From THE "Nortx-Cuma Dairy News" or May 23. 1871
The Tientsin Spring Races took place on May 11, 12 and 13 instant. The weather on the first two day was everything. that could be wished, yarm, still and beautiful.
But on the third day the sky was clouded, and after the running for the Merchant Steamers' Cup, it blew a gale of wind, great dust clouds sweeping across the plain covering everything. animate and inanimate, with an earthy mantle, and the end of all was a fearful nderstorm. The course was a very fast one, being perfectly level and hard. The old measurements were found incorrect en being tested this year, the distances have been consequently reduced from eighteen yards for half a mile up to 77 for 2 miles, the new mile being exactly forty yards short of tke old. Mr. C. Aitch's Stable was in wonderful force. carrying off every flat race of the meeting, with the exception of the Peking Cup, the Hack Stakes and the Consolation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.