Vol. IV.— No. 97.] 
Saturday, November 4, 1854. 
••NOW THEN, WHO'S THE NEXT OVER?" — 
Dbawx by T, H. Wilson. 
CONSECRATION OF ST. MARYS CHURCH, 
BRANKSEA ISLAND. 
INITIAL AND ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MONTH 
OF NOVEMBER. 
“The chosen sport of a great and a free people." 
the sportog wallet. 5 " 10 * K "°- 
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) 
S r ® at two-yr-old stakes having been run through now, 
and the Derby crack, Graculus Esuricns not having shown for 
any of his engagements, the question as to his being the 
horse as rumour represents him to be, has been mooted in 
several good quarters. He has paid forfeit for eight stakes 
worth, in the whole £4.238-vi Z „ the Seventh Triennial 
IVoduce Stakes of £470, at Newmarket, won by Rifleman ; 
the Clearwell Stakes of £570, won by the Polydora colt • the 
Sixth Ascot Triennial Stakes of £470, won by Bonnie Morn: 
the Sussex Stakes of £150, at Goodwood, walked over for 
by Namur ; the Fourth Bentinck Memorial Stakes of £630 
at Goodwood, won by Gretna ; the Convivial Stakes* of £628 
at York won by Rifleman ; the Sixth Stookbridge Triennial 
Stakes of £620, won by Bonnie Morn ; and the Glasgow 
Stakes of £700, at Newmarket, won by Pugnator. It is true 
that m three of these stakes, his stable companion, the ponv 
offshoot of the stock-getting Chanticleer, went to do battle 
CONTENTS. 
RACUfo — Turf Talk— Worcester Autumn Meeting— Epsom Autumn 
Meeting Cashel Races and Steeplechase— Programmes of Liverpool 
Autumn Meeting, Cowbridge Hunt— Betting, &o. 
Hunting. Appointments — Berkshire Hounds — Mr. Assheton Smith s 
Hounds, See. 
Cocbsino.— Fixtures— Wiltshire Champion & Splddal Union Meetings. 
1 AciiTiNo.— Royal Thames and London Model Clubs, Meetings, &c. &c. 
Rowing— Shooting— Lktt eii Bag— O ra dim Police, fc<x 
in his stead ; but surely the Convivial, Clearwell, and Glas- 
gow prizes, to say nothing of the Goodwood couplet, woro 
worth adding to the Streatham coffers ! Of late there litis 
been a strong inclination evinced, even by the staunchest of 
the Malton adherents, to transfer favour from this " hungry 
Greek” to the Miss Bowe produce, De Clare, and at the close 
of the recent Newmarket Congress the latter was in great 
force ousting Graculus, whose decline was foreshadowed 
on the preceding Wednesday, by an opposition iu a well- 
known quarter, and the simultaneous “ upward tendency” of 
the ex-premicr's half brother to Boiardo. On the Heath, 
there were other significant manifestations touching the 
Derby, some of which are even now gradually emergingfrom 
a chrysalis state. Eight were backed against the field for a cool 
thousand ; Oulaton, consequent on his cantering away from 
the Professor, advanced to 20 to 1 ; an even 2,000 laid 
between him and Wild Dayrell ; and 40 to 1 taken very 
freely about one of Stevens’s team, Frederick. Earlier 
in the week, we may also observe, G to 1 was taken 
about Rifleman and De Clare, coupled ; and, subse- 
quent to their defeat, 900 to 100 about The Cruiser 
ami Rifleman, coupled. The Nailer, whom Mr. Arnold 
would not part with after all, together with another 
PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATION NEXT WEEK. 
A»cnc G Boise, DBocanr to Enolabd by Db. Rax, 
&c., &c., Si o. 
° f Tnoo^tn 11 Dft y ' 8 ’^ h0 r rinC0 of Wa,cs - woro “Produced 
at 1,000 to 30 each. Ere long wo certainly expect to see a 
lively agitation in the Derby speculation ; and in a futuro 
number wo shall have a few more comments to offer on the 
prospects afforded by that great event. M eanwhile. we may 
remark that the public running of the Surrey candidates hu 
been anything but good, taken on the whole, and, unless the 
dark division turns out something hotter, or the present 
two-yr-old form is vastly improved upon, wo shall have a 
worse lot next May than we had at the last summer tryst on 
the Epsom downs. J 
A great number of horses have latterly changed hands. 
Mr. Howard has purchased the whole of the Burleigh year- 
lings with the exception of a couplot, one of which, a colt 
by Hatcatcher out of Cobnut’s dam. the Karl of Chester- 
hdd purchased for 290 guiuoas. Wo are glad to see that 
his lordship is augmenting his racing stock. Mr. J. Arnold’s 
horses fetched but very small sums; The Nailer was not 
sold, therefore, and Saucebox fetched the highest price of 
the others Mr. T. Parr becoming his owner for 155 guineas 
Lord Londesborough is gradually increasing his stud, and 
with valuable stock. Ho has given 1,000 guineas for Ivan, 
who has at last managod to win a race this season, after 
NOW TdEN, WHO'S THE NEXT .OVER?” — Drawn by T. H. Wilson. 
