NEW SERIES. VOL. X.-No. XLVII. EMBELLISHMENTS. THE FIRST."-ENGRAVED BY J. B. SCOTT, FROM A PAINTING BY J. BATEMAN. M 1 M Partridge Shoot beg. Bristol F.r 5 14 N 3 W Long Preston Fair. 6 S s 6 43 1 6a27 2 18 2 34 r5 17 2 4 s 6 34 5 8 11 4 27 4 45 7 Sixteenth Sun. af. Trinity. r 5 24 s 6 30 5 43 6 7 r 5 27 10 W LEICESTER RACES. Charlbury F.s 6 25 911 45 11 TROY. MERS. YACHT CL. MATCH.r 5 30 10morn. 12 F Salisbury, Wilton Fairs. 219 8 7 4 29 4 48 r 5 4620 8 48 5 6 5 25 s 5 57 21 9 35 5 43 6 5 23 T RICHMOND RACES. Swindon F.r 5 492210 28 24 W BEDFORD RACES. 25 T GORTON RACES. 26 F Lampeter, Grassington Fairs. 27 S Derby Fair. 28 s 5 53 23 11 26 r 5 5324 morn. 6 25 6 46 7 17 7 49 8 27 9 8 9 49 10 29 s 5 4825 0 28 Lineteenth Sun. af. Trinity. s 5 4427 29 M MICH. DAY. NOTTINGHAM RAC. r 5 59 28 30 T NEWMKT. FIRST OCT. MEETING.S 5 39 29 711 40 REFRACTION. WINNER OF THE OAKS-1845. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, PROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, R.A. It is extraordinary how much more a man enjoys a race when he really does, or fancies he feels an interest in what is going forward; when he can join in with something like the hand and heart of a bona fide winner, sympathize in the defeat of a clever second or third, or shrink within himself at the very unpretending performance of the very unpretending outsider he had done the honour of associating his ideas with. Many and various are the ways and means for acquiring a touch of this said interest, among the most common and available of which are the betting book or the lottery ticket; agents, however, that confine themselves entirely to pecuniary considerations, and with which, consequently, we propose having no further discussion on these "presents." Is there not surely now and then something a little more like friendship than business to be found-a regard for man, we will say, rather than horse-a good wish for owner, jockey, or trainner perhaps, as well as the high-mettled animal just off for the Plate? You travelled the week before last the Dick Turpin trip, from London to York, in one day, side by side with Tommy Lye, and so of course you'd naturally like to see Mentor well up for the Derby; or one of your maid-servants, up fresh from the country -all servants now-a-days do come from the country-was born and bred within a mile and a-half of Petworth, and so, on Mary's account, you must mark how the Nonsense filly looks and cuts up for the Oaks; or, as your wife's brother's most particular friend, who has a pretty middling practice as a barrister, once got an insolvent-court brief from Mr. Ford, it is with unfeigned pleasure you behold the queer patchy blue-and-white jacket of that industrious gentleman in the ascendant. All people, however, have not these advantages; it is not every man that's been in conversation with a real live jockey, or who's had the luck to hire a housemaid with the recommendation of learning her business in the same parish a winner of the St. Leger learnt his. No, men in general must be a little more general in their notions, and may be, after all, fix their hopes and fears on a champion; chosen not because he can command success, but from having done everything to deserve it. And where, forsooth, on these terms could we find a better than the noble Duke it now becomes our duty to draw the reader's attention to-a good soldier, a good farmer, a good sportsman-a country gentleman, a nobleman with the power to speak and the ability to execute much for the advantage of all the classes with which he is connected? |