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IN STRIKING CONTRAST Our Small Fields in Long-Distance Races Compare Unfavorably to Those in Cesarewitch. In striking contrast to the fate of our long-distance races, in which a field of a half-dozen starters would be considered large, the Cesarewitch Handicap, run at Newmarket, England, Wednesday, October 11, attracted thirty-one starters. And the distance ! Think of two miles and a quarter. Light Brigade, the winner, is by Charles OMaJley Queens Paradise, and went through all last year without winning a race, when at Warwick, in November, he managed to win a maiden three-year-old plate. During the present year he has not figured in any of the more important races and his win AVednesday over the long and hard two and a quarter mile course is his first of any importance. This is the third successive year that the favorite has been defeated in the Cesarewitch, although the winners have not been such outsiders as was this years. First run in 1S39 and named after the then heir to the Russian throne, the Cesarewitch has been run continuously since then. It is a handicap, and has a value to the winner of approximately ?7,!00. Combined with the Cambridgeshire, which is run at Newmarket Houghton, a week from Wednesday, it makes a most popular bettinir "double." The Cambridgeshire is a spr liters race of a mile and an eighth and brings out the fastest horses in training.
