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UNWIELDY FIELDS IN ENGLAND. There were thirty-bne starters in a two-year-old race at Newmarket track in England a .few days ago. Large fields are not unusual In England. The largest field on record was In 1801, when Croagh Patrick beat forty-four others for .the Stewards Cup at Goodwood. 1S01 was a year of big fields, as it was in that year that the maximum of runners was reached for the City and Suburban, no fewer than thirty-eight horses going to the post, and Cantlne was the winner. The largest field that ever ran for the Great 3Ietropolitau was In 1840. which was the hrst year of the race, when the three-year-old. Chamois, beat twenty-eight others. The Two Thousand Guineas is not a race famous for large fields, says John Corlett. and we shall search in vain for a larger number than nineteen, which was the total when Pretender won. In 1801, when DIophantus won the 1 wo thousand, there were seventeen, which Is considerably above the average. There were the same number for the Chester Cup, hut for the Derby eighteen seems a modest number as compared with thirty in 1S0O, and thirty-four In 1802. Dundee was the bogey that frightened the owners of the doubtful ot n 1801. Brown Duchess had sixteen behind her In the Oaks, and there were thirty-three starters for tne Royal Hunt Cup. Dundee being out of the wav eighteen faced. the starter fqr the St. Leger.
