This race caused the usual amusement, the men, besides being enveloped in the sacks, wearing grotesque conical cai Some half-dozen entered, ani Aubert made avery good show for it, but when almost at the goal, he put one foot through and became disqualified. Much interest was felt in the youngest competitor, Master Meller, who made a game race, but was distanced by Barton, within a jump of the tape. The result therefore was— ceased and sky cleating up. daylight on the following morning, we ad the pleasure to greet fine clear Tientsin May weather.
Those of the public, at the Settlement or at the Imperial Arsenal, who affected horsemanship, rode to the Course on ponies or dun riding class, went in carts or_in sedans. rom keys; and those who did not belong to the noon to one o'clock on the Sth and 9th, crowds of people—foreign residents, foreign' visitors from Peking and Newchwang, ollicers and men from the Russian, French, Ame and British men-of-war in port, and Chinese grooms and Chinese servants in fore ployment—were to be seen wending their way to the Race Course. At 1 v.xt. on both days the first bell rang, and about twenty minutes later the first races of the day commenced.
On the 8th the six different events were, on the whole, fairly contested; the fourth d Cup, value Tls. 75, one ung even to be declared the ponies named dsluck Prince; ani these ponies had therefore to run again for that rize, which was done immediately after the jast race of the day, when Tree Twenty-three came in the winner, in 3m, 22, The weather on the 9h was quite as satisfac tory as onthe previous day. With the ence] of the Consolation Stakes, and for the Tri Stakes, which was a walk over, the different events were also fairly contested on both days——and the prizes may be considered to have been well divided amongst the several contending
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