passed through Tientsin last week looking none the worse for his winter's experiences. He had a very large levee of officialdom at the Railway Station, and did not took at all like a moribund politician, this year are abundant enough, but never in the history of the of have the dealers asked such prices. If the combination is maintained cheap racing will be a thing of the past among our juniors. Already sporting men are talking of sending up our own people for ponies on the subscription principle and of having special races for them in the programme. At aay time during-the last ten years, fifty to a hundred taels could purchase something that promised the satis ction and pleasure of training, with a reasonable prospect of the winner's ecstatic joy, but the antitype of the horse-leech seems to have taken to the business now. are fixed hr May the 15th, 16th and 17th, Training is in full swing and the Races
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