A sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for foals of 1836. Colts 8st. 71b., fillies 8st. 4lb. One mile. Untried stallions or mares allowed 3lb.

The Cup, by subscriptions of 10 sovs. each, to be paid in specie; three yrs. old, 6st. 9lb., four, 8st., five, 8st. 9lb., six, 9st. and aged 9st. 2lb. m. and g. allowed 3lb.; twice round and a distanceabout two miles and a half. The winner to be sold for 500 sovs. if demanded in the usual way; the second horse to save his stake; a winner of a cup, plate, or stake of 100 sovs. value in 1839, previous to starting, to carry 7lb. extra. If walked over for, one half the subscriptions to be withheld, and to be added to the cup in the subsequent year.

To close and name on or before the 1st of August, to Messrs. Weatherby, or Mr. Burden, clerk of the course, Abingdon.

The Witham Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft. for three yrs. old, 7st. 2lb., and four, 8st, 7lb. f. and g. allowed 2lb. Two miles.

To close and name as for the cup.

The Holme Park Stakes of 25 sovs. each 15 ft. with 20 sovs. added; heats, Abingdon Courseabout one mile and a quarter; three yrs. old, 6st. 10lb., four, 8st. five, 8st. 8lb., six and aged, 8st. 12lb.; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs. if demanded in the usual way.

The horses to be named to the clerk of the

course on the Monday before the races. If walked over for, the 20 sovs. will not be paid.

The Old Berkshire Hunt Stakes of 10 sovs. each; h. ft.; for horses that have been hunted with any pack of hounds; gentlemen riders; three yrs. old, 9st. 2lb., four 10st. 5lb., five, 11st. six 11st. 5lb., and aged, 11st. 7lb.; thorough-bred horses to carry 10lb extra; heats, two miles; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs. if demanded in the usual way, and the second horse to save his stake. A winner of 100 sovs. and upwards in 1839, to carry 7lb. extra.

To close on or before the first of September, to Messrs. Weatherby, or Mr. Burden, clerk of the course.

Second Day.-The Marcham Park Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, with 50 sovs. added by T. Duffield, Esq. M.P. for the Borough, 15 sov. ft. and only 5 sovs. if declared to Mr. Weatherby, or the clerk of the races, on or before the 1st of September.

This stake to close, and the horses to be named, on or before the first of August, and be handicapped by the 15th of August. Three horses to start, or the 50 sovs. will not be added. Two miles. The second horse to receive back his stake.

The Bean Wood Stakes of 10 sovs. each; 5ft. with twenty added for all ages; heats; the Abing

don Course, starting at the distance-about a mile and a half.

The horses to be named to Mr. Burden on the Monday before the races, and to be handicapped on the evening of the first day, by the stewards, or by whom they may appoint; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs. if demanded in the usual way. If walked over for, the 20 sovs. will not be added.

The Wolley Park Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15ft. for three years old colts, 8st. 71b. and fillies 8st. 3lb., those got by untried stallions, or out of untried mares, to be allowed 3lb., but only one allowance; one mile and a half.

The Pusey Horn Stakes; a sweeptakes of 5 sovs. each, with twenty added from the racingfund, for all ages; two miles; three years old, 6st. 11lb.; four, 8st.; five, 8st. 8lb.; six, 8st. 12lb., and aged, 9st.; m. and g. allowed 3lb., and horses having started three times in 1839 and not won previous to the day of starting, allowed 3lb.; winners once in 1839 to carry 3lb., twice 5lb., or of a cup or 100 sovs. in 1839, 5lb., of any two 7lb. previous to the day of starting, in addition to the extra weights; the winner, if demanded in the usual way, to be sold for 200 sovs.

To close and name as for the cup. If walked over for, the 20 sovs. will not be added.

The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sovs. each, for horses not thorough bred; three years old, 9st. 12lb. ;

four, 11st. 61b.; five, 12st.; six, 12st. 6lb.; and aged, 12st. 8lb. Horses, the property of gentlemen residing within the limits of the Craven, Berkshire, or Lord Moreton's hounds, to be allowed 5lb.; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs., if demanded in the usual way. Heats, the Abingdon Course, starting at the distance; gentlemen riders allowed 2lb.; the second horse to receive 10 sovs. out of the stakes, if twenty subscribers, and if less than twenty, 5 sovs.

To close and name on or before the 1st of May, 1839, to Mr. Burden, clerk of the races.

The Buckland Stakes of 25 sovs. each; 10 ft. for two years old; colts 8st. 71b., fillies, 8st. 4lb.; winners once to carry 3lb., twice 5lb. extra; three quarters of a mile.

ASCOT HEATH.

The manor of Ascot, in the parish of Winkfield, belonged to the Abbot and Convent of Abingdon. In 1722 it was purchased by Robert Forster, Esq. of the family of Broughton, who had possessed it more than a hundred years. On Mr. Forster's death, it was sold to Andrew Lindegreen, Esq., of whose executors it was purchased in 1787 by D. Agace, Esq., who resided in the manor house many years, and in whose family it still continues. The two mile course is a circular one, of which the

The new mile is

The T. Y. C. is

last half is called the old mile. straight, and up hill all the way. five furlongs and one hundred and thirty-six yards. The races at this peculiarly aristocratic course follow soon after Epsom, and are always most numerously attended by the nobility and gentry, both of the metropolis and the surrounding country. This race-course is also distinguished, from being particularly patronized by royalty. The frontispiece of our second volume represents her present Most Gracious Majesty going in state on the course, which is indeed a most beautiful sight. Besides the royal stand, there are several others for the accommodation of visitors, with numerous booths for the amusement and refreshment of the more humble classes. As the nobility and gentry make a practice of attending these races with all the style, which wealth regulated by good taste can command, the finest possible effect is produced. The kennel of Her Majesty's royal buck hounds is situated on Ascot Heath, and their master, for the time, rides before the sovereign in the procession on the course.

The new Grand Stand was opened to the public this season (1839) for the first time, and a short account of it will not be out of place here. The funds were raised by a hundred shares of £100 each, of which £5 is to be paid off every year; so that at the end of twenty years it will be free of all charge, and will be appropriated solely to the be