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OUTWARD ASPECTS OF ENGLISH RACING. A days racing at Newmarket, known as "headquarters" of the English turf, retained this, fall many of the picturesque features of pre-war days with some distinctly novel attractions. The crowds were perhans a bit more subdued, although English racing throngs never have quite the same exuberance or the same tendency to "ride" a winner home as one meets on the tracks around New York, Latonia or Louisville. The winners here take their winnings with a calm and somewhat disdainful self-assurance, while the losers lose with no disposition to "grouse," or "grouch," as it would be rendered ia "American." During an afternoons racing this year one could see on the tracks all the colors long familiar to the English courses the primrose of Lord Rosebery; the black, white cap of Lord Derby; the white, black sleeves of the Duke of Portland; the yellow, black cap of the Duke of Westminster; the blue and yellow hoops of Baron de Rothschild; the dark blue and buff stripes of the Earl of Jersey; the light blue and pink sash of Major Waldorf Astor, and the scarlet of Lord Decies, who married Miss Vivian Gould. Each racing throng contains Its share of khaki, officers on inland duty or home from the front on leave. Many of them, like Major Astor, own horses which, are entered for the various events. 1
