Vol. IV.— No. 86.] 
Saturday, August 19, 1854; 
[With Supplement, P 
RICE 6d. 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
CONTENTS. 
Racing. — T urf Talk — York Programme — Wolverhampton and F.glmm 
Races — Sporting Miscellaneous — Betting, &c. 
Yachting. — Club Meetings — Soiling Matches — London Model Yacht 
Club — The Cowes Regatta, & c. 
Rowing. — M atches appointed. 
CJUckkt. — M arylcbone Cricket Club — Oxfordshire y. Berkshire — 
Oxford Unity Club v. Stow Wood — Cricket In Ireland, &o. 
Oun OrcRA Glass. — S urrey Theatre — Opening of St- George’s Hall — 
Polytechnic — Surrey Zoological Gardens, &c. 
Letter Bag — Oef-Dats — IIorticultcre, &c. &c, Ac. 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEXT 
WEEK. 
THE PLAYMATES. Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
PORTRAITS OF GRISI AND LABLACHE. 
RACE-COURSE AT LYONS. 
FETE DE ST. GERMAIN. 
Fiauino Stations, No. s. — Drawn bt T. 
Henson's Steam Aerial Machine. 
Fete or Nanterbe. 
Stator or La Perdu <e. 
&c. &o. &c. 
H. WlMOIf, 
TURF_TAI.K. 
“ The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
Oua Sailor King. 
T HE hard-working and stalwart inhabitants of Wolver- 
hampton and its subterraneous districts have had their 
annual holiday in the shape of three days’ racing. The 
meeting may be pronounced as fairly up to the average 
mark, while no reasonable cause of complaint can be ad- 
vanced against the quantity or quality of the sport. The 
Trial Stakes brought out more than a moiety of the nomina- 
tions, a proof of the estimation in which the handicap was 
held, and afforded Guicowar the opportunity of making a 
-lever win by half a length. Michaelmas Maid, with the 
odds, and little Wells to boot, on her, fiuished an indifferent 
third. The winner started at 7 to 1. Prime Minister, no 
longer the same horse as of yore, brought up the extreme 
rear. No Minister ever suffered a more inglorious defeat. 
His resignation of the turf should at once be tendered, or 
his owner persuaded to find him a new name. The success 
of Newbold in the Wolverhampton Stakes proved a lift for 
Heapy in the approaching Great Ebor Handicap. Bourton 
sadly disappointed his friends ; his running nowise jus- 
tified the extensive support he received. The remem- 
brance of Newbold's place for the Queeu's guineas at 
Chester, where Bourton ran second to Rataplan, turned out 
a complete ignis fntmis for tho backers of the steeplechaser. 
The PatshuU Handicap brought out a good field, and the 
victory of Amalgamation wan n slight turn of fortune in 
favour of the Tupgill stable. In the Chillington Stakes, 
several young ones made their first show ; nono of whom, 
however, are likely to create much stir in the racing world. 
The winner, Cossey, furnishes another instance of tho general 
excellence of the Melbourne blood. The arch deceiver, Peggy, 
who has so often betrayed her admirers, and loft thorn in 
the quagmire of despair, achieved a Couquest wheu 
lea -t expected, and won tho Cleveland Cup at the odds of 
0 to 1 against 1 1 « * r in a field of four. Rataplan is evidently 
taking it easy till his “good time” ahall come. Kennyaido 
Hero added another little item to his recent gains by making 
free with the handicap that bore that name, and for which 
some hundred or two horses were originally woighted. 
