Sale of the late Mr. Heathcote's Stud, by Messrs. Tattersall, at Epsom, on April 17: Skirmish, aged, by Skirmisher, out of Lady Langton (Mr J. Nightingall) Slowman, 3 yrs, by Amsterdam, out of Touch Me Not (Mr J. Nightingall) Dido, 2 yrs, by Dundee, out of Sacrifice (Mr R. Porter) Aeronaut, 2 yrs, by Adventurer, out of Anxiety (Mr J. Reeves) Onyx, 3 yrs, by Ruby, out of Pride (Mr Stevens) The Laird, 4 yrs, by Lord of the Isles, out of Rustic's dam (Lord Stamford) Beeswing, 6 yrs, by Newminster, out of The Sphynx; served by Ely (Rev. F. Heath- Canzonette by Fazzoletto, out of Calista, with a foal by Savernake (Mr Bromsgrove) ... Some hunters and half-bred stock were also sold, GS. 210 36 210 250 50 75 200 55 520 20 450 105 60 41 MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. The annual general meeting of the Jockey Club was held at Newmarket, on Wednesday in the Craven Meeting. Present: The Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Newcastle, and Hon. Admiral Rous (stewards), Count Batthyany, Mr. Batson, Lord Calthorpe, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. W. S. Crawfurd, Lord Durham, Col. Forester, Sir Joseph Hawley, Sir F. Johnstone, Capt. D. Lane, Sir C. Legard, Col. Lowther, Lord George Manners, Mr. Payne, Mr. Savile, Prince Soltykoff, Lord Stamford, Lord Westmorland, and Lord Wilton. Sir Reginald Graham, Bart., Lord Colville, and Col. J. D. Astley were elected members of the Jockey Club. The accounts for the year ending December 31, 1868, were presented and passed. Lord George Manners was appointed steward, in the place of the Duke of Beaufort, who retired by rotation. His Grace the Duke of Beaufort was appointed a member of the Bentinck Fund Committee, in the place of Mr. Payne, who retired by rotation; and Col. Lowther was also appointed a member of the committee, in place of the Earl of Glasgow, deceased. It was proposed by the stewards, and unanimously resolved, that the notice to Mr. Willes not to come on Newmarket Heath be now withdrawn. The stewards, taking into consideration the satisfactory state of the finances, recommended a reduction of the half-yearly charges to members of the new rooms and coffee room, for subscriptions to the race fund and stands, from £3 13s. 6d. to £2. Members of the Jockey Club will not be charged for entrance to the stands, being their own property; and members of the new rooms and coffee room will have the option of purchasing a life ticket for £10, which will free them from the subscription to the race fund and stands, in the event of attending the races without going into the club house. Unanimously agreed to. It was unanimously resolved that rule of racing No. 40 be repealed, and the following substituted: "In all handicaps, when the highest weight accepting is under 8st. 12lb., it shall be raised to that weight, and the others in proportion." Admiral Rous stated that for a selling race in Ireland it had been made a condition that any of the beaten horses might be claimed for the price for which he was entered to be sold, without the addition of the amount of the stake; and his opinion had been asked whether horses running for this race would be disqualified for entry in handicaps under rule 59, which is also in force in Ireland. He was of opinion that they would not be disqualified, and moved a resolution to that effect, which was carried by a large majority. The stewards having asked the opinion of the meeting on the following question, viz., “Whether a horse, which is entitled to an allowance of weight for not having won a certain sum of money, is disqualified as a winner in the event of his neglecting to avail himself of that allowance without making a declaration of carrying over-weight ?" it was unanimously resolved that he is disqualified. Admiral Rous's motion to appoint a committee of members of the Jockey Club was withdrawn. Some further business of a local nature was transacted, and the meeting adjourned. The stewards of the Jockey Club have remitted the sentence of exclusion from riding passed on Joseph Kendall in 1863. Wild Oats was struck out of the Derby on Monday, April 26th, at two o'clock. Printed by Rogerson and Tuxford, 265, Strand, London. EMBELLISHMENTS. THE PRETENDER; WINNER OF THE DERBY, 1869. THE TURF REGISTER.- -Tralee (County Kerry) Ireland-Queen's County (Ireland) 3 T Islington Mountebank Business. 4 FEast Acton Yearling Sale. r 3 49 8 8 9 1 41 24 9 26 9 58 5 S Royal Yearling Sale-Hampton. r 3 48 s 8 12 3 12 28 12 40 1 1 9W Lynn Regatta. Hunt Cup Day. r 3 46 10 T Ascot Cup Day. afternoon. s 8 14 SETS N 2 r 3 45 9 24 1 2 40 3 0 s 8 15 10 14 2 3 19 3 40 12 20 11 F St. Barnabas. 12 S Middle Park Yearlings Sale. 138 Third Sunday after Trinity. 14 M Cricket: Lord's M.C.C. v. Cmbrdg. 15 T Windsor Races. 16 W Henley-on-Thames Regatta. 17 T Hampton Races. 18 F Le Pin Races. s 8 18 12 56 8 8 24 90 19 S Pangbourne Regatta. Acton Sale. r 3 44 1 20 9 9 35 10 8 20 Fourth Sunday after Trinity.s 8 18 1 4610 10 42 11 15 21 M Cricket, Lord's: Oxford v. Cmbg.r 3 45 2 141111 45 22 T Stockbridge Race Week. 24 T Cricket, Oval: Gentlemen v. Playerss "There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBIDGE HALL. WAY BILL: Velocipedes-Races of the Month--The Pytchley and Milward Sales-Civil Service Athletics-The Derby Day. T has been a sadly ungenial month; nothing growing as it ought to do, three kinds of weather a day, and an east wind hardly ever at rest. The velocipede mania gradually spreads; but Dr. Shorthouse will, it is said, not lend his countenance to it, because the name reminds him of "the accursed blood." One has come to grief in the streets, and the driver has been fined a crown; and at Stokesly, where a race between bycicles and tricicles supplied a blank in a shortish list, some ill-tempered spectators tried to tilt another driver out of his saddle. We hear that in the rage for velocipedes many years ago a very stout clergyman bought one, and rode in it from the rectory to the vestry, and on to the very steps of the pulpit, up which he was hoisted to preach. Everybody seems bitten with the bicycle furore, and we know of a quiet gentleman who had casually said to a fellow practiser, "come down and see me some day," being surprised on a Sunday afternoon, by the arrival of five visitors so mounted. The Two Thousand day was our racing limit of last month. Nothing occurred during the next three days to make the meeting a very successful one. The Jockey Club declared against 6st. and 10st. as the limits in handicaps; but, as usual, no reporters were present. We believe the system to be the correct one, as under it really good horses cannot be crushed out, and really worthless horses will not get in; but Admiral Rous evidently thinks that the object and end of racing is to make the keeping of the merest weeds as profitable as horses which do the Turf credit, and are likely to do the Stud some service. There will be no real reform till it is enacted that no race shall be less than a mile, except when it be run for purely by two-year-olds, or twos and threes. The weeds may retire upon West Drayton and Croydon and the Welsh Harp, and furnish sport for the million there. But to Newmarket. Lincoln, the first of the Elys, failed to give 8lbs. to Zerlina; and he was not claimed at £300. Lord Falmouth has generally been puzzled how to breed a good two-year-old; and when he had got Guy Dayrell, his lordship was, it is said, equally puzzled how to get rid of him, as he was refused by Captain Cooper and Admiral Rous. However, Lord Westmorland, who, what with Rama and others, has a good deal of luck in a quiet way, took to him; and in the Two Year Old Plate he cantered away from Lord Falmouth's own filly, Gertrude, and fifteen others. "His own feather on the fatal dart" never had a more apt illustration. Frivolity did not run in this race, although at Northampton she had Guy and six other subsequent winners behind her. Her dam is, we believe, barren this year. The blue hoops of Badminton were seen once more on the Turf, and to some purpose, in the One Thousand, on Scottish Queen-almost the |