Related article: it. Three steeplechase courses have been used from time to time, the Order Xeloda old one Cost Of Xeloda having been under Burrough Hill. For the National Hunt meeting, held in 1883, a new course was laid out on the opposite side of the road, to that where the present course is situated. A permanent stand has been built in a very favourable position for witnessing Xeloda Capecitabine the racing, which takes place over two lines of country, one for the short and one for the long distance races. Anyone who knows the country — and what member of our fox-hunting com- munity does not ? — needs not to be told that the course was as truly a hunting one as is compatible with the conditions laid down by the N.H. Moreover, it was very much more severe than would be met with at an enclosure, so much so that one having great experience delivered it as his opinion, after going round, that very few indeed would complete the course. The nature of most of the jumps was also very different from that of made-up courses, as also was the general going. Take, for instance, the second fence after the stand Xeloda Price which was approached by a sharp fall over some very undulating grass that had once been wheat. The obstacle was downhill and the take-off distinctly deep. Such jumps are, of course, frequently met with Capecitabine Xeloda in a day's hunting, but never on an artificial course. The National Hunt Committee this time devoted the money to a single race, Buy Xeloda and the whole of the handsome amount of ;f 1,300 was given, the Melton Hunt providing none of it. It has beeki hinted that the N.H. is in funds just now, which is very good news. With plenty of funds much may be accomplished, and there surely can be no reason why several National Hunt races should not be distributed about the country each season. This is distinctly a case in which one may say the more the merrier; and the Xeloda 5 Fu N.H. should take a very active part in the practical promotion of sport. Linooln Spring Meeting. — The weather of the last week of March is Xeloda Tablet invariably bad, and the Carholme is so placed that it gets the worst of what there is. The winds Xeloda Cancer howl over it as on no other racecourse, and they have the disadvantage of still retaining a strong reminis- cence of frozen Russian steppes. A man who can stand three days in the open at Lincoln is case hardened. The stands afford him no relief, save from rain, for they follow the example of the course in the way of exposure. I do not 372 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [m:at think that the weather was more terrible than in the two preceding years, but the latest experience naturally always seems to be the worst, and I still shudder when I think of this year's spring meeting. It is only the most regular of the *' regulars " and a certain quantity of more or less local people who are seen on the Car- holme on all three days. The Lincolnshire Handicap day is not unwisely considered sufficient by numbers, and these, I fancy, were fewer than I have seen them. Yet the race was about as interesting as it is ever likely to be. The handicapper, Mr. Ord, had done his work wonderfully well and in the course of a few weeks we had several first favourites. The last, Little Eva, proved to be the genuine one, and although the assertion of her connections to the effect that she was not as good as in last year's Cambridgeshire, seemed to be borne out by the race, she managed to win. It was only a scrape home, however, and the soundness of the judgment in putting up a few pounds extra Price Of Xeloda for O. Madden to ride was proven. In the Cambridgeshire Little Eva was kicked at the post. It seems to have been a lucky kick in the end, for, on her Lincoln running, she never would have stayed the mile and a distance Across the Flat with its severe finish, whilst had she run prominently the handi- capper would not have let her off so lightly. And I am of opinion that a very few pounds more in the saddle would have turned the scale, so rapidly were Alvescot and Lackford overhauling her in the last hundred yards. On the first day Le Blizon tried to win the Batthyany Plate for the third time in succession and, with Esmeralda II. out of the way, would have done it, for he finished second. There was no- thing unusual in seeing Watson, the trainer, van the Brocklesby. which he did with Fast Castle, one of the true Brocklesby type, which cannot be said of the second, Mr. Jack Watt's chestnut colt by Ayrshire out of Xeloda Tablets Formosa, whc might have been reserved for later in the season with advantage. He was short of some gallops, as it was, owing to the strike of stable hands at Newmarket. Mr. Musker Xeloda Cost ran one of his new Meltons in this race, a bay colt out of Irene, and another, a bay filly out of Clonavarn, in the Lincoln Plate. The admonition of the Jockey Club, made none too soon, to keep the weighing room clear of in- truders, had been taken to heart, and for the first time we saw the badge for jockey's valets in use. It is to be hoped that this step of the Jockey Club is the forerunner of others devised for the better man- agement of our racecourses, which are still overrun with hangers-on, parasites who bring nothing to the mill to grind and besmirch all that they touch. The paddocks at all suburban meetings are full of these gentry and even the Bird- Xeloda 500mg cage at Newmarket is not quite free from them. The example set by the Jockey Xeloda Capecitabine 500mg Club in the matter of weighing rooms has been a novel one, for into them none but really authorised persons enter. At few other weighing rooms than those at Newmarket is the privacy anything but a farce, and all manner of people on the quest for information are tolerated in them. On courses like Northampton it is of vital importance to the betting fraternity to get early information of the draw for places, and some- one is always in a position to supply this, for a consideration. Anything of this nature is a crying abuse, but the clet k of the course 190I.] **OUR VAN. >i 373