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RECENTLY CLOSED "ENGLISH STAKES. Some interesting items of news are to: be gleaned as Tiiir ah clpsjngs for future events are concerned from the last issue of the "Racing Calendar" in its weekly sheet form. The first Tuesday" in November is always a heavy nomination day, and it augurs well for the continued prosperity of the turf that all the stakes advertised have received fuU average "patronage. Thus, as regards Newmarket meetings next year, we find eighty-seven for the Granby Plate of 200 sovereigns at the Craven, and seventy-Jive entries for the First Spring Two-Year-Old Stakes. Sixty-four have beeu secured for the Exeter Stakes at the First July, and for the Dullingham Stakes at the Second Summer meeting there are forty-seven subscribers, including front rankers among this seasons juveniles in Corcyra and Kenny-more, which will thus be afforded an early opportunity of a dress rehearsal for their classic liabilities, and if they have any pretensions to such distinction they ought surely to beat the older horses engaged, the most prominent of which appear to be Aleppo, Thlstleton, St. Meriadoc and Great Sport. Later we find seventy two-year-olds In the; Hopeful Stakes, at the First October meeting, and at the Second one hundred and eight for the Cheveley Park Stakes, seventy-six for the Prendergast Stakes, and one hundred and twenty for the Middle Park Plate. -At the Houghton celebration the Moulton Stakes boasts eighty-one and the Dewhurst Park Plate eighty-six entries, and most satisfactory feature of all is the fact that with the single exception of the Dullingham Plate his majesty is a nominator in every instance; having six in the Middle Park Plate and four in the Dewhurst Plate.- The hope of all" good sportsmen assuredly Is that among the yearlings will be found some of the high-class of Persimmon and. Diamond Jubilee, which accomplished so much under the royal purple and scarlet for the late King Edward, and in such case we might reasonably indulge the further hope that her Majesty Queen Mary might be tempted to repeat the visit ,to Newmarket, which added so greatly to the delight and enjoyment ot the public on the occasion of the last Cambridgeshire day. There is a splendid show of entries also; each for the Two and. One Thousand Guineas, 1915-r-and again we find King George at the head of the list, with Markie; Sammaroo, Friar Marcus, Jungle Cock, Border Don and Markhope In the one, and Alglette aud Vervalno In the other. ... It is the natural ambition of every owner of posi-tiou to win at Ascot, and failing that happy issue, to see his colors sported on they Royal Heath. Needless, therefore, to add that the various, races Just closed have done extremely well. Here, too, will be noticed a new departure which has long been advocated, for the confusing numerals have been abandoned -in favor of distinctive names for the Biennials,, and we find first the Bessborough and Water-ford Biennial, to be run in 1914, two-year-bids, as the Bessborough Stakes and in 1915 as the Waterfonl Stakes, with 149 entries, and again the Granville and Rlbblesdale Biennials, with eighty subscribers to run as three-year-olds next season under the first, and as fours in the year following under the second title: This is decidedly a step In the right direct tion and will be much and generally appreciated. One hundred arid twenty subscribers are in, evldence-for the New Stakes, which Is more than satisfactory, seeing that for some years past it has had. to compete with the Coventry Stakes, and both may be included among the most important juvenile events of the season. Going further ahead we find 63 entered for the Prince of Wales Stakes, two less for the Ascot Derby and but one short of a hundred for the Hardwicke Stakes Jn 1915. Notable names associated with the race last mentioned are Corcyra, Kennymore and The Tetrarch. from which it may reasonably be inferred that the detrimental reports for some time past in connection with Mr. McCalmonts flyer may have been exaggerated, butt for all that, the curiously marked son of Roi Herode and Vahren. though still unbeaten. Is easy to back for the Derby at double the odds which were accepted prior to his mishap immediately preceding the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton Park, for which it was intended he should have run. It may or may uot be significant that Stornoway has not been entered for the Hardwicke. but he is one of 35 nominated next year for the King George Stakes, a three-year-old sprint, at Goodwood, in which also figure such speedy young horses as The Tetrarch, Torchlight. Flying Orb. Aldford and Corcyra. to say nothing of their seniors, Hornets Beauty, Light Brigade. Cigar, Harmonlcon and Maiden Erlegh. Sixty-seven have subscribed to the Lavant Stakes and 65 to the Molecotnh Stakes, while for 1915, the 12 subscribers of 200 sovereigns each to the Prince of Wales Stakes embrace His Majesty, Lord Derby1,, Mr. Falrle, Sir. E. Hulton, Mr. Arthur James, Mr. I. B.,Jbel. Mr S. B. Joel, Lord Rosebery. Mr. Leopold de Rqthschlld. Mr. James de, Rothschild. Colonel Ws. Hall Walker jind the Duke of Westminster an itri-ppslng array, dt must be conceded. The Nassau Stakes, for three-yearld fillies, also makes, a flue show with 91 entries. Vigilant" In London Sports-. man of November 20. ,
