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TRAINERS AT NEWMARKET ARE CHURCHMEN. Ono Is a Warden, Another Reads the Lessons and Several Are Sidesmen, Ah interesting article on Newmarket appears in The Badminton for October. It seems that questions have so often been asked about the different stands 011 the heath that the editor decided an authentic and detailed record would be of interest to his readers.- and so he had this oiie compiled. It appears that all the stands thill were on the classic heath in 1W0 have disappeared.- The only landmarks left are "The Bushes" and the "Devils Ditch." During T. Gardiners maiiagenient . "The Bushes" were religiously preserved from damage by high palings being fixed; they are alive and nourishing, and the "Ditch," which has existed from time immemorial, is an eternal structure, through the powers that be have several times lately desecrated the bank by digging out,the chalk for road-making. Indeed, the writer is very severe in places on the good people of Newmarket. Thus lie says towards his conclusion: "The trainers at Newmarket are a go-to-church string: one is a churchwarden," another often, reads-the lessons, and several are sidesmen. The jockeys have not aspired. to any of these offices. Tradesmen of the town are nearlysill dissenters, and glory in having built a- chapel .011 part of the site of the Merry Monarchs Palace. They dont mind raking -in the shekels from the racing public, but are too fjuoral to patronize the sjtort. of kings; only two of them regularly attend the races on the heath. "When the late Sir Richard Wallace In 1ST! begun to sell Ids Qiieensbury estate In leasehold Tjuildfng plots the rage for building started, and continued up to the end of the nineteenth century. The town is now considered by some people to be Over-built. At all events, Newmarket is suffering from, the effects of several causes, notably the deaths of Colonel Mc-Caliuont, Sir Bluntlell Maple, Prince Saltykoff and Sir James Miller, who all had large racing establishments in Newmarket."
