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RECORD ENTRY IN THE TWO THOUSAND Racing is- going strong, and it is without doubt beloved by the people generally. With the abandonment of meetings during the war the continuity- or the Derby. Oaks. St. Leger and July Stakes was broken, and the race with the. longest sequence now to: . found in he Calendar is the Two .Thousand Guineas. I am .glad, therefore, to find that this event,--for 1921 has obtained an entry of 15. which is. an easy record, the next best being 140, wlieii Pommer.i won in 1915. Owing to the starters then only nuiiiheriig sixteen, ns.,i;aiust .eighteen in the previous .,vear...whi;n KeniiyiiitirekKcored, each of these-horses won tho same, stake, 7.100 pounds sterling although tho entry for 014 wus only 13b. These, I .may add. were the lijghest values for the Two VSw ,viVr.eUxr S,nef V-S racu was established 111; 1809, AVizard wlieii defeated eight opponents and the. entries numbered only twenty-three Bv the way. writing-of Wizard, reminds me that he met il5.,,e:,h !lt K""s Lodge on Tuesdav, June 30 3M.1. in a curious .way o th.- pn-vious Sundav while in the stableyard. "he ran into a bar thit -stood upright., at the end of ivhieh. was, an iron lKdt. and tins perforated the horses breast, near the plate vein, broke three of his ribs,, and fixed so stronglv In Ins backbone as to require the united strength of, two meii with instruments to extract it." Thus si the ace dent described by. a w riter of -the time. " but why the poor brute was not destroyed at once Mislead of being allowed to linger two davs in Houlii t0 ratll,JU,- "AutJ" i Horse- and
