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OLD RACING DAYS IN ENGLAND. "If all tin- lass nations that haw taken plat I reaaat pears on the turf. writes an English Imrs.-man in Dailys Magaaiae, "aat on.- Mnl,i- an ntd stager like myself so amieh as tin- style of riding noa adopted bj the j,-rk.- s. ,,,t ,,ni is the crouch lag seat mosl unpleasing to tin- eye celebrated amateur horseman goes so fat - to characterise it as positively Indecent hut vary few of tin- lock aeam to have mastered it- .inti.uii.--s. with the natural loiiM-queuce that aajUllsg and boriui,,, nut to mention accidents, are of far more fretptent occurrence than formerly. "Pordham, John Oaborne, Well?. Tom French. Fted Webb, Coatance, Tom Challoner and Charles Wo.«l wen- all names to eohjure with in the past, tmt for elegance of style and norfecUoa of seat and bauds command me to Tom Cannon: while for dash and nerve In getting out of a difficulty Fred Archer bad un superior. Few. for Instance, who witnessed it will ever forget his riding of Jannette in the St. Leger of 1878, when, apparently hopelessly shut in. he took advantage of a momentary opening to dash through and win. Fred W til . who was Archera great rival latterly, always declared that the latter not only wasted to !«• tirst hut second as well. •The only time I ev.i saw a horse fairly get the upper hand Of Archer was In a selling race at N W-inarket once, when a two-year -old belonging to the Iiuke of Beaufort fairly bolted with him and ran to the top of the town before he could be pulled up. So easily did he win that then- was a rare competl-tion tor him when put up for auction: hut strange to say. the colt never did any good afterward. ". Newmarket after all is the place to see racing at its host, and enjoyahle as it always is on a line day. it was never more so, in the view of the Id turfman, than In its more primitive state before modeva impr iv meats set in. when a hack was a necessity, ami if earn wasted ■ triass of sherry yea were depend nt oa a friend with a drag or a dog cart, as the ease might be. "At that period there were many more picturesque Bgures on the turf than at the present time, when everybody dresses more or less alike, and nowhere did one see them to greater perfection than at New market. The massive figure in dust-colored frock coal and high ja.-k hoots, with an antiquated drab colored hat on his head, who j.._s past iU animated converse with his old friend Deter Price, is easilj recognisable as Edmund Tattersall. "Lady Asil.-y. perfectly habited as usual, comes along jam in time t I pick up her Mate as be mounts the old gray horse, his faithful comrade of the Crimea, who is [■ wailing for him outside the rooms."
