tiie Sketch dy Count D’Orsay. 
[ft* poffc 315.] 
to 18 
in all. 
The e mi!L SeId ° m visited Epsom on a more burning day. 
ground was as hard as adamant, but not near so 
Ascot, aud he never looked thoroughly himself again till now. 
We thought him very much more muscular generally and 
in very bright condition, but ho wore a bandage on his near 
hind leg. This was the first triumph of Mr. Stanley’s new 
“all green” colours, nnd so close was the contest, that till 
the numbers were up, Inder, who ran on the judge’s chair 
side, wns believed by mnny to be the winner. This 
animal was the strangest little thing we ever saw on a 
race-course — in short, sneh a little bay cob, with a bob- 
tail. that some of “Tiny’s” numerous metropolitan ad- 
mirers seemed to consider that he was quite insulted by 
cup horse. Virago \ 
ier poiuts, bnt thoroughly dnngor* 
Itch was of the same build and height, 
but. shorter and inferior altogether. 
Both Dockeray’s nugs looked well, 
but perhaps a trifle lusty ; and 
Prime Minister seemed to feel the 
hard ground not a little. Like 
Lon.^ow Jnst year, Orestes had to 
succumb to weight at last, nnd 
Little David was in trouble at the 
end of a mile, Virago striding 
home from everything, ns if she 
had 8cvcn«lengued boots on. 
The two-year olds were an aver- 
age lot, as far as looks went, hut 
their dclcat by Katorfelto wns tlio 
reverse of complimentary to them. 
Brother to Twinkle is rather u 
pretty gaudy chcsnut, hut very 
narrow, and slightly calf-kneed ; 
we huve seldom seen a horse cross 
his front legs so much. Snucobox 
wns rather a clever sort of horse, 
bnt dull and rough In his coat ; 
while Rose seined a smart little 
racing mare, and Piccadilly u well 
furnished animal, not unlike Thu 
Ban, but with hardly so much 
length. KAterfclio 1ms a pretty 
park style about him, and no- 
thing more; but really, alter see- 
ing Inder run, wo shall never 
believe in the cflicaey ot shape 
again. 
This over, Virago appeared again 
as fresh as a daisy for the great 
event of the day; her 5lbs. Subur- 
ban penalty just allowing Wells to 
draw the weight. Muscovite was 
everything his friends could wish, 
and is a fine upstanding horse, not 
altogether unlike Little David. 
II alien Muuca has hone lor ever, 
hut rather a drooping back, ami 
John Osborne, who worked pretty 
hard to come the weight, rode her 
without spurs. The flush Royal- 
ist came sounding his trumpet be- 
fore him, but although as bright 
us a luoking-gluss, he did not look 
like a workman. Caliph uml 
Cable were each lengthy and 
level, but the latter is a little 
slack about the loins. Exact is 
improved and thickened, nnd goes 
with her head up in her old style. 
Ilaco seemed very dull nnd lazy, 
nnd a glance at Annie Suther- 
land was enough to convince uf, 
that Lindrick'a reported break 
down, had made Dawson's hope quite a forlorn one. 
Shakespeare was big enough for any thing, and Punto- 
mime was in very hard fine form, and his much-loved 
muzzle. Jonathan Martin was no# unlike, and quite as 
big, if not bigger than Defiance. He is well ribbed 
up, and has plenty of muscle and barrel, and so amply 
thickened and furnished, that wc could guess him at ' 
almost any age. 
As the phalanx swept up the hill into the Dorbycoursc, 
Muscovite looked all over a winner, lying in the middle of 
the ruck, and almost pulling Nat out of his saddle. Three 
