The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-29 00:00:00

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MANCHESTER BETTING.
LINCOLN HANDICAP. .
5 to 1 on the field (o)
BROCKLESBY.
2 to 1 on the field (o)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
9 to 1 on the field (o)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
9 ta 2 on the field (o)
NORTHAMPTON SHIRE STAKES.
10 to 1 Rattlebone (o)
THE DERBY.
9 to 1 on the field (o) I 2000 to 30 agst Blue Ruin (t)
LavEnrooL sIEEPLE CHASE.
io to 1 agst Jealousy (o) 25 to 1 ....Kilcock (t)
12 to 1 ... Brunette (o, t 11 25 to 1 ... Bridegroom (t)
to I II to 1 .. Sir Robert and
'is to 1 ... Maria Agnes (t) Bridegroom (coupled)
20 to 1 ... Sir Robert (t 1)

LINCOLN RACES.
Arrivals—The Gentle, Cantab, Lava, Vigo, Camphor, Curate,
Linkboy, Nicholas, Omar Pasha, Unknown, Annabella (filly.)
•

Captain.Whitc has so far recovered from his late serious
accident as to he able to reappear in the hunting field.
The committee of the Southanotoa races have determined
to revive their meeting, over the old course, on the Friday after
Hampton (June 15).
Mr. Nightinfrale stated, last week, that; during the period he
had acted as a cour,ing judge, he h.a.(lecided no less a sum
than £200.000 of public money; and it was also said that before
railways were established, he had travelled upwards of 12,000
miles in one season.

The Grand 'National Hunt Steeple Chase will come off. at
Market llarboreugh, Leicestershire, on Wednesday, the 18th
of April ; and on the above day, and :it the same place, the
Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Atherstone'Hunt, and Open
Steeple Chases are also to be decided.
The Paris Jockey Club differs from the Newmarket Jockey
Club, inasmuch as it combines with the attributes of the
latter, a metropolitan club. It numbers somewhere about 650
members, but all racing matters are under the sape.vision of
thirty members chosen in the club.
The preliminaries of the Oxford and Cambridge Billiard
Match are now nearly all arranged. The games will be a four
match of 700 up, and a single match of the same number of
points, and they will be most likely played on twi consecutive
evenings during the last week in March. A room at St. Mar-
tin's-hall, London, capable of holding 600 spectators, has been
taken far the occasion.

HEAVY HANDICArFING.—The bill propoied by Lord Redes-
dale in the House of Lords, has formed the subject of a rather
warm discussion, by correspondente, between his lordship and
the lion. Admiral hors. The hon. admiral maintains that the
raising the minimum weight carried by racehorses to istwould
not remedy any of the evils which attend the Turf, nor tend to
improve the breed of horses in any way ; and (says " Meteor,"
in the Morning star,) it is
difficult to conceive how any one
can differ with him, for the idea that it is absolutely necessary
for horses to carry heavy weights exploded long since, and it
would amount to absolute cruelty to put I2st or 13st on even
the best of cattle, and make them go the pace at which races
are run now-a-days. It might have been very well when the
sport was in its infancy, for the number of races d•ciged luring
a vear was but very few in comparison to what we can get
(through in the present day, Ind lads as jockeys were not
thought of ; in addition to which their pace was nothing as •
compared to ours, while the best of horses did not perform
more than about half--dozen times during a year; but the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would have
to interfere did a Fisherman have.to carry 12st, and compete
with good three-year-olds at ist some twenty times in a year,
• and.the carrying of Lord ltedesdale's Incas ,re would certainly
cause the decline of the sport to the lowest ebb in the course of
a very few years.- We should then have nothing but weeds—
i.e.. such as now carry from sst to ist -running in handicaps,
as the best horses would never put in an appearance, and what
would become of nine out of every ten handicaps derided under
these circumstances! .

STEEPLE MAKE FIXTURES FOR 1860.
Tenby March 1. Coventry
Liverpool ..................... 6, 7 Folkst,one .................. 7.0, 21
Shrewsbury ......... 12, 13 Warwick . - 22
Itirmingham ........March 8, 9 Military (N'thanipum)...2o, 30
Pembroke AMU] al. ............ 10 Abergavenny ...... April 12, 13
Bangor .......................... . 13

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1860.
MARCH.
Liverpool. Spring Meeting 6 Northampton ..............
Shrewsbury Spring 8 Llanhoidv . .................
Coventry spring ll Croston k ark ..............
Warwick Spring ......... 20
APRIL.
2 Thirsk Spring Meeting
9 l•;h:oui Spring Meeting
Il Newmarket

Ponteland •
Newmarket Craven
Catteriek Bridge
Abergavenny

MAY.
Cliester Spring Meeting 1 Harpenden.. ....
Doncaster Spring Meeting 8 EPsoin Slimmer Meeting.:
Salisbury lO Manchester
York Spring Meeting. lO litingerford
Bath l5
PINE.
5 Beverley .
13 Stockbridge ...
..............
13 Winchester
..............
... 19 Newcatle._
20 Chelmford
JULY.
Newmarket July Meeting., 3 Nottingham •
Carlisle
Wot cester Summer 31 ceting 5 Marlborough
Liverpool 9 Goodwood
Abingdon l2
AUGUST.
Brighton 1 Oxford
Brighton Club 3 Plymouth
Wolverhampton . 6 York
Reading 8 Lichfield
I; Radcliffe
i Egham l4 Derby Summer Meeting.

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