Gs. Double Shot by Stockwell, out of Lady Audrey, with foal by Sundeelah, and covered by Victorine by Wild Dayrell, out of Valour, with foal by Crater, and covered by him again (Mr Hare) Persuasion by The Cure, out of Diphthong, with foal by Crater or Sundeelah; covered by Crater or Sundeelah (Mr Williams) $228 100 70 60 YEARLINGS. F by Gemma di Vergy, out of half-bred mare (Mr Harris) Sea Messenger, e by Sundeelah, out of Spipwreck (Mr R Porter) Black Bess, br f by Crater or Sundeelah, out of Ventre-à-Terre (Mr Ford) Bc by Crater, out of Wild Rose (Mr Livesay) Ch f by Crater, out of Lady Audrey (Mr T Stevens) Bc by Crater, out of Petticoat (Mr Livesay) Be by Brocket, out of Rosalind (Mr Hare) Bc by Crater, out of mare by Gemma di Vergy (Mr Calverley) Bc by Crater, out of Butterfly (Mr Pridham) UNBROKE. B f, 3 yrs, by Crater, out of Columbine (Mr Harris) Br f, 3 yrs, by Wild Dayrell, out of Jetty Treffz (Mr R Porter) STALLION. Gemma di Vergy by Sir Hercules, out of Snowdrop by Heron (Mr Harris) Total YEARLING. Pretty Crater, ch f, by Crater, out ot Olympias (Mr H Marsh) STATE OF THE ODDS. THE DERBY, 1871.-BETTING IN THE HOUGHTON MEETING: 11 to 1 against King of the Forest; 100 to 9 against Albert Victor; 100 to 7 against Bothwell; 100 to 6 against MacAlpine. At a meeting in the Houghton Meeting, Mr. C. Weatherby tendered his resignation as Secretary of the Jockey Club, from his age and declining health, and his son has received the appointment. Printed by Rogerson and Tuxford, 265, Strand, London. EMBELLISHMENTS. PERFECTION; A PRIZE PONY, THE PROPERTY OF MR. ALLEN RANSOME. -Past Racing: Newmarket, Worcester, Lincoln, Liver- pool, Shrewsbury, and Warwick-Coursing: The Lurgan, Ridgway Club, Brougham and Whinfell, Thornton and Ince, Amesbury, Border Union, Wat- ford, and Altcar Meetings-Dr. Grant's Otter Hounds -Billiards-Athletics: The "Gentlemen-amateur" Question and Meetings of the Past Month-The THE TURF REGISTER.- -Ennis (Ireland)-Blackrock (Ireland)-North Petherton and Taunton Vale Hunt-Dover-Plymouth, Devonport, and Cornwall-Croydon August-Scarborough-Tunbridge Summer-Weymouth and Dorset County- Derby Summer-Great Yarmouth-Liverpool Summer-Totnes and Bridgetown -Uxbridge-Wrexham-Rainham-Warwick September-Barnstaple and North Devon-Curragh September-West Dorset and Beaminster-Abingdon-Graves- 4S Second Sunday in Advent. s 3 51 [Tatt.'s. s 3 51 5 46 13 12 56 1 15 7 W Kingsbury Steeple Chases. r 7 53 6 52 14 1 35 1 51 8 T Rufford Coursing Meeting. RISES 15 2 8 2 25 9 F 10 S Grouse & Blackcock Shooting ends. s 3 49 113 Third Sunday in Advent. 12 M 13 T Bromley Races and Steeple Chases. r 8 14 W r 7 56 5 416 2 42 2 58 3 49 4 7 s 3 49 10 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. WAY BILL: -Past Racing: Newmarket, Worcester, Lincoln, Liverpool, Shrewsbury, and Warwick-Coursing: The Lurgan, Ridgway Club, Brougham and Whinfell, Thornton and Ince, Amesbury, Border Union, Watford, and Altear Meetings-Dr. Grant's Otter Hounds-Billiards-Athletics: The "Gentlemenamateur" Question and Meetings of the Past Month-The Fox-terriers of England III. The Fulham Kennels (Mr. Sydenham Dixon). THE THE unfortunate necessity of "going to press," the time for which always arrives too soon for us, compelled us to break off in the middle of our account of the Houghton week. However, the racing on the last two days of the meeting was not very important, and needs little comment. "Those infernal foreigners," as our unhappy trainers, smarting under incessant defeat, generally term them, were not quite in their usual form; still they managed to win the Second Nursery as well as the First. West Australian did not prove a success at the stud either in this country or abroad, but it was a capital performance for his daughter Verdure to carry 8st. 2lb. and win so easily over the Rowley Mile. Gantelet and Somno, Major Fridolin's pair of heavy weights, did not distinguish themselves in either Nursery, and proved quite incapable of emulating the deeds of Viridis. A post match between Baron Rothschild and Mr. Naylor was a very sporting affair, and the finish between those old opponents, Fordham and Chaloner, was a treat to witness; but the former is not to be done in a match, and Corisande just managed to pull through. Fripponier, who has never run since his defeat by Blue Gown in their great match last year, came out again in the Houghton Handicap. If he had possessed his old speed he would have won in a canter with 8st. 91b. on his back; still he must retain some form, or he would not have finished third, and given weight to nearly everything behind him. Among the beaten lot was Curieuse, who did a very hard week's work, as after carrying off a stake on the Monday, she was claimed by Sir George Chetwynd, and won three races in his colours. A miniature Cambridgeshire was run at Worcester, as Forgetme-Not, Albany, and Not Out met again in the Autumn Handicap. A 71b. pull in the weights did not enable the last named to finish before Albany; but Forget-me-Not, who met him on 21lb. better terms than in the great race, had no trouble in bowling him over. Bonnie Katie at length seems getting tired of running second, and performed better than usual at this meeting. Contrary to general expectation, Alaric was brought out at Lincoln, where his running in the principal race quite extinguished his chance for the Liverpool Cup. This colt has sadly belied his early promise, for since the occasion of his début, when he ran Sunshine to three-parts of a length in the July Stakes, and finished ten lengths in front of Wheatear, Normanby, Perambulator, and a large field, he has hardly ever shown even second-class form, and at present we cannot understand what could induce Jennings to give 840 gs. for him at the recent sale of Count Lagrange's stud. Gamos ran much better than usual, for she succeeded in giving Capsule 221b. and an easy beating over a mile; but it was too much to ask such a moderate filly to concede a year and 15lb. to Amara, who, it will be remembered, was last year the property of Admiral Rous, and having won four races off the reel was backed at 5 to 1 for the Oaks, but going amiss just before that race she never appeared in public again till a few weeks ago. The antagonism of Blue Gown, Musket, and Dutch Skater in the Queen's Plate produced an immense amount of interest. Mr. Payne's colt must be quite in his Ascot Stakes' form, for it was a very creditable feat to give " the foreigner" a decisive dressing at only 12lb., to say nothing of Blue Gown, who, even in his best day, was never very partial to a distance. Musket did not run as a two-year-old, but this season he has won four of the five races in which he has started, and it was no small credit to Idus that he succeeded in giving him 5lb. over the R. M.; while what can we think of the luckless King o'Scots, who in private could always concede 10lb. to the bloodlike little son of Wild Dayrell! Rustic's "big brother," Countryman, seems running into form, as he managed to win a couple of races at this meeting, and if he is not overworked, we shall not be surprised if he make a really good four-year-old. Rustic himself was a horse who never ought to have seen a race-course till he was four or five years old, and he showed to little advatage in the paddock on Derby day-a gigantic frame without a bit of muscle, in fact a mere baby of a horse; and instead of deserving to be stigmatised as an imposter, he must have been a rare good colt to run as well as he did under the circumstances. t No matter how severely horseflesh may have been taxed at the Newmarket autumn meetings, Mr. Topham's venture is invariably a success, and owners always contrive to have a representative or two at Liverpool. Visitors may grumble a little at the great event being kept till the last; but every day has a fair share of interesting racing. Oxonian returned from Aintree with a shattered reputation, for after winning one race in which he not only escaped any penalty but claimed the full allowance, so that poor Ptarmigan actually had to give him a year and 171b., he suffered a clever defeat by Cymbal at 12lb. We never saw a smarter looking two-year-old than the Nelly Hill colt when he was knocked down at Tattersall's to Mr. Herring for 1,650 gs.; and though most of his recent performances have been very poor, and it is tolerably clear that he cannot get a distance, he does not seem to |