ENGLISH RACING NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3921, 1 June 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH RACING NOTES.

[Compiled from " Bell's Life."] The chief topic in racing circles at home is Lord Falmouth's motion, to be brought on at the next general meeting of the Jockey Club, with regard to French horses running in England. As many of your readers may not know it, it is as follows : — Moved by Lord Falmouth, seconded by Sir J. D. Astley, ' ' That no produce stakes or weight for age race, to be entered as foals, yearlings, or two-year-olds, shall be open to foreign bred horses, unless specially advertised to be so, or unless such horses were bred in countries which throw open their races on equal terms to British horses." " Bleys," in his notes of February 24, says : — "Correspondence upon Lord Falmouth's motion has broken out afresh, and a letter from M. Lupin to Admiral Rous, with the replies thereto were published this week in the columns of The Times. The Marquis of Ailes- ' bury has also taken up his pen on the same subject at great length, and when the Jockey Club meets in the Craven week, the deliberations will be watched with keen interest on both sides of the channel. To extract the pith from M. Lupin's letter, he points out that whereas the starters for the English Derby qre made up by subscriptions alone, there is a bonus of £2000 attached to the corresponding race at Chantilly, and that at almost all our meetings to which the French stables send competitors, the Jockey Club do not give a prize. This argument possesses no value, and is swept away by the statistics used in return. " Last 3-ear," writes the gallant Admiral, "England gave £148,751 for races on the flat, and that sum included the Queen's Plates voted by the House of Commons for the sole improvement of native horses." Striking deeper into the question, Admiral Rous naturally asks what the Frenchmen had to ' fear ? They have bought our best stal-^ lions and mares with great judgment. Their climate is more favorable to the growth of horses than ours, and they do not even allow roarers to contaminate the breed as is too often the case in England. The views of Admiral Rous are expressed with much hapjnness throughout, and he regrets the dispute more from the disturbance of the harmony that has so long prevailed, than with respect to the balance of the money. The perpetual steward of the Jockey Club neither pledges himself to support or oppose Lord Falmouth's motion, but it is clearly anxious that we should be met half way in the present agitation. France has in reality nothing to lose, as although the establishment of a reciprocal treaty might lead to some invasions of Chantilly they would be few and far between. The time to my thinking has arrived for our neighbors to make two or three concessions, or they may be denied admission to several of the endowed weight-foi'-i age races in England. It would be a matter of serious regret if the season so soon to commence should witness a rupture not easily to be healed again, and under any circumstances a Jockey Club vote is undesirable. Lord Falmouth has, beyond all doubt, determined to press his motion, and even the Marquis of Ailesbury admits that perfect reciprocity would be desirable. Lord Hardwicke gives notice of a motion "That except by special conditions, no horses bred in countries where the races are not opened on equal terms to British horses shall run for any stakes in England where added money is given." This amendment requires much consideration, as the foreigner would still be at liberty to throw down the gauntlet in the Derby, Two Thousand, and Leger, &c, while two or three special prizes might be provided in the course of the year with sufficient added money to set off the Grand Prix, and other free races on the Continent. — New Zealand Swald.

An inquest was lately held at Liverpool on a domestic servant who had swallowed her false teeth while asleep. They were recovered by an operation, but death nevertheless ensued three weeks afterwards. Lace and tulle, veils and orange-flowers, are not quite out of fashion at weddings, and their place has been taken by cashmere, navy-blue A^elvet, and hats. The change is decidedly one for the better, as the new costume can be worn out of doors on other occasions than a wedding. Judge Keogh, the Fenians' scourge, has come out in a new character. When trying a case at Ennis lately, he indulged in various complimentary remarks on the neatness of several ladies who were called as witnesses, specially praising one of them for having the good sense " not to let her beautiful hair be covered up with any curlamacue." After this it was not surprising that the jury at once returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, in whose behalf the fail' witnesses were called.