Related article: Epsom, so reference to his form must be reserved until he has another chance of showing what he can do. A stone below that of last year is the way to sum up the form of Cheap Minocycline the three-year-old colts. Last year's fillies were so bad that they may not stand out from those of this year, but these are certainly much worse than the colts. The poverty of the land was laid Buy Cheap Minocycline bare VOL. Lxxiv. — NO. 485. when Winifreda and Lady Schom- berg were made favourites. There was literally duly one in the race, and . that La Roche, who came away in the straight just as she pleased, and won with her ears pricked, apparently wondering why she was pulled up. To see the others fighting for the places lengths away stamped them as an inferior lot. The interest in the two-year- olds was confined to the produce of Melton. Toddington, the newly- named Minera colt, made hay of Revenue (the Income colt) in the Woodcote Stakes, carrying a heap of money at odds-on, whilst in the Acorn Stakes the School - Book filly did much the same with Sabrinetta. The catastrophe of the meeting was in the Great Surrey Foal Stakes, Good Morning, the fa- vourite, being left at the post. When the machine was started Good Morning (the Bonnie Morn colt), who was very restive, went across the course to the left, and so was out of it. In the ring the betting about Good Morning had gone back in what was deemed ominous fashion, but this move- ment could almost be attributed to the operations of one backer who, having lost money before laying against Good Morning, was now seeking to recover it. The colt's restiveness at the post pro- bably gave the clou. Anyhow, the bold speculation came off. Kempton Park. — The feature of the First Summer Meeting, consisting of the Saturday after Epsom, was the appearance of Toddington in the Two-year-old Plate, in which he was Order Minocycline opposed by Mr. Musker's Britannia, winner of the Brocklesby, and Mirande, who had shown some form at Newmarket. Neither of these two presented any danger in the race, but Royal River, who, in 50 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [JOLY making a dead heat with Eileen Violet at Gatwick at 61b. did not do anything out of the way, chased the crack home in fashion very uncomfortable to his sup- porters, he just getting home by a neck. The opinions that were hazarded to the effect that he was not at his best were justified. He came in limpingly, and the leg trouble Purchase Minocycline developed so seriously that he had to remain at Kempton. A big, heavy colt, the hard going everywhere did not suit him. Hanohester.— We had a new experience at Manchester, no fewer than three days out of the four being brilliantly line. The going was absolutely hard, and dust flew ; but, such is the pecu- liar nature of the course, that rain during one night and morn- ing reduced it to an absolute Purchase Minocycline Online quagmire, the Buy Minocycline Online going being such as we are accustomed to in Novem- ber. But the Manchester Cup was run on the hard going, and an easy thing it proved to be for La Roche, lolb. penalty and all. No sooner had she passed the post winner of the Oaks than en- quiries were made as to her price for the Manchester race. I heard of some fancy prices being laid at Kempton, but that must have been before I got there. No one seemed anxious to lay at all in my presence. On the day 7 to 4 came to be taken about La Roche, Minocycline Buy and the price would have been even shorter but for some spirited wagering on behalf of Joe Cham- berlain, Rensselaer and Charina being well backed also. It was the Oaks over again, La Roche drawing out in the straight and winning in a common canter. Asoot. — That we were at Ascot we knew, because we had just paid twelve shillings and sixpence for what is, on ordinary occasions, a seven -and-sixpenny journey, and were treading a racecourse whose hardness and bumt-up condition rendered it as fit for racing purposes as Clapham Common ; the usual result of a few days' heat. As to the railway ex- tension, I suppose we ought to consider ourselves lucky in the matter of Ascot, five shillings super • added to seven - and - six being quite mild compared with the seven-and-six instead Buy Minocycline of the ordinary thre^e-shilling return fare for Epsom — a trifling rise of 1 50 per cent. The state of the turf at Ascot is one of the wickedest things connected with the year's racing in England, and the scribe does not feel that he has done his duty by the meeting till his almost annual protest has been uttered, albeit the grievance must be a weariness to all interested, whether as owners or visitors. Save when heavy rain has fallen just previous to the meeting, the course that is provided for the best thorough- bred blood of the country, and often of other countries also, attracted by the prospect of gaining glory or something of the Minocycline Online rich stakes, is like a turnpike road in the hardness of its , surface. The matter is criticised and dis- cussed in both public and private each year : there is but one opinion from the Stewards of the Jockey Club downwards, yet nothing is done. Two schemes are proposed, one being the digging up and re-laying of the course with suitable mate- rial ; the other is to arrange for a water supply, so that the course could be subjected to a continu- ous sprinkling, as is done in the case of certain racecourses in France, not to say in England also. Either scheme would mean the expenditure of a deal of money, and no doubt taking quantities of water to Generic Minocycline the Order Minocycline Online course is a difBcult matter ; but money is just what the Ascot trustees have i9oaJ i< OUR VAN. ft 51