betting will be here and there infused; Yachting, as I have already mentioned, will also take up a prominent position in it: and, by way of filling up the chinks, as the Yorkshireman said when eating radishes after a hearty dinner, I shall have a syllable or two to say

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in allusion to the lighter sports and amusements more immediately con genial to the season. For the present, however, adieu!

Yours truly,

20th April, 1833.

The Turf.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.

HE ensuing York Spring Meeting promises to be one of the most interesting that has taken place there for some years; a very great number of horses are undergoing the necessary preparation for the numerous Stakes, which teem with the most superior competitors. The Derby is expected to produce a great field, and the meeting of Muley Moloch and Frankenstein in that Stake will create more than common curiosity. The Two Year-old Stakes also promise a start nearly equal to a Leger. The muchtalked of Rockingham, with Belshazzar, &c. will make their appearance; and from the lively interest which the Sporting World seem to take in the important disclosures which will be made at the Meeting, there is little doubt but a great attendance will take place.

Newmarket Second Spring Meeting.-Monday: Mr. Hunter's Rouncival, 8st. 5lb. agst Ld Chesterfield's Tourist, 8st. 3lb. Last Three Miles of B. C. 50.

Second October Meeting.-Monday: Col. Peel's Nonsense agst Col. Cosby's The Bravo, 8st. 7lb. each, A. F. 200, h. ft.

Houghton Meeting-Friday: Ld Orford's Clearwell, 8st. 8lb. agst D. of Rutland's c. by Waterloo out of Moses's dam, 8st. 3lb. Ab. M. 200, h. ft.

DASHWOOD.

Thursday: For the Eclipse Foot, with 2001. added by His Majesty: Mr. Cosby's bl. h. Gallopade, then 5 yrs, 9st. 5lb.

Ld Chesterfield's f. Dirce, by Partisan, then 3 yrs, 7st.

To start at the Cup-post on the New Mile, and go once round, about two miles and a half, for 1001. each.

Sketch-book, 6 yrs, 8st. 10lb. agst Epsom.-First day: Mr. Ricardo's Mr. Gardnor's b. c. Shamrock, by St. Patrick out of Bartonia, 3 yrs, 7st. 7lb. three quarters of a mile, 100, h. ft.

shire, probably the oldest in the kingThe Kipling Coates Races, Yorkdom, were held on the 21st of March, when the Stake was won by Mr. Smith's grey mare Breda beating Mr. Jefferson's b. g. Wackencat, 10st. each, four miles.

Gallopade, the property of the late Mr. Riddell, was sold at Messrs. Tattersall's on the 1st of April for 1500gs. to Colonel Cosby. It will be perceived he is entered for the Eclipse Foot.

Mr. Beardsworth's Stud was put up for sale at Birmingham on the 17th of April, by Messrs. Tattersall, when Colwick was disposed of for 1250gs.; Birmingham, for 1500gs.; and Halston, for 400gs.

Mr. Samuel King, the late Earl of Scarbrough's trainer, has commenced training and keeping public stables on his own account at Hambleton, near Thirsk, Yorkshire, where the late Earl's horses were trained during the summer season. He has already received the following, which are placed under his management :Major Yarburgh's br. c. by Lottery out of Laurel's dam, 3 yrs, which will come out in the York Derby Stakes at the ensuing Meeting.

Major Yarburgh's b. f. by Velocipede

out of Laurel's dam, 2 yrs. Sir W. M. Milner's ch. c. Currency, by Velocipede out of Ypsilanti's dam, 2 yrs, which will come out in the York Spring Two Year-old Stake.

Mr. Foljambe's ch. c. by Velocipede, dam by Comus, 2 yrs.

Mr. Foljambe's br. f. by Velocipede, dam by Walton. 2 yrs.

Col. King's b. f. Tigress, by Brutandorf out of Sister to Swinton, 3 yrs. Mr. Lumley's c. by Tramp, dam by Middlethorpe, 3 yrs.

Mr. Lumley's c. by Tramp, dam by Rubens, 2 yrs.

With these are also Butcher Boy, by Catton out of Eleanor, 5 yrs, and a grey colt by Falcon, dam by Sir Solomon (half bred), Mr. King's own property. We are quite sure that the Sporting World will agree with us when we say that past experience has proved Mr.King possesses the ability to bring his horses to the post in the most firstrate condition; and we trust he will receive that liberal share of patronage which his talents and integrity so richly deserve.

Mr. Gully intends in future to confine his racing to the York, Doncaster, Pontefract, and other Northern meetings. His horses, which were last year trained by Mr. S. Scott, at Langton, are now under the superintendance of Mr. Thomas Clift, the late Earl Fitzwilliam's trainer, at Pigburn Lees, near Doncaster, the Fitzwilliam training ground.

THE CHASE.

March 28th, 1833.-On Tuesday the Tullow fox-hounds, which hunt part of the counties of Carlow and Wicklow, met at Bagnalstown, where despite of the bitter northern blasts a large field had assembled. The first draw was Killinane, and an immediate find, but the weather was so bitter that no scent could lie, and after ineffectual efforts to make it good the hounds were drawn off and jogged on to Rahillan. Here a gallant looking fox broke, with the hounds close at him, and skirting the demesne of Dunleckney, he streamed away for the plantations of Portmore, where shewing a disposition to hang, the hounds were by a judicious lift put

right at him, when he made away for Kilcarrig, from which (the weather being almost impracticable) the hounds hunted him on bad terms, and left him. Kelliston was now the word, where a richer soil and an enclosed country promised a more satisfactory result. Here a three o'clock fox immediately shewed himself. The hounds were instantly got out, and went off at a killing pace in the direction of Ballatrane, where turning to the right and passing over Graignabeg hill, he set his head straight for Fenagh, which seemed his point from the first. Then skirting along the side of Newtown, he crossed the Bog, passed through Janeville and Lumclone, where,

"Headed and foiled, his first point he for sook,

And gallantly led them a dance o'er the brook ;"

turned a second time to the high country, and racing over Clonegal, Boherduff, Bog House, Kildrenagh, Ballywilliam, Roe, and Ballymoor, passed through Portmore to Dunleckney. Here it was proposed to open the earths, but reynard scorned the compliment, or the hounds did not give him time; for, passing through the plantations like lightning, he broke in the direction of Bagnalstown, but crossed the Carlow road, and when near the river Barrow, finding himself closely pressed, turned short for the covert of Rahillan. Here he tried the earths, but, finding them closed, without a minute's delay broke at the opposite side, and pointed for Powerston, from which he was headed in the direction of the Barrow, along the bank of which he ran to the very skirts of the town of Leighlin, where he got into an earth in the lawn of Stewart's Lodge, having crossed at the least sixteen miles of a most difficult country in one hour and forty minutes: owing to the lateness of the season and the day he was left. The hounds did their work to admiration, and were as well ridden to. In the first division were Mr. Watson (master), Messrs. Wrixon, Mallard, Brownrigg, Revell, Stewart, Wallace, Fishbourne, Cary, and Butler.

SIR-Woolford Wood, the first and hitherto reckoned the best covert in the kingdom, is likely to be spoiled for future sport, the fox-takers having assumed a character of audacity almost beyond belief. At the latter end of March the Warwickshire hounds had been in covert but a short time before they successively unkennelled two foxes, which were immediately caught, running before the hounds, by two rascally poachers, who, secreted in thick brushwood, clapped down their purse-nets in the runs, and had the foxes bagged in a trice. Of course the hounds threw up their heads, and, most unaccountably at the time, could not touch on the scent in any direction. Some few hours afterwards the poachers were observed by Lord Redesdale's keepers to leave the wood in a suspicious manner, and, being pursued, after a long chase were taken, and the foxes liberated. Luckily, however, the fellows had also a hare in their bag, for which they were detained in custody.-PIONEER. SIR-At the request of some of my sporting friends, I beg to send you an account of the performances of a three-year-old filly, by Spectre out of Miss Allegro, which I purchased at the last Worcester November Meeting of Mr. Bodenham, when he disposed of his stud. She had only been haltered when two years old, since which she had been running wild. After the sale she was led to my house near Ross in a halter, and turned into a box for a fortnight.

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She went as straight as a line with me, and for the last quarter of an hour I had it all to myself, and picked up the hare." Although he is a very respectable young man, I doubted his statement, as she never had a saddle put on her back before. A sporting friend of mine agreed to go out with me on the following Tuesday, to see if her performance corresponded with the description, and he rode a very clever chesnut horse of mine, a brilliant fencer, on purpose, as he said, to take the conceit out of the young one, and give the filly a tumble or two. We had two very good runs, and my friend led over every cramped fence he could find; but to our surprise the filly did every fence as well as the horse, and no mistake: she never refused, or put her foot in a ditch-in fact she went as well as any perfectlymade ten-year-old hunter.-On the following Friday she was ridden with the Herefordshire fox-hounds, and nothing could beat her: every description of fence she did well, over a difficult and heavy country. These facts can be attested by men of respectability and character; and I think you will agree with me in considering they furnish an instance of extraordinary docility and natural aptness for hunting seldom met with, recollecting that the three first in her life that she was ever (not hunted but) saddled or mounted, she went with hounds without once refusing or making the least mistake, taking every description of fence over a difficult country as straight and well as any horse could go. She stands fifteen hands, is very handsome, possessing considerable power for a thorough-bred one, but

was never

trained, being considered too small. I bought a sister to her of Mr. Bodenhain some time ago, Fairy, a most extraordinary little hunter, and sold her to Colonel Gilbert.-I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WALLACE HALLSpringfield, Ross, April 20, 1833.

At Tattersall's on the 22d of April eight horses, the property of Sir R. Gresley, well known with the Atherstone and Mr. Mevneil's Hunt, were

put up for sale. The Colonel fetched 170gs; Popjoy by Cannon Ball, 130gs; Candidate and The Friar, 100gs. each; the remainder at lower figures.

On the same day twenty couples of hounds, late the property of Mr. Newman, of the Essex country, were knocked down for an old song!

AQUATICS.

The Royal Thames Yacht Club rendezvoused at Greenwich on the 4th of April, and took a trip down the River, by way of opening the season, the Victorine bearing the Commander's flag, and the Alert that of the Captain. Two Matches are named for May; and the Club's Annual Below Bridge Match for the

Cup is fixed for the 25th of June.

The Loyal Yacht Club, the Clarence, the British, and indeed all the votaries of aquatic sports are on the qui vive in anticipation of a kindly season; the boat-builders have been working double tides; and everything gives joyful" note of preparation' to make sail,

And spread the bellying canvas to the gale."

The

The Royal Irish Yacht Club is increasing in numbers, and the arrangements for the forthcoming Regatta are upon a grand scale. The value of the Sailing Cup, the property of the Club, exceeds 10001. and the Rowing Prizes amount to nearly half that sum. Duchess of Kent has accompanied her present of a Cup this year, similar to that of last year, with an intimation that she will repeat it annually. The Marquis of Anglesea gives a Cup similar to last year, and the Ladies Paget are among the subscribers to the Ladies Cup.

COURSING.

At the Bowers Second Meeting, on the 17th of February, the Letcombe Stakes was won by Mr. T. Bennett's fawn b. Blast beating in the deciding course Mr. Ensworth's blk. b. Effie Deans; the Red House Stakes, by Mr. T. Bennett's y. b. Bounty beating Mr. Butcher's bĺk. b. Blossom and the Wantage Stakes, by Mr. Nash's y. b. No-No beating Mr. Williams's bl. & w. b. Wanton.

THE GAME ACT.

Mr. Lennard, M. P. for Maldon, introduced a Bill into the House of Commons for amending the Game Laws, the object of which was to give the tenant, not the landlord, the ownership of the game found on the land in his occuputation, according with the original intention of the New Game Act (passed in 1831), but which ownership was objected to in the Lords, and withdrawn. On the motion for its second reading, an objection was made by County Members to legislate further on the subject till a fair trial had been given to the

Bill. Mr. H. Ross moved that it be

read that day six months; and on a division Mr. Lennard's Bill was thrown out by a majority of 14 in a House consisting of 72 Members-the numbers being 43 to 29-thus unjustly confirming the monopoly of the landlord.

SPORTING OBITUARY.

On the 19th of April, aged 69, Mr. J. Field, of Oxford Street, Veterinary Surgeon to the Second Regiment of Life Guards. He was a native of Yorkshire, and early in life a coadjutor with the late Mr. Morecroft (who died in the East Indies), Joint-Professor with Mr. Coleman at the Veterinary College.

On the 23d, at Newmarket, Mr. F. Richardson. For our next Number this well-known Turfite. we are promised a detailed Memoir of

Lord Conyngham's Bassetlaw, by Catton, and Col. Peel's Sluggard, by the former after an hour's illness. Bobadil, died recently at Newmarket,

On the 21st of February died of a cancer on the breast the stallion greyhound SNAIL, the property of Captain Lidderdale and early in the same month his son, GREAT BEN, by the rupture of a blood-vessel after a severe

course.

PUGILISM.

Two prime Matches are talked of one between Simon Byrne and Deaf Burke, for 100 a-side, to take place on the 28th of May; and the other between Young Dutch Sam and Preston, on the 11th of June, in Shropshire, for 1501. a-side.