VOL. 
III.— No. 72.] 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Saturday, May 13, 1854. 
CONTENTS. 
[With Supplement, Price 6 d . 
Parliamentary Summary — Foreign and Colonial — Police— Metro- 
polis, &c. 
Markets, &c. 
VIRAGO, WINNER OF THE 1,000 GUINEA STAKES. 
JOHN SCOTT'S TRAINING STABLES AT MALTON. 
ONE OF THE JOYS OF ANGLING. 
SWISS FETE. 
WRESTLING IN SWITZERLAND. 
CRONSTADT FROM BEHIND ORANIEBAUM.-From A Sketch 
by Vice-Commodore Peard, R.W.Y.C. 
COLUMBIAN FOWL. 
racing Turf Talk— Sporting Miscellaneous— Meetings at Chester, 
&c.— Irish Turflnnn, and Shrewsbury Acceptances. 
Yachting.— Royal Cork, London, and other Meetings— Rowing. 
Cricket— A t Lords, Reigate, &c. 
Our Opera Glass.— F rench Plays— Adolphl, and other Theatres. 
The War.— N ews from the Black Sea and Baltic— Despatches from 
Odessa. 
Letter Bag— Booxs-Ciiess-Anoling. 
Original Articles News of the Week— Driving, &c. ate. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT WEEK. 
Portrait op Mr. Georoe Erwood, tub Celebrated Racukt- 
PLAYER. 
Group of Prize Turkeys, prom Tins Yard op Mu. Fairlip..— 
Drawn by 11 . Weir. 
Fishing Stations, No. 7, Wtur Mills.— Drawn ry T. 11 . Wilson. 
Wrestling in Switzerland.— Three Illustrations. 
TI3RF TALK. 
"The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Ouft Sailor Kino. 
I F Dickens’s query, “ Do race-liorses become more lively by 
scratching?” is to be answered in the affirmative, there 
must have been a good deal of liveliness among the 44 
One Thousand Guinea entries, seeing that only three came 
to the post, and that one of them was only intended to clear 
the way. The injunctions of Old John to Virago's lad when 
she left the enclosure at York, viz., “ to foment them legs 
well,” seems to have been blessed with success, as she was 
not at all stopped in her work by her accident, and did not 
show tho slightest symptom of lameness. We got a good 
look at her as she cantered, and certainly she has all the at- 
tributes of racing about her. She is a good bright chestnut, 
about 15 hands 3^ inches in height, with a plain head, which 
she carries straight out, surmounted by ruthor small ears. 
Her shoulders, depth of girth, and back (which is roached), 
are capital, aud her legs are sound and wiry to a degree. 
Meteora has not gone off, but is not grown 6ince last year, 
and is a very strong and compact animal, with delicious 
action, and immense quarters. She is, however, rather 
wanting in length (being the very antipodes to Sortie 
in this respect), and is not only slack behind the saddle, but 
has decidedly upright shoulders. Taking the two together, 
it is very seldom that two finer mares meet in a race, and it 
will not do to hold her Oaks chance too cheap, as, in spite 
of her failure to “ make tracks ” for Virago, she lias greater 
public pvetensions than any of them. 
Reverting for an instant to tho past meetings at New- 
market, it is worthy of notice how many of tho principal 
winners were by Orlando, or out of the mares which Col. 
Peel sold with him to Lord Ribblesdalo. It is a curious fact 
in racing, that a man generally tires of it, and sells off, just 
when he has the bestthiugs coming forward. Lord Georgo 
Bentinck was also an instance of this kind, as Surplice, 
Planet and Slander can testify ; and Lord Exeter was within 
an ace of selling Stockwell and all his stud in one lot, at the 
Northampton Meeting of 1852. The running generally 
only tended Jo confirm ogr belief that so far our three-year- 
olds are 6adly moderate. He would bo a very bold mau 
who would back Champagne for the Derby, ami yet itlsjust 
doubtful whether ho h-vafc,* .ve covered the D. M. as 
well as any three-year-^., at the meeting. Those who 
grumbled at Yates (a very cool, useful horseman according 
to our notions), and declared that it Marlow had only 
been “ up ” The Squire could not havo lost the Two Thou- 
sand, seem to us to reason very wildly. The R. M. finish Is 
a very severe uphill one, whereas the D. M. is not only 
flat, but 3G yards loss, which makos a vast difference to u 
“ pheasant.” HowevortheMonlinoro-itosmay talk, tho run- 
ning of Middlesex does not speak much for KingTom.as 
there is, we helievo, no doubt that the two woro lust year 
very near in their form?. If the report of Mr. Thellussou 
senior’s death had unfortunately proved truo, it is somewhat 
difficult to say whether tho nomination would have been 
good. We do not remember whether they stood in the enmo 
name, but when rumour was busy with the Doncaster Cup with- 
drawal of Rataplan and the sale of King Tom tho old lady 
also had it thut Mr. Thollusson, senior, not only possessed 
the power of scratching Rataplun, hut had threatened to exer- 
cise it. In spite of his terrible downfall, we quite. export to see 
Ruby at the Derby-post, as seeing that the “ Co.” will uot 
be able to get off u penny of their Derby money, they may 
just as well l ave a run for It. Wo believe that It was 
Jones’s ,sp. si/ ‘hat Proece should bo on him at Now - 
mark< -, Wi 1 ® *' .f Barth. ’ " . hud ridden the 
animal in all bia Rockley gallops, and thut Mr. Adkins 
