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NEWMARKET HEATH TRACKS. THE MOST FAMOUS CENTER 0E RACING IN THE WORLD +. + In this country when a man goes to a race track he expects, among other things, to witness the running of each race from start lo finish. In England the visitor to Newmarket expects nothing of the I sort. He knows that, except in the case of some short sprints, he will have to elect between viewing the finishes, starts or middle running. In comparison with race courses in this country Newmarket Heath is ■ vast confusion of various courses, divergent in directions and irregular of distances. There | are several grandstands and enclosures and an enthusiast bound to see all there is to lie seen has an athletic e| ei ience in trudging about from course to course in following an afternoons card of races. Known as "Heaihiu.trters" in England. Newmarket is the racing center of the world. The heath is the property of the Jachey Club and for every horse trained over the Newmarket tracks a fee is exacted thai brings the Jockey Club a big annual income. Racing has been conducted here for several centuries. There is. however, a vast difference between its present well-appointed condition and those days of old when rich nohlemc n tested the speed of their horses, from one agreed-upon ixilnt to another. over Hie wide expanses of the heath in its natural condition. No defined tracks, no track buildings of I any sort and no organized governing Ixxly for racing were existent xvhen racing was first done there. The first rules of racing were drawn up by a Lord Chief Justice of England. Sir Edward Coke, for the government of racing over Newmarket Heath, and that was long ago. It was in those days when horses were racing at long distances iitnler high weights that what is now the little-used Kencon Course I nrna the one most raced over. In ail. there are twenty nine named courses at Newmarket, most of which are merely sections of the longest courses. The diagram here published shows their gieat variety of ascents and descents. In all. these courses and theii distances are as follows: LENGTHS OF NEWMARKET COURSES. Miles. Fur. Yards. | Beacon Course * 4 1 177 Last Three .Miles of Beacon Course .1 o 84 Ditch In 2 O 118 Audlev End Course 1 7 56 ! Anca-iej- Mile i last mile, straight 1 0 22 , O wart witch Course 2 2 0 ! Cambridgeshire Course 1 1 0 , Across t he Flat 1 2 0 Bow ley Mile 1 I 0 Hew hurst Plate Course I 7 • I Brelhv Stakes Course I tl 0 ! lions Course I I I Abingdon Mile It 0 i Two Middle Miles of Beacon Course 2 t 0 i Last Mile and a Half of Two Middle Miles 1 4 0 I Hitch Mile 10 0 Peel Course | »i 0 Two Year -Old Course 0 5 134 1 Round Course ." 4 1:18 I Summer Course 2 ■ 24 : Suffolk Slakes Course 1 4 0 Bunburv Mile 1 0 0 Chestci field Course tl B 0 i:eici f nurse , t ; 0 New Two Year -Old Course I» B 141 ■ Beaufort Course » 7 0 lIllMneie Slakes Comae .-. I ."! 0 old Cambridgeshire Course 1 0 240 I Criterion Course 0 6 0 + *
