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, , ENTRIES IN IMPORTANT ENGLISH RACES. TrSlfldajl i-sue of the "Bacing Calendar" was - the most Interesting of any published since flat racing came to an end in October. Apart from the I customary lists of officials, tralaers, Jockeys ami 1 qualified rider-, there were the weights for the ! Windsor Meeting a week betace, particulars of the ! -takes 10 close for Windsor. Hawthorn Hill and 1 Colwall Bark next month, and entries for numerous i important events on the fiat, as well as for the • Second January meetings at Gatwick and Lingtield 1 Park. In c inflection with the flat-racing section. however, it is disappointing, if SO exactly surprising, to liuil that the Kempton Park Jubilee Handi cap, advertised to close on Tuesday last, failed to i till, and is re -opened to dose on the first of February. - I ,|o i,.f remember this happening before in th» ase of the peaalar Kempton prise, slthougb l other big spring events, such as the Liverpool and I Cbestei Cups, hao occasionally failed to fill at the first time of asking. No doubt owners find themselves - in a quandary as to tlie proper course to pursue with regard to the Jubilee, which is the only one of the regular spring series so far advertised, but it is to be hoped that there will be a better re s|muisi- at the second attempt, and that it will also i be found practicable to decide tin- race by the time • May MSBCS round again. In striking contrast wilh the untoward fate of r the Jubilee Handicap, some remarkable figures have ■ been set up in connection with certain of the entries for several of the Newmarket meetings this i ! - - I 1 ! ! 1 i • 1 i - l I - year. There are fifty-five nominations for the Ash-i lev Plato, and fortv nine for the Wood Dittoa Stakes at the Craven gathering. For the Newmarket Two-Year Did Plato at the first spring ti- tare no fewer than ninety-four entries have been received, including four made in Now York, while there are forty for The March Stakes and seventy-six for the May Plate in the same week. The Bur-well Plate at the second spring has attracted thirty-siv. subscriptions, the Soltykotf Stakes and Two Year-Old Stakes at the second July, a hundred and thirty-three respectively, the ciearweli stakes at the second October sixty, and the Criterion Stakes at the Houghton forty-six. His Majesty, it is gratifying to observe, has basses engaged in the majority of the events named, and altogether there is a healthy ton,, about these Newmarket entries. which it is to be hoped will come to fruition in due course, under happier circunistan.es thin at present prevail Another race which has done well in the matter of entry is the Lingfietd Park Two-. Year Old Plat" af I he First Spring mooting, for which there are sixty-four entries, while the Kn tiehl Stakes at the Alexandra Park Spring nieeling has closed with a subscription list of thirty three. An interesting subscriber to the Maiden Three-V it Ob! Plafe i- Commandant Caillault. who hi. onferod Le Rhin. a colt by Cheri out of La Rivieie. and one can only bone thai Messrs. Rial will be en-8 ablcfi to bring off this mooting of theirs on Mav 0. — "Augur" in London Sporting Life of January 7.
