Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-12-01
RACING HAD A BIC
INTEREST IN
ENGLAND
10 New Winter Suits and Overcoats

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The fat racing
season in England, which ended with
the first week of November, was ac-
counted quite successful notwithstand-
ing that it ran into the third year of
tie war. There were twenty-threc
meetings in England, eleven at New
market, four at Lingfeld, three at
Gatwick, three at Newbury and two at
Windsor. There will be jumping meets
during the winter, but as special
trains are not permitted and the sup
ply of petrol for automobiles is limit.
ed, the crowds are not expected to be
up to the usual standard.
The King continued to lend his pat
ronage and appears in the final list of
winners with purses aggregating So
6S5 to his credit. All the classic races
of the English turf were maintained,
although many of them did not come
up. to the value Of the past years.
The leading winning owner was F.
Hutton, newspaper proprietor with
$86,S29. The Earl of Derby, whose time
IL almost wholly taken UP by his duties
as Under Secretary of War, kept his
racing establishment intact and was
the second winner with $45,S30. The
Duke of Portland was third with
$40025. Lord Falmouth was fourth
with $31,500; ]. Buchanan, fifth with
$25, 425, and Lord D'Abernon, head of
the liquor control board during war
time, is sixth, with s23,26O. The win
ming jockey was S. Donoghue, who had
4$ mounts first past the wire.
A days racing at Newmarket, known
as headquarters" of the English turf,
retained this fall many of the pictur-
esque features of pre-war days, with
some distinctly novel attractions. The
crowds were perhaps bit more sub
dued although English racing throngs
never have quite the same exuber-
ances, or the same tendency to ride"
a winner home as one meets on the
tracks abound New York, Latonia or
Louisville. The winners here take
their winnings with calm and some
what disdainful self-assurance, while
the losers lose with no disposition to
grouse" or Crouch as it would be
rendered in American"
Newmarket Racing Center.
Newmarket lies seventy miles north
east of London, but this is not &C
counted a great distance when a
splendid big motor car has been sue
cessfully requisitioned and the days
program offers card of seven we'll
filed races.
The way leads out the famous Seven
Sisters Road, through Epping Village
and its royal forest which, lust few
weeks before the war started, rang
and echoed with the chorused voices
of thousands of German singers. The
old English inns and public bonuses
along the road always are source or
interest to visiting Americans because
of their quaint construction and still
ouainter names. There are the Fight
ing Cocks" the Bull and Horseshoe"
the White Heart" the Coach and
Horses" the Three Turns, and
scores of others. The English country
side is beautiful at all times OF the
year, and in the autumn months the
grass is as green in the fields as in the
spring. six Mile Bottom" is a wei
come station along the way, for from
there to Newmarket lies a six mile
stretch of arrow-straight road which
invites a speed limited only by fear OF
the country constable.
Newmarket, somewhat slow and
sleepy by general disposition, is alive
and throbbing with excitement on
racing days.
The road from town to track is
fairly clogged with all manner Oh
vehicles One finds wartime racing IS
a bit cheaper than the ordinary sort
and entrance to the grand stand is to
be had for one pound with two shiil-
ings extra as a war tax. The stand Is
not large, for England takes its racing
in the open-on the broad lawns and
in the open aid paddock. Betting goes
on "as usual" with the bookmakers
| calling their odds in a manner cal
? culated to attract and persuade. In re-
turn for five pound note, or one
pound note or, perhaps, your two ana
SIX" in silver. you get a bit OF NUMB
cred pasteboard, which may or may
not be worth preserving.