THE JOCKEY CLUB.-The annual general meeting of the Jockey Club was held at Newmarket on Wednesday, July 2, 1856-present, Lord Glasgow Mr. S. R. Batson Mr. W. Stirling Crawfurd Lord Clifden Mr. Greville Mr. Lowther Stewards. Lord Maidstone Mr. R. H. Neville General Peel Lord. W. Powletta Resolved-That no new rule of the Jockey Club shall be passed, and no new rule be rescinded at any meeting at which less than nine members are present. Resolved-That in inquiries which take place before the stewards, the witnesses examined shall be required to sign their evidence after it has been taken down. Resolved-That if either party in a case which is heard before the stewards of the Jockey Club, desires to have a short-hand writer engaged to take down the evidence, the stewards may, if they think proper, engage a short-hand writer at the expense of the person making the request. The accounts for the last year were presented by the stewards, and passed. Lord W. Powlett was appointed a steward of the Jockey Club in the place of the Earl of Glasgow, who retires by rotation. The Earl of Glasgow was appointed a member of the Bentinck Fund Committee in the place of Mr. Payne, who retires by rotation. The committee for the ensuing year consists of Earl of Zetland } Stewards of the Jockey Club. Lord H. G. Lennox Mr. Gratwicke Adjourned. Mr. J. M. Stanley Notice was given that at the next meeting of the Club it will be moved :"That it be a recommendation of the Jockey Club-That no member of the Club, or gentleman connected with the Turf, shall consent to act as steward of, or support any races, where the Newmarket rule as to claiming horses is not adopted, or (if the winner to be sold by auction for the benefit of the racing fund) it is not applied to the beaten horses." In reference to the following table it is only necessary to say that some horses have improved on the prices we thus quote from the Corner. The Goodwood decisions, the wagering on which has, as usual, quite taken the sting out of events further in perspective, will of course lead to some other alterations. In the month's business, Zuyder Zee has decidedly the strongest party. The St. Leger has been next to a dead letter. ST. LEGER-5 to 2 against Fazzoletto, 4 to 1 against Ellington, and 10 to 1 each against Victoria and Fly-by-Night. 25 225 16 to 1 25 to 1 20 1 22 25 1 11: 1: 20 to 1 500.. 20 1,000.. 35 1 40 1 40 1 50 NO BETTING. 1,000..15 1,000..150 2,000.. 30 1M Partridge Shooting begins. r5 15 2 7 27 3 15 3 30 2 T Dover Regatta. Plymouth Regattas 6 43 3 7 37 3 W Totness Races. r5 18 4 7 47 4 T Cricket, All England M. Dublin. s 6 38 5 8 0 5 F r 5 21 6 8 15 6 S Barnet Races. S 6 34 7 8 38 Zirteenth Sunday aft. Trinity.r 5 24 8 9 10 6 29 9 9 56 6 55 7 25 9 30 10 20 7 8 M Cricket, Sussex v. Kent, Brighton. 9 T Lichfield Races. 10 W Salmon Fishing ends. r5 27 1011 18 0 8 45 s 6 2511 Morning. 11 T Cricket, All England M.Hereford.r 5 31 12 0 2211 511 50 12 F Castle Dillon Coursing M. 13 S Royal Mersey Regatta. 8 6 2013 1 51 No tide 0 20 r5 3414 3 25 0 45 1 10 RISES 1 35 20 14Seventeenth Sun. aft. Trinity,s 6 16 F 15 M Bristol Regatta. 16 T Doncaster Races. 17 W St. Leger Day. 18 THastings Regatta. 19 F r5 37 16 s 6 11 17 afternoon 6 43 2 20 2 40 6 57 3 0 3 20 r5 4018 7 13 3 40 4 0 86 619 7 35 4 20 4 40 r5 43 20 8 24 55 5 20 S 6 221 8 46 Eighteenth Sun. aft. Trinity.r 5 47 22 9 41 20 S Battle of Alma. 21 5 40 6 0 6 25 6 55 7 25 8 0 8 50 9 40 22 M Cricket, All England M. at Stock-s 5 57 23 10 49 23 T Beccles Races. [ton-on-Tees. r 5 5024 24 W Leicester R. Cardiff Races. $ 5.5225 0 510 3011 15 1 21 11 55 No tide S 5 48 27 2 36 0 25 0 50 27 S Prince of Wales Y. C. Trip. THE OMNIBUS. "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBRIDGE HALL, Our last month's racing diary ended with the first day of Goodwood, which gave employment to 164 horses, and, in spite of its hard ground, was up to its modern mark. The arrangements, however, are only of a shabby kind. Nothing can be more miserable than the telegraph; but we learn with thankfulness that they are going to get a new pair of scales, as the present, to say nothing of the weights, are almost worn out. The meeting does not deserve to thrive, as the ghost of old Elwes himself could not do less for it, if he had the "added money" in his dominion. "Glorious Goodwood," in fact, gives £100 to be run for on its first day, £200 on its second, the same on its third, and £250 and a Queen's Plate on its fourth, making in all £855, or not half of what they give either at Chester or Doncaster. Wednesday will long be remembered as the date of the greatest crash that ever took place on a race course. It was only another proof, as The Life well remarks, that "feathers" are the curse of racing, as not one boy in a hundred who goes to scale 4st. 11lbs. can be expected to ride an awkward horse. Let 5st. 5lbs. or 5st. 71b. be the minimum in every handicap, then we shall have a chance of seeing old and experienced jockeys up, instead of being obliged to absent themselves from large meetings, because they cannot positively calculate on enough to pay their expenses. The Great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster sets a good example, as it is made between 9st. and 5st. 5lbs., and has the 8st. 12lbs. raising rule to boot. This year has been very disastrous to jockeys, but it is a strange fact that none of them within our recollection have ever been killed on the spot. With the remembrance of Conolly's fate still in our minds, we fear it must be many a month before Bartholomew is seen in the saddle again; and as Ashmall with rest gets to ten stone, he will have some severe work to draw the weight for the autumn meetings, after his period of bitter leisure. Pretty Boy's performance at 7st. 8lbs. in the stakes was so wonderful, that had he only been in the St. Leger, the betting between him, Ellington, Fazzoletto, and Rogerthorpe would have given it a zest it has not had for years. Zeta ran her Newcastle distance two miles "very sperity," but began to die away from that point; and probably Abdale's dear friend Mr. B. began to insinuate to the Richmond people that she was over-trained. The "sun's perpendicular heat" not only "illumined the depths of the sea," as we sallied forth from Worthing on the Cup morning, but seemed as if it would scorch "each valley, tower, and town" into one vast brown mass. Never did we feel such a seething atmosphere before (it was 125° in the sun, and 95° in the shade); and, by way of adding to our delights, the railway sweated us of 7s. for a second-class return-ticket to ride the thirty-six miles to Drayton and back. A weary, dusty walk, slightly relieved by a cut across a few fields, and some way-side ginger-beer, brought us through a flock of Jonas-Webblooking southdowns, which we had fairly to kick up out of their dreamy doze to effect a passage into the park, in which the first object which presented itself was "The Vicar," on an ugly bay hack, with a bit of the "Clifden straw" peeping from beneath his overcoat. Slowly we wended our way through the woods, till we at last paused near the new rifle shooting tubes, to try our luck till the bell rang. The first race had not much in it. Not being disposed "to give the Duke a guinea,' we would fain have climbed the hill to watch them round; but as its herbage was almost hot enough to fry a cutlet on, the coolest plan was to keep moving. And thus we watched little Shoreham gamely and steadily making his own running, and Claret and Sandboy "cracking" in succession. The running of Claret and Shoreham is the oddest we know. They ran a hilly two miles at Ascot, and Shoreham won a head. Over the 24 miles at Stockbridge, Claret won a neck; and now over the 3 m. 5 fur. at Goodwood, Claret goes down easily by a dozen lengths. The Bentinck Memorial convinced us that South-Western was preciously ugly. Chevalier d'Industrie is rather leggy and coarse-headed, but he has a fine frame, which looks like staying, and will fill out well with another winter. Ayacanora (who caught it heavily with the spurs) has changed her style considerably since we looked her over as a yearling at Burleigh. She is still a light-boned but good-backed mare, and walks rather wide in front. Blink Bonny is neat, lacks the length of the Melbournes, and is good to tell by her Kingston-like sort of amble and uneasy tail whisk, as she goes up to start. We hardly know why, but we have still a strong impression that she will not stay next year. Here she won in a hand canter, amid enthusiastic shouts from her Yorkshire admirers, who are disposed to transfer to her all their ancient "Nancy" love. There was not much to see on the course between this and the Cup. Still, from the conversation of the men of Sussex, who said" that the railway fairly beat the neighbourhood," it was plain to see that the old spongeing days have departed. Chichester and Bognor have pretty nearly played their game out, and Worthing and Brighton got the lion's share of the visitors. They called to mind at Worthing how Palmer and Cook were there together last year, the one at the Sea House, and the other at the Marine Hotel, and how cozily they set off together to the course each morning. The latter served his time at Worthing to Mr. Dennett the solicitor, and the dinner he gave at the Marine when he came of age was a very grand affair. Tom Paddock, who is training in the neighbourhood, was wandering along the course, chaffing his admirers; and three of "the fayrest of the fayre," with white slips and immense cherry bows all down them, both in front and rear, were flaunting about, to the intense admiration of the Sussex swains, and the disgust of their russet-clad lady-loves." At last the Cup horses were in array, and marching leisurely past us. Strange to say, their parade was an exact avant courier as regarded the first two of their places at the finish. Rogerthorpe is a little thick, low, and level horse, who pokes his blood-like head straight out. He 66 |